[gusopol3]

Is Obama’s IQ The Highest Certified Of Any President Ever?
As was noted earlier hits morning on Sirius Left, the former
Guidance Counselor of Obama’s private Hawaiian school
has supplied The Washington Post with a certified copy of
Obama’s Stanford-Banai IQ Certification, one of which was taken in 1966 when he was a kindergardener in Hawaii before moving to Indonesia, and one which was taken as entrance protocol as a freshman in his private (extremely exclusive) Honolulu private highschool.

His IQ was clocked at 172 and 166 respectively (IQ’s normally have a fluctuation of 6 or 7 points from test to test so that discrepency is normal).

That puts Obama in the certifiable clinical genius category.

Obama’s campaign is apparently NOT HAPPY about The Washington Post preparing to disclose this, because they fear it adds to his reputation as no an “everyman” and being too “professorial”.

But that aside...if elected, does this make Obama, the retainer of the highest certified IQ of any president in American history?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080326093339AAznnNm

[gusopol3]

Obama’s campaign is apparently NOT HAPPY about The Washington Post preparing to disclose this

sounds like the prayer note at the wailing wall trick.

[Jim W N]

Is Obama’s IQ The Highest Certified Of Any President nominee Ever?

[SolidWood]

Obama’s Stanford-Banai IQ Certification, one of which was taken in 1966

So they want to tell us that Obama is a freaking genius because of a test taken in 1966? He was 5 years old. Obama is dumber than a box of rocks. There are a lot of idiots running around in academia. Don't know what an IQ test is worth.

[9YearLurker]

Sure as heck doesn’t come across as anywhere near 166 or 172, and I believe it is ‘Stanford-Binet’. He’s not a dope either, and he’s said to have graduated Summa, which I understand to be in the top 10%, from HLS.

He’s quoted as saying that he’s been a beneficiary of AA himself, and it appears he needed to start at a ‘safety school’ before transferring to Columbia as an undergrad. For an African American at that time, that of course wasn’t the highest of bars.

But I believe those IQ tests like I believe anything from him or his campaign.

[Truth is a Weapon]

If true, he would have to be man who has done the leastest with the mostest. He is amazingly ignorant of western history and world events. Either that or he sees everything through red glasses.

[nathanbedford]

I am old enough to recall being told that John Kennedy was brilliant, a speed reader, who could read and in fact did read books at an amazing pace. It was all bullshit.

We were all told that David Eisenhower, the man who managed D. Day and the Crusade in Europe which defeated the Third Reich, was a blithering moron. Adlai Stevenson, on the other hand, was brilliant.

Dan Quayle was stupid because he spelled potato the English way-in fact he had it right until he was mis-corrected -but Al Gore who flunked out of two universities and thinks that leopards have stripes, is counted an intellectual who can predict the fate of our spinning planet.

We were all told that George Bush is stupid and that John Kerry was brilliant but the transcripts of their grades in university prove the opposite.

Interestingly, they did not call Dick Nixon stupid, they called him evil.

Now we are told Barak Obama has an IQ as high as 170. This number is in the stratosphere. It is so high that it is difficult to credit although it is plausible. Obama does have a degree from Harvard with a "summa" attached to it, no mean achievement. But we must not discount the possibility that these achievements were greased by affirmative action. We just do not know.

I think it is interesting to speculate about why liberals feel the need to inflate the intelligence of their candidates. My thesis is that since they are virtually all atheists who need to play God, their orientation is all this worldly and they don't want anyone playing God who is not omniscient and intelligent. But that is a whole new series of posts.