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Phaenx, it's not that Bush is stupid per se, in terms of IQ etc., it's that he's "intellectually incurious" (can't remember who said that but it's a good phrase and I'm stealing it) and has no willingness - let's leave capacity out of it for now - to grasp complexities. He might be a good manager, and even a good leader in some situations, but as chief executive of the single superpower in the world right now, he just doesn't have what it takes, IMHO, to comprehend the long-term consequences of his actions. He's left that to a bunch of neo-con fanatics who have basically thrown down the gauntlet by alienating an emerging global coalition and made a bid for American hegemony, handed over the reins of the government, the environment, etc., to corporate interests, and ensured a series of deficits that will make government spending on social programs an impossibility. Having left my crystal ball in my other pants, I have no idea what's going to come of this but I fear it's going to be disastrous even if he's not "elected" to a second term. Again: stupid? No. Evil? mmmmm.....no. An ideologue with no respect for facts? Yup.
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