McMillan too good for Portland? (Warning: Canzano Piece)

[maxiep]

Because Bush was just oozing with both.

He had more of the former than you would ever give him credit for, because you're so blinded by his lack of the latter.

 

[jlprk]

I'd like to see a comprehensive argument that Bush was smart. Watch his many semi-presidential press conferences, that the networks hid from the nightly news, in which he'd start arguments with reporters, behaving like a Saturday night drunk cowboy. His SAT scores were lower than mine, but his father got him into Yale (after the much lower U. of Texas had turned down his application). His transcript is online; he got Cs and a couple of Bs. And even if you think he was smart then, which I don't, the many years of cocaine addiction that followed wiped out what little he had between the ears.

 

[barfo]

You shouldn't mistake someone who isn't well spoken for being stupid. The opposite is true.

What's the opposite? (Opposite of what?)

barfo

 

[maxiep]

What's the opposite? (Opposite of what?)

barfo

You shouldn't mistake someone who is well spoken as being intelligent.

 

[maxiep]

I'd like to see a comprehensive argument that Bush was smart. Watch his many semi-presidential press conferences, that the networks hid from the nightly news, in which he'd start arguments with reporters, behaving like a Saturday night drunk cowboy. His SAT scores were lower than mine, but his father got him into Yale (after the much lower U. of Texas had turned down his application). His transcript is online; he got Cs and a couple of Bs. And even if you think he was smart then, which I don't, the many years of cocaine addiction that followed wiped out what little he had between the ears.

Yeah, the press worked hard to protect President Bush. They coddled him.