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Is the President stupid?

Is Obama stupid?

  • Yes, compared to most politicians he's stupid

    Votes: 5 11.9%
  • No, he's a genius.

    Votes: 11 26.2%
  • Yes, he's the Manchurian Candidate

    Votes: 1 2.4%
  • Other

    Votes: 25 59.5%

  • Total voters
    42
Playing craps in Vegas is my game. I like working with numbers and know what the odds are. I've even made some sucker bets and walked away being comped by the Casino trying to keep me in town so they could get a chance getting their money back.

I don't play dominoes any more, stopped playing that game when I entered the 7th grade. I've noticed that dominoes is very popular at the parks in the hood.

That's why he said that. He was calling you racist.
 
My immediate thought was that it was a foolish question. But then...I had to reflect a little bit. We dont have grades from HS or college, there are no transcripts to judge, nor scholarly writings. There are no records that he actually qualified to get into graduate school based on his academic ability, we have no trial attorney experience to judge from, he was an assigned adjunct teacher with no record of students coming forward and espousing his brilliance, his only 'real' job was as a community organizer and look at the product of THAT effort. He voted present more than for or against legislation and during his tenure as a state representative he admits he spent a fair amount of time in pursuit of the white powder. He has zero by way of significant legislative achievements as a senator.

Stupid...no...but all we really know is that he can read a teleprompter like nobodies business.

Sometimes
 
Two things here:

One, he ain't stupid. Unqualified? Yes. Naive? Yes. Arrogant? Hell yes. Stupid? No...

Two, the media will never attack a Democrat personally like they do Republicans. Just a matter of fact.

Except Faux Noise.
 
The 57 state gaff really wasn't a gaff. Obama had been campaigning and visiting 6 or 7 states in a day. That's 6 or 7 jet lags stacked up. He was asked how he was doing in the evening when he had just got back to his home air terminal. When he said that he had been campaigning in all 57 states, he was using that exaggeration to tell folks that he was tired enough to have visited 57 states.

He couldn't possibly not know how many states there actually are in the USA.

However, it's a fun gaff, so it will stick around forever. Just know that those who use it against him will never realize how stupid they sound. That's OK by me.

I do beleive he said after the 57, he had 1 or 2 more to go.

How does that fit in with your theory?

This is the first time I have Heard he said it on purpose and he was joking.

Did you just make that up?
 
I wouldn't say that President Obama is stupid - he did, after all, convince a majority of American voters to elect him President, TWICE!! He's clearly smarter than the majority who bought his schtick.

He is incompetent and an idiot, however, when it comes to actually being President.

I like the old saying - "book smart, life dumb" - seems to fit him quite well, unfortunately for your great country.

Don't give him so much credit when the majority of the credit belongs to his handlers.
 
In my opinion, anyone asking this question is a better fit for the term than the President.

Likely, Obama is more intelligent than myself, and most certainly than the OP. As the term is based on comparison of intellect....I would have answered no, but because the choices were...uh....stupid, I picked other.
 
No gaffe; he genuinely didn't know how to pronounce "corps." Now, if the teleprompter mistakenly showed the word "corpse" for "corps," that would be a gaffe.

The man has to be Smart enough to know he is talking about the military and not about death, so why would he say the Word corpse even if it is written there?

Wouldn't you expect a Smart person to read it, understand it, and then speak it?
 
I was unable able to vote because, while I believe Obama to have an average degree of academic intelligence, he is crippled by his rage and hatred of white people and hatred of the country that white people built. His wife is the same way. Obama is on a mission of destruction, of leveling all that is white.

I think the actual degree of white hatred from his pastor of twenty years was shocking to most white people, who had no idea.

For the past year, certainly since the endless ridicule of Obamacare began, Obama has been throwing a seemingly endless tantrum. Holder has joined him in this scorched earth mode. Both are failing badly, widely disliked and criticized, and this has fueled their arrogance and rage.

For many of Obama's silly pronouncements and comments, it seems like his essential question is "Will this hurt or anger white people?"
 
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I would say that none of the presidents are stupid, to be honest.

Agreed. Obama is extraordinarily intelligent, but it's probably safe to say at this point that his executive intelligence isn't that great. He probably would have been quite good as a cabinet head, in my opinion.
 
I was unable able to vote because, while I believe Obama to have an average degree of academic intelligence, he is crippled by his rage and hatred of white people and the country that white people built. His wife is the same way. Obama is on a mission of destruction, of leveling all that is white.

Thank you for that rational and tempered analysis.
 
It's not an insult to point out that the man that you are belittling is far above yours and my stature.

I used to lean very liberal. Then I realized that there were way too many instances of over-governing that I could not abide by.
I still tend to vote with the Democratic Party. I mean, what else is there these days?

Why would you beleive he is above your stature? You must think very Little of yourself.
 
The media ridiculed Dan Quayle for misspelling potato and declared Rick Perry an idiot for forgetting what he meant for #3. Yet the President doesn't know how many states are in the United States, can't remember which is his religion and can't spell simple words.

He can't spell "respect" - and it's literally spelled in the song!

By standards required of other politicians, is President Obama stupid?

Obama shows his R-E-S-P-E-C-T for "women of soul"

Obama shows R-E-S-P-E-C-T for 'women of soul'

Compared to other politicians, I think he's average.

That's not a compliment, BTW.
 
Of course not...listen to him speak -of the cuff - for just a few minutes and it's obvious he is intelligent.

He also seems very arrogant, naive and closed minded....so he fits in well in Washington.
Speaking off the cuff...


 
Are you able to verbalize a point of disagreement?

I'm sure you've heard the saying, "Be deserving of a response if you want a response" by now.
 
No, he's not stupid. He's a narcisstic, self-absorbed phony, but I actually think he's rather smart. That would explain how he managed to go from utter obscurity to where he is now with no qualifications to do so.
 
"[He] is a tin-plated overbearing, swaggering dictator with delusions of godhood, but he's not [stupid]." Couldn't resist.
 
I wouldn't know personally because I don't watch them. You must though, since you can make such a definitive statement.

I've watched plenty of Faux Noise in the past to know their spin cycle. I don't have cable or satellite television any longer, that's for wealthy folks like yourself.
 
I've watched plenty of Faux Noise in the past to know their spin cycle. I don't have cable or satellite television any longer, that's for wealthy folks like yourself.

You sure are making a lot of assumptions about me. You've been here, what... a month?

Yup, I'm gonna take what you say from now on with your two posts above to me in mind.

Not a good start.
 
My instinct was to say he is not stupid. But knowing that he sat in that Rev. Wright church for 20 years with his family makes him pretty stupid in my book. A more intelligent person would not be in that situation.
 
The media ridiculed Dan Quayle for misspelling potato and declared Rick Perry an idiot for forgetting what he meant for #3. Yet the President doesn't know how many states are in the United States, can't remember which is his religion and can't spell simple words.

He can't spell "respect" - and it's literally spelled in the song!

By standards required of other politicians, is President Obama stupid?

Obama shows his R-E-S-P-E-C-T for "women of soul"

Obama shows R-E-S-P-E-C-T for 'women of soul'

Do you honestly believe that Obama honestly believes there are more than 50 states? If you do, I think you need to do a little self examination of your own intelligence.
 
I was unable able to vote because, while I believe Obama to have an average degree of academic intelligence, he is crippled by his rage and hatred of white people and hatred of the country that white people built. His wife is the same way. Obama is on a mission of destruction, of leveling all that is white.

I think the actual degree of white hatred from his pastor of twenty years was shocking to most white people, who had no idea.

For the past year, certainly since the endless ridicule of Obamacare began, Obama has been throwing a seemingly endless tantrum. Holder has joined him in this scorched earth mode. Both are failing badly, widely disliked and criticized, and this has fueled their arrogance and rage.

For many of Obama's silly pronouncements and comments, it seems like his essential question is "Will this hurt or anger white people?"

Oh, come on now.

I think Obama is an awful POTUS...but I see zero unbiased, factual evidence that he has a 'hatred of white people'...quite the opposite.

Your words sound like hate-filled rambling's with ZERO basis in fact.

I suspect almost no one will take you seriously on this.
 
You sure are making a lot of assumptions about me. You've been here, what... a month?

Yup, I'm gonna take what you say from now on with your two posts above to me in mind.

Not a good start.

You began the assumption, back atcha. :doh
 
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