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1 posted on 09/02/2011 9:49:48 AM PDT by Kaslin
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Considering who is the office right now, the answer is apparently NO.


2 posted on 09/02/2011 9:53:08 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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what if they are sealed?


3 posted on 09/02/2011 9:53:10 AM PDT by wizwor
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Why didn’y Perry just seal up his transcripts like Obama did?


4 posted on 09/02/2011 9:53:26 AM PDT by Inyo-Mono (My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
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"As for our current leader, Barack Obama, often praised for his intellect..." ... despite no empirical evidence to support such conclusions.
5 posted on 09/02/2011 9:54:08 AM PDT by DJ Frisat
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Where’s the Kenyan’s transcripts?


6 posted on 09/02/2011 9:54:16 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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I think the proof is in...


7 posted on 09/02/2011 9:55:47 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (McCain 5 yrs Left/1 year right "BAD!" - Republicans 3 yrs Right 1 year Left to elect RINOs. "Good?")
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Seems like a moot point for Zero. We don’t know how smart he is. We aren’t allowed to see his records, remember?


10 posted on 09/02/2011 10:02:10 AM PDT by jessduntno (Obama shanks. America tanks.)
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Perry’s grades are much higher than obama’s.


11 posted on 09/02/2011 10:03:48 AM PDT by CGalen
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“What are the top five qualities I most value in a president?”

1. Experience in managing a business or a State.
2. The ability to choose an intelligent staff.
3. A history of strong ethical and moral values.
4. The intelligence to change course when faced with a collision (i.e., it's not working so quit and try something else).
5. A reverence for the Constitution, particularly the 2nd Amendment.

Extra points for military service! Order not indicative of importance as I feel all are equally important. Notice education is not mentioned.

12 posted on 09/02/2011 10:07:23 AM PDT by pepperdog (Why are Democrats Afraid of a Voter ID Law?)
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“What are the top five qualities I most value in a president?” Your answers will be enlightening. Feel free to post them here.

1. A Bible-believing, faithful Christian.
2. Willing to uphold the US Constitution as originally written.
3. Unshakable belief in the Rule of Law.

No other qualities are needed. Those three git 'er done for me.

13 posted on 09/02/2011 10:07:33 AM PDT by upchuck (Rerun: Think you know hardship? Wait till the dollar is no longer the world's reserve currency.)
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I would love to have a president at least as smart as a fifth grader. Unfortunately, we don’t have one.


15 posted on 09/02/2011 10:09:04 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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A fifth grader is smarter than our phoney doofus and chief. There are many fourth graders who would make better presidents.

The left can’t help but drag out the “Republicans are stupid” routine. They’ve been doing it every since they ran their dropout and flunky Adlai Stevenson, selling him as an intellectual. Obama is even more phoney than Adlai was, and equally as big a dummy as his VP Biden.


18 posted on 09/02/2011 10:17:16 AM PDT by pallis
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HOW can Obama run for re-election? He still hasn’t proved that he’s a natural born American.


19 posted on 09/02/2011 10:20:04 AM PDT by kitkat (Obama, rope and chains)
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Is having a neighborhood buddy/terrorist write your memoir considered smart?


22 posted on 09/02/2011 10:50:10 AM PDT by Dakkster
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No, as long the only requirement needed to vote is to know to read.

Quote:

"The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America . Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president."

Prager Zeitung, April 28, 2010

23 posted on 09/02/2011 10:59:04 AM PDT by DTA (U.S. Centcom vs. U.S. AFRICOM)
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he can’t be that dumb.... after all he still has Republicans....

critizing President George W. Bush at every chance...and....
blaming President George W. Bush at every chance...


25 posted on 09/02/2011 11:10:30 AM PDT by malia
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WHERE ARE OBAMA’S COLLEGE RECORDS?


26 posted on 09/02/2011 11:13:38 AM PDT by Venturer
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“Harry S. Truman is also viewed in a positive light by historians, yet he was only one of two presidents since 1869 who had no college degree.”

I remember reading stories about how Truman would embarrass himself by mispronouncing Greek names and such, but it’s okay because he was self-educated (possibly ruggedly individualistically educated). This, I assume, I was told because he was a Democrat. Had he been Republican it would be proof of his unfitness for office. Which would explain why he stumbled us into a decades-long, pointless struggle against an enemy could have been our friend if we weren’t so mean taking us to the brink of global annihilation, and blah, blah, blah.


27 posted on 09/02/2011 11:19:52 AM PDT by Tublecane
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We need a comparison to see if Perry is really such a "dolt." I know, how about comparing those college transcripts to those of the currently sitting President of the United States?

Why isn't anyone demanding the Obama release his college transcripts? I mean, we kept hearing how Obama was so brilliant, but nobody knows what grades he managed to earn.

Mark

28 posted on 09/02/2011 12:06:06 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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I’ve been giving this subject some thought and I have to say I came to a conclusion that, at first, surprised me.

I actually now think that it is far more important for a president to have those real political “people” skills than a super high IQ or even some particular kind of experience (business, military, time in office, take your pick).

Because isn’t the President’s actual job managing people? A president will have some plans or goals of his (or her) own; he’ll have to deal with events and circumstances that no one would have been able to predict; he’ll have to deal with foreign leaders whether he (or we) like them or not (and vice versa). He doesn’t actually pass laws, or arrest bad guys, or determine military movements, he manages those who do.

So, isn’t the ability to work well with people, to persuade them to follow your lead, to hold them accountable for how well they do the job you, the president, have given them, isn’t that the REAL job of the president. And also, of course, to retain the trust and confidence of the voters?

This is why I now think that being a super good pol is probably the single critical ability a person needs to be an effective president.

And I also think, I have thought for a long time, that that attribute is a God-given gift. It is not a skill that can be learned.


30 posted on 09/02/2011 12:37:02 PM PDT by jocon307
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