Jonathan Chait: Is Bush Still Too Dumb to Be President?

[Scairp]

You can't run a country on horse sense.
July 16, 2006

WAY BACK when he first appeared on the national scene, the rap against George W. Bush was that he might be too dumb to be president. As time passed, questions about Bush's mental capabilities faded away.

After 9/11, his instinctive rather than analytical view of the world seemed to be just what we needed, and Americans of all stripes were desperate to see heroic qualities in him. (As Dan Rather announced at the time: "George Bush is the president; he makes the decisions; and, you know, as just one American, wherever he wants me to line up, just tell me where.")

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[SlipperySlope]

1. Every morning Bush wakes up, looks for his vitamins,

and takes concentrated "dumbfuck pills" by mistake.

[pepperbear]

2. Well, they look so much like his Flintstone chewables. n/t