1.0 link 154834 <![CDATA[What to Expect from an Intelligent President]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathleen-reardon/what-to-expect-from-an-in_b_154834.html Brace yourself. It's going get rocky soon. We are about to have a very bright man as our president. And we've been away from that territory for a very long time.

Barack Obama is what social scientists describe as "cognitively complex." He can accommodate within his views and values what others see as contradictions. He inhabits an abstract rather than concrete world. For the cognitively complex among us, the gray area is broad.

That's why he doesn't rush to a microphone...

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