The Great Intellectual

From WSJ Best of the Web, 01/27/12, James Taranto

The Great Intellectual 
A couple of readers sent us this quote from a speech President Obama gave at a UPS plant in Las Vegas yesterday:

"On Tuesday at the State of the Union, I laid out my vision for how we move forward. I laid out a blueprint for an economy that's built to last, that has a firm foundation. Where we're making stuff and selling stuff and moving it around and UPS drivers are dropping things off everywhere."

We got a kick out of the comments our readers made: "He sounds a lot like the kid that really hoped teacher wouldn't call on him," observes T. Young. And Jim Orheim: "My seventh- and fourth-graders (in public school!) can articulate what the economy is better than this."

Is this what James Kloppenberg means by "philosophical pragmatism"?