A serious question asked overly simply

[Stinky The Clown]

Seriously ... in your view .... or from what you know .... was George Bush smart or stupid?

[The Straight Story]

1. He was like forrest gump

:rofl: (with Apologies to Forrest Gump, I liked that movie...)

[NightWatcher]

2. he was less than smart. Idiots make great puppets.

see also: Ronny Reagan

[pkdu]

3. Got his "C" at Yale by paying guys to write papers for him...no doubt in my mind.

Ran several companies/enterprises into the ground.
Worst president ever...and I mean EVER.

Name one truely smart thing HE ever did ( not Cheney , Rove or whoever)

[Catshrink]

5. He did manage to get others to do his dirty work for him.

He did that his whole life.

[madokie]

11. Not successfully though

If he had he would be squeaky clean now looks to me like.
bush is as dumb as a bottle of whisky can make him. imo

[DJ13]

4. Average, but extremely lazy

He seemed to prefer to let everyone else do the thinking for him.

The perfect puppet.

[RufusTFirefly]

6. Not stupid. Has some interpersonal smarts. Intellectually lazy.

They don't call him Incurious George for nothing. Comes from being rich and arrogant, I suspect. He is the mental version of a Couch Potato.

[rurallib]

7. Dumber than fuck, but could take orders and act like an asshole very well.

[Still Sensible]

8. He is reasonably smart, but in no way a deep thinker

He looks at everything in black and white terms. Nuance is not in his vocabulary. It seems as if he tries to break any issue into its simplest terms. As an incurious, non-thinker, his executive style was destined to be one of delegation and relying on others to do the heavy lifting, intellectually. A predictably dangerous style for anyone to bring to the White House. I have seen some articles claiming that his father isn't much more intelligent, but I don't buy it. George the first, whose politics I also have little use for, is much smarter than his son IMO. As a politician, diplomat, CIA director and president, he had a much better grasp of the nuances of the issues he faced.

[glitch]

9. He has the low cunning of a street thug.

who never had to actually operate on the streets. My guess is his reptilian brain stem is highly developed from having to grow up with Poppy and Barb.

[elleng]

10. Neither, particularly.

Or maybe both, in different respects. Read about 'multiple intelligences.' Probably drove his family nuts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_multiple_intelligences

[Warpy]

12. His stupidity was borne of class arrogance

that said gentlemen aren't supposed to know much, that's what they pay some of the smarter peasants to do for them. They are simply to be and to inspire with the greatness of their social class.

He was perfectly capable of earning a legitimate passing grade at Yale, but chose to submit other people's work as his own, if he submitted it at all, because his station in life was sufficient to net him a C.

The only reason for his stupidity are the automatic cutoff points dinned into his head as a child to keep him from wondering and asking questions, cutoff points like "poor people are poor only because they're lazy." His interests, like those of the rest of his class, are limited to his own surroundings and as long as those are comfortable, they don't extend beyond. If he is comfortable, in other words, the world is proceeding just as it should.

I know this because I've had the misfortune to meet some of this class. Many of them are affable enough and keep us around if they find us amusing, as long as we never try to educate them. They can often be quite generous, as long as we accept what they want to give and never tell them what we need.

It was quite an education.

[Skittles]

13. dumb as a bag of hammers

when the average American knows more about foreign policy than their president, that signifies one dipshit president

[livvy]

14. Not the sharpest. Not stupid, but very average.

He was smart enough to manipulate others with his political attachments. He was stupid enough to let himself be put in the place where we needed the sharpest crayon in the box to be in place, but he had no experience or knowledge to perform in a satisfactory manner. He was responsible for things that he probably had no capability to comprehend or respond to in a responsible manner. I doubt that he has any idea how serious the possible charges against him are. Not just because he's not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but also because he's been so protected and bolstered up all the times he has failed in his past endeavors. This is not a successful man. He's a loser.

[Mind_your_head]

15. He was *smart* to recognize that being a puppet-boy

to those who were much more rich, powerful, intelligent, and conniving than he could EVER BE....was a more "profitable/comfortable option" for him than he could EVER begin to imagine to achieve on his own.

Is/Was GWB a 'louse/criminal' for being a "puppet-boy"...?

Seriously/Simply.....unequivocably YES.

[foxfeet]

16. Most of all, he lacked curiosity about the world around him.

[santamargarita]

17. Frumpy, lazy, uninteresting with a fried brain due to drugs & alcohol

:crazy: :puke:

[NV Whino]

18. Not very bright to start with

Intellectually lazy, no analytical skills, self centered and above all, lazy. But he is cunning and because too many people picked him up too many times, he has learned to rely on that.

[Rincewind]

19. More stupid than smart,

His real lack is that he is completely, and totally disinterested in other people. He is completely self centered and lacking in curiosity and empathy. He allows others to tell him what to do, and how to react because he doesn't care enough to spend any time or effort on what goes on around him.