Presidential Smarts?

[ThomWV]

I often say that Bu$h is the least intelligent President ever, but I don't actually know that to be true. Has there ever been any other President who has been held in such low esteem in terms of his intelligence. And while I'm at it, has there ever been another President with as little success in his background?

[Warpy]

1. Calvin Coolidge

Nobody ever accused him of being intelligent.

[progdonkey]

2. Harding

Warren G. Harding was well known as being an intellectual lightweight. (Actually, his presidency is almost a carbon copy of Dubya's, along with the same types of scandals and empty rhetoric.)

The redeeming value of Harding is that he recognized he was a lightweight and saw it as a negative (instead of Dubya, who revels in his ignorance), which is seen in this famous quote of his, "I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and I probably wouldn't read it if I found it."

Can you see Dubya admitting his tax cuts are killing the country and that he doesn't know what to do about it?