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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (4105)	11/16/2004 1:02:13 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 7936

A very low IQ should pretty much be a disqualifier, not of course in a legal sense but in the sense that no one should want to vote for an idiot. A low (say below the average 100) would if known be an argument against voting for someone, probably a strong argument. Poor academics should be another. I wouldn't automatically consider that a disqualifier esp. considering that the academic performance typically happened decades before someone can become a serious candidate for president. It would be a bigger disqualifier for an advisor to the president than it would be for a president. A president needs the ability to make decisions more than he needs a detailed academic background in any particular area. He will have advisors who have the academic background. We require that of Doctors and lawyers. Academic performance isn't the only consideration for doctors and lawyers but it is probably more relevant to their performance than it is to that of a president. There has only been 43 Presidents of the United States. You can't draw any conclusions based on statistics of such small sample size. Its not limited to presidents of the US. Many outstanding leaders in business, or at the state level, or in other countries, have not had stellar academic careers. If we have such high standards for the thousands of our doctors, why can't we have very, very high standards for our one and only President? You can have high standards without having this particular high standard. I would want the president to be a reasonably educated man, but there is no need for him to have a stellar academic career. Tim