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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (136725)	6/15/2004 1:25:09 PM
From: carranza2	Respond to of 281500

No, no, no, Mary, my expectations are not low. They are high, but I'm a realist at the same time. I'm basing what I say on fact, e.g., Bill Bradley, with whom I am not ideologically aligned but who I think is an honest, bright guy, could have made a credible run at the Presidency. As you know, he gave up politics because of the bickering and the partisanship. Jefferson, Adams, Madison, Hamilton, all were united in a common purpose. It made an incredible difference. We were blessed with a surplus of highly united intelligent people at our founding. For the most part, they were working together. This is no longer the case. We simply don't have the political environment for such people to thrive anymore. I'm certainly saying not to elect folks with low IQs. However, intelligence is not a trait that in my view is measured solely by IQ. There are many other things which can't be measured that come into the mix. Some of the brightest people I know are social incompetents, and politics is at its core a social skill.