Barack Obama

Beyond the fact that the President has continually demonstrated a persistent and patient work ethic and the fact that he has continually demonstrated a thought process that goes beyond meeting the urgent question and "kicking the can down the road" is the way that he communicates on complex questions.

If you study the President's speeches you will find a unique and distinctive process where he defines the positions of conflicting parties without either demonizing, exaggerating or mischaracterizing positions that he disagrees with. This is evidence not simply of a high intellect but of a very particular disciplined epistemological methodology that is only consistent with a person who "gives serious consideration . . . to see the question from multiple angles".

Philosophically it is much more revealing to answer the question of how rather than what a person is thinking.