*Disclaimer: If you’ve not read any of Plato’s works, this rebuttal may not make much of any sense. For further reference, see Plato’s Apology, Republic, and my personal favorite, Phaedo.

I have to ask Brandon Griefe who recently wrote an opinion piece entitled Obama: A pupil of Socrates a sincere question:

Are you serious?!

You cannot honestly believe you’re the only person to have ever trivialized the greatest philosopher known to modern society. You may, however, be the only person who has written an opinion piece on Obama and Socrates being similar. 

Politics does make for strange bedfellows as the saying goes, but you are making a big stretch by putting Obama and Socrates even on the same page.

Let me be straight: Obama is the polar opposite of Socrates. While the failings of President Obama are many and clearly obvious to a lot of us, I will take particular contention with your opinions on Socrates and Plato in regards to government driven society.