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A hagiography of the Obama administration’s most powerful wonks reveals more than it intends.

As Scheiber reports, outside analysts reporting to the president were advised to highlight their expert credentials so he would know he wasn’t talking to cranks and dummies. Obama also wanted his inner circle to credit his own abilities: The president, Scheiber writes, “craved intellectual affirmation” and often badgered his lieutenants into acknowledging when his own ideas were perceived to have succeeded. Obama “had a habit of prompting his aides to acknowledge his wisdom and foresight,” Scheiber writes. The president would sometimes wonder aloud, “Whose idea was that?” when he deserved credit.

http://reason.com/archives/2012/05/0...hnocratic-mind

A collection of credentialed morons ritually self-affirming their own intellect.

We have the most credentialed Administration in history.. and they can't compare with an ex-union boss who graduated from Eureka College..

There's a lesson in there.