Juan Williams: Palin NOT on same ‘intellectual stage’ as Obama. Former Obama colleague Richard Epstein: OBAMA not on same ‘intellectual stage’ as Obama, "is an activist merely mimicking the mannerisms of an intellectual"

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Juan Williams: Palin NOT on same ‘intellectual stage’ as Obama. Former Obama colleague Richard Epstein: OBAMA not on same ‘intellectual stage’ as Obama, "is an activist merely mimicking the mannerisms of an intellectual": "UPDATE: The video:

Juan Williams hasn't quite molted from his liberal skin after getting canned by NPR. From the Washington Post via memeorandum: Juan Williams: Palin not on same ‘intellectual stage’ as Obama

Fox News contributor Juan Williams said Sunday that Sarah Palin 'can't stand on the intellectual stage' with President Obama.

...'There's nobody out there, except for Sarah Palin, who can absolutely dominate the stage, and she can't stand on the intellectual stage with Obama,' Williams said.

Palin, like Williams, is a Fox News contributor. And when Williams was fired by National Public Radio this year after saying he felt nervous when he sees Muslims on an airplane, Palin was among the conservative voices defending him.

...'I don't expect Juan Williams to support me (he's said some tough things about me in the past) - but I will always support his right and the right of all Americans to speak honestly about the threats this country faces,' Palin said on her Facebook page.

But that brings up an interesting question: do we need an intellectual in the White House? I'd just go for the average Joe at this point. Instapundit has this in response to Williams:

Obama’s former colleague Richard Epstein says:

I like Obama but I reject the suggestion that he is an intellectual. He is an activist merely mimicking the mannerisms of an intellectual.

Personally, I think Richard Epstein’s a better judge of who’s intellectual than Juan Williams is.

Incidentally, I posted a video of Epstein on Obama back in November: Video: Obama's Former Chicago Law Colleague On Obama. Richard Epstein basically calls Obama dumb from the get-go and says that Obama didn't care to participate in academic pursuits at all. Almost like his job as a lecturer was just a pad for him to step on to get to where he wanted to go:

Ouch.

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