Did you ever wish someone with common intelligence would get to be pres?

I did years ago. never again, give me the refined, intellectual and merited, over the common anything. We had common intelligence under reagan, bush 1 and *. Sorry but the simpletons should run for local office, this experiment has been horrible.

:shrug: Always wanted a smart/kind person there

But my answer has to be - find the brightest, most creative and inventive people to lead. They are usually the best.

he may have not been perfect but you knew where the buck stopped and he had the guts to fire a god. plain spoken and you knew just what he stood for because he made it real simple for you to understand..giv`n hell harry- kerry and the democratic party needs your spirit and balls right now...

"just average" anything for the most important job in the country?

haven't each of us secretly wished we were president? at least on the GOOD days?

KL

policy.

In the end * might be a dumb fuck. I’m sure that will be his defense when or IF the cards come toppling down. The problem with that defense is that his administration and their Republican counterparts have shown us time and time again that honesty, openness and fairness are not part of their agenda. They are greedy, evil and murderous bastards that cloak their true intentions in the guise of a fierce idiot savant that's here to save us from terra.

It’s a false persona.

How many examples do we have to cite to know this? They think that they are above the rule of law, especially when they have the power to define it. How the fuck did that happen? And most offensive, EVERYTHING they do shows their contempt for the American people and our Constitution.

We are all human and subject to flaws. We can look back on many of our “founding fathers” and find a few streaks of indiscretion. In this case it’s totally opposite. We would be lucky to find a streak of decency here. It might be found, but it will not save them just as those small threads didn’t save anybody on death row in Texas under *.

However, if he can’t be put out of office, he should be put out of the world’s misery. In the words of Shakespeare, “Let the earth open wide and swallow him quick.” I would like to append that with my own, “And all your little dogs, too.”

Anyway, intelligence is good. It’s good to be smart, but I would rather have a true heart. Evil by its nature is cunning.

Carter was a great man, and still is, and he had both. Maybe if he'd been less upright he would have done better in politics. I don't know, but I do know that politics is a dirty business and that the truly righteous man is perhaps not the best fit for the Oval Office. I'd go for great intelligence and above average integrity and morality, but not so much of the latter that the President couldn't compromise and perhaps even do or order things that he or she finds distasteful.

In Bush Jr. we have neither, of course.

Something about your posts are oddly familiar. If not, welcome to DU anyway. :)

if you fell for it, well I don' t know what to say.

It's an act. Reagan was an actor.

The Bush's are just plain evil war profiteers and war criminals.

Anybody remember the Panama invasion?

Both are essential to making the right choices for this county. Chimpy has neither. And what's more, he's dumber than average.

Talks funny and is culturally unsophisticated, yes, but no dummy. And Jeb's no dummy either.

George W. simply has no excuse.

GWB displays none of them.

--IMM

very intelligent - able to speak well, present ideas showing in-depth knowledge of the subject

moral but not spiritually fundamental

truly compassionate - feeling others' pain

hard working - on the job 24/7

must support the ideals and principles of the constitution and willing to fight to the end to preserve them

good judge of character - the people around him should be all the above


Not to much to ask for in the most powerful person in the world.

How anybody could think "W" is any of these is beyond me.

KL