Bush Insults Kerry's Intelligence

Bush Insults Kerry's Intelligence
The president's latest attack is even more dishonest than the last.
By Fred Kaplan
Posted Tuesday, March 9, 2004, at 2:18 PM

Yesterday, President Bush told a crowd of supporters in Houston that, back in 1995, two years after the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, Sen. John Kerry introduced legislation to cut the intelligence budget by $1.5 billion. "Once again, Sen. Kerry is trying to have it both ways," the president said. "He's for good intelligence; yet he was willing to gut the intelligence services. And that is no way to lead a nation in a time of war." Bush further charged that Kerry's bill was "so deeply irresponsible that he didn't have a single-co-sponsor in the United States Senate."

Bush and his operatives are making a practice of mischaracterizing the voting record of the presumptive Democratic nominee. Two weeks ago, the Republican National Committee put out a "Research Brief" that flagrantly distorted Kerry's votes on weapons systems. (Click here for the real facts.) Bush's remarks yesterday are more dishonest still.

One thing is true: Kerry did introduce a bill on Sept. 29, 1995—S. 1290—that, among many other things, would have cut the intelligence budget by $300 million per year over a five-year period, or $1.5 billion in all.

Rest at...

http://slate.msn.com/id/2096874/

You can spend $1.24 on intelligence, or you can spend a gazillion dollars on intelligence....the issue here is how has Bush* used his "intelligence" to date? Bush* wants to frame the "war on terror" success based on the money spent? Too funny.

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is an insult to all.

Chicken George, in a battle of wits, you're unarmed.

That's no misunderestimation.

Gee -- wait till Kerry strikes back with His Chimperial Highnesses' record on counter-terrorism spending and programs.

What will people think when Kerry tells them that *Dick Cheney* was the official head of counter-terror measures, having been appointed in May 2001? Ooops, Dick!

What about the emphasis on missile defence systems-- when the enemy was able to take us out with some box cutters and a really cunning plan?

What about the screaming arguments between Ashcroft and Louis Freeh, who finally resigned in disgust and dismay because Ashcroft cut back on counter-terrror programs of the FBI, which Freeh considered critical to national security?

What about Little George being so bored by those long meetings about the threat to symbolic American and Jewish targets posed by terror cells inspired by Osama bin Laden that he was briefed about a number of times? What about Little George totally dismissing the decade long study of the terror threat to America done by Hart and Rudman, who pretty much predicted what happened to our nation on Sept 11?

Pound them, Kerry! Pound them!

more? His credibility is kaput.

Poor Bush, used by the Master Pubs and he don't even know it. He will be the fall guy while the Masters all load their SUVs with tons of Moola. History will recall Bush as the bad guy.

on intelligence didn't do frig-all to prevent 9/11 did it?

And what HE would have done with all the money that was no longer needed to fight the Cold War including billions for gathering intelligence on the former Soviet Union. Does he think there is ever a reason to cut back on the defense budget?

The intelligence failure is between Bush's ears.

$300 million per year = 1% of the intelligence budget according to the article. BFD. Does anyone think we were getting our money's worth from that $28 billion budget? I thought the right wing mantra is/was to make the government spend the taxpayer's money more efficiently.

No matter how much money was spent on intelligence gathering, Bush still failed to make good use of what was available to him. They are trying to change the subject to "inside the beltway" details to distract from their own failures.

husband didn't pay too much attention to politics, but tonight he surprised me. We were watching c-span and my husband asked me if I ever noticed that when the * talked, he didn't really say anything. I told him yep, I sure did notice that. My husband is not very political and doesn't pay that much attention, so I'm certain other people are beginning see *'s lack of "intelligence" too. Can't wait to see *'s intelligence compared to Kerry's in a debate.

... of the perfectly obvious.

like Kerry's people explain Kerry's votes very well....this article did a great job of doing that. Kerry's people on the other hand have very lame explanations.....also, the people that Kerry sends to go on TV for him have not been very good either.

So who says there's no difference between the parties?


IQ rating in order:

1. 182 . William Jefferson Clinton
2. 175 . James Earle Carter
3. 174 . John Fitzgerald Kennedy
4. 155 . Richard Milhous Nixon
5. 147 . Franklin Delano Roosevelt
6. 132 . Harry S Truman
7. 126 . Lyndon Baines Johnson
8. 122 . Dwight David Eisenhower
9. 121 . Gerald R. Ford
10. 105 . Ronald Wilson Reagan
11. 098 . George Herbert Walker Bush
12. 091 . George Walker Bush

The six Republican presidents had an average IQ of 115.5.
The six Democratic presidents had an average IQ of 156.




> Subject: Presidential IQ.s
>
> Presidential IQ.s (true not a joke)
> In a report published Monday, the Lovenstein Institute of Scranton,
> Pennsylvania, detailed its findings of a four month study of the
> intelligence quotient of President George W. Bush. Since 1973, the
> Lovenstein Institute has published its research to the educational
> community on each new president, which includes the famous "IQ" report
> among others.
> There have been twelve presidents over the past 50 years, from F.D.
> Roosevelt to G.W. Bush, who were rated based on scholarly achievements:
> 1. Writings that they produced without aid of staff 2. Their ability to
> speak with clarity, and several other psychological factors, which were
> then scored using the Swanson/Crain system of intelligence ranking.
> The study determined the following IQs of each president as accurate to
> within five percentage points.
> In order by presidential term:
> Franklin Delano Roosevelt 142,
> Harry S Truman 132,
> Dwight David Eisenhower 122
> John Fitzgerald Kennedy 174,
> Lyndon Baines Johnson 126,
> Richard Milhous Nixon 155,
> Gerald R. Ford 121,
> James Earle Carter 175,
> Ronald Wilson Reagan 105
> George Herbert Walker Bush 098,
> William Jefferson Clinton 182,
> George Walker Bush 091

> The six Republican presidents of the past 50 years had an average IQ of
> 115.5, with President Nixon having the highest at 155. President George W.
> Bush rated the lowest of all the Republicans with an IQ of 91.
> The six Democratic presidents of the past 50 years had an average IQ of
> 156, with President Clinton having the highest IQ, at 182. President Lyndon
> B. Johnson was rated the lowest of all the Democrats with an IQ of 126.
> No president other than Carter has released his actual IQ (176).
> Among comments made concerning the specific testing of President G. W.
> Bush, his low ratings are due to his apparently difficult command of the
> English language in public statements, his limited use of vocabulary <6,500[br />> words for Bush versus an average of 11,000 words for other presidents], his
> lack of scholarly achievements other than a basic MBA, and an absence of
> any body of work which could be studied on an intellectual basis.
> The complete report documents the methods and procedures used to arrive at
> these ratings, including depth of sentence structure and voice stress
> confidence analysis. "All the Presidents prior to George W. Bush had a
> least one book under their belt, and most had written several white papers
> during their education or early careers. Not so with President Bush," Dr.
> Lovenstein said. "He has no published works or writings, which made it more
> difficult to arrive at an assessment. We relied more heavily on transcripts
> of his unscripted public speaking."
> The Lovenstein Institute of Scranton Pennsylvania think tank includes high
> caliber historians, psychiatrists, sociologists, scientists in human
> behavior, and psychologists. Among their ranks are Dr. Werner R.
> Lovenstein, world-renowned sociologist, and Professor Patricia F. Dilliams.
>

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/presiq.htm

"Claim: According to a study by the Lovenstein Institute, President Bush has the lowest IQ of all presidents of past 50 years.
Status: False.

No, this isn't a real news report, nor does it describe a real study. There isn't a "Lovenstein Institute" in Scranton, Pennsylvania (or anywhere else in the USA), nor do any of the people quoted in the story exist, because this is just another spoof that was taken too seriously ..."

let them debate. we'll see how mr. folksy pretend cowboy turns into a former city-slicker with some cow-pie on his shoe.

that is more worrisome.

...b*sh is a lying, murderous TRAITOR, and needs to be brought up on war crimes charges.

I was SO hoping to hear Bush Sr and Bush Jr talk about "pussy" with a combined IQ of 189!

Imagine the potential!!!

as bush approaches each one of these complex decisions Kerry made, it gives Kerry time for explanations, to show his thoughtfulness, one by one... and bush will stupidly spread it out evenly over time from now until the election, offering Kerry a way to show the way he thinks to the people who care... rove is very stupidly underestimating the intelligence of Democratic voters.

can see & hear it is nothing but propaganda after the facts are brought out!!

This will back fire. Just like the the 2.7 million jobs the administration is gonna create this year.

These bums are getting desperate.

if those clowns sense they're about to be turned out of office, there's no telling what kind of stunt they'll pull.

that's why i'll definitely be staying out of new york and/or washington between labor day and the election.

That seems to be what he's all about, cut taxes and spend, spend, spend.

is that Kerry's bill was targeting to cut a huge slush fund that was essentially waste.

Cheers
Drifter

An intelligence failure, due to a lack of funds by John Kerry will not work.

Bush was President...the onus was on him.

Point by point, Kerry will refute everything they are trying to pin on him. Every vote he has made, was reasonable, if not taken out of context.

When people see the video of Kerry in uniform in Vietnam, they simply won't believe he would do anything to hurt this country. If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is that video worth...priceless!

Everything Bushco is trying, is not working...look for some desperation moves, soon.

... is that Kerry hasn't managed to come up with a short, effective response to it. All they've said is a lame line about "Kerry voted to cut waste from the budget." Yes, the real story on these votes is kind of complicated and doesn't easily lend itself to a sound - bite - length counterattack but they've got to do find one right NOW and get it out. The "Kerry voted to gut intelligence and against every weapons system" line is working for Bush; I'm hearing it parroted on talk radio already. Everybody reading this web site knows that Kerry has to immediately fight back as ferociously as Bush attacks but the candidate's staff doesn't seem to understand this critical point. I'm worried about what Kerry's poor response so far portends for the rest of the campaign.

about 9/11 and just blatantly ignored them is supposed to be on some moral high ground here?

What's the good of intelligence if you don't make good use of it eh, George?