Why Is Bush A Bad Public Speaker?

[Cyrus]

"The man graduated from Harvard and Yale, he's not a total idiot."

Sometimes that's precisely the proof.

[cardcounter0]

Not really. I can eat pretzels and haven't fallen off a bike in years.

[Toro]

A skull full of bones [Re: bholdr]

Very good!

[Fluffington]

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He got practically the lowest score you can get in his National Guard entrance exam (something he was highly motivated to do well in, it would have made pulling strings to get him in much easier).

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He night just have been hungover that day. He has performed well on other assesment tests:

"Mr. Bush's score on the Air Force Officer Qualifying Test at age 22 again suggests that his I.Q was the mid-120's, putting Mr. Bush in about the 95th percentile of the population, according to Mr. Sailer. Mr. Kerry's I.Q. was about 120, in the 91st percentile, according to Mr. Sailer's extrapolation of his score at age 22 on the Navy Officer Qualification Test."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/24/po...&oref=regi

He also scored well on his SAT's.

[cardcounter0]

Maybe someone can correct me if I am wrong, but I think IQ measures intelligence potential. In other words, what you are capable of.

You could be a complete uneducated ignorant ass, and yet have a high IQ. On the other hand, if you studied and applied yourself very hard, you could be quite knowledgable and know very many facts, and yet not have a very high IQ at all.

I think that the performance that Bush has shown, and the decisions he has made through out his life, armed with a 120 IQ, shows what an underperforming lazy slacker he is.

[bholdr]

lol

[bholdr]

i think that you may be underestimating the man, and the schools that he attended.

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Let's not be naive, money talks

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sure does, but if you think both of those schools would accept a 'total idiot', and then graduate him twice, just to get some grants from his family (and when we're talking harvard and yale, they're kinda middle class), you're th one that's being naive. more likely, it was association with his family (his father, brothers jeb and neil, grandfather (dead), and mother are all, imo, extremly intelligent people.) and their money (best prep schools, tutors, etc) that allowed him to attend and succeed at school. he probably did get 'a little help from his freinds' but, to simply dismiss his acedemic acheviements because he doesn't appear intelligent in public isn't logical.

besides, i have never seen any evidence to support your claims that his family and money got him in. or that any endowments helped his GPA. and why the "" on esteemed?

[theBruiser500]

"also, i don't think it's anything like kung fu. "

Kung fu is just an example, this is about anything that requires a lot of practice. If you practice a lot and are familiar with what you're doing you won't mess up.

[theBruiser500]

"people are bad at explaining things verbally"

I don't think this is the issue. All my high school teachers, the best ones I had, they were all the most knowledeable on the subject. Same for my kung fu teacher now in China. He barely speaks English but he is still a very good teacher because he has such a deep understanding of it.

[theBruiser500]

Cyrus I don't understand, are you disagreeing or agreeing with me?