I would say that none of the presidents are stupid, to be honest.
He could care less what you think. He's the President of the United States of America and you are John from Canada. Not exactly on the same plane. His gaffs do help to bring him down a little. It's just not far enough John.
Agreed.
Another aspect that bothers me is that politicians aren't allowed to be human anymore. Perry forgetting one of his points... Obama misspelling "respect"... each man just had the misfortune to have a brain fart in a highly public event. That's all it was, a brain fart. We all have those from time to time. Yet "we" can't let them live it down.
The media ridiculed Dan Quayle for misspelling potato and declared Rick Perry an idiot for forgetting what he meant for #3. Yet the President doesn't know how many states are in the United States, can't remember which is his religion and can't spell simple words.
He can't spell "respect" - and it's literally spelled in the song!
By standards required of other politicians, is President Obama stupid?
Obama shows his R-E-S-P-E-C-T for "women of soul"
Obama shows R-E-S-P-E-C-T for 'women of soul'
I think the honest difference between a gaffe and sign of something lacking in intelligence is whether or not its was a slip of the tongue or did the politician honestly think what they said was true. Its impossible to know with 100% certainty but I think people can come up with accurate guesses on whether a politician truly believes something incorrect or had something on their minds and it was a slip of the tongue. Example: I don't think for a minute President Obama ever thought there were 57 states but I did think another politician thought Africa was a single country. One politician had developed a reputation of not knowing a lot about the world and wasn't particularly fond of reading while the other help a Juris Doctorate from Harvard and taught at the University of Chicago.
As a BTW: in 2008 in context Obama was talking about his campaign efforts in the 2008 primaries. I do not know for sure if this was what he might have meant but there are 50 states. If I'm not mistaken one or two of which have two separate "contests" in selecting delegates. Then add the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, The US Virgin Islands, American Samoa and lastly Americans Abroad. I didn't ask him so I don't know but its plausible he was thinking of the different voter groups, mostly defined by state, he'd reached out to in the campaign, slipped up and called them each primary voter group states.
PS. Somebody get me a stupid t-shirt. I can't spel werth krap m'eye-selph.
Yep, that's just the way it is.
LOL - lose the argument and you immediately need to insult the person you're debating. Are you sure your lean shouldn't be liberal/Democrat?
No. He believed we have 58 states. He said "I was already at 57 states, and i have to go to Alaska..."No no no no no. Obama said 57 states, so he believes to this day that there are 57 states.
No. He believed we have 58 states. He said "I was already at 57 states, and i have to go to Alaska..."
No, President Obama is not stupid. He is a cunning and insidious enemy. He does everything in his power, for the destruction of our country and inserting it into a civil war.
The media ridiculed Dan Quayle for misspelling potato and declared Rick Perry an idiot for forgetting what he meant for #3. Yet the President doesn't know how many states are in the United States, can't remember which is his religion and can't spell simple words.
He can't spell "respect" - and it's literally spelled in the song!
By standards required of other politicians, is President Obama stupid?
Obama shows his R-E-S-P-E-C-T for "women of soul"
Obama shows R-E-S-P-E-C-T for 'women of soul'
I do think at times...and not surprisingly, often it's Republicans....politicians get unfairly protrayed as "stupid" simply because they have an accent, make a gaffe, or don't tow the commonly held "public" line on something. I do think as we become a more connected society and these type of things are easier to capture, more and more Politicians are put in an unfortunate situation where being human is somehow a "gaffe". Every comment has to be well crafted, every action looked at from every angle, every thought scrutinized because it's going to be under a microscope with dozens of cameras and mics all over the place and hundreds of blogs ready to repost it the minute it comes out. Sometimes I really do think we as a society would do ourselves to remember that Politician are people, not supermen.
The media ridiculed Dan Quayle for misspelling potato and declared Rick Perry an idiot for forgetting what he meant for #3. Yet the President doesn't know how many states are in the United States, can't remember which is his religion and can't spell simple words.
He can't spell "respect" - and it's literally spelled in the song!
By standards required of other politicians, is President Obama stupid?
Obama shows his R-E-S-P-E-C-T for "women of soul"
Obama shows R-E-S-P-E-C-T for 'women of soul'
The media ridiculed Dan Quayle for misspelling potato and declared Rick Perry an idiot for forgetting what he meant for #3. Yet the President doesn't know how many states are in the United States, can't remember which is his religion and can't spell simple words.
He can't spell "respect" - and it's literally spelled in the song!
By standards required of other politicians, is President Obama stupid?
Obama shows his R-E-S-P-E-C-T for "women of soul"
Obama shows R-E-S-P-E-C-T for 'women of soul'
No president is stupid.However when the media has their lips around your **** you can get away with practically anything while the scream bloody murder over what your opponents are doing.The media ridiculed Dan Quayle for misspelling potato and declared Rick Perry an idiot for forgetting what he meant for #3. Yet the President doesn't know how many states are in the United States, can't remember which is his religion and can't spell simple words.
He can't spell "respect" - and it's literally spelled in the song!
By standards required of other politicians, is President Obama stupid?
Obama shows his R-E-S-P-E-C-T for "women of soul"
Obama shows R-E-S-P-E-C-T for 'women of soul'
I would like to give the poster of this question all the responsibility and pressure President Obama has on him for even 1 day. And then I would like to sit back and hurl comments at this poster like "what are you stupid, man?" when he crumbles under the first hour of running this country and dealing with all he has to deal with. Show some respect man!
I'm going to pretend, against all demonstrable evidence to the contrary, that your post was thoughtful and insightful, and say that Obama is not stupid, but, like Bush II, in over his head. He is actually extraordinarily intelligent, but not able to handle crises well, as is shown by every time the administration stutters when some new emergency happens. His handling of the PPACA passage and especially Benghazi shows that he's not able to handle adversarial situations well.
None of our presidents were stupid. There's a difference from being an intelligent individual, as Obama very much is, and being a good president and politician. This extends outside to a number of other politicians as well, of course. For example, I never thought Romney was dumb, not a chance, but he didn't suit my preferences to be president.
He's not a genius though, that word shouldn't be thrown around lightly. Plenty of extremely intelligent folks aren't geniuses either.
Also, misspelling a word doesn't mean much of anything.
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