Which president do you think is/was the brightest we've ever had? Which prez do you think is the stupidest?

Question

Whys would be nice :)

actually...i meant stupidest...check out a dictionary sometime
you voted for dumbya, didnt u?

Answer 1

It's been researched by Universities already....... I REST MY CASE YOUR HONOR.............

147 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)
132 Harry Truman (D)
122 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)
174 John F. Kennedy (D)
126 Lyndon B. Johnson (D)
155 Richard M. Nixon (R)
121 Gerald Ford (R)
175 James E. Carter (D)
105 Ronald Reagan (R)
098 George HW Bush (R)
182 William J. Clinton (D)
091 George W. Bush (R)

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Bush's IQ is below average relative to that subset of the U.S. citizens who also managed to work their way into the White House. In fact, his intellect falls near the bottom of the distribution. When compared with twentieth-century presidents from Theodore Roosevelt through Clinton, only Harding has a lower score (at least on three of the four estimates). A similar conclusion is suggested by the Intellectual Brilliance measure, albeit in this case there are now two twentieth-century presidents with lower scores, namely, Harding and Coolidge. Moreover, Bush's IQ falls about 20 points--more than one standard deviation--below that of his predecessor, Clinton, a disparity that may have created a contrast effect that made any intellectual weaknesses all the more salient. Clinton's intellectual attainments as a Rhodes Scholar and Yale Law School graduate, his demonstrated capacity for mastering impressive amounts of complex and detailed information, his verbal eloquence and fluency, and his logical adroitness and sophistication--at times, as during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, verging on sophistry--places Clinton head and shoulders above his successor in terms of intellectual power.

Presidents with high SQ, Ambition, and Integrity (but only above average IQ): Washington, Reagan, Ford, Kennedy (117 or 119), G Bush, GW Bush (126).

Presidents with high SQ, IQ, and Integrity (but only above average Ambition): Truman, Eisenhower

Presidents with high SQ, IQ, and Ambition (but only above average Integrity): Clinton, Johnson

Presidents with high IQ, Ambition, and Integrity (but only above average SQ): Carter, both Adams'

Failure with less than 3 qualities: Nixon had high IQ (143) and Ambition but flawed Integrity and SQ

Answer 2

Brightest has to be the best president in the history of this great nation being Franklin D. Roosevelt who got this country out of the Great Depression and help win World War 2 thats a pretty impresive resume' to say the least Dumbest: One word: Bush

Answer 3

Woodrow Wilson had a PhD and Bill Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar. That qualifies them for the smartest. There are least intellegent and stupid. That is hard to say because someone doesn't necessarily need to be lacking intellegence to be stupid or do stupid things. An old adgage says stupid is as stupid does. If you think of any president that has done some really stupid things and continued to make stupid decisions even after finding out he was wrong there is your answer.

Answer 4

I think that FDR was possibly the brightest, though it is a tough choice, as they all have been well-educated. I would pick him because of his successes in communicating with the American people in such a way that citizens felt a part of the process and that he was being accountable for his actions. He also found ways to get his policies past. Not to mention that he was popular enough to be elected to 4 terms. The dumbest would be a tossup between Taft and Coolidge:
Taft because he was too dumb to judge spatial relations and got his fat self stuck in the White House bathtub
Coolidge because he thought that the best past time of a president was to buzz an adviser and hide under his desk so that he could jump out and scare the guy when he came in.

Answer 5

Hmm...brightest? I would say either FDR or Thomas Jefferson.
FDR lead the country out of Great Depression though his 100 Days initiative and through both World Wars. He was elected a record 4 times, can't say he wasnt popular!
Thomas Jefferson was a great inventor and not to mention the Declaration of Independence was kinda one of his greatest works of art.

As for the most stupid president....ever...I would say that is probably the current one. He just doesnt seem to exude any confidence. And he must have fired his speach writer because he's horrible at public speaking. He just repeats the same things over and over in different words.

Answer 6

Funny, but the brightest doesn't always mean the most successful. I know this will sound uninspired, but I'd have to give it to George Washington, because he what to do, and more importantly, what not to do. Let's not forget they were prepared to make him a king and he turned it down.

Dumbest? William Harrison. This moron gets elected and wants to show everybody what a tough guy he is, so he gives his inauguration speech in freezing weather wearing only his shirtsleeves (not coat or overcoat). He gets pneumonia as a result and dies a month later. Idiot.

Answer 7

Smartest is Reagan, Brought down the USSR, turned around the economy, understood lower taxes make for more wealth.
Stupidest, Jim Carter. Just read the history books. He sees Israel as the bad guys in the mid-east, and was of the opinion that Communism was a proper counter balance to capitalism

Answer 8

President Reagan -The Brightest
President Peanut aka Carter The Anti-Semite-The Dopiest

Answer 9

brightest... Thomas Jefferson
dumbest... William Henry Harrison, caught pneumonia giving his inauguration speech and died 2 months later.


concerning Adolf Bush's post
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/Hoaxipedia/Lovenstein_Institute_IQ_Report/

Answer 10

Brightest, -Theodore Roosevelt

Least Intelligent, - Harry Truman