 A president doesn't have to be brilliant. He doesn't have to be clever. You can hire clever. You can hire pragmatic. And you can buy and bring in policy wonks. But you can't buy courage. You can't buy decency. You can't rent a strong moral sense. A president must bring those things with him. He needs to have, in that much maligned word, but a good one nonetheless, a vision of the future he wishes to create.