Over the last couple of years we've all seen him in press conferences, debates, taped speeches and live speeches in front of audiences, and he has never appeared very intelligent.\n\nDo you think that he is smarter in person or is what we see exactly who he really is?
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I think he may actually be even more stupid. The man you see making speeches at least gets advice from his colleges.
528010
I am sure that he is much smarter than you are.\n\nYour "additional details" proves my point and then some.
546471
He didn't fool all of us, but, yes, as a country, we were duped by the great liar.\n\n\nAs you can see from a number of these answers, he's still fooling people.  It is amazing there is anybody left that still links 9/11 and Iraq.
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You know this is a GREAT question as it will surely draw the true Ethics out of your answerers... Personally I think it takes A LOT of fortitude to do what he is doing...he isn't laying there like a 'speed bump' and mock turtle crying. he is being terrifically proactive in his challenge...and I see dignity in this. I can say he was never one of my favourites before, in fact I didn't like the show...but what has emerge, in my opinion only, as a man who is thoughtful, strong, witty, and REFUSING to let the (metaphoric) ship go down....NOW i am absolutely a ...well if not a fan,....then definitely in his cheering section....He did his job so well that he has been taken as rather stupid....funny isn't it? The truth comes out and the best of us seems to be shown in a crisis....for this, he is proof positive. \nI want to see him make this happen! Innovative and through it all, regardless of the out come...he stand steady fast and tall....\nWell I bypassed your initial request which I shall now give...\n"The man has Guts!"
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Humble pie?  He doesn't know what that is.  He is a megalomaniac and a psycho.  He is oblivious to good sense and can't read his public.  I don't know how this man made it to president in the first place.  It just goes to prove that gullible America will elect anyone at all.
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I saw him on the Daily Show last night. He comes out and puts his hands together in a prayer position and bows from the waste like a Buddhist monk. What's more he was dressed all in black with his hair slicked back. He had kind of a Steven Segal thing going. It really looked ludicrous. So, no, I don't take him at all seriously.\n\nPS to Lou: Mr. Bush's score on the Air Force Officer Qualifying Test at age 22 suggests that his I.Q. was the mid-120's.
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Obviously he was a man that should have been heard. I wonder how much those he spoke to in power are being held accountable to his witness and testimony. Probably no one.\n\nHero - no, to many people misuse and abuse that word to manipulate others.\n\nDamn straight guy doing his duty and speaking the truth - you've got my vote.\n\nNow, I have to go google him to see what else he knows. Was he a prophet or an intelligence analyst???
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I think he is misrepresented.\nIt's true that he could've done a better job with world relations,but we have a biased system of media to thank for the fact that his good accomplishments go unnoticed.\nEveryone likes to thank Clinton for the great economy he left behind,but no one seems to mention that the national defecit has been reduced by HALF since G.W.Bush took office.Or that the unemployment rate has been at its lowest since the Carter adminstration.\nEveryone can see on TV the bad news coming from the war in Iraq,but for some reason the good stuff gets filtered out.Good news about the HUNDREDS of new schools built for the Iraqi children...or the fact that Iraqi women now have a voice in their government.
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I heard him lecture before and he is fairly charasmatic.  All I know is that time will tell.  He could be a quack -- like what we orginally thought about those Australian guys who discovered H. pylori -- or people will sing his praise and be know as the true crusader of AIDS.  But it may not be in our lifetime.
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I think he is better than he gets credit for these days. Allot of people are jealous of him is my guess.\nHot wife, awesome job, undeniably skills, I guess I am a little jealous myself.
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Yeah but he is very nice to look at!\nAgree with you on the fact he is exaggerated, he is good but not exceptional.\nAs for what id like to see him doing..............Lying in my bed would be good :-)
497767
He's a genius.\nHe's showing how ignorant America is about everything, from culture to race to homosexuality.
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yes, brain damage.\n\nthis guy's an old alcoholic... i'm amazed he can put sentences together at all any more.\n\ni still think he drinks the way he looks and talks......\n\nand how unaware he is of his surroundings.. come on.. open mic all the time?   give it up bush stop it!
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Americans have just been brainwashed by this administration, to think that he is a great leader. When you really listen to his speaches, you find that they all sound the same and that there is hardly any difference from one press confrence to the next. He is a tape recdorder who avoids answering questions just skimming over the surface cracking jokes. Did you watch the press confrence yesterday on the whitehouse lawn? That was a little scary. " heh heh I'd give you a job but you wouldn't pass the background check. Heh heh," It is frightening to know that he has his finger on the button.
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I believe President Bush is not the best public speaker. Maybe you could even say he is bad. I don't think that is a reflection of his intelligence and truely I don't believe anyone could draw that conclusion solely on how he presents himself. I believe everyone here including myself is not in a position to say since none of us know him personally. I can say that he was educated at some of the best schools in the world. Yale University, bachelor's degree, history, Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. If I had to guess, I would say he is intelligent.\n\nHistory will be the judge, 50yrs from now everyone who has put down this administration will see for themselves how truely stupid they were at the time.
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No, but he seems like an intelligent man.  It's one of those books that I may read sometime, but I already mostly agree with what he said in the interview on the Colbert Report, so reading it would be purely to see what kind of reasoning he uses.
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He may be a pompous twit,but he's great for nailing Blair,Bush & co. to the wall,they are terrified of him, that's why they will not take him on in a public debate.When he upsets them,they get their cronies in the Media to snipe at him,but he's too honest & smart for the bas*ards.As far as i'm concerned,he can be as pompous as he likes,as long as he keeps up the good work.HAIL GEORGE!