[at-l] Bush opens forest roads -- AND allows Governor's Input

[ellen at clinic.net (ellen)]

Sounds about right to me.

Weary

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> From: GoVolsKelly@aol.com
> To: Slyatpct@aol.com, at-l@backcountry.net
> Date: Thu, Jul-15-2004 1:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [at-l] Bush opens forest roads -- AND allows Governor's Input
> 
> Okay, one more blast:
>  
> PresidentMoron.com
> 
> Report: President Bush Has Lowest IQ of all  Presidents of past 50 
> Years
> 
> This is from The Pennsylvania Court  Observer
> University Notes
> Contributors: Cristina L. Brenstein, Lana  Taamar
> 
> If late night TV comedy is an indicator, then there has never been  as 
> widespread a perception that a president is not intellectually  
> qualified for the position he holds as there is with President G W  
> Bush.
> 
> 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 education  
> community on each new president, which includes the famous "IQ" report  
> 
> among others.
> 
> According to statements in the report, there have been  twelve 
> presidents over the past 50 years, from F.D. Roosevelt to G. W. Bush  
> who were all rated based on scholarly achievements, writings that they  
> 
> alone produced without aid of staff, their ability to speak with  
> clarity, and several other psychological factors which were then 
> scored  in the Swanson/Crain system of intelligence ranking.
> 
> The study determined  the following IQs of each president as accurate 
> to within five percentage  points:
> 
> 147 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)
> 132 Harry Truman (D)
> 122  Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)
> 174 John F. Kennedy (D)
> 126 Lyndon B. Johnson  (D)
> 155 Richard M. Nixon (R)
> 121 Gerald Ford (R)
> 175 James E. Carter  (D)
> 105 Ronald Reagan (R)
> 098 George HW Bush (R)
> 182 William J. Clinton  (D)
> 091 George W. Bush (R)
> 
> 
> The six Republican presidents of the  past 50 years had an average IQ 
> of 115.5, with President Nixon having the  highest IQ, at 155. 
> President G. W. Bush was rated the lowest of all the  Republicans with 
> an IQ of 91.
> 
> The six Democrat presidents had IQs  with an average 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 (D) has released his  actual IQ, 176.
> 
> Among comments made concerning the specific testing of  President GW 
> Bush, his low ratings were due to his apparent difficulty to  command 
> the English language in public statements, his limited use of  
> vocabulary (6,500 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, so in  many 
> ways that made it more difficult to arrive at an assessment. We had to  
> 
> rely 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, a world-respected psychiatrist.
> 
> This study was commissioned  on February 13, 2001 and released on July 
> 9, 2001 to subscribing member  universities and organizations within 
> the education  community.
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