Ford was a gifted athlete. He was on the Michigan Football team that won the national championship. He was voted Michigan's most valuable player. The media played him as awkward and uncoordinated. How many most valuable players on the Michigan Football team do you think were uncoordinated?
Ford went to Yale Law School where he graduated 3rd in his class and won a phi beta kappa key.
There is no way a he could be gifted ... could he?
He may be gifted, but his grasp of foreign affairs is weak, but then again, look at Carter.