On 20/08/2013, at 1:32 AM, "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> See shag's post below.
>
> She develops wonderfully a thesis I have tried to develop: There is no
> necessary (or even probable) link between intelligence and correct political
> understanding. Bush was an intelligent president. All the attacks on his
> intelligence were (I'll use the terrible word) objectively reactionary.
I'll say it again, GW Bush was a dimwit. True, there is no link whatever between intelligence and political leaning, but it doesn't follow that someone with awful politics is intelligent. There can be no doubt that GW Bush was a person of below average intelligence.
Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas