Or perhaps “Obama Small Intellect Metric”. Dear Leader is regularly credited with an incredible verbal intelligence that manifests a nearly Supreme executive Intelligence. It should therefore disappoint when He gaffs so regularly, and in ways that reveal Him as perhaps one of those people writing without reading and hearing without listening. One might occasionally wonder how His writing could be so literate.

His latest verbal blunder, swapping “hoist” for “foist” is subtle, but even I heard it without Ed Morrissey’s able analysis. The only sound from the unrepentant ex-hippies of the MSM will undoubtedly be silence.