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On Leno, Obama Admits He Can't Do Math Above 7th Grade Level
fox nation ^ | 10/25/2012 | fox nation

Posted on 10/25/2012 9:21:14 PM PDT by djwright

JAY LENO: When you help your daughters with their homework, is there a subject you struggle with? PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, the math stuff I was fine with up until 7th grade. But Malia is now a freshman in High School and I'm pretty lost. It's tough. Fortunately, they are great students on their own. And if something doesn't work I'll call over to the Department of Energy to see if they have a physicist to come over!

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barackbarbie; barbie; calculus; education; educrats; leno; math; mathishard; obama
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To: TigerClaws

I think you forgot a decimal place. IQ 18.6 maybe, on a good day.


41 posted on 10/25/2012 10:48:01 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama's myth is oozing out onto the floor. He's the political Lance Armstrong.)
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To: FredZarguna

I did it because I overcame my math obtusity and recognized the value of my analytical brain to overcome that. I can read graphs, charts, can add and subtract in my head, but I do not possess a theoretical/geometric component, doesn’t make me stupid.


42 posted on 10/25/2012 10:48:43 PM PDT by acapesket
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To: FredZarguna

Thanks for setting me straight!

I always knew Carter was an idiot. The idea that he was an engineer always made me feel cheap somehow ;-)


43 posted on 10/25/2012 10:51:30 PM PDT by Bobalu (It is not obama we are fighting, it is the media.)
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To: acapesket

Being uneducated isn’t the same thing as being “stupid.” But I don’t know how you can do optimization — which is one of the most basic tools in economics — without differential Calculus.


44 posted on 10/25/2012 10:53:50 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Can he even count to zero?)
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To: acapesket

Oh yeah, can you type a paragraph in the dark with only one typographical error? ‘Cause I can.


45 posted on 10/25/2012 10:54:11 PM PDT by fr_freak
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To: djwright
To paraphrase SNL: “Barry, you ignorant slut”. A man has to know his limitations and that's why he's a community organizer.
46 posted on 10/25/2012 10:57:06 PM PDT by MasterGunner01
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To: Bobalu

Calculus? He probably doesn’t even know algebra.


47 posted on 10/25/2012 11:06:45 PM PDT by ari-freedom
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To: FredZarguna
I didn't know that about Carter. It's such a part of his biography that I took it as Gospel.

To be fair, though, Carter said "nucular" all the time. Probably more than GW Bush.

Maybe he was a "nucular" engineer. That way nobody could accuse him of lying.

48 posted on 10/25/2012 11:08:15 PM PDT by boop (I weary of the chase. Wait for me. I shall be merciful and quick. ...)
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To: acapesket
Lemme tell ya this dweeb couldn’t pass Econ 101... Paul Samuelson..still have the text.

Samuelson was a dweeb, too. Won the Nobel Prize, too.

Samuelson was a quack, earning royalties for filling American undergraduate heads with mush.

Soviet Growth & American Textbooks

49 posted on 10/25/2012 11:11:53 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: TigerClaws

“IQ 186”

Left out the decimal point. It is 18.6.


50 posted on 10/25/2012 11:17:18 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Bobalu

I have an engineering degree from a world renowned university for math and sciences. It was in my senior year of high school that I really took to math. I learned that there are structural and objective mental disciplines needed to deal with the real world phenomena. My mother was an immigrant from Russia who only had 4th grade education but she could help me with my grade school arithmetic as we called it then. To have a POTUSA acknowledging grade school math is beyond his learning, even as taught today, is a disgrace to our, if it was our’s, educational system as well as the individual


51 posted on 10/25/2012 11:19:53 PM PDT by noinfringers2
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To: TigerClaws
IQ 186

I'll wager closer to 86. Don't like high school maths.

52 posted on 10/25/2012 11:22:47 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Obama didn't fix it.)
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To: TigerClaws

More like 86 or 18. Certifiable morons can be taught to read from a sheet of paper or teleprompter convincingly. My seconary MOS in the Army was broadcast (TV & Radio) journalist, it isn’t rocket science.


53 posted on 10/25/2012 11:40:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: djwright

Well, if this doesn’t prove he didn’t get into Columbia College or Harvard based upon his intelligence or his grades. He likely did not attend Columbia College and the College administration have been “convinced” to go along with the false claim. He would have had to take at SAT exam to get in and that includes math beyond the 7th grade. We know that Mr. Mansour of Texas asked Percy Sutton to make a phone call to Harvard to get the “fair-haired” Obama into Harard; he didn’t pass an LSAT.


54 posted on 10/26/2012 12:09:56 AM PDT by Best and Brightest (So many, many secrets still. Who is this creep who calls himself Obama? The truth is long overdue.)
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To: American Constitutionalist

I suspect he did poorly in 7th grade math (preparation for algebra).

I would argue his arithmetic isn’t so hot either.


55 posted on 10/26/2012 1:41:57 AM PDT by nonsporting
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To: djwright

“0bama’s an Idiot”

-0bama


56 posted on 10/26/2012 1:54:32 AM PDT by Leep (Billybob 0bama:I sure would like to remain dic-tater..mmm hmmm)
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To: djwright

To quote Barbie, “Math is hard!”

Cut back on the weed, dude!

I find it very strange that people love to brag how badly they do with math. They make it seem like a badge of honor.


57 posted on 10/26/2012 2:34:37 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: TigerClaws

IQ 186

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDJSVPAx8xc


58 posted on 10/26/2012 2:37:53 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: TigerClaws

drop the 100


59 posted on 10/26/2012 2:51:09 AM PDT by upstatenyrepublican
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To: FredZarguna

There’s no such thing as someone who can’t do math. There are just bad teachers and bad methodologies.
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And...Those who brag about not being a “math person”.

Honestly, I am amazed when people will openly state that they are “not good at math”. Would they be so bold to proclaim to the world that they couldn’t read?


60 posted on 10/26/2012 3:04:05 AM PDT by wintertime (:-))
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