a thoughtful web.
Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking.   Login or Take a Tour!
comment
b_b  ·  4270 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: George W. Bush is smarter than you | Keith Hennessey

It's an irrelevant question. He was an effective leader and a terrible policy maker; that is what matters. He was effective at enacting all of the policies he wanted (in contrast to Obama), but, unfortunately for all of us, the majority of those policies were, and continue to be, disastrous. It doesn't matter if he's smart or not. What matters is what you do, not what you can do. Cheney is also supremely smart, I'm sure. Same with Rice, Wolfowitz (sp?), Bolton, etc. They were all so smart they outsmarted themselves by deluding themselves into believing they knew how to handle Iraq. Who gives a shit how he may have scored on an IQ test?