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Barack Obama is clearly a smart guy, talented.

I do not believe that Obama is smarter than anybody else. I do not believe he has cut a new path and is a politician unlike any we've ever seen regarding his intellect. I don't believe any of this hocus-pocus. I didn't believe it when they said it about Hillary, Smartest Woman in the World.

Barack Obama is an elegant and literate man with a cosmopolitan sense of the world. He is widely read in philosophy, literature, and history - as befits a former law professor - and he has shown time and again a surprising interest in contemporary fiction.

Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.

Barack Obama is way smarter than Bush - so way, way smarter than me. Obama is way more charismatic than me.

I admire President Obama's class and measure.

President Obama is a principled man who has worked hard to put healthcare and a good education in the reach of millions of Americans and believes that everyone who works hard and plays by the rules, should have a fair shot at the American dream.

Obama is the new kid with the weird name who people just sense is a little classier than his surroundings. He moved from a private school where he was class president and is now at the giant public high school with the metal detectors and the smoking lounge.

Does Obama create confusion on purpose?

It has always seemed to me that Barack Obama has studied intensely and learned a great deal from Lincoln.