The lap dogging of the media for Obama is bordering silly. No, it’s gone way beyond silly.

“When I started covering the White House more than 50 years ago, I believed that the smarter a president was, the better he would be. That was wrong.

Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan were certainly not intellectuals, but they understood the power of the presidency and they knew how to impose their agendas on their political partners and rivals.

By contrast, Jimmy Carter was a whiz at policy analysis and Bill Clinton grasped the connections among issues almost intuitively. Yet neither of them left the White House with a record of great achievements.

So for several years, I have been arguing that there are traits much more important to the success of a president than brainpower. Self-confidence, curiosity, an eye for talent, the ability to communicate, a temperament that invites collaboration — all these and more rank higher on the list of desirable presidential traits.

I am not ready to abandon that view. But I am struck by how lucky this country is, at the moment, that the president-elect is a super-smart person like Barack Obama.”

Uh, huh.

Which would explain how he’s so smart he didn’t know Bill Ayer’s terrorist background, or anything that Rev. Wright was screaming about for 20 years. Or that “bonehead” move of getting a great deal on a mansion from convicted felon Tony Rezko.

Yeah! He’s a real genius! Take for example his knowledge of Iraq!

Genius I’m telling you!