Posted on 11/20/2007 5:35:34 AM PST by IrishMike
We had a co-president during the Clinton reign who was dubbed "The Smartest Woman in the World." No, it wasn't Bill; although considered intelligent, Bill didn't benefit from the application of that superlative.
Truth be known, Hillary Clinton's intellect was always over-estimated. If you want insight into her brainpower, you can ask the Clintons' erstwhile right-hand man Dick Morris. He'll tell you that she could double her I.Q. with one serving of fish. Well, actually, I say that, but he will certainly characterize her in none too flattering terms.
But I'll tell you what characterizes her intellect better than most anything else. There has been a lot of talk about how she damaged herself in the last Democrat debate, and her waffling on the subject of driver's licenses for illegal aliens especially stood out. She seemed to be for it; she "understood" it; being asked about it was "gotcha politics"; then, later, she seemed to be ... oh, my head is spinning.
Now, some have mentioned that she was obviously unprepared for the question. Unprepared? It was a no-brainer, meaning, even Lady MacBeth should have been able to answer it. But, OK, the informed among us know that she's at heart a socialist and is more than happy to facilitate illegal immigration. However, she's also a calculating political operator who is willing to say whatever she must to curry favor with the sheeple.
So here's my question: How is it that the smartest woman in the world couldn't figure out that 70 to 80 percent of the electorate (including most Democrats) recoil at the idea of giving invaders driver's licenses? It was a simple calculation. And she is so far ahead in the polls tracking the race for the Democrat nomination that she didn't have to worry about her hold on the radical left. All she had to do was boldly and unabashedly come out against such measures and she would have won hearts and minds in middle America. It would have helped her during the general election (assuming she wins the nomination) and would have even won over some Democrats who are currently supporting the other pretenders.
Anyway, if Hillary Clinton couldn't figure this out, how is she going to be able to figure out a way to combat Islamic jihad?
The smartest woman in the world? It's an insult to women everywhere.
If they did that to Hillary, it’d by hysterical.
IF her IQ were any lower, she would have to be watered once a week!
“Smartest woman in the world”?
Nope.
The smartest woman in the world wouldn’t have flunked her DC bar exam.
Also, she can figure out how to bring people down thru diabolical attack.
She's clueless and stupid when it comes to war, the economy, etc. Yeah, that's who we need as President. /sarc
ML/NJ
As the author of yet another Hillary book (The First Partner) I could add a comment: Hillary has an impulsive streak and took a big gamble that she could get Congress to pass a bill creating a healthcare entitlement for all.
The specifics of the plan were designed to fail in my opinion — an ostensibly free market plan designed for the most part by people who didn’t understand or believe in competition. Once the insurance companies were regulated into submission the entitlement would still be there and the government could take over where the market had “failed.”
It’s true that Hillary is good at rote learning, not original thinking. She doesn’t really grasp economics. But her big problem is that she sees government spending as the solution to all problems. The Democrats as a whole have worked themselves into this corner — if they backtrack on this principle, they might as well be Republicans.
I think that incident was at Monticello shortly before Clinton’s first inaugural, and it involved busts of some of the Founding Fathers.
And how could that be? Does anyone doubt that the Commodities Scam Queen has a staffer, or maybe even three staffers, listen to the Rush Limbaugh Show every day? Did these staffers "forget" to mention the question to Ms. Smartest Woman in the Universe, or is she just so arrogant that just let the question sail by her without thinking about it? Or did she think about it, and this was the result?
ML/NJ
I listened to that piece yesterday...it was wonderfully refreshing.
She is nothing without him. And that isn’t saying much.
Of Course she is the smartest woman in the wordld!
Who elsre has ever traded a $1000 of cattle futures to $100,000 in less than a year and never lost on a single trade?
She must be Brilliant!
Any of us who have taught at the university level have little trouble identifying those who should not really be there...but somehow have managed to get good grades. The truth comes out when they are caught unaware, and one can observe their logic operating without the shield of preparation. It’s a bit harder in the lib arts, since one can lie and appear bright. Of course, we all know of the uber lier - Bubba Bill. His answers appear bright, but deeper analysis always shows the lawyer touch - nice words, but little substance. This woman is insecure, brittle, and dumb!
Thanks, but I changed to for fun.
AMEN. You said it! If she’s the smartest...I’d hate to see the rest. Ha,ha. Dim bulb is right. Let her answer unscripted questions and see how she fares. She’d do the same thing...flip flop until she couldn’t take it anymore then her bansheee screaming would surface.
AMEN. You said it! If she’s the smartest...I’d hate to see the rest. Ha,ha. Dim bulb is right. Let her answer unscripted questions and see how she fares. She’d do the same thing...flip flop until she couldn’t take it anymore then her bansheee screaming would surface.
The country has gone mad...
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Exactly right, and how about Obama? He's got little to recommend him as well, and he's actually not nearly as bright as Hillary.
The Democrat Party is clueless.
BIG mistake. Never, ever underestimate the enemy. If you give the enemy more credit than is due you cause no harm and you also will do a more thorough job in your fight.
Think about how often the Left dismisses Right viewpoints as "being ignorant"
Dim Bulb fitted on an inhuman torso, on top of tree trunks, ending in table legs.
What a strange animal attempting to stump the USA!
a DIM bulb?
A burned out bulb.
A cracked bulb.
A black light bulb.
A fissled bulb.
A flash bulb.
A reject bulb.
A 2nds bulb.
How about a big for a crushed political bulb?
Please God, forbid a recycled bulb.
A shot bulb.
Hopefully a tossed bulb.
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