Quote of the Day

'Puter at The Gormogons brings down the Rod Of Iron on Progressive Intellectuals with a resounding thump:

But why didn't Obama prepare [for the debate]? Obama didn't prepare because there was no reason to prepare.  Obama believes with every fiber of his being that liberalism is unquestionably correct.  If you assume that your position is unquestionably correct, proven beyond all doubt and the inerrant word of Gaia rolled into one uber-correct ball of lefty goodness, you must also believe that anyone who disagrees with liberalism is a knuckle-dragging buffoon whom all intelligent people will laugh offstage for uttering a word against prevailing leftist dogma. Folks who disagree with tenets of the liberal faith are gun-and-God-clinging morons, driving their pickups, playing their banjos and sucking down Sonic hotdogs in the vast wasteland between the DC to Boston Corridor and San Francisco and Los Angeles.  Why should liberals take such benighted cretins seriously?  Stupid Deltas.

Yup.  They're all Smartest Kids in class.  Teacher said so.  They just never stopped to wonder whether Education majors or Engineering majors have higher test scores ...

This is simply superb analysis.   It cuts through the excuse-making like a bone saw:

America didn't see an unprepared Obama, or a tired Obama, or even an Obama having an off night.  What America saw was an Obama who watched helplessly as a man of deep conviction and experience charmingly crushed every belief Obama holds dear.  Obama didn't respond to Romney's points because he couldn't.  Romney had so thoroughly discredited Obama's world view Obama had no remaining frame of reference within which to form a response, so he didn't.

Go read the whole thing.