SAT score conversions and socio-historical analyses (sic) put his IQ somewhere between 111-138 on classic IQ scale. Clearly not dumb (at the time of tests), if those are any figures to go by. However, clearly among the least intelligent of the US presidents so far (if you go by the same data/studies).

Personally I don't mind dumb. Lem showed in Cyberiad that even an average sailor is smart enough to run a country and much better than a evil prankster.

But for the sake of balance you have to have:

- competent staff around you (Cheney, Rumsfled, Wolfowitz, Bolton... need I go on?)
- honesty of character (hmm... what did he say about: WMDs, Iraq, oil, 911-intel, torture, domestic spying, withdrawing troops, Katrina, tax cuts, clean air, energy security, global warming... I've lost count on this administration's patent lies)
- ability to lead (New Orleans, anyone, 911 anyone? current polls...)
- uncorruptability (Bin Ladens, DoD deals, Iraq oil deals, ...)
- respecting and protecting the lives of other people (1+ M dead, 2+ M displaced, 2 countries bombed, 2 occupied, more on the list... please don't give us any more of that 'love')

I know I've been critical of my own country's leaders, but Bush as a president with his current staff is like an nightmare that refuses to end. And I don't even live in the US.

And I do agree, it does reflect somewhat poorly on Yale and Harvard.

That isn't true. This guy has made it to the top of the State and now Federal government - hell, he even managed to get elected to president ONCE!

Here's what I say to that;

. all the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most easily (and) adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

-- H.L. Mencken July 26, 1920, wrote in The Baltimore Sun: " .

We have gotten our heart's desire.

Where are all the BUSH bumper stickers now?

I think everyone who had a bush bumpersticker should have to wear it on their forehead.

Next election season do something that would DRIVE THEM NUTS.

Elect RON PAUL. If for nothing else to than to drive the FED crazy.

Go Ron Paul -

Come on, give the man some credit. He got elected to president twice.

Just not by voters.

He's not dumb; but he's out of his depth in his current job.

Well I think he is doing exactly what he was elected for. And by that, I mean, he is doing exactly what the people that elected him wanted him to do.

It seems that voters, though, are catching up a bit with the scheme. With any luck, they might Actually Do Something (TM). But the odds are heavily stacked against them.

That is the problem when you get an early version of something, be it an Operating System or Democracy. You get to have all the problems and try out many things that do not really work. The trick is upgrading.

All bush had to do to get elected was exactly what he was told to do by his 'advisers', having to much intelligence would have been an impediment.

It's harder to blindly follow orders when you think about stuff.