Pot calls the kettle black

Look at who is calling whom intellectually lazy:

As for Obama, a senior White House official said the freshman senator from Illinois was "capable" of the intellectual rigor needed to win the presidency but instead relies too heavily on his easy charm.

"It's sort of like, 'that's all I need to get by,' which bespeaks sort of a condescending attitude towards the voters," said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity. "And a laziness, an intellectual laziness."

Maybe, given Paul Krugman's op ed in the NY Times today on the deep-seated racism of the Republican Party, I shouldn't have chosen this particular title for this piece.

Of course, perhaps the White House is better able to recognize intellectual laziness than others, as in "it takes one to know one."