Simplifying

On a recent 'Real Time w/ Bill Maher', Graydon Carter said this about Bush:

"He speaks to the audience as if they're idiots. I think the reason he does that is because that's the way these issues were explained to him."

And everyone laughed. Because it was funny.

And then yesterday, I read this from Newsweek:

[Andy Card's successor Josh] Bolten endeared himself to Bush in the early days of the 2000 campaign. He could simplify complex policies in a way that Bush could understand and then explain to voters.

It's not so funny anymore.

Here's a crazy idea...

How about we have a President who doesn't need complex issues simplified for him? And how about he, in turn, doesn't dumb them down for us? We used to have them. Remember that? Remember when people expected the President to be intelligent? To be smarter and more in the loop than his staffers? I do. It's been a long six years since the last one, but I do remember.

[PS- Speaking of funny- check out this music video. Unintentional hilarity abounds.]