Obama: Smart Or Stupid?

I found this interesting article discussing people's perception of Obama's intellect.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/25/obama_is_not_that_bright_114271.html

Now, even though I am no Obama supporter, I still think he's pretty smart. I don't agree with the whole article (such as the implication that being able to spew random facts equates with intelligence), but there is one passage I found interesting:

Could it be that Mr. Obama's "superior intellect" is a myth created by journalists to mask what may be the thinnest resume of anyone ever elected president? An example of puffery is the description of Mr. Obama as a former "professor of constitutional law." Mr. Obama was a part time instructor at the University of Chicago law school, without the title or status of professor. And, according to blogger Doug Ross, he wasn't very popular with the real professors.

"I spent some time with the highest tenured faculty member at Chicago Law a few months back," Mr. Ross wrote in March 2010. "According to my professor friend, [Obama] had the lowest intellectual capacity in the building. ... The other professors hated him because he was lazy, unqualified,"

Mr. Obama's been governing like someone with a resume too thin for a president. He's "incompetent," an "amateur," former President Bill Clinton told Hillary Clinton at a private gathering with friends, according to a new book by Ed Klein. The Clintons have vehemently denied his account.

 

I heard that Valerie Jarrett is the real President of the United States, and Obama is simply the front man. I don't know if there is truth to this, but it would explain quite a bit. For example, every time Obama goes off script, he suddenly loses all that intelligence he supposedly has -- like saying there are 57 states, actually 58 because "I have one state to go." How can an intelligent man believe there are 58 American states?

 

I think that was honest mistake. If anything, he was probably just tired.

 

I could go seven days without sleep, food or water and I would never think the United States has 58 states.

And this is not Obama's only slip-up that proves he's not that smart.

For example, the way he pronounced "corpsman" -- "corpse-man."

That just shows an inexcusable ignorance of the English language.

 

Not knowing a random fact does not mean you are stupid.

Intelligence is a measurement of how efficiently your mind works, not what you know.

For example:

1.) All bleebs are greater than bloobs
2.) All bloobs are greater than blobs

What is the relation between blobs and bleebs?

The correct answer is: all blobs are less than bleebs.

The quicker you can figure that out, the more efficient your mind is, and the more intelligent you are.

 

I believe he is incredibly smart at convincing people he is smart, although I believe he isn't very smart. I always though of him like a used car salemen selling his goods, stating it runs good. He is a very good BS, unfortunately many people think that qualifies as smart!

 

I think there's no question Barack Obama is highly intelligent. That said, he doesn't have a lick of common sense. There are plenty of people roaming the world textbook smart but totally clueless. Clearly Barack Obama is one of them.

Perhaps his being mentored by a communist destroyed that part of the brain where critical thinking about the real world is done. Communism and socialism work so beautifully on paper and in the halls of academia (where other dolts like Obama hide out and spew their nonsense).

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I guess he gets tired quite a bit then, like when he suggested we give a child with asthma a breathalyzer.

 

Theres a difference between being intellectual and being slick. I think obama is a smart guy is he a true intellectual, I think not but neither was reagan or bush or LBJ or others. You dont have to be brainiac to be a good president and alot of a presidents moves come from those he puts around him.
What Obama does have is the ability to put his thoughts togethe well and deliver them. He seems to have self control.

 

BAM! A leader delegates. I'd prefer that type of leader over one who seems to think he knows everything.

 

Which is better than average and very good for a Negro...most of whom are below 100. But you guys are a day late and a dollar short....none of this matter nows. I was talking about all this even before he was elected the first time...it was pooh poohed by most...the masses being asses are not that concerned with the real truth about much of anything...certainly not when they are being led down the path by the media..not a hard thing to do of course.

Anyhow your analogy falls short because it is not Obama selling Obama...it is the media that sold and is selling Obama.

I well remember listening to the Don Imus right before the first election and Imus had some professor on the show who was going on and on about how brilliant Obama was...Imus asked the professor a very pointed question--"What is Obama's I.Q." the professor hemed and hawed and finally said well I don't know exactly but it way off the charts....and so it goes. heh heh

 

It is well known by Washington Insiders she has more influence on Obama than anyone...most people have never even heard of her...she is a pos.

But we must remember that I.Q. is not a good gauge of who will be a good President. Look at Jimmy Carter...the highest documented i.q. of any president and also one of the worst...if not the worst we ever had.

 

The reason conservatives think Obama is stupid is because conservative brains don't function. Since they lack the maturity to accept responsiblity they transfer it to Obama. The problem is the way conservatives are raised.

So from the time they are old enough to be swaddled in a blanket and taken off to church they are indoctrinated in a philosophy of hatred. Those who have some degree in decency in them eventually rebel and move away. But the majority remain in their snake pits having their minds and hearts destroyed.

Science tells us that the brain makes connections between cells in regions of the brain that are used. Cells in regions of the brain that are not used atrophy and die. Being surrounded by that swill conservatives can only become what they are brought up with. Back in my computer programming days we had an expression "Garbage in garbage out!"

That's why its useless to try to explain anything to them. Their brains aren't wired to understand anything good or decent. That's why they never learn from their mistakes. Obama pulls the economy back from the brink that the GOP left it on and they want to go running right off the same cliff. And they think its his fault. These people are so screwed up that when Osama bin Laden (aka Osama bin Forgotten by George W Bush) was killed they were whining about how he was treated.

Because of the connections that are made and the cells that die off, if a conservative hasn't figured it out by their late 20's, it becomes physically impossible for them to improve.

 

I think he was good. He was unpopular because he placed blame where it was due, but popularity is independent of quality.

Look at Obama. . .

 

His repository of what whites consider common knowledge is not that good....but many fail to understand that a member of the Black Culture is very different from members of the white culture(though that is not pc and liberals will deny it..believing all peoples are equal in all respects)also blacks absorb things whites do not and yet fail to absorb every thing that whites commonly do.

blacks have different cultural values and that is a problem when a President is member of a minority whose goals vary so much from whites. On the whole though he has done a fair job of relating to whites being around them so much.

I really do not have much of a problem with his relatively low i.q.(lower than bush's 127) I do have a problem with the way the media hoodwinked the people regarding that...it was a major selling point used by the media to convince the public he was a intellectual of a genius level...completely ridiculous and easily proven to be false.

Bottom Line: he was not qualified to attend any of the schools he went to...he got by because of Affirmative Action and he has admitted as much.

 

You make a very good point...most people do not know what Intelligence tests measure or at least what they attempt to measure....aka measure the learning capacity of the test takers. A common sense way of understanding this is to picture brains as having capacities of quarts and a gallons....most peoples brains can hold a quart....very smart people can hold a gallon....if you get my drift.

Many people however do mistakenly believe the i.q. test measures what people actually know and that is not the case...simply measures how good they are at learning or their learning capacity.

 

Obama has a i.q. hovering around 106.....http://www.iq1069.com/laughs/obama_teleprompter/

 

More on the actual i.q. of Obama...not the one touted by the Liberal Media.....http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2011/04/26/barack-obama-has-a-116-iq/

 

Could it be that Mr. Obama's "superior intellect" is a myth created by journalists to mask what may be the thinnest resume of anyone ever elected president? aka The Emperor has no clothes.

An example of puffery is the description of Mr. Obama as a former "professor of constitutional law." Mr. Obama was a part time instructor at the University of Chicago law school, without the title or status of professor. And, according to blogger Doug Ross, he wasn't very popular with the real professors.

"I spent some time with the highest tenured faculty member at Chicago Law a few months back," Mr. Ross wrote in March 2010. "According to my professor friend, [Obama] had the lowest intellectual capacity in the building. ... The other professors hated him because he was lazy, unqualified,"

Mr. Obama's been governing like someone with a resume too thin for a president. He's "incompetent," an "amateur," former President Bill Clinton told Hillary Clinton at a private gathering with friends, according to a new book by Ed Klein.

 

I really don't think any intelligent person could think the United States has 58 states.

I really don't think any intelligent person thinks "corpsman" is pronounced "corpse-man."

And I remember the few occasions he went off script, and it sounded like he was a complete blithering idiot.

As a lawyer he never went to court, which tells me a lot.

And he never wrote a law review article, even though he was President of the Law Review.

And his book was not really written by him, but by Bill Ayers.

His whole life he's gotten things he didn't earn, like a Nobel Prize. No one ever didn't earn their Nobel Prize as much as Obama didn't earn his.

He's a complete nothing if you really look hard at his resume.

 

Considering how well Obama doesn't do without the teleprompter I would say Obama isn't everything he's cracked up to be.

 

The actual conversation on the Don Imus Show>>>>

http://freedomswings.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/obama-is-our-smartest-president/

 

You think Carter was good??? Where were you when we had double digit inflation, double digit unemployment, interest rates at 20%???

 

If you check wikipedia (stagflation) you will learn that the economic conditions you mentioned were the result of NIXON'S policies and remedied by Carter's appointed Federal Reserve Chairman. The only thing Reagan did right was to leave Carter's appointee in place. Reagan also ran up a FIVE TRILLION DOLLAR DEFICIT by spending like a drunken sailor.

 

As Chief of the Executive Branch of the federal government, the President has no direct influence over the economy.

I am not a Democrat, by the way. I just want to be fair.