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H.S. Freshman Team
Join Date: Nov 2003
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POL: If Bush is a moron...
...what does that make John Kerry?
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/wa...tudent?mode=PF Quote:
Yes, the election is over, and the horse is dead. Still, since so many people on the left love to run down Bush's intelligence, this article gave me a chuckle. I thought I'd share it with you all. |
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General Manager
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The Satellite of Love
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Bill Gates must really be a moron too since he dropped out...
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Coordinator
Join Date: Oct 2000
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I think the coke and booze are what fried Bush's brain.
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High School JV
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: San Francisco
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It makes me rather sad that both our previous Presidential candidates are C students. Most of my friends are C students, and just imagining them as President makes me want to curl up in a ball and ask for mommy.
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College Starter
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: PA
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People can see Bush is less than intelligent because of more than his grades.
Recent example: Quote:
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High School JV
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: San Francisco
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Bush supporter or not, one has to admit that slips like that are utterly hilarious. It's not so much that he got the word wrong, it's that he proceeded to define the very word he fucked up. Unintentional comedy at its finest.
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This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off.
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: In Absentia
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I was going to say, factor in the drugs, and Bush probably has the equivalent to an 84 or something...
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Fairfax, VA
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Maybe next election we can get a choice of someone who was at least a B student?
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This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off.
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: In Absentia
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Don't blame me, I voted for Turd Sandwich.
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Minneapolis
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What were Hillary's grades? Or was she too busy being on her back through all her college years?
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Coordinator
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The Black Hole
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lolzcat
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Annapolis, Md
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Very classy.
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Coordinator
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Chicagoland
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Lost in the shuffle over Kerry's grades is the fact that he also allowed his Navy records to be released, and they more or less contradict every thing the Swift Boat Scum had to say about him. Included, apparently, are commendations from some of the Swift Boat Scum themselves.
All of which begs the question: why didn't Kerry let these documents be seen before the election, to derail the Swift Boat Scum? Idiot. |
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College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: San Diego
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She went to Yale Law from Wellesley, so they were pretty good. I'm guessing she can multi-task or something. |
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Death Herald
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Le stelle la notte sono grandi e luminose nel cuore profondo del Texas
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The two most intelligent presidents we have had over the past 40 years were probably Nixon and Clinton. And they both had articles of impeachment served on them by the House.
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The Internets
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Why do so say that? To me, without a doubt Carter was the most intelligent president of that time frame. They only viable candidate in that same time that was more intelligent, IMO, was probably Gingrich. Carter's greatest skill was his intellect, but unfortunately his leadership was sorely lacking.
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lolzcat
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Annapolis, Md
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Agreed -- but it helps make the same intended point. There's more to it than just intellect. |
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: MA
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Kerry wasn't a coke fiend for a decade or two.
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The Internets
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True. That's why I have no real care over whether Kerry or Bush was smarter, but I found it odd to say Clinton and Nixon were unusually intelligent (especially when compared to Carter).
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Appleton, WI
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I'm guessing he didn't want his grades to come out at a time they were pushing hard to brand Bush as an idiot. It doesn't work well to say the guy is an idiot and then let it be known that he got higher grades. In the grand scheme of things, this is meaningless. How many people get Cs in college because they aren't that bright, and how many do because they are having fun and not really caring about their studies? Grades you get when you are 20 really don't say much about your intelligence at 40+. Intelligence also doesn't equate to wisdom or leadership. Book-smart =/= world-smart. |
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Death Herald
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Le stelle la notte sono grandi e luminose nel cuore profondo del Texas
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I was going off of book smarts, not the overall package. Clinton was a Rhodes scholar, and they just don't hand those out to average students. Nixon graduated 3rd in his class from Duke Law School.
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The Internets
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I guess I'm not as impressed with paper credentials. Rhodes scholars, in particular, are kind of unusual because they require an athletic proficiency as well, so it isn't just intellect. And maybe the Rhodes scholars and Duke Law School grads I've known really haven't wowed me. Either way, Yalies in particular like Kerry and Bush tend to be some of the most unjustly arrogant people I've known. Legacy students often know how to say the "right" things without any intelligence behind it. With that being said, I thought Carter was by all accounts brilliant. But as I said, there is an extremely low correlation between high intelligence and being a good president, so it isn't really that important. Being an idiot, however, probably is correlated to being a bad president, but I don't think there are too many examples of that.
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General Manager
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: New Mexico
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John, just admit that you want to make love to Jimmy Carter.
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Fresno, CA
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OOoh I know.. Kerry is an unelectable moron.
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Torchbearer
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: On Lake Harriet
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I don't think the Rhodes requires athletic proficiency. It may have at one time, but not now. |
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Coordinator
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Chicagoland
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To get off topic for a sec, since I've known a number of Rhodes Scholars as well as people who ran the program....
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Actually, it's not necessarily athletic prowess, but what they're looking for is a combination of great academics and exceptional achievement in extracurriculars, which could include sports, community work, music, etc.... That's what they say. In reality, unfortunately, Rhodes Scholars tend to be a bit of a hit-and-miss bunch, in my experience. The selection committee tends to look for "good stories" above and beyond all, and panders heavily to getting a good demographic mix (which should be a concept familiar to anyone who's applied to an Ivy League, who all do the same thing). Clinton's a good example of this. While he's certainly bright, he definitely got the scholarship in part because of being a "good story" and being from a part of the country not awash in either a) previous Rhodes Scholars or b) Rhodes Scholar candidates (at the time). On top of this, Clinton kind of squandered the experience. The Rhodes Scholarship basically pays for everything, and gets you a stipend on top of it, for the entire time you're at Oxford. It's incredibly sweet. Clinton started arguably Oxford's hardest degree, PPE (Politics, Philosophy, Economics - a degree typically taken by anyone intending to go into global politics), but dropped it after a year for an easier course, I believe just in politics, and then dropped out altogether, failing to get a degree at all. Anyway, I'm not sure where I was going with that, so just consider it an interesting diversion..... |
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Torchbearer
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: On Lake Harriet
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Dola...after googling the criteria, "physical vigor" is listed as a component to selection, but based on those who I knew who were selected for the Rhodes, it certainly couldn't have been a very large component. |
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The Internets
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It is a "big" component, but is usually filled with a silly sport. Archers and rowers seem to be a lot of Rhodes scholars. My point is that the stereo-typical brainiac rarely is a Rhodes scholar which makes the award unique.
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The Internets
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I agree Rhodes Scholars are really hit-or-miss and I've wondered why. I remember taking a couple different Rhodes Scholars to lunch for interviews with my old firm and they seemed dumb as bricks. They were certainly full of themselves, but one in particular seemed to lack any tact and was telling anecdotes where his facts were all wrong. Very unimpressive. I don't think we made offers to any of the Rhodes Scholars I met.
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Coordinator
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Chicagoland
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I've met a few Rhodes scholars who were outrageously brilliant, don't get me wrong, but if there was a trait I'd use to categorize them, it would be "shameless self-promotionists".
In general, I've been far more impressed with Fulbrights, and without exception impressed by MacArthurs. |
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Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: On Lake Harriet
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I agree with your last sentence, but tend to agree with flere that it isn't necessarily based on athletics, but rather extracurriculars in general. I think the first sentence is probably better stated: Athletics can be a big component for some candidates--certainly a hook used to distinguish the candidate from the field. Interestingly, here are the bios of the 2003 US Rhodes Scholars. Certainly a number of them have an athletic mention, but I'd classify an equal number as being closer to "stereo-typical" brainiacs. http://www.rhodesscholar.org/win2003.html |
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lolzcat
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Annapolis, Md
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At my school, they made quite a bit out of this. If you were seeking to apply for a Rhodes scholarship, they were very insistent on you having a variety of athletic accomplishments. I don't have any insider knowledge on how important it is to the selction body, but my U seemed to think it was a very big deal. |
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The Internets
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My impression is that the bios deemphasize the physical component, but it is still an important criteria in the selection process (part of being a true Renaissance person). I could be wrong, but I do think Rhodes is pretty unique in that regard.
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College Starter
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: PA
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Colorado
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Very similar debate to what went on in the early 1860s. The Eastern elites thought Lincoln was a moron and an uneducated dolt. But much like Carter, Lincoln's brilliance was deceptive (plus he was a superb pragmatic leader). Folks like that are not encouraged to seek out the Presidency in today's Sound Bite and Video Feed Age.
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College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: New York
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Seriously, this just shows how bad the options have gotten. The only reason Kerry or Gore almost occupied the White House is due to the opponent they both lost to. Conversely, if Bush had a higher quality opponent in either election he also loses. political races generally have come down to a choice between cow dung and horse dung for dinner... Either way you go, you're just fed a pile of shit.
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Head Coach
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Whittier
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Since when does a GPA matter how good of a president a person would make? Has very little to do.
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Parañaque, Philippines
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My favorite Bush blunder was the one on Jay Leno, when he was on the election trail speaking to a mass of people...
"I want to say again... we WILL NOT HAVE AN ALL-VOLUNTEER ARMY!!!" -Stunned silence from the crowd. Confusion in Bush's face. Realization sets in.- "...we WILL have an all-volunteer army!" -Big sigh of relief from the crowd. Bush with his sheepish stupid ass grin.- It was so f'n hilarious. |
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College Starter
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Davis, CA
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I thought this recent one was hilarious:
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George W. Bush - Disassembling the English language since 1946. |
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Appleton, WI
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Landing on 'disassembling' while shooting for 'dissembling'...I think that counts as a hit for Bush.
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College Starter
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: PA
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My favorite though while we are on the topic: Quote:
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Back in Houston!
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Reminds me of a joke from Conan last night (paraphrase, of course): "And talking to the President of Azerbaijan, George Bush wished him luck in his battle against Harry Potter".
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Parañaque, Philippines
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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Jeez. I almost spilled my coffee on that one. |
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College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Springfield, USA
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That sums up Kerry's campaign pretty nicely. It would also describe anyone who would vote for him in a Primary election in the next Presidential election. |
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College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Springfield, USA
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Carter was smarter than both (and was a worse President than both). |
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Back in Houston!
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Thankfully, since he's been out of office, he's been one of the best "ex-Presidents" ever, using his celebrity for a lot of good causes like Habitat for Humanity. SI
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