Comments on: Breaking News : George W Bush isn’t dumb!

By: Blues

Blues — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:30:49 +0000

So, technically he’s not retarded. He has a brain but is too lazy to use it. That seems like the very definition of stupidity.

By: Misanthropic Scott

Misanthropic Scott — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:02:23 +0000

Scoring high on MAMBIT (mental abilities measured by intelligence tests) is no indication of quality rational and veridical thinking. The correct term for Bush’s mental state is dysrationalia.

By: GetReal

GetReal — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:14:35 +0000

“someone who had greatness thrust upon him.” Greatness? No, he failed big time. Thrusted by who?

Before he had the presidency thrust upon him (geez), he failed at everything he tried. This, even though the ventures were handed to him by his father and his ultra-rich pals. Why did they help him? Because Poppy Bush asked them to, and because they saw a future payback – time and again. They were right because they got him into the White House, and they got their rewards.

“It is evident to everyone else . . you don’t get to be President of the USA if you are dumb.”

Obviously wrong! You can get to be President of the USA if you are dumb and have enough influential friends and family. You can even get to own a baseball team on other people’s money that way.

Besides, getting to be President of the USA is not a reward for being smart, dumb or anything else. It is a job that must be done well.

As in everything else he dabbled in, he failed. This time, thousands of Americans died for it.

“The fact is nothing he did as president was smart, smart is as smart does.Can you imagine if he had gotten through privatization of Social Security and then the crash happened?”

AMEN, LEE

The worst thing is that so many Americans voted for him twice for the stupidest of reasons, and still refuse to see clearly.

By: smartalix

smartalix — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:28:23 +0000

I’ve always maintained that Bush wasn’t stupid, he just didn’t care to know. Biug difference.

By: Rich

Rich — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:36:36 +0000

I recall a scene on TV during the 2000 election when he sat cross-legged and with a demeanor that indicated confidence, like he knew he was going to win. That was when the vote was so close; you all remember it. Now I realize that was well-founded confidence, not the attitude of a simpleton. I think the media poisoned me against him somewhat.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:53:04 +0000

#37
You do realize that everything at Yale is graded on a curve? So, a C student means he was smarter than half the students there.

#58
IMO, Obama strikes me as an overthinker and indecisive. He states his position as rather black-and-white but when it gets to the implementation, he turns wishy-washy. I’d imagine in the course of dinner that by the end of the meal you could convince him of the opposite of his position at the outset of the meal.

Bush was more of a “let’s go with whatever we have and see how it works out.” To the extreme, neither solution is ideal. Good leaders need to gather as much information to make an informed decision but it is just as important to know when to stop that process and actually make a decision.

By: deowll

deowll — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:57:30 +0000

“does not seek out information or opposing viewpoints; disdains complexity, nuances, and expert opinion; views policy issues in black-and-white terms based on his own preconceptions; and, refuses to rethink problems or change his views.”

I agree this is Bush but it is also Obama.

By: Rick Cain

Rick Cain — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:29:46 +0000

1200 on the SAT is NOT THAT GOOD. I scored an 1170 and I’m a moron.

By: gal416

gal416 — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:01:25 +0000

I had a sister in-law once who graduated from a well known university, suma cum laude and she was as silly and stupid as anyone I’ve ever met. I wouldn’t trust her as far as I could spit a rat. That goes for Bush also.

By: Animby

Animby — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:20:10 +0000

Yet we still can’t see Obama’s school records or find anything he wrote at Harvard.

By: Improbus

Improbus — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:16:45 +0000

@justthetruth

You wouldn’t be a Bonesman would you?

By: justthetruth

justthetruth — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:08:20 +0000

Met the man on many occasions and this is spot-on…you cannot have a conversation with him and thnk he’s dumb…but he’s not curious, and made his mind up a long time ago and will not change. So very unwise, but not dumb.

I disagreed with him on almost everything, but given a choice of having dinner with him or current thin-skinned paranoid ideologue (who would try to destroy and attack you for disagreeing) there’s no contest.

One thing I will give Bush, he can take abuse. The bile and nastiness simply does not bother him because he does not take his worth from what a bunch of potty-mouthed screamers think (that includes nearly all Democrats now).

I think one reason he engenders such hatred is that you can’t get to him. He doesn’t care about what you think, and you can’t handle that.

By: RSweeney

RSweeney — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:55:32 +0000

George Bush supported changing loan rules to create “affordable housing”. He actually is on tape saying that “the down payment is the biggest obstacle to home ownership”

He should have opposed the Democrats assault on lending standards. Guilty.

George Bush tried and failed to stop FANNIE and FREDDIE from their high flying, “we’ll buy any mortgage” unregulated bond kiting ways. Allowing Barney Frank and Congressional Democrats to stop regulation in its tracks.

And Bush began the bail out frenzy by supporting TARP (which the Democrats supported as well).

So, for failing to stop the Democrats from creating the housing bubble and allowing FREDDIE and FANNIE to spread the muck into every corner of the financial system, and starting the bail outs which Obama has driven to unimagined heights, yes, Bush is guilty.

By: Floyd

Floyd — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:31:32 +0000

So Dubya used my father’s thought process: “Don’t confuse me with the facts, my mind is made up.”

No wonder we’re in this recession.

By: Wretched Gnu

Wretched Gnu — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:11:33 +0000

Sorry, but a president who doesn’t know the difference between Saudi Arabians (the 9/11 attackers) and Iraqis is stupid, full stop.