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Our Smartest President?
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| January, 26, 2014
| Bruce Bialosky
Posted on 01/26/2014 1:02:34 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
It's all of a piece, though. Obots thought Obama smart because he didn't venture his opinions but sat there looking "thoughtful." Next to someone as impulsive as McCain, a candidate who knew to keep his mouth shut would likely appear more intelligent. The guy who can just sit there listening to everyone else's opinions can get built up into an intellectual giant by his admirers because, not venturing an opinion, he doesn't look foolish.
So now, we find out that Obama really didn't know that much and wasn't anywhere near as thoughtful as his fans thought he was. And now we hear that he didn't know about this and that -- IRS, Benghazi, etc. Maybe he was quiet and controlled back then because he really didn't know much.
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posted on
01/26/2014 1:57:42 PM PST
by
x
To: Chode
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posted on
01/26/2014 1:59:43 PM PST
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Honorary Serb
....Our Smartest President?....
Probably Thomas Jefferson.
Monticello? He didn’t build that.
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posted on
01/26/2014 2:05:12 PM PST
by
Zuse
To: Kaslin
"Obama is, without a doubt, the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into."
- Rush Limbaugh
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posted on
01/26/2014 2:06:53 PM PST
by
COBOL2Java
(I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
To: al baby
Obamas IQ is off the charts You are of course referring to his Irritation Quotient, his innate ability to irritate the majority of Americans.
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posted on
01/26/2014 2:07:17 PM PST
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: al baby
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posted on
01/26/2014 2:17:25 PM PST
by
jmcenanly
("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
To: Kaslin
I am not a fan of Lincoln as I think he was a protocommunist.
On the other hand, he really was smart. I still think Jefferson was the most brilliant and TR also. I think TR was the only person to win the Nobel Peace Prize and the Medal of Honor. I would not be surprised to learn that TR also won some literary awards.
BTW, TR actually earned his Nobel Prize.
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posted on
01/26/2014 2:17:44 PM PST
by
yarddog
(Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
To: yarddog
I would guess Obama as the least intelligent. I can’t think of another president who was really just given everything others have to work for.
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posted on
01/26/2014 2:19:58 PM PST
by
yarddog
(Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
To: Mr. K
They built a fancy walk bridge over a reservoir here that is surrounded by multi-million dollar homes in the richest county in our state.
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posted on
01/26/2014 2:26:25 PM PST
by
digger48
To: Kaslin
I have a graduate degree, and I have worked construction where the mud was up to my thighs. I have known a wide variety of educated and non-educated people. People from the inner city, and hicks from the sticks. I know a guy who can barely write his name, but I saw him take two non working construction trash pumps and make one working one, at the jobsite. You find smart people everywhere. And you find dumb people everywhere. Forget IQ, I think that there are several marks of a smart person.
Smart people usually have a good sense of humor, and are able to tell a clever joke. Sometimes they are possessed with the ability to take a myriad of facts and condense the logic out of them. They usually have a keen wit and can turn a phrase that gets to the crux of an issue. A smart person is someone who knows how things work and can diagnose a problem quickly, or at least has a methodology for doing so. Smart people look at the resources they have and use them to the best purpose, not tie themselves to some 'perfect world' solution. There are many ways to be smart, unfortunately, Barack Obama does not posess any of these ways.
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posted on
01/26/2014 2:35:31 PM PST
by
fhayek
To: Kaslin
TR read a book every morning-maybe that is where he read Marx, since he was the start of the progressive movement.
There was one who could write with both hands at the same time and, I think, they said in Latin. Who it was I do not remember.
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posted on
01/26/2014 2:36:51 PM PST
by
crz
To: Diana in Wisconsin
My Basset Hound is smarter than our current _Resident. (And equally as much of a life-long MOOCHER!)At least Bassets let you know how much they appreciate you. Basset hounds do more work in their sleep (dreaming about chasing rabbits) than Obama does awake. They also love America which is more than I can say for this imposter. They're also cuter and have got more personality too.
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posted on
01/26/2014 2:52:35 PM PST
by
Hoodat
(Democrats - Opposing Equal Protection since 1828)
To: Kaslin
I attribute all the ineptitude of Obama ADD caused by his use of marijuana. He has brief moments of clarity but then ‘Squirrel, Dude!’
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posted on
01/26/2014 2:54:57 PM PST
by
griswold3
(Post-Christian America is living on borrowed moral heritage)
To: Mr. K
All those sign makers became rich beyond belief.
To: Hoodat
All true! My Basset chases a LOT of bunnies in his sleep!
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posted on
01/26/2014 3:02:41 PM PST
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
To: Kaslin
The fact that President Obama was so blindly ignorant about what it takes to get any construction project done in this country -- with the burdensome laws in place -- Oh such a callow pundit. Zero knows very well just how many bureaucrats these projects justify. It's a growth industry for Democrats. "Shovel ready" simply means that he's ready to shovel public money into Democrat pockets. He doesn't care if anything gets built.
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posted on
01/26/2014 3:10:32 PM PST
by
Carry_Okie
(Grovelnator Shwarzenkaiser: fasionable fascism one charade at a time.)
To: Kaslin
He so Smrt
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01/26/2014 3:14:13 PM PST
by
MuttTheHoople
(Nothing is more savage and brutal than justifiably angry Americans. DonÂ’t believe me? Ask the Germa)
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posted on
01/26/2014 3:34:49 PM PST
by
RedMDer
(Happy with this, America? Make your voices heard. 2014 is just around the corner. ~ Sarah Palin)
To: Kaslin
All Democrat presidents are the most brilliant who ever occupied the White House.
(All the Republican ones are bible-thumping, gun-loving, knuckle-dragging, Christian morons.)
Dontcha know?
IMHO
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posted on
01/26/2014 4:00:41 PM PST
by
ripley
To: Kaslin
The smartest president was Calvin Coolidge.
Did nothing, said nothing, vetoed everything.
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