> ... the president  ... i suspect he's too incompetent for that.. or did i
mean another word.

As far as I can establish, based on information available on the web,
including other people's analyses, the IQ of George Bush is PROBABLY around
135 +/- 5. Higher than the IQ of the large majority of the people on this
list.  Not the smartest US President ever, but certainly not the 'dumbest'.
Arguably somewhat brighter than the most loved President of relatively
recent times (whoever that may be :-) ). This "fact" apparently makes some
furious.

Bear in mind that I am not a US citizen or resident and am not at all
partisan in the area of US politics. I know what I would like to see in a US
President but am relatively free from the blind fury that grips many USites
over who should or shouldn't be C-in-C.

The following is NOT a comment on or criticism of Philip's comments:
Quite a few websites aim to portray GB as relatively stupid. To do this they
provide false stats and "information" that purports to be factual. This may,
perhaps, be good clean fun US style when there is nothing serious at stake,
but when it is done to attempt to alter people's opinion of his competence
and capability it is dishonest and constitutes an attempt to manipulate
people politically for one's own ends. All may perhaps be fair in love and
war - but when this extends to politics, as it inevitably does, it says more
about the manipulators than those they seek to disparage. Odds are that the
IQ of many doing this is lower than that of GB. Those who do not like what
he does or stand for are welcome to point out the facts.



        Russell McMahon

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