>>>No, whatever else he is, he isn't an idiot. If anything, he is smarter than Bush Junior at least was. That man was an idiot!
I won't argue the asshole point however... except to say that, again, IMO, Bush Junior was an even bigger one. However, much as I disliked Bush senior also, at least he was neither an idiot nor (too much of) an asshole.<<<
OK, I'll give you that one. People that graduate form Columbia and Harvard are not idiots. Unfortunately, that's the problem with about 90% of the people that graduate from Ivy League colleges. They come out amazingly "book smart," but have the common sense of a kumquat, giving the impression that they have difficulty walking and chewing gum at the same time.
And since Bush graduated from Yale, he can't really be considered an idiot, either.
Of course, the greatest embarrassment to his Alma Mater has to be Jimmy Carter. He graduated from the Naval Academy in Annapolis.
Kumquat:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumquat (for those that don't know what one is.)
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