THE RACE IS NOT ALWAYS TO THE SWIFT OF MIND: More on Justin Trudeau from David Solway:

What all this serves to prove is that the Qoheleth was right, the race is not to the swift. But in the case we are discussing now, the race went to a slow-witted pretender whose lack of prior accomplishment, educational truancy (he failed to complete the two university degrees for which he had enrolled) and “smoke and mirrors” manipulativeness gave him a commanding lead. But he was certainly humble, confessing that he could not recite pi to the 19th decibel. Additionally, as we’ve seen, a sequence of fortuitous events and the support of powerful backers enabled him to breast the tape first.

Solway dubs Trudeau “Obama North,” and as he writes, the two political poseurs have much in common. Read the whole thing.