Barack Obama has an IQ of 110 at the max. He can deliver a speech he reads that someone else has written. And he can Bull Scheiße in response to a question. He’s INCAPABLE of solving problems.
110 seems a bit high.
Even Obama’s name is wrong. He is a Jr. He is not a II. He doesn’t even know the difference.
You are very gracious.
I would guess about the same as you. He is not stupid and might be just a little bit above average but he is not really bright either. He does have a skill which many Blacks have. He can really BS his way through things.
I remember William F. Buckley debated a well known Black leader at a college forum. I think it was Stokely Carmicael but can’t be sure. Anyway every time the guy would say something the students would go wild with cheers and applause.
Buckley had no idea what was going on. The next day he and his friends went over the tape to see what was happening. It turned out the Black leader was simply talking double talk, BSing every thing he said.
It seems college students are mostly just sheep.
I was going to guess in the 85-90 range.
The Adolescent President
The rhetorical excesses of Barack Obama.
By George Will
NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE
APRIL 23, 2014
Recently, Barack Obama — a Demosthenes determined to elevate our politics from coarseness to elegance, a Pericles sent to ameliorate our rhetorical impoverishment — spoke at the University of Michigan. He came to that very friendly venue — in 2012, he received 67 percent of the vote in Ann Arbor’s county — after visiting a local sandwich shop, where a muse must have whispered in the presidential ear. Representative Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) had recently released his budget, so Obama expressed his disapproval by calling it, for the benefit of his academic audience, a “meanwich” and a “stinkburger.”
Try to imagine Franklin Roosevelt or Dwight Eisenhower or John Kennedy or Ronald Reagan talking like that. It is unimaginable that those grown-ups would resort to japes that fourth-graders would not consider sufficiently clever for use on a playground.
Anyone who has tried to engage a member of that age cohort in an argument probably recognizes the four basic teenage tropes, which also are the only arrows in Obama’s overrated rhetorical quiver. They were all employed by him last week when he went to the White House briefing room to exclaim, as he is wont to do, about the excellence of the Affordable Care Act.
First came the invocation of a straw man. Celebrating the ACA’s enrollment numbers, Obama, referring to Republicans, charged: “They said nobody would sign up.” Of course, no one said this. Obama often is what political philosopher Kenneth Minogue said of an adversary – “a pyromaniac in a field of straw men.”
Adolescents also try to truncate arguments by saying that nothing remains of any arguments against their arguments.
Regarding the ACA, Obama said the debate is “settled” and “over.” Progressives also say the debate about catastrophic consequences of man-made climate change is “over,” so everyone should pipe down. And they say the debates about the efficacy of universal preschool, and the cost-benefit balance of a minimum-wage increase, are over. Declaring an argument over is so much more restful than engaging with evidence.
A third rhetorical move by argumentative adolescents is to declare that there is nothing to argue about because everything is going along swimmingly. Seven times Obama asserted that the ACA is “working.” That is, however, uninformative because it is ambiguous...
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