July 17, 2006

Still too dumb to be President

[I]t is now increasingly clear that Bush's status as non-rocket scientist is a serious problem. The problem is not his habit - savored by late-night comedians - of stumbling over multisyllabic words. It is his shocking lack of intellectual curiosity...

It matters that the president values his gut reaction and disdains book learnin'. It's not just a question of cultural style. The president's narrow intellectual horizons have real consequences, sometimes cataclysmic ones.
- Jonathan Chait.

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