Bush’s Brain

The American Conservative ^ | December 6, 2004 | Steve Sailer

[Roberts]

Interesting stuff.

[alessandrofiaschi]

Yes, I agree. I'll pass it on.

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[TFine80]

You could tell by Kerry's tone of voice that it bothered him.

[Torie]

Hilarious. I suspect that Kerry does have a somewhat higher IQ than Bush (somewhere between Gore and Bush) vis a vis what IQ measures, which is not good judgment or leadership, or people skills, or character. It measure retentive skills and reasoning power.

[Kornev]

kerry never ever seemed to have a glimmer of intelligence. His dead eyes really show an empty brain.

[LdSentinal]

I once took an IQ test. I thought it said that I had an IQ of 181, but I was reading it upside down.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

When Kerry insouciantly replied to Brokaw as if he didn’t care what he scored on a 90-minute exam 38 years ago, as if he believed that all that he had accomplished since then was the proper measure of the man, I was impressed.

By all means, judge him by his accomplishments.

[hineybona]

Speaking of Kerry ..whats he up to these day s? Still with that no show job in DC ?

[GretchenM]

Bush strikes me as a lazy but clever and unscrupulous operator who, ever since he quit drinking in 1987, has contrived to get whatever he wants out of life.

The author's is a shallow, lazily-formed, unjust, biased, and completely wrong opinion.

Up till the point where I read that, I thought he was writing in a rather balanced way, however.

[rightwinggoth]

Even if Kerry were to get up tomorrow with a 100% eidetic memory and the ability to calculate pi to the power of three million, he still rates as a fool in my eyes.

[rightwinggoth]

Even if Kerry were to get up tomorrow with a 100% eidetic memory and the ability to calculate pi to the power of three million, he would still rate as a fool in my eyes.

Damned subjunctive mood...

[GretchenM]

AND backwards.

[Reactionary]

What? Liberals only mention IQ as having any validity at all when they talk about Republican presidents. The rest of the time, IQ is considered a "racist social construct."

Liberals have all of the seriousness of Mickey Mouse on crack cocaine.

[Arkie2]

Yup. They told me mine was 99 but they called me back in and said they read it upside down. huh huh huh.

[Arkie2]

Back to that Senate job he didnt resign unlike Bob Dole.

[Joe_October]

Are you sure that wasn't backwards?

[truth_seeker]

Everyone entering the military took a standard battery of tests. One component was an accurate measure of IQ.

I was an Army Personnel Management Specialist, so that is where I learned this.

Even politically correct back then in 69-71, it wasn't spoken about widely as "IQ."

As for my own scores, the military version was spot on with two tests scored years before.

So if Bush's military tests beat Kerry's I believe they were accurate.

My life experience has let me meet many very intelligent folks, that were of low productivity, since they got so caught up in every precise detail, and mastery thereof.

"Can't see the forest, for the trees."

and

"Analysis paralysis"

[jocon307]

"In 2001, some jokers issued a prank press release claiming [that]... George H.W. Bush (who was graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale in 2.5 years) had a below average 98 and his son (who has degrees from Yale and Harvard) only a 91. Garry Trudeau fell for this transparent nonsense and shoved it into “Doonesbury.”

Wow, Bush pere is very smart!

Garry Trudeau must be a moron himself, people who go to Yale do not have below average IQs, I don't care how rich they are. I'm very surprised he fell for this, but I do like the turn of phrase "shoved it into Doonesbury".

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Speaking of Kerry ..whats he up to these day s?

I think he's out there trying to find the real killer.