I wouldn't waste all the bandwidth I could use to demonstrate the ignorance of George W. Bush. Beyond simple gaffes, he mangles words and makes remarks that clearly demonstrate a lack of vital knowledge for a man in his position. It's so bad, some have suggested he's dyslexic. Bottom line, I've never considered the guy very bright.
His supporters have countered to me he is an Ivy League man, a Yale grad. Admittedly, that casts some doubt on the conclusion Bush is dim. But I hold to that conclusion. Intellegence is a contraversial and tough thing to measure. To me, it's the retaining of information, processing and communicating it, and grasping concepts. Bush doesn't seem to do that well.
The same is true about Barack Obama. A Harvard man, yes. But he's provided more than enough glimpses into his ignorance. Just lately, it's become obvious he couldn't answer some questions he ought to. What country liberated Auschwitz? What people do we honor on Memorial Day? With which of our enemies in World War II did FDR meet? Obama knows none of this, at least not until recently. It's obvious he often doesn't know what the hell he's talking about.
I'm confident peppering him with a dozen or two such questions would leave him a puddle of blinks and uhhh's.
Obama is uncertain and halting in his speaking when not reading from a teleprompter. He'll 'uhhhh' several times in a sentence, searching for the simplest of words. As much as many want to believe otherwise, he's not very bright.
He is as intellectually challenged as Bush, but he is at least a progressive. Should he be elected, I fear he'll do for liberalism what Bush did for conservatism and set black Americans back a generation.
And, like Bush, he'd do it all with his Ivy League education.
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