[sergeantdave]

This moron Clinton couldn't convince even half the people in the US to vote for him.

[Teacher317]

The Intelligence Quotient is a ratio of "mental age" to physical age... it changes every day that you get older. Labelling a person with a single number for a lifetime is silly. I might've been around 150 as a 12 year old (the average or expected intelligence of an 18 year old), but I doubt that I'm much above 120 today.

[Walkin Man]

I would question this is in the case of Abraham Lincoln. He started the bloodiest war in American history.

Say what???

I could have sworn that the rebels fired the first shot in the Civil War at Fort Sumter.

[Lady Heron]

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.

No, he was one of the worst Presidents the US has seen! What he was brilliant at was getting away with lies, constantly.

It is obvious that you do not know many people with very high IQs. All the ones I know have no common sense, are terrible with dealing people and life in general! I would never intrust them to run anything!

BTW the person with the highest IQ I know is a truck driver barely able to cope with life, much less the responsiblility of raising a family, can only converse on one subject (though on that subject I would call him an extreme expert) and lives on the edge of starvation. These type of people are not who should run a country, they are usually non-functional in real life except in the one area that truely intrest them.

[E.G.C.]

Highest Iq's hunh? Very good President hunh?

Here are five qoutes from a December 2000 FR thread attibuted to him.He ain't quite the saint you think he is.

[Francis McClobber]

"I would question this is in the case of Abraham Lincoln. He started the bloodiest war in American history. Of all the Western countries which had slavery, all of them except the United States and Haiti were able to abolish it peacefully. This might be a better country today if Lincoln had never been elected. "

Shows historical ignorance. The war was well on the way to happening prior to Lincoln's election in November of 1860. The southern states seceded upon his election, fearing republican control of the congress. Had any republican been elected, the south would have seceded. Further, the slavery issue was so contentious because slave labor was the means of southern prosperity, not northern, and the southern states would have lost the economic viability they had should slavery be abolished.

[My Favorite Headache]

Oh yes..look..a loser...a total loser...yep you bet...a liberal loving loser..look...he is right there...you see him? You zot him...no you zot him...no you..I insist..well...ok.

[boris]

I love the smell of fresh Zot in the morning.

[nobdysfool]

This reads like an 8th grade Social Studies report. I would grade it an F, for not having facts straight. Lincoln didn't start the Civil War. No support is provided for the figures cited, nor can there be for most of them. There are many unsubstantiated remarks littered through out, mostly personal opinion, although not always labeled as such.

And there are still people who say there's nothing wrong with the Public Schools?

[colorado tanker]

Read "The Best and the Brightest" by liberal David Halberstom. He explains how a bunch of high IQ Hahvahd types got us into Vietnam. Incidentally, the same bunch flubbed the Bay of Pigs, appeased Kruschev in allowing the raising of the Berlin Wall, secretely agreed to leave Castro in power and somehow managed to be a pro-civil rights administration that presided over the worst race riots in U.S. history.

God save us from ever being governed by those people again.

[DonQ]

The kings of Europe as a group would be one of the most intelligent groups of people who ever lived, with about a sixth of them being geniuses.

This is absurd. The European royals are spectacularly inbred and insulated and coddled, and a good many of them throughout the last 500 years were just a tad better than moronic or insane (and there were more than a few who fell below that threshhold). This becomes even more obvious if you try to track down the original legitimate heirs to the throne who were locked up, bumped off, or otherwise gotten out of the way by usurpers - a task that was sometimes made easier by the fact that the legitimate heir was seriously impaired.

On the other hand, it must be remembered that successful monarchs frequently had the advantage of (a) being brought up in the very midst of the ruling court, getting a thorough education in ruling from Day One, (b) being groomed and advised by experienced courtiers for the very purpose of someday running the country, (c) getting credit for ideas gotten from their advisors and admirers, (d) having a lot of loyal friends, family, and hangers-on to do the heavy lifting and the heavy thinking, and (e) having some control over the history writers.

[gc4nra]

"The problems of the world today are much too complex to be handled by such mediocrities. It has even been suggested that presidential candidates should be given IQ tests. It wouldn't be unreasonable to require candidates to at least be in the upper 1% of the population. That would be almost 3 million people, of whom over a million would be of the proper age, health, and so on.

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."


No! Presidents, Senators and Congressmen should be tested on the Constitution of the United States!

[watchin]

"Clinton had one of the highest IQs and was a Rhodes scholar, and even his enemies agree he was a very good president. "

The ranking of everyone from Wilson to Dubya - along with this quote - shows this whole business to be the product of the fertile imagination of MonicaLewinsky wannabe.

[Darksheare]

Thank you for proving once again that trolls are fun to torment, roast, and dispose of in obscenely grotesque displays of electrical discharge.
It may just be that the tapeworm controlling your brain wasn't fed well enough to be able to tell the difference between George H.W. Bush, and George W Bush.
After all, that isn't a "Jr. Sr." naming.
But, we don't expect such intelligence from leftists anyway.

After all, Clinton claimed to be a Rhodes scholar and claimed he couldn't recall anything.
For a guy who was supposedly intelligent, he couldn't recall much, could he?

[oldcomputerguy]

Well it is obvious that you are not a candidate.

[exDemMom]

Clinton................................135.0

Ha, ha, ho, hee, ha, hee, hee, ho

Excuse me while I catch my breath

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