Is our president really this stupid? Are these real quotes? "I need to be able to move the right people to the right place at the right time to protect you, and I'm not going to accept a lousy bill out of the United Nations Senate."—South Bend, Ind., Oct. 31, 2002 "John Thune has got a common-sense vision for good forest policy. I look forward to working with him in the United Nations Senate to preserve these national heritages." "Any time we've got any kind of inkling that somebody is thinking about doing something to an American and something to our homeland, you've just got to know we're moving on it, to protect the United Nations Constitution, and at the same time, we're protecting you."—Aberdeen, S.D., same day (Thanks to George Dupper.) Let us all be thankful that no one man comprises the presidency. I tend to disagree with the policies of the president, but usually I can discern the larger goals of the administration. Let me emphasize that... I routinely disagree with the president... but the policies of the president rarely strike me as the policies of a buffoon. If even one of these quotes is real, however, there can be no doubt that the President of the United States is an idiot.
I think most who can pick up a weekly news magazine or the daily paper realized that we weren't electing the brightest guy in the world. It was mostly optimism that the cabinet he brought in (with people from his dad's old cabinet) would shield the public of how much he really knows about world politics... It also doesn't help matters when there's a power struggle between the hawks and the doves in his cabinet. So not only do his words seem confusing, sometimes his policies and actions do to...
