Jimmy Carter Jr. & Naked Emperor

Anybody who’s smart enough to agree with you is has got to be a genius, right? I’ve compared “The One” to the second coming of J.C. (not Jesus Christ, the other J.C., America’s worst ex-President, Jimmy Carter) and to the naked Emperor of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale.

Genius no. 1 is J. Robert Smith at American Thinker, who writes Recycling Jimmy Carter

The real curiosity is how Barack Obama and liberals generally have picked up on Jimmy Carter's woeful policies and failed predictions, as if the intervening twenty-seven years since Carter's term were but the slightest pause; or a blip to be overlooked. Nothing, apparently, transpired in those years to teach or dissuade liberals. They are purblind; true believers who will not be shaken from their course, no matter the hard facts or history's lessons.

In economics, Jimmy Carter was the Herbert Hoover of the latter part of the twentieth century -- though one has to give Hoover his due: he never suffered a foreign policy debacle as Carter did. The Iranian hostage crisis was that debacle, and, here again, it is instructive about Barack Obama. Carter's naivety and belief in negotiating with the mullahs for the release of the hostages proved futile. It was Reagan's election and the implied use of force that won the hostages' release. What has Barack Obama learned from that episode? Judging from his earlier and oft-stated desire to parlay with dictators, evidently nothing.

Genius no. 2 is Lisa Fabrizio at American Spectator, who compares Obama and Carter in Birds of a Feather

Nearly 30 years ago, another Democrat tackled another energy crisis in eerily similar language. Up to now, only their foreign policy skills have been compared, but these two doves have much more in common than their woeful understanding of the Islamist threat.

So go and get your cardigan out of mothballs and take this little quiz, keeping in mind that the following quotes are taken from a single speech Obama made in Lansing, Michigan this week and one that Jimmy Carter delivered in July of 1979 to cheer the country during our "crisis of confidence." Was it Barack Obama or Jimmy Carter who said: (Take the quiz here)

And, genius no. 3 is James Lewis at American Thinker, who writes Emperor Obama's New Clothes

What I want to know is, how did Hans Christian Andersen know about Barack Obama more than a century ago? Because Obama is straight out of Andersen's classic fairly tale, The Emperor's New Clothes. Old Hans Christian, who lived in Denmark from 1805 to 1875, had Obama's number down pat. All he needed was a good grasp of human nature.

Nothing has changed. Pretentious frauds still parade down the boulevards of Copenhagen and Washington, D.C., and only little kids notice their nakedness. Nobody dares to snicker, for fear of being called a bad name. (You know the bad name everybody is afraid of being called today.)

But there's no there there. Not a single, solitary rag of clothing. Barack Obama has the least amount of relevant experience of any major party candidate in the last hundred years. He just makes it up as he goes along, with sublime arrogance. If he wanted to be interviewed for President of General Electric they wouldn't give him the time of day; but President of the United States? No problem! Obama is a total stage prop, a media fiction, a complete unknown, a rolling stone.

Any writer who quotes Bob Dylan has got to be a genius. Good taste in music, too.