We've long been aware that the One is not quite the superior intellect he was sold as.  Obama, we were told, was the rare possessor of a mind with the profundity of a Socrates, the breadth of a Goethe, and the penetration of a Newton.  An intellect unrivaled on the current American political scene, and possibly without equal in this country's politics since the beginning.

Events have certainly demolished that little trope.  Within weeks of the inauguration, sometime between "I won" and the Air Force One trip to New York for a single night's outing with Michelle, it became clear that the American Solomon was no better than average.  And in the immortal words of Harvey Pekar, "Average is dumb."

In the world of Atlas Shrugged, the 1957 novel by Ayn Rand, the men of the mind (The Atlases) left the world and moved to a place called “Galt’s Gulch,” tucked away in the Colorado mountains, hidden by a refractive heat field where they could not be discovered. There they continued to work and live as productive individuals without government intervention.

REPLAY OF JAN 14TH 2011 BROADCAST!

It is said after the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that a lady asked Dr. Ben Franklin the following: "Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy?" "A republic" replied the Doctor..."if you can keep it." [3] Well, apparently a growing number of Americans think that we have lost it after about 220 years. Some are suggesting that it was lost via suicide. What have we received in return for our once great republic? We are now part of an international oligarchy run by a bunch of global elites. How did this happen and when did this change take place?

IN DUE COURSE THE POST-AMERICAN PRESIDENT TURNED AGAINST HIS OWN PEOPLE (ALTHOUGH IT SEES INCREASINGLY UNLIKELY THAT HE ever really considered them his people): those of us we have dedicated our lives to protecting this nation before and after the spetember 11 terror attacks.

BARACK OBAMA IS THE MOST ANTI-ISRAEL PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES SENSE THE STATE OF ISRAEL WAS FORMED, YET AMERICAN Jews voted in large numbers for him.

Yet even after he bacame president, many contiuned to support and defend him with stockholm syndrome-like fevor. Even as he betrayed his pro-Israel supporters and sold Israel down the river, they continued to love him. He assuaged there liberal guilt. He made them feel as if there were right-thinking high minded, and free of racism and bigotry. They loved him, even as he worked for the destruction of Israel.

HOW DID BARACK OBAMA BECOME THE LEADER OF A NATION WHOSE POWER HE SEEMS DETERMIND TO DIMINISH.

Some assume that he must have known what he was doing, but was carried along by inexperience and naivet'e into embracing policies that are disastrous to the nation and the world.

President Barack Obama's conduct during the debate over the debt ceiling has divided the country and will inflict damage that will last well after the battle is over, former New York Stock Exchange director and Wall Street stalwart Ken Langone said.

While he believes a debt deal will get done and in fact favors a plan closer to what the Democrats are proposing, Langone told CNBC that Obama's behavior has been "unpresidential."

"He is dividing us as a nation," Langone said. "He's not bringing us together. He's willfully dividing us. He's petulant."

BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA ABDICATED

He abdicated that which was not his to abdicate

In his first months as president he showed himself ready to give up American sovereignty for the primicy of international law; regulation on climate change,gun control, and free speech (including speech on the internet)  And the replacement of the dolor as the basic international currency. Durring his campaign, Obama declared his affinity for international law. This is a deeply troubling presidency-and a dangerous period in American History.

Rep. James Clyburn and a group of House Democrats are urging President Barack Obama to invoke the 14th Amendment to raise the debt ceiling if Congress can’t come up with a satisfactory plan before the Tuesday deadline.

Clyburn, the third-ranking House Democrat, said Wednesday that if the president is delivered a bill to raise the debt ceiling for only a short period of time, he should instead veto it and turn to the phrase in the Constitution that says the validity of the U.S. government’s debt “shall not be questioned.”

Secrets, Plots & Hidden Agendas: What You Don't Know About Conspiracy Theories

Currently, the whole world seems rife with conspiracy theories. Some examples:

the recent winner of the Nobel prize announced, as she received the award, that

AIDS was created to rid the world of the Black race; the recent tsunami in Asia

was caused by the Jews (Israel) and the U.S. setting off a nuclear bomb on the

ocean floor; the Iraq War was concocted at the president’s Crawford Ranch to

help his oil buddies; the U.S. government is altering the weather by shifting the jet

streams in Alaska with secret giant jet fans. These theories are not just being

promoted by the unwashed masses, but often by well-placed, highly-educated

men and women.