If you read one thing today…

…it should be this Jack Kelly piece about Obama’s overweening ego and offsetting intellectual failings. Just to give you a taste:

Mr. Obama is a bright, handsome, personable guy who gives a good speech (when he’s working from a prepared text). But he’s never actually done much of anything. The biggest tic on his resume to date is that he was president of the Harvard Law Review. That’s impressive, but not exactly the stuff of Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, or Ronald Reagan, guys who could turn a phrase, too. Mr. Obama’s self-regard is such that he already has written two autobiographical books.

Little seems to annoy Mr. Obama more than when others do not hold him in as high esteem as he holds himself. He apparently was dozing in the pews when his pastor said America is no better than al-Qaeda and our government created the AIDS virus to exterminate blacks. But his ears perked up when the Rev. Jeremiah Wright implied that he had been insincere in describing their relationship: “That’s a show of disrespect to me,” Mr. Obama said.

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Mr. Obama’s prolonged response to the Knesset speech – one of the largest unforced errors I’ve seen in politics – suggests another candidate for campaign theme song, Sam Cooke’s 1960 ditty, “Wonderful World.” The opening lyric is: “Don’t know much about history.”

In arguing to reporters that face-to-face meetings with America’s enemies without preconditions isn’t appeasement, Mr. Obama claimed President Kennedy’s summit meeting with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna helped defuse the Cuban missile crisis.

The Vienna summit took place in June of 1961, the Cuban missile crisis in October of 1962. Many historians believe the summit was a cause of the Cuban missile crisis: “There is reason to believe that Khrushchev took Kennedy’s measure in June, 1961, and decided this was a young man who would shrink from hard decisions,” wrote Elie Abel, author of The Missiles of October.

You can — and should — read the rest here.