In the bubble that liberals have made for themselves, image is everything, and he has learned to do "image". Who was it that looked at the crease in his pants, and *knew* he was presidential material?
My guess is Romney is up near the 155 area, based on the rarity of his talents. I have been lucky to associate with some very bright people in my life.
I would put my own intelligence level as pretty close to Barrack based on some long ago test scores. Intelligence is not the same as wisdom.
President Obama scores very low in wisdom, imho, which many will mistake as stupidity, when instead it is simply false assumptions. People can be very smart about making stupid decisions based on false assumptions. President Obama has been brought up on false assumptions his entire life, and has been protected from reality.
I agree with your assessment. He is a gifted individual who has been made dumber by lack of positive real life experiences, and he is noticibly lacking of common sense by his prolonged academic position as a law teacher.
Romney, on the other hand, is more gifted, probably intellectually, and definitely in leadership qualities. Romney is more gifted in the skills of running a country in dire trouble.
In fairness, I do not have a hard time believing that Obama would be more fun to play board games with in the back of the airplane. :)
Instead of confronting the news reporterette on the slanted reporting of her prefession (Reuters reporter), I was so interested in talking with her to get insight into the media mindset I did not bring up anything controversial. And she was genuinely nice. Did I do the right thing not saying anything provocative?
Yes. It was more productive to obtain information. You would not have changed her world view. That is almost impossible to do.