Posted on 06/01/2016 5:50:38 PM PDT by dennisw
It may be off the charts, but not in the direction they think
I remember William F. Buckley admitting that Reagan was not a genius, just maybe a bright man. He said Reagan’s real strength was he had all the right instincts.
Obama has gotten everywhere he has gotten due to affirmative action. Being Black, Muslim with a name which sounds like Osama, all helped him with the idiot American voters. At least maybe a third of them. The rest just wanted a Marxist.
He is of no more than average intelligence and I would guess he is at the bottom or very near it. He might even be way under all the rest.
“If we turn against each other based on division of race or religion. If-if-if-if-if-if-if-if-if-if-if we fall for, you know, a bunch of okie-doke, just because, you know it-it-it. You know, it-it-it-it-it-it sounds funny or the tweets are provocative.”
~~The Smartest Prez Ever
I’m guessing that this depends on what your definition of smartest is...
Intelligent and Smart are also characteristics of con-artists, and psychotics, etc.
Administered hundreds of IQ tests - can assure Beschloss that Obama’s IQ is not “off the charts” and certainly not the highest among the presidents....
And the crowd favorite, "I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go."
Yes, all together 5 books of which the last one still to be published. Each book is thick!!!! Another good one is The Power Broker, Robert Moses and the fall of New York.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_Broker
Okie doke.
On Robert Caro. Caro is a Sephardic Jewish last name.....in case you are interested :)
Thank you, dennisw.
Doesn’t mean anything to me tho I have noticed they tend to be extremely intelligent.
He does mostly DUMB $hit for a so called SMART GUY!
Many of the best leaders I knew were not Mensa members, but they were intelligent enough, and had the ability to rapidly synthesize information and make the right decisions in a timely fashion.
As a young platoon leader, I was given many opportunities to develop my decision making abilities. Our battalion hq was over 40 miles away, as our mission was airbase defense. To say we operated independently was an understatement.
During alerts, I spent most of my time in the Wing CP as the Army Liasion Officer.
LOL, it only took an hour in my first tac eval to be appointed as an NBC warfare advisor to the Wing Cdr. I was in the right place at the right time, the Base Disaster Prep officer went overboard on an input. I merely offered a suggestion that a lower alert level would suffice, and I backed it up with a sound explanation. I was told it was a "ballsy" move, a 2nd LT interjecting himself into a conversation where there were 4-5 AF Colonels discussing the situation.
To me, it was no big deal, I had received the training necessary to react to such situations (I was my battery's NBC Officer), along with several other "extra duties". Looking back on it, the Wing Commander went against the grain, trusting an Army 2nd LT over an Air Force Captain. With the leader of the NATO evaluation team nearby, he left no doubt when he said, "as long as I'm in command, whenever there is an NBC input, I want that Army Lieutenant here immediately!"
Apologies for the length, but smart guys like Obama have difficulty with making a decision. A good leader knows that he won't be right every time. When he's wrong, he learns from that error, and moves on. Too many "smart guys" don't grasp that concept, and ultimately cause more death and destruction through inaction.
BTW, I never let the "old man" down.
I’m pretty sure Obama would need a third digit in his IQ score to qualify as one of the smartest presidents ever.
Just sayin’...
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