Our Smartest President?

Townhall.com ^ | January, 26, 2014 | Bruce Bialosky

[x]

It's all of a piece, though. Obots thought Obama smart because he didn't venture his opinions but sat there looking "thoughtful." Next to someone as impulsive as McCain, a candidate who knew to keep his mouth shut would likely appear more intelligent. The guy who can just sit there listening to everyone else's opinions can get built up into an intellectual giant by his admirers because, not venturing an opinion, he doesn't look foolish.

So now, we find out that Obama really didn't know that much and wasn't anywhere near as thoughtful as his fans thought he was. And now we hear that he didn't know about this and that -- IRS, Benghazi, etc. Maybe he was quiet and controlled back then because he really didn't know much.

[Doogle]

[Zuse]

....Our Smartest President?....

Probably Thomas Jefferson.

Monticello? He didn’t build that.

[COBOL2Java]

"Obama is, without a doubt, the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into."

  - Rush Limbaugh

[Mastador1]

Obamas IQ is off the charts

You are of course referring to his Irritation Quotient, his innate ability to irritate the majority of Americans.

[jmcenanly]

Which way?

[yarddog]

I am not a fan of Lincoln as I think he was a protocommunist.

On the other hand, he really was smart. I still think Jefferson was the most brilliant and TR also. I think TR was the only person to win the Nobel Peace Prize and the Medal of Honor. I would not be surprised to learn that TR also won some literary awards.

BTW, TR actually earned his Nobel Prize.

[yarddog]

I would guess Obama as the least intelligent. I can’t think of another president who was really just given everything others have to work for.

[digger48]

They built a fancy walk bridge over a reservoir here that is surrounded by multi-million dollar homes in the richest county in our state.

[fhayek]

I have a graduate degree, and I have worked construction where the mud was up to my thighs. I have known a wide variety of educated and non-educated people. People from the inner city, and hicks from the sticks. I know a guy who can barely write his name, but I saw him take two non working construction trash pumps and make one working one, at the jobsite. You find smart people everywhere. And you find dumb people everywhere. Forget IQ, I think that there are several marks of a smart person.

Smart people usually have a good sense of humor, and are able to tell a clever joke. Sometimes they are possessed with the ability to take a myriad of facts and condense the logic out of them. They usually have a keen wit and can turn a phrase that gets to the crux of an issue. A smart person is someone who knows how things work and can diagnose a problem quickly, or at least has a methodology for doing so. Smart people look at the resources they have and use them to the best purpose, not tie themselves to some 'perfect world' solution. There are many ways to be smart, unfortunately, Barack Obama does not posess any of these ways.

[crz]

TR read a book every morning-maybe that is where he read Marx, since he was the start of the progressive movement.

There was one who could write with both hands at the same time and, I think, they said in Latin. Who it was I do not remember.

[Hoodat]

My Basset Hound is smarter than our current _Resident. (And equally as much of a life-long MOOCHER!)

At least Bassets let you know how much they appreciate you. Basset hounds do more work in their sleep (dreaming about chasing rabbits) than Obama does awake. They also love America which is more than I can say for this imposter. They're also cuter and have got more personality too.

[griswold3]

I attribute all the ineptitude of Obama ADD caused by his use of marijuana. He has brief moments of clarity but then ‘Squirrel, Dude!’

[americanbychoice3]

All those sign makers became rich beyond belief.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

All true! My Basset chases a LOT of bunnies in his sleep!

[Carry_Okie]

The fact that President Obama was so blindly ignorant about what it takes to get any construction project done in this country -- with the burdensome laws in place --

Oh such a callow pundit. Zero knows very well just how many bureaucrats these projects justify. It's a growth industry for Democrats. "Shovel ready" simply means that he's ready to shovel public money into Democrat pockets. He doesn't care if anything gets built.

[MuttTheHoople]

He so Smrt

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[ripley]

All Democrat presidents are the most brilliant who ever occupied the White House.

(All the Republican ones are bible-thumping, gun-loving, knuckle-dragging, Christian morons.)

Dontcha know?

IMHO

[elkfersupper]

The smartest president was Calvin Coolidge.

Did nothing, said nothing, vetoed everything.