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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/

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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.

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