Re: Simplex wants Union workers to install there product

["Robert L Bass" <Sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"JoeRaisin" wrote:
>
> Just out of curiosity, upon what evidence (other than your agreement with
> his policies) do you base your assessment of our president's intelligence?

That's a legitimate question.  The best answer I can give is to note what
others have observed about his accomplishments.  The following except is from
the L.A. Times:

"By Tammerlin Drummond
Times Staff Writer

Barack Obama stares silently at a wall of fading black-and-white photographs
in the muggy second-floor offices of the Harvard Law Review. He lingers over
one row of solemn faces, his predecessors of 40 years ago.

All are men. All are dressed in dark-colored suits and ties. All are white.

It is a sobering moment for Obama, 28, who in February became the first black
to be elected president in the 102-year history of the prestigious student-run
law journal.

The post, considered the highest honor a student can attain at Harvard Law
School,...."

I don't know if you are aware of it, but the Harvard Law Review is the most
highly respected legal journal in the USA.  Although AFAIK, Obama never
released his college transcripts, he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard
Law School (the second highest honor available).  That doesn't happen easily.
In fact, just getting into Harvard Law is difficult enough.

> Have you seen his school transcripts?  Seen the results of an IQ test?

No to both questions.  However, besides the above comments, I have listened to
Obama speak on various issues.  He comes across as very intelligent,
knowledgeable and (at least it seems) somewhat humble.

> I like this example of someone touting his IQ without a clue as to what it
> could be.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCV9ZoV--BY

My PC speakers are screwed up so that one didn't help.

> I'm not trying to be political - just asking how you can continue to speak
> to something as a given when I have seen no evidence to support your
> speculations.  I am, however, open to be enlightened...

Just observing the man, I get the strong impression he's brilliant and I don't
impress easily.

Just for comparison, let's look at what the Republicans offered us during the
last presidential campaign.  McCain, although a decent and moderately
intelligent person, is certainly no scholar.  Palin is clearly a moron of the
first order.  Bush, who those two (the plural form of "that one"  :^)) tried
to follow, is the most incompetent nitwit to darken the White House door in
our nation's history.  I'd say we've moved way up on the intelligence ladder
by replacing Bush and his would-be successors with Barak Obama.