"Paul Fritz" wrote in message
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If polished speaking were a true sign of intelligence, news anchors
around
the globe would all be rocket scientists.

Businesses would not function if the CEO of every corporation was
involve
with every detail of daily business. Businesses that flourish are those
that the CEO underlings to handle the details.


Jack


Good points Jack.

It's amusing how many simplistic political watchers think, in a child-like
way, that the POTUS needs to be so "super smart." An effective POTUS of
course is intelligent. But sometimes the best leaders are not the very
"smartest" folks. Who thinks Jack Welch at GE was "smarter" than his

engineers? I read his book. He'll tell you he is not. Jimmy Carter is widely
believed to be our smartest modern prez. A very ineffective leader as we all
know (but a good man IMO). G. Washington was driven but not brilliant but an
excellent leader. Jefferson, the most brilliant of all, had a tumultuous
tenure, deeply polarizing the nation, yet a good prez. Clinton -undoubtedly
a very sharp mind, but a lousy leader who frittered away an economic boom
time and period of relative world peace, will be remembered for ejaculating
on his staff and tugging at his peckerwood in the oval office. He too
bitterly polarized the nation, but hey he was SMART. Some of the smartest
people you'll ever find are in the US University system. Most of those folks
are a mile deep and an inch wide, but many couldn't lead a cub scout troop
to Chucky Cheeze. Read Bob Woodward's book "The President at War." Extensive
interviews and I don't think Mr. Woodward would say GWB is stupid.



Stupid is as stupid does. Afghanistan is successful thus far. The economy is
coming back. Iraq is a disaster, but the jury is still out there - it's not
even half time yet.



If we can actually get those medieval nuts to govern themselves peacefully,
than Bush will come out looking like a winner. If we can't, he's in trouble.
If the economic rebound falters and Iraq can't be tamed, he's toast. A
second term is in jeopardy now, no doubt. But I'm amazed that Sen. Kerry was
the best the Democrats could come up with. A decent candidate could cream
Bush. Whatever happened to the Sam Nunn (D-GA) type of Democrat?



Kind regards - Zing