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To: American Spirit who wrote (74060)	1/27/2007 8:12:40 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 89467

Newsweek Poll: "more than half the country (58 percent) say they wish the Bush presidency were simply over" msnbc.msn.com

To: American Spirit who wrote (74060)	1/27/2007 10:24:00 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 89467

Subject: Presidential IQs ____________________________________________________________ Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 01:49:13 +0000 Presidential IQs: A report published Monday, by the Lovenstein Institute of Scranton , Pennsylvania , detailed its 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 past 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 by presidential term: Franklin Delano Roosevelt [D] 142, Harry S Truman [D] 132, Dwight David Eisenhower [R] 122 John Fitzgerald Kennedy [D] 174, Lyndon Baines Johnson [D] 126, Richard Milhous Nixon [R] 155, Gerald R. Ford [R] 121, James Earle Carter [D] 175, Ronald Wilson Reagan [R] 105 George Herbert Walker Bush [R] 98, William Jefferson Clinton [D] 182, George Walker Bush [R] 91 In order of IQ rating: 182 . . William Jefferson Clinton [D] 175 . . James Earle Carter [D] 174 . . John Fitzgerald Kennedy [D] 155 . . Richard Milhous Nixon [R] 147 . . Franklin Delano Roosevelt [D] 132 .. . Harry S Truman [D] 126 . . Lyndon Baines Johnson [D] 122 . . Dwight David Eisenhower [R] 121 . . Gerald R. Ford [R] 105 . . Ronald Wilson Reagan [R] 098 . . George Herbert Walker Bush [R] 091 . . George Walker Bush [R] The six Republican presidents of the past 50 years had an average IQ of 115.5, with President Nixon having the highest at 155. President George W. Bush rated the lowest of all the Republicans with an IQ of 91. The six Democratic presidents of the past 50 years had an average IQ of 156, with President Clinton having the highest IQ, at 182. President Lyndon B. Johnson was rated the lowest of all the Democrats with an IQ of 126. No president other than Carter [D] has released his actual IQ (176). Note the institute measured him at 175. Among comments made concerning the specific testing of President G.W. Bush, his low ratings are due to his apparently difficult command of the English language in public statements, his limited use of vocabulary [6,500 words for Bush versus an average of 11,000 words for other presidents], his lack of scholarly achievements other than a basic MBA, and an absence of any body of work which could be studied on an intellectual basis. The complete report documents the methods and procedures used to arrive at these ratings, including depth of sentence structure and voice stress confidence analysis. "All the Presidents prior to George W. Bush had a least one book under their belt, and most had written several white papers during their education or careers. Not so with President Bush," Dr. Lovenstein said. "He has no published works or writings, which made it more difficult to arrive at an assessment. We relied more heavily on transcripts of his unscripted public speaking." The Lovenstein Institute of Scranton , Pennsylvania think tank includes 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, a world-respected psychiatrist For more information on the Lovenstein Institute, go to: lovenstein.org . Hmm - The smartest president didn't know enough to keep his pants zipped and the dumbest one thinks he can run a war.

To: American Spirit who wrote (74060)	1/28/2007 5:10:21 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 89467

Richard Perle: Bush Will Bomb Iran coffeehouse.tpmcafe.com By M.J. Rosenberg Jan 21, 2007 This is worth noting. From Ha'aretz tonight... haaretz.com "President George Bush will order an attack on Iran if it becomes clear to him that Iran is set to acquire nuclear weapons capabilities while he is still in office, Richard Perle told the Herzliya Conference on Sunday. Perle is close to the Bush administration, particularly to Vice President Richard Cheney. The leading neoconservative and fellow at the American Enterprise Institute addressed the session on Iran's nuclear program. He said that the present policy of attempting to impose sanctions on Iran will not cause it to abandon its nuclear aspirations, and unless stopped the country will become a nuclear power." The Herzliya Conference is the most prestigious foreign policy conference in Israel. It is neither right nor left wing. But it is the place top Israelis go to make major pronouncements. No way of knowing if Perle has inside information. But he remains close to all the key neocons in the administration: Cheney, Abrams, Wurmser, etc. It does seem that Bush seems strangely cheerful about his legacy despite the Iraq project's collapse. Same with the neocons who are down but not out. If Perle is right, it is because Bush and the boys know that the attack on Iran will, in every conceivable way, dwarf his achievements (!) in Iraq. Is the bombing of Iran what Bush is thinking about when he thinks legacy? Sure sounds like it.