[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.

[RightWhale]

While there are such who cannot live a quasi-normal life, most Mensans can have children and fix their own car and run up the plastic and all the other stuff. Granted they don't often live up to expectations in school and drop out of college as often as not, but you'll find these high-potential types doing just fine most of the time. Just remember, when you go to a job interview, DON'T mention you are a Mensan.