Meanwhile, our leader appears on a game show

[JonUK]

(09-05-2008 11:44 AM)boontito Wrote:  The simple truth is that George W. Bush has not shown himself to be terribly intelligent, but his opponents argument that he is moronic is ridiculous. A complete idiot would not have been able to rise to the position of President. In my opinion he is average... painfully average.

He almost fatally choked on a pretzel while watching TV, and has fallen off a Segway, a machine that is supposed to be 'fool-proof'. He is a rich failed businessman (a pretty rare breed!), and has made a stupendous amount of Gaffes and mistakes on-camera and also invaded the personal space of more than a few world leaders, and finally given the US its worst deficit in the nations history... Average means half the population of the US are smarter than him - Average means I could do a better job, Average means 125,000,000 Americans could do a better job.

and don't be naive boontito, of course a complete idiot can be president - Ronald Reagan - the man had a degenerative mental illness for gods sake! And I have a feeling his mental capacity wasn't exactly tip-top in the first place....

Bottom line, world leaders should never be less than Genius level intelligence - Average is awful.