From David Horowitz' Radical Son, p. 117:
When Lyndon Johnson announced that he would not run for reelection, many activists concluded that they had the power to topple presidents. Hayden's riot at the Democratic Convention was almost an inevitable hubris of these events.
So was the election of the new leadership of SDS. Until then, the organization had incarnated the ethos of the New Left--spontaneous and antiauthoritarian. But the new SDS president, Bernadine Dohrn, announced on taking office that she was "a revolutionary Communist," while with calculated and (to me) repellent pride, her vice president, Billy Ayers, declared that he had not read a book in a year. Learning from the past seemed to me the only way progress was possible. I had read through shelves of books in an effort to find out why previous revolutions had gone wrong. Now, the anti-intellectualism already present in the Movement had become a revolutionary badge of honor.
(emphasis mine)
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So when Bush can't tell the difference between Shia and Sunni and his top military brass say ridiculous things "no one could have anticipated sectarian violence in Iraq" that is the kind of country bumpkin wisdom we need leading the country? I'll take the smart president over the dumb one every time, regardless of party.
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