The Annals of Arrogance. An idiots guide to George W Bush

Robert Maranto and Richard E. Redding have written “Judging Bush” – just out from Stanford University Press .

A few quotes and a sense of the argument……

SAT scores and other available measures indicate that Bush had sufficient intelligence to serve as president.

Bush scored a 1200 on the SAT (roughly equaling 1300 on today’s re-normed SAT), placing him in the top 16% of all college applicants.

He had better grades than the smarter-seeming John Kerry.

The authors also peg the best estimate of Bush’s IQ at 120-125, in the top 10% of the population and above average for a college graduate — about the same as estimated for Eisenhower and Ford.

The leading personality theory (the “5-Factor Model”), as measured by the NEO Personality Inventory, suggests that Bush is highly extraverted but not very agreeable or conscientious.

They suggest that Bush lacks integrative complexity and thus views issues without nuance.

The problem with Bush’s leadership style was never lack of intelligence. It was something much closer to intellectual laziness or lack of curiosity.

In summary of the president’s personality, the authors write, “Bush is an extraverted, domineering, and somewhat adventurous and impulsive individual, lacking in conscientiousness, who is intelligent but relatively superficial and unreflective.”

I ask whether retrospective impeachment based on personailty flaws could become another arrow in the quiver of the Democrat warrior class?

With spirit I join the debate, at times ugly and vicious, about the historicity and legitimacy of the Bush reign.

Yours, while being hired as God’s ghostwriter for the 2010 edition of The Bible. He doesn’t pay very well.

Righteous

p.s.  I am a man’s man – a belief I have come to  since I have been told numerous times that I am not a ladies man.