Quantum Windbag
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This is for all the people that think Bush was stupid simply because they heard a joke from Leno about it.
George W. Bush is smarter than you | Keith Hennessey
Any prediction on how long it will take Lakhota to pop in with his trademark mindless meme?
I am not kidding. You are quite an intelligent group. Dont take it personally, but President Bush is smarter than almost every one of you. Were he a student here today, he would consistently get HP (High Pass) grades without having to work hard, and hed get an H (High, the top grade) in any class where he wanted to put in the effort.President Bush is extremely smart by any traditional standard. Hes highly analytical and was incredibly quick to be able to discern the core question he needed to answer. It was occasionally a little embarrassing when he would jump ahead of one of his Cabinet secretaries in a policy discussion and the advisor would struggle to catch up. He would sometimes force us to accelerate through policy presentations because he so quickly grasped what we were presenting.
For more than six years it was my job to help educate President Bush about complex economic policy issues and to get decisions from him on impossibly hard policy choices. In meetings and in the briefing materials we gave him in advance we covered issues in far more depth than I have been discussing with you this quarter because we needed to do so for him to make decisions.
I use words like briefing and presentation to describe our policy meetings with him, but those are inaccurate. Every meeting was a dialogue, and you had to be ready at all times to be grilled by him and to defend both your analysis and your recommendation. That was scary.
George W. Bush is smarter than you | Keith Hennessey
Any prediction on how long it will take Lakhota to pop in with his trademark mindless meme?