Is it just me, I suspect Bush isn't as dim as he makes out?

Answer 1

He is not dim, in fact he is quite intelligent...

Which make the decisions he is making seem all the worse.




g-day!

Answer 2

No I don't think he is as dim as he acts. Someone told me he's suffering the early onset on Alzheimer's or something don't know if it's true. But check out Youtube and if you type in G W Bush 9 years ago you can see a video of him giving a speech you'd never think it's the same man. He's articulate and well informed.

PS Sorry about the vague search reference for the Youtube video it's been a while since I saw it so I can't remember the exact details!! Forgive please LOL!!!

Answer 3

he is not dim. Millions of people have voted for him and hundreds are close to him and know him well. I read up about his education and life so far. He is well educated and has made some important, difficult but also right decisions in office. He cares for his fellow countrymen, is proud of his Nation, is strong on Defence and promotes Unity within. Now that is not a bad thing is it ? I wish the UK would have such a leader !

Answer 4

Bush is inflexible in his opinions and not an eloquent speaker, and he's also very smart--like a fox. It's his personality, rather than his intelligence that we see. He isn't open to others' opinions or to information that doesn't support his own conclusions, which makes a lot of people see him as "steadfast," "unwavering," etc. and a lot of others see him as "stubborn," "close-minded," etc. Many who really like him think he has a "down home" manner. I think his anti-science stance is dangerous, but people survived a long time being ignorant and superstitious, so who am I to judge?!

Answer 5

I do not think he is as dim as certain sections of the press make out, but he does worry me when it looks as though someone is telling him what to say on some sort of radio link

Answer 6

Political strategy, to make him look more like the common man. Look at his opponents in the last two elections, Al Gore and John Kerry, Bush and Gore and Kerry all had similar connected family elite prep-school upbringings, but by acting more "dim", he appears more common, more like an average person than some out of touch preppy, he's been able to sell this image and it has helped him in Middle America.

"Dubya has managed to cultivate the look and feel of a down-home good ol' boy....This is no small accomplishment for someone who grew up with every possible advantage: born into a family of immense wealth and political influence, attended a prestigious prep school, then Harvard and Yale. George became a millionaire in his own right at a very early age; while he was playing in Little League, the boy personally owned a million shares of his father's oil company. And yet, implausible as it may sound for someone born into such tremendous wealth and privilege, Bush somehow manages to pass for middle class.

A major factor in his success is Dubya's apparent mediocrity. The man is at best a lackadaisical administrator, a "big picture" guy who delegates all of the detail work to subordinates and only wants to be bothered with final yes-no decisions. He's a weak public speaker, underprepared for debates and press conferences, clearly uncomfortable citing specific facts, figures, and sometimes even proper names. The man also appears to be congenitally undignified, evidently incapable of going ten minutes without his trademark smirk or a full-blown ****-eating grin, regardless of the situation.

All of which combines to make him seem much dumber than most elected officials. Even many of his most ardent supporters presume that Dubya possesses an I.Q. bordering on 100. But -- counterintuitive as it may seem -- this idea is actually comforting to his political base. These are people who would like nothing more than to believe that the problems of governance are easily solvable, if only we can somehow avoid overthinking them. One of Bush's biographers put it this way:

"There is a group of people who feel that '[the President of the United States should] be smarter than I am on just about every issue I can think of.' But there is also a large group of people who don't feel that way. They want the President, in this modern era, to be something they can relate to. Someone who they don't think is intellectually intimidating. Someone who isn't really lost in the big fog of intellectual ideas and the world of words."

Ultimately, these voters are working from a gut feeling. Their assumption is that all we really need to clean up the mess in Washington is somebody possessing the courage of his convictions, and a healthy appetite for some old-fashioned hard work. And although neither of those criteria actually applies to George W. Bush, he manages to fake them well enough. "

Answer 7

Read "The Art of War" (The ancient text, not the modern movie).

You will never see President Bush in the same light again.

Answer 8

It's just you he is dim

Answer 9

hes a concrete cowboy, surrounded by yes-men who thrust him into the presidency, and the ones supporting him still believe in john wayne and ronald reagan heroworshiping!!!

hes no dummy though, hes just used a horrible tragedy to jump start his plans of expanding our military and corporate reach to the middle of the rest of the worlds oil supply!!!

the one controling the oil wins!!

Answer 10

Dim? His IQ is not very high but according to many sources average people make the best decisions. He has all the facts where you and I know only what the press wants us to know.