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To: bentway who wrote (288426)	5/18/2006 12:03:49 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571808

A report published by the Lovenstein Institute of Scranton, Pennsylvania, UPDATED and corrected its prior findings of a four month study of the intelligence quotient of President George W. Bush. Since 1973, the Lovenstein Institute has published its research to the educational community on each new president, which includes the famous "IQ" report among others. There have been twelve presidents over the last 50 years, from F.D. Roosevelt to G.W. Bush, who were rated based on scholarly achievements: 1. Writings that they produced without aid of staff. 2. Their ability to speak with clarity, and several other psychological factors, which were then scored using the Swanson/Crain system of intelligence ranking. The study determined the following IQs of each president as accurate to within five percentage points. In order of presidential term: Franklin Delano Roosevelt [D] 132, Harry S Truman [D] 122, Dwight David Eisenhower [R] 142 John Fitzgerald Kennedy [D] 144, Lyndon Baines Johnson [D] 126, Richard Milhous Nixon [R] 155, Gerald R. Ford [R] 128, James Earle Carter [D] 125, Ronald Wilson Reagan [R] 185 George Herbert Walker Bush [R] 141, William Jefferson Clinton [D] 127, George Walker Bush [R] 129 In order of IQ: Ronald Wilson Reagan [R] 185 Richard Milhous Nixon [R] 155, John Fitzgerald Kennedy [D] 144, Dwight David Eisenhower [R] 142, George Herbert Walker Bush [R] 141, Franklin Delano Roosevelt [D] 132, George Walker Bush [R] 129 Gerald R. Ford [R] 128, William Jefferson Clinton [D] 127, Lyndon Baines Johnson [D] 126, James Earle Carter [D] 125, Harry S Truman [D] 122 The six Republican presidents of the past 50 years had an average IQ of 146, with President Reagan having the highest at 185. President Gerald Ford rated the lowest of all the Republicans with an IQ of 128. The six Democratic presidents of the past 50 years had an average IQ of 129, with President Kennedy having the highest IQ, at 144. President Harry Truman was rated the lowest of all the Democrats with an IQ of 122. No president other than Clinton [D] has released his actual IQ (127). The complete report documents the methods and procedures used to arrive at these ratings, including depth of sentence structure and voice stress confidence analysis. The Lovenstein Institute of Scranton is a Pennsylvania think tank of high caliber historians, psychiatrists, sociologists, scientists in human behavior, and psychologists. Among their ranks are Dr. Werner R. Lovenstein, world-renowned sociologist, and Professor Patricia F. Dilliams.

To: bentway who wrote (288426)	5/18/2006 12:05:17 PM
From: JakeStraw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571808

>>they just build what we want LOL! Yeah right... The SUV buying public were lemmings lead by the car manufacturers and their savvy marketing departments. Ford, GM, etc. made the stupid SUV buying public think they needed a behemoth for safety and space.

To: bentway who wrote (288426)	5/21/2006 2:59:42 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571808

I don't really blame the car mfg's. It's really OUR fault - they just build what we want. Ford built the Explorer because Nissan's Pathfinder and Toyota's Forerunner were selling pretty well. Americans bought them like there was no tommorrow, and demanded bigger ones. All mfg's joined in, to where now even Porsche builds one. The fact that these made even LESS sense than the gas guzzling boats of the 60's and 70's was forgotten, by us, the mfg's and the government. I think you are being way to easy on them. Toyota didn't get left out in the cold without high gas mileage vehicles to sell. Honda and Toyota were the first to come out with hybrid cars........now Ford has to buy motors from T. so it have its own hybrids. And have you ever seen the difference between a high mileage T. and a Ford or GM comparable. The American ones are so tinny, they feel like they will fall apart within minutes. GM and F do everything they can to discourage American interest in high mileage cars because they think that larger, low mileage cars make more money. But if that 20 year thesis is correct, why has Toyota usually outdone the American companies economically? In fact, its stock has consistently outperformed GM's and has mostly outperformed Ford's over the past ten years. IMO GM is a national resource that's being pissed away by poor mgmt.