Egghead for Prez

I couldn't agree more with Eugene Robinson's editorial today. You really ought to read it. Considering the ginormous mess the next prez is about to inherit, we really ought to go find the best and brightest one out there, whomever that may be (Robinson alludes to it being Al Gore). Some of the best parts below:

One thing that should be clear to anyone who's been paying attention these past few years is that we need to go out and get ourselves the smartest president we can find. We need a brainiac president, a regular Mister or Miss Smarty-Pants. We need to elect the kid you hated in high school, the teacher's pet with perfect grades.
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I want a president who reads newspapers, who reads books other than those that confirm his worldview... and who's smart enough to form his or her own opinions, not just rely on what old friends in the oil business say.
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I want a president who believes in empirical fact, whose understanding of spirituality is complete enough to know that faith is "the evidence of things not seen" and who knows that for things that can be seen, the relevant evidence is fact, not belief... Actually, I want a president smart enough to know a good deal about science...
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I want the next president to be intellectually curious -- and also intellectually honest.

Wow, almost sounds like too much to ask for these days, eh?