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> He was truly very dull, something he himself admitted

You may wish to rethink this.

You'll have to give me good reasons to. No, downvoting is not one.

Was not the linked article sufficient?

It's revisionist history.

Bush is clearly not as dumb as he was caricatured. But he certainly couldn't lead in any way on his own without daddy's entourage telling him what to do.

Could any head of state? The depth of expertise required to hold that kind of position is far more than one man can deign to have.

The linked article was fluff piece by a friend of his.

What do you mean by this?

Dull people don't usually call themselves dull. "Reasonably intelligent" or "average" are more common.

Think, was there perhaps a strategic reason to paint himself so?

Think, was there perhaps a strategic reason to paint himself so?

Socrates, at his trial before a jury of Athenians, is said to have used a variation of the Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer defense to provoke sympathy: "I'm just a humble country boy, not worldly and sophisticated like you", etc.

Not that Bush is any Socrates, but the stratagem is the same.

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