Should your highest-ranking elected leader be "brilliant?"

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@The_wind_of_my_soul

Could you please post the context to the quote in the OP?

The full exchange is in this post.

@Bricker

Well, my only comment is to say one of the many reasons I disfavor affirmative action is because it allows the inference that Obama, clearly a brilliant man, needed some sort of boost to get by.

@Fotheringay-Phipps

I suspect that “clearly a brilliant man” might be a bit overstating it, from what I’ve seen, but I’ve not followed him closely enough to say that you’re wrong. In any event, he’s clearly smart enough to be POTUS, so I don’t think his intelligence is an issue. (If anything, I think being brilliant might be more of a negative in a president than a positive, FWIW.)

I don’t think context makes it any less baffling.