Yup, I'm convinced. He's much too smart to be President.
Posted on 10/22/2004 12:20:26 PM PDT by quidnunc
It was what I felt instinctively the first and only time I met him, at a lunch at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in 1998. He was subtle, full of cultural and historical references, elaborating each fine argument at length, with perception and nuance. I commented to one of his aides afterward that I regrettably thought his brains could turn out to be the biggest impediment to a man like him ever occupying the White House.
All these years later, with most polls still showing George W. Bush ahead of his opponent after three debates in which Kerry proved himself more articulate and thoughtful and flexible and able to understand an increasingly dangerous world, I am afraid I may have been right. Yet it still seems inconceivable to me that someone as incompetent, incoherent and obtuse as Bush could possibly command almost half the votes of his fellow countrymen.
Is it that Americans actually like Bush's know-nothing effect? Or is it that Kerry strikes Americans as too highbrow? As pretentious? Do they see his complexity as excessive effeminate suppleness?
This anti-intellectualism has, unfortunately, a long history in the United States.
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You don't like gals with big, round balance sheets? And I bet you'd never come home and find your fridge w/o a bottle of ketchup ready to go!
"Some ideas are so preposterous only an intellectual could believe them."
- George Orwell
Who needs words when you have a Tomahawk cruise missile?
What part of, "Prove the WMDs are gone or else," did the nuanced ones not understand?
Shalom.
Speaking as a fellow Yalie, John Kerry is the classic example of someone who wants to be thought of as smart and so he turns everything he thinks and says into some Byzantine torture.
He's a self impressed jerk. Remember what Walt Whitman said, "If I had more time I would have written a shorter letter."
True inspiration is succinct. Read the Bible. Any of the words attributed to God are straight forward, yet as you contemplate them they get deeper and deeper.
Start with "Thou Shalt Not Kill." Its pretty straight forward so I guess God is not near as smart as John Kerry, right?
Didn't Bush score higher on his SAT then Kerry? Didn't Kerry not make the cut at several Ivy League law schools and settled for BU?
"Kin I get me a huntin' license here?"
To the European style intellectuals, intellectualism is sitting at a table in a sidewalk cafe in Paris while the world comes tumbling down around your ears and discussing the quality of the display.
One man who knows how to use a hammer is worth 1000 men who know how to talk about one.
Shalom.
Forget his brains ;) just look into his guts!
Yup, I'm convinced. He's much too smart to be President.
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
AMENDEMENT X IV ( RATIFIED JULY 9, 1868 ) SECTION 3. NO PERSON SHALL BE A SENATOR…IN CONGRESS, OR ELECTOR OF PRESIDENT…OR HOLD ANY OFFICE, CIVIL OR MILITARY, UNDER THE UNITED STATES, OR UNDER ANY STATE, WHO HAVING PREVIOUSLY TAKEN AN OATH…AS AN OFFICER OF THE UNITED STATES…TO SUPPORT THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, SHALL HAVE…GIVEN AID OR COMFORT TO ENIMIES THEREOF. BUT CONGRESS MAY BY A VOTE OF TWO THIRDS OF EACH HOUSE, REMOVE SUCH DISABILITY.
JOHN KERRY’S PHOTO HANGS ON A WALL OF THE VIETNAMESE COMMUNIST WAR REMNANTS MUSEUM, ALSO KNOWN AS THE WAR CRIMES MUSEUM, IN HO CHI MINH CITY ( FORMERLY SAIGON) IN A ROOM TITLED “ THE WORLD SUPPORTS VIETNAM IN IT’S RESISTANCE”.
GENERAL VO NYUYEN GIAP, HIGHEST RANKING OFFICER OF THE NORTH VIETNAMESE ARMY DURING THE WAR WROTE IN 1985 THAT JOHN KERRY AND THE ANTI -WAR MOVEMENT IN AMERICA WAS PIVOTAL IN WINNING THE WAR FAR THE COMMUNISTS.
Son, I don't know if you've ever been to ground zero, but I have.
Bush didn't create enemies - they showed themselves when they killed 3,000 of our fellow countrymen. Everyone looking down the barrel of a marine rifle deserves what he is getting.
Now go pick up your Legos before your mamma gets on your case and leave the political discussions to the adults.
Shalom.
Kerry in Mensa?
Possibly. He's exactly the sort of twit I discovered in Mensa as a callow youth 40 years ago.
There were some sexy secretaries and librarians of a certain age, though. ;^)
I wonder what kind of connections one would have needed to get into Yale with that kind of score? While there are lots universities that would very quickly admit just about anyone applying with that score, most of the people I have know who went to Ivy League schools had combined SAT scores over 1400.
John Kerry's Stalinist Campaign Slogan: And this traitor is running for POTUS.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=14416 (this is itelligence?)
John Kerry has $h&t for brains!
Dorfman?
Or is it that they see his excessive effeminate suppleness as an indication of his complexity?
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