ZOT!!! Low IQs found in trolls.

[clamper1797]

Given the books in the background ... I'd say the idiot in the picture outsourced his brain .... guess where

[isthisnickcool]

Here is the hoax site itself.

I remember when Garry Trudeau picked up on this and thought it was real (dumba$$). After he did a strip on it we were able to get his strip pulled from the editorial page and slammed over to the funny pages in the Houston Comical. And that's where it still is.

[Labyrinthos]

And Jimmy Carter was at 121.7? Although Carter was and remains one of the most ineffective executives and biggest losers ever to occupy the White House, even his most harshest critics will admit that he had more brain power than that.

[Maria S]

"One President with a high IQ who achieved his potential was Bill Clinton. Clinton had one of the highest IQs and was a Rhodes scholar, and even his enemies agree he was a very good president."

'Achieved his potential'? Hardly...too much of his blood was wasted going to other parts of his body than his brain. He may have had a good memory, and a quick wit...and he was the recipient of a Rhodes scholarship (he did NOT finish his studies), but a very good president? Nope...he and Dick Morris once spoke about the different 'tiers' of presidents, and they decided he MIGHT make the second tier in the future. But for now, he's still in the third tier.

The current President Bush? A very intelligent man, and one who appears more comfortable making decisions (after getting the necessary facts), trying to live an honorable life, and having inner strength...than sitting around talking philosophical babble. I'll take a 'doer' over a slick talking do-nothing any day.

[keithtoo]

As the Patron Saint of Conservatives - William F. Buckley - has said "I would rather be ruled by the first 200 names in the Boston phone book, than by the faculty of Harvard"

What this author fails to mention is that the kings of Europe did a horrible job.

I am not anti-intellectual at all, but Intellectuals, in general, need to have stiff limits put on them lest they muck everything up and lots of folks get killed.

[Rushian]

Herbert Hoover is vastly underated here. He would be at least second to Jefferson if not perhaps higher.

[samanella]

“One President with a high IQ who achieved his potential was Bill Clinton. Clinton had one of the highest IQs and was a Rhodes scholar, and even his enemies agree he was a very good president.”

He never finished Rhodes...was dismissed under allegations of date rape.

I would take a man of character any day of the week over one that was a brillant sociopath.

[SamAdams76]

This article is so much rubbish and the premise isn't even backed up by the statistics quoted - every president has had an IQ over 100 and the vast majority of them were 110 or above - hardly a group of dummies.

The article doesn't even take into account that the president of the United States surrounds himself with advisors who are by and large very bright people. Our most successful presidents were successful because they surrounded themselves with good people. This is the essence of leadership. Thank goodness we live in a country where leaders are selected for their leadership ability and not for their "smarts." Also we must be thankful that our system of government has many checks and balances. Thus, our fate does not depend upon a single man. Geniuses are always flawed and giving absolute power to a genius is always disastrous, as history has shown.

To sum it all up, the author of this piece cannot possibly be more wrong. First of all, we have not elected a single "dummy" to the office of president as the statistics quoted in this article bear out. Secondly, the United States of America, despite being only 227 years old, has established itself as the most powerful and richest nation the world has ever seen and our "stupid" presidents have had much to do with that. Those European weenies must really hate us for that.

[ladyinred]

WTF?

I'll drink to that!

Did I miss something, or did these "experts" decide the IQ's of the President's themselves? That's how I interrupted it.

[RandallFlagg]

Over sisxy posts to a ZOT thread and not one Viking Kitty?!?!

We're slackin'.

[BureaucratusMaximus]

[AxelPaulsenJr]

I wish just once one of these DU drive-by posters would stick around and argue their beliefs instead of skulking off.

Excellent comment. I would only change the word "skulking" to "slithering".

[Mad Dawgg]

There is only one President Listed that has a Higher I.Q. than me.

Does that mean I get to be the next resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.?

[ladyinred]

He was a very good president indeed, if having interns blow him while he bombed aspirin factories as a diversion, if incinerating 80 men, women, and children to death in Waco TX, or if covering up the OKC bombings true cause, TWA 800's reason for crashing, getting more than 900 FBI files in the White House (when one such file caused the downfall of Nixon)..

Stressing your good point!

[mollynme]

Image of skulk

[gcruse]

having interns blow him while he bombed aspirin factories

Boring Gore

I don't think President Clinton is a bad president, I just think he's a dog.  It sounds like he has nailed everything that moves in the White House.  In fact, I think that's why Al Gore stands the way he does.

Jack Coen, 1999, Comedy Central Presents

[Atlantic Friend]

And now, ladies and gentlemen, keep quiet, for the fantastic madame Irma will channel the spirit of the IQ of long-departed Presidents...and to the one-tenth of point, yessiree, because it's not mumbo-jumbo, no, it's all real scientific!! With real science in it !!

[akorahil]

OK, stop that....I now have to clean coffee from my keyboard because of that!

[RabidBartender]

You have no idea how much better I feel for America knowing that people as stupid as you are in the Democrat Party. Everytime one of you opens your mouth and spews out lies and hatred, more and more centrists swing further and further to the right. Thanks for doing your part in helping to ensure President Bush gets another 4 years as our Commander-in-Chief! Woot!

[gcruse]

ROFL!!! Excellent!