Gould 0738 wrote:

I don't agree, Harry. The ultra-left has painted GW as a good natured
moron. IMHO, he is neither.


There are a number of facets to intelligence. Nobody scores extremely highly in
every category.

Whatever brains Bush has, they are not
apparent in what some would call his verbal IQ. Bush is deficient in the
verbal category, and that is an area where a national leader, (called upon to
answer questions at press conferences and to make speeches), should be
proficient enough to stave off objective criticism of
obvious errors in grammar and syntax.

Unfortunately, politicians fall into a category where they *are* judged by the
words they choose and their ability to speak.

Unfortunately? I disagree. If, like Bush, you have no ideas of your own
and you can't even articulate the ideas of others, you shouldn't be
considered material for national leadership.

Before the last Presidential election, I suggested that Bush and Gore
each be given a different page selected at random from a book any high
schooler should be able to read and understand. The page should have
been handed to them cold, that is, without a chance to practice with it.
Each should have been instructed to read the page aloud. The book? Oh,
anything by Dickens -David Copperfield, Tale of Two Cities, whatever.

The exercise would have been extraordinarily revealing.

A POTUS has to read a lot and understand what he is reading. Unless he's
Bush, who apparently doesn't read at all and is told what to do and say.


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