Poll: Is George Bush an Idiot or The Most Brilliant Mind Since Plato?

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

Poll question: Poll: Is George Bush an Idiot or The Most Brilliant Mind Since Plato?

[bowens43]

1. Anyone who has heard him attempt to speak

knows he's a fucking idiot.

[CPMaz]

16. I don't think he is stupid so much as the product

of a lifetime of insulation from the real people, real problems, and real responsibility.

Certainly, he is not intellectually gifted. But let's be fair, most of us aren't, either. His biggest problem seems to be that he has never been challenged (intellectually or otherwise), nor has he ever accomplished anything on his own. Without help from family, or family friends.

He has almost no understanding of other's problems or viewpoints - he's never had any problems that couldn't be fixed by a phone call or bribe from Dad (or one of Dad's friends), and any viewpoints he has been exposed to have been limited to the ones of his family, etc. It seems that he just doesn't understand that there *are* other viewpoints, some of which don't agree with his.

Bottom line: he isn't stupid so much as soullessly self-centered.

For more information on this, read some of Molly Ivins' stuff (her columns, or "Who let the dogs in?"). Her stuff's better written than this post, too. :)

edited to correct a typo.

[Proud_Democratt]

19. You make a very good point

....soullessly self-centered... great phrase.

[Shakespeare]

2. You left out the "complete fucking imbecile" option...

That'd get my vote.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

4. Good point! I added #5 just for you!

[Fridays Child]

3. Why is he yanking on that guy?

He's not even bald. :shrug:

[SofaKingLiberal]

5. .

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=976164&mesg_id=976164

[Fridays Child]

12. I'm the decider and I'll decide which stairs you walk down.

What a complete and utter embarrassment Bush is to this country.

[saltpoint]

6. Hey, Harriet Up-or-Down-vote Miers says he's brilliant, and that's

good enough for me.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

21. "er... I mean..." n/t

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

7. I chose the second answer because

it alludes to the spawn of his fornication-the twins. >shudder<

[Demeter]

8. You Forgot Evil!

You have to stick "evil" in with "idiot"--even though the effects of evil and the effects of stupidity are often the same. You see, nobody could be that perfectly evil nor that perfectly stupid--it has to be a synergy!

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

10. Ahhhh. You choose number 5! Good choice!

[JuniperLea]

9. What a dumbass

I don't like strangers invading my space like that... and Bush is about as strange as they get.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

11. He has gobs of money, he's a reelected* POTUS...

...and, despite all of that, he's a loser. A failure. An embarassment.

[lpbk2713]

13. Sub-idiot

If he had a brain he'd take it out and play with it.

Barbara needs to pay big-time for raising such a useless POS.

[chookie]

22. Too bad she is psychotic too

Babs wears the pants in that family, and she worships her idiot son as though he was a god ( or the best she can get out of her litter). It's all been pretty Oedipal.... PAGING DR FREUD!!

[Catchawave]

14. Simply a non-expletive Idiot

and I would be proud to call Stephen Hawking my President. Just saying....

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

15. I Vote For The Most Brilliant Mind Since Play-Doh

That is what you said, right?

[AlienGirl]

17. Stephen Hawking isn't dead, so that option's obviously out...

[Andromeda]

28. I think he is.

[Random_Australian]

36. No, he isn't dammit!

x(

[AlienGirl]

38. There is no word of his death on his website or any online bios

http://www.hawking.org.uk/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking
Photos of Dr. Hawking at a dinner in April 2006 http://lloyd.caltech.edu/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=album171

[SPKrazy]

18. The Devil Is Severely Disappointed

He found Bush to be the reincarnation of Hitler

and he found Bush Bwahhhhaaahhhaaahhhaaa!!!!!

to be his minion

[WI_DEM]

20. No he's the most brilliant mind since Playdo

[Marr]

23. The man is a moron. That whole "he's sly and wants you to underestimate

him" thing was obvious bullshit from the word "go". GW Bush is a dim-witted man who would be living under a bridge today if he hadn't been born into wealth.

[opihimoimoi]

24. "under a bridge...." I could go with that .....///// LOL

[LaPera]

25. How about brilliance? --------- Nah!

[TahitiNut]

26. Pathological narcissist.

:shrug:

[loyalsister]

27. He's a brilliant con artist

He doesn't pay attention to what he doesn't care about.
But, he can convince people of a lot of things.
I could see through it, because I am really sensitive to the smirk and I have to admit to my ideological predisposition that influences me.
He convinced people in congress, who I really think should have known better, to give him the benefit of the doubt, somehow.
Someone who can make people trust them despite regularly being negligent on knowing facts has some kind of awareness and ability that is pretty rare.
And frankly, the scary part is that the unwillingness to learn things has worked to his advantage. The dumber people think he is the more they enable him.

[donheld]

29. Is George Bush an Idiot or The Most Brilliant Mind Since Playdough?

[npincus]

30. Plato? You must mean "Playdough".

[SalmonChantedEvening]

31. Hopelessly Inept Buffoon

Or baboon.

:D

[originalpckelly]

32. No I think you mean Pluto (The Dog and Planet of Dirty Ice) Right?(n/t)

[Crankie Avalon]

33. Reminds me of a Simpsons episode...

"...is he a below average man, or a brilliant beast?" :think: :dunce:

[Bassic]

34. Did any of you see that chinese protestor

who was able to pass as a journalist? She started screaming at Hu Jintao when he was making his speech. WH security looked a bit confused at the blunder. The whole thing was hilarious.

Of course the repressive chinese government cut off the live feed when the woman started screaming. A preview of things to come maybe?

[Taxloss]

35. No option for "retard"? n/t

[Random_Australian]

37. I wish he had as firm a grip on reality as he did Hu Jintao.

Edit: I'm not bieng pretentious by adding the Jintao; that's how we say it over here.