Obama, Trump and Ignorance

Obama Commencement Speech to Rutgers

President Obama told the Rutgers graduates that "ignorance is not a virtue", which was directed at Donald Trump.  Obama was implying that Donald Trump is ignorant, mostly because he is a republican running to succeed Obama in the White House, and because he disagrees with many positions taken by the candidate.

Taking a position different from a candidate is perfectly legitimate and President Obama has his own opinions.  But to lecture people on anti-intellectualism is quite dishonest as Obama applied the test.

The president has taken many positions which have been proven incorrect over time, such as:

• Giving hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies to green energy companies such as  Solyndra
• Attempting to validate the nearly $1T stimulus package as actually helping turn the economy around
• Shovel ready jobs which were not so shovel ready, and laughing about it
• Monthly overestimating jobs created, leading to restating actual jobs a month later
• Telling Americans they can keep their doctor and their insurance plan if they like it
• The climate change science is a settled matter
• Sending administration officials to the funeral of Michael Brown, who we later learned actually assaulted the police officer who shot back in self-defense
• Calling Cambridge, MA. police stupid for arresting a man without identification breaking into a home
• Campaigning in all 57 states
• Claiming ISIS is the JV team, yet unable to defeat them, while claiming we are defeating them
• Not understanding basic math by spending trillions more then the government collects in taxes, doubling the national debt
• Accepting tens of thousands of Muslim refugees from Syria despite the inability to adequately screen out the terrorists among them 
• Unconstitutionally changing laws passed by congress, and losing cases in the Supreme Court for doing so

So I ask, who is being intellectually dishonest?