The Air Force One flight over Ground Zero and the infestation of Smart Dumb People in powerful roles

Smart dumb people.

We all know at least one of them.

They are geniuses, everyone says.

Some of them graduated from famous  schools like Harvard. Some of them attended these schools on “Legacy”. That means Daddy attended so you get a free pass.

…..And they are dumb as a bag of hammers when it comes to good common sense and decision making skills.

Smart Dumb People make decisions without considering the consequences because they are often socially inept. They are often theorists as well, because Theory requires no Practice. Occasionally, some of them land in Academia teaching theories that don’t work in the Real World. They usually force their students to buy their books as a requisite to the class, because they know damned well their books would never sell otherwise.

Smart Dumb People have no common sense and no street smarts.  While everybody makes mistakes, when a Smart Dumb Person makes a mistake, it’s a Whopper. Smart Dumb People cost corporations millions of dollars every year before they either inherit enough money from their parents and stop working, remove themselves from the gene pool ala Darwin Awards, or they take to writing those boring books only 500 people want to read.

Bless my late father. Whenever he was looking to hire an Engineer, he often tossed the applications of people with the 4.0 averages coupled with the Fencing trophies– who graduated from what my father called ‘One of those Universities that create Smart Dumb People’– into the garbage. Then he would settle in and focus on  students who appeared to be living in the Real World, and on applicants who had been out in the Real World. My father often said he liked hiring people who made their mistakes at other companies. His theory was they won’t be doing THAT again.

My father would have thrown Louis Caldera’s resume intp the circular file, because he is the quintessential Smart Dumb Person.  Louis Caldera made the decision to fly Air Force One and F-16s over Ground Zero, while New Yorkers who were victimized by this Smart Dumb Person’s decision were on the ground and in buildings crapping their pants in fear. One worker ran down 50 flights of stairs to flee Louis Caldera’s brain fart in action.

Besides this being a DUMB decision, it was also a CRUEL decision. But I’m fairly certain that Mr. Caldera wasn’t being deliberately cruel. It’s just that the potential for the painful result of that flyover  never entered Mr. Caldera’s mind when he was planning it. He never even thought of those little insignificant common people down there who would witness that photo op. He was only thinking WOOT! We’re gonna get some realllllly cool shots!  That’s because he is a typical Smart Dumb Person who has no common sense and who isn’t capable of considering the consequences of his actions.

Louis Caldera is the former President of New Mexico University, where he spent time influencing future Smart Dumb People. Caldera graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He received degrees in law and business from Harvard University.

……..And Louis Caldera has the sense of a bag of hammers.

Every time I run into the Louis Calderas of this world, I understand more clearly why my father tossed so many of those resumes into the circular file.

Lately, the other thing that comes to my mind is: I wonder just how many of these Smart Dumb People Barack Obama has put into powerful positions……

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