Is Bush Still Too Dumb to Be President? - Los Angeles Times

Of course, Bush is too dumb to be president.

Hell, he couldn't make it a a CEO, even with Poppy's and Salim bin Laden's help, via James Bath.

But he is not completly stupid.

He is smart like a con-man is smart. He is apparently quite good at convincing people that big piles crap are really rose bushes, ready to bloom, any minute.

Either he is a very good con-man, or his listeners are dumb as boxes of rocks. Maybe it is a combination of the two. That would be my guess.


Jonathan Chait: Is Bush Still Too Dumb to Be President? - Los Angeles Times:

Bush's supporters have insisted for the last six years that liberal derision of the president's intelligence amounts to nothing more than cultural snobbery. We don't like his pickup truck and his accent, the accusation goes, so we hide our blue-state prejudices behind a mask of intellectual condescension.

But the more we learn about how Bush operates, the more we can see we were right from the beginning. It matters that the president values his gut reaction and disdains book learnin'. It's not just a question of cultural style. The president's narrow intellectual horizons have real consequences, sometimes cataclysmic ones.

It's true that presidents can succeed without being intellectuals themselves. The trouble is that Bush isn't just a nonintellectual, he viscerally disdains intellectuals. 'What angered me was the way such people at Yale felt so intellectually superior and so righteous,' he told a Texas Monthly reporter in 1994.