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It's pretty hard to take your point seriously when your second paragraph is so clearly wrong and more a SNL sketch than reality. No President in the modern era has been stupid. The psychotic need to perpetuate this is one of the ideas making politics in the USA worse than it should be. The evidence and interviews with the former President show him to be very intelligent.

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So what if he's smart? As if smart has anything to do with being honest and moral.

Give me honesty and integrity over IQ points any day.

I am pointing out what was written which was utter BS. As to his honesty or morality, history will have some interesting comparisons versus his predecessor and successor.

Oh -- I do believe he had a better marriage than Bill Clinton. Who cares? He was still a laughable fuckup as president.

Obama is at least at the same level on the fuckup and laughability meter, esp. wrt the international community.

Not quite, but if he really bombs Syria, then yeah, he'll definitely enter GWB territory.

What evidence shows Bush Junior to be particularly bright or competent? His grades at Yale? His running into the ground of multiple business? His embarassing performance as President?

Don't get me wrong -- there are a lot of smart, competent conservatives I think are sometimes wrong and or just on a different side of class interest from me. Say, Dick Cheney, Bush Senior, Ronald, Nixon (off the charts smart, really). But George Junior was, indeed, an idiotic stooge.

The people who worked for him have pointed out he was quite a lot smarter than them[1]. The interviews he gave during his library's opening. Dick Cheney has said Bush is smarter than him. This SNL BS is seriously messing with how people think. It's like the number of people who believe Ford was an unathletic clutz.

1) one example http://keithhennessey.com/2013/04/24/smarter/

Cool. His friends like him and wrote a blog post about it ;)

I still think history will judge his administration as being 8 years of screw-up, class warfare, and embarassment. Note that I am not saying that about his Dad, Ronald, or Richard....

If history will judge Bush poorly, how will they judge Obama in the context of continuing Bush's policies? Embarrassment? Check. Screw-ups (including Syria)? Check. Pressuring/intimidating foreign governments not to grant Snowden asylum? Check. Drone striking children? Check. Sending admin flacks out to say that Benghazi was caused by a YouTube video? Check.

BTW, the Obama admin has zero evidence in public of scientific samples or intel proving use of sarin gas by the Syrian government: http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE98603A20130907?irpc...

Reality check: Obama and Bush are cut from very similar policy cloth. Both warmongers and NSA expansionists who don't give a damn about the civil liberties of the American public.

Compare Bush's Texas gubernatorial speeches to his presidential speeches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvknGT8W5jA

Bush Library Opening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw86w6G9e3E

Uncommon Knowledge: President George W. Bush On His Presidency and Life After the White House: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K48Co8InGi4

Have you seen the debate he had when he was running for Texas Governor, hell if he was honest he may even of gotten my vote, it's sounds like it's from a completely different universe.

http://youtu.be/pw4Bhmm22xo?t=18s

I believe his ASVB scores were higher than Kerry's. Not checking, on my phone.

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