Is Bush an "idiot"?

[Phlegmak]

Youtube video

The "Bushisms" in this video are so rapid fire and so stupid that it hurt me to watch; he's the president! Ug. Saddam's Information Minister actually said he speaks better English than Bush.

This is a clip from Joe Scarborough. He and two other guys actually examine the question, "is Bush an idiot?"

 

[JohnRM]

No.
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[Uiler]

Yes Bush is an idiot. And no it's not because of the way he speaks. It's because when he talks about Lebanon he makes it obvious that he's never even seen a map of the country. "Mr President how are the UN troops going to secure the *north-east* border of Lebanon when most of them will be stationed in near the Israeli border which is in the *far south*?" Then there's the thing about him not knowing the difference between Sunni and Shi'ite only a few months before invading Iraq.

What this boils down to is his stupidity is not due to lack of IQ. It's due to sheer laziness, an *unwillingess* to even learn basic knowledge of things outside of a very very narrow comfort zone. Maybe "stupid" is not as good a description of Bush as "lazy" and "extremely narrow-minded". Actually, even this wouldn't necessarily be a problem (for America, for the rest of the world however...) as there have been plenty of great very narrow-minded leaders. However, they tended to be narrow-minded in only certain areas, didn't get ideology confused with reality and were flexible and talented in tactics and strategy. Bush is narrow-minded and inflexible in tactics and strategy as well as vision and gets ideology confused with reality.

 

[Duke of Marlbrough]

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