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To: Paul Smith who wrote (137783)	5/9/2010 11:38:29 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542945

<<<Palin has liabilities and if she is a weak as you suspect, she is not worth all the attention you shower her with.>>>> Are you going to deny she has a passionate following and many want her to be our next president? Is there some thoughts in your own mind that she may somehow be intellectually suitable to be our next president? A lot of complex emotions going on here. Denial, slippery slope stuff, and all kinds of emotional justifications going on. If you don't know what I am driving at then so be it.

To: Paul Smith who wrote (137783)	5/10/2010 1:56:21 AM
From: Cogito	Respond to of 542945

>>poorly educated, intellectually lazy, and not smart to begin with Nobody that accurately fits that description above can get elected POTUS. Most of those labels are assigned by people that disagree with a person's philosophy and seek to demonize them in other ways.<< I was thinking about this idea that people only say GW Bush wasn't bright because they disagree with his philosophy. I think you're wrong. I believe Karl Rove is very intelligent, though I completely disagree with him on pretty much every subject. I think Cheney is smart, too, and I find his politics and philosophy repugnant. I thought Bush wasn't especially bright because of the way he spoke. He seemed completely unable to speak intelligently about anything. I'm not saying I think he was stupid, exactly, but I don't think he was intellectually up to the task of being President. In my opinion, his record reflects that. He was able to repeat the talking points given to him by Karl Rove, and I believe that's what got him elected. That is, he was re-elected. Since the other guy got more votes in 2000, I can't give Bush or Rove credit for that.