Is it safe to be smart, yet?

Ah yes,
the question no one is asking:

Is it safe to be smart, yet?

Remember in the song,
My Funny Valentine,
there's a line to the effect
that one of the gal's problems
is that when she opens her mouth
to speak,
she's smart.

And, until recently, in Presidential
elections,
having intelligence
was scorned as elitism,

which actually,
it often was.

And then Barack Obama comes
along,
and raise discourse to the level
of intelligent people looking
at things in a broader
and more fair way

He's speech in response to the Rev Wright
imbroglio
was a model of treating people as if
they were adults, who could think
and reason

no sound bites

intelligence
I actually posted the whole thing back
then
at
Barack's Speech on Race and America
and dream's deferred

And then the question:

is it safe to be smart, yet?

Not quite

but it's almost safe to be intelligent,
especially if you can be
calm
and intelligent
the way our new President elect is

wow, what a miracle