Face it libs, George Bush is smarter than you, what say you?

[Pill Popper]

George H. Bush, George W. Bush and Jon Kerry are all members of Skull and Bones which is an undergraduate senior secret society at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. It is the oldest senior class landed society at Yale and is one among the College's Big Three societies that include Scroll and Key Society and Wolf's Head Society. They use the Jolly Roger. The Jolly Roger is any of various flags flown to identify a ship's crew as pirates. The flag most commonly identified as the Jolly Roger today is the skull and crossbones, a flag consisting of a human skull above two long bones (probably tibias) set in an x-mark arrangement on a black field. Piracy is typically an act of robbery or criminal violence at sea. The term can include acts committed on land, in the air, or in other major bodies of water or on a shore. It does not normally include crimes committed against persons traveling on the same vessel as the perpetrator (e.g. one passenger stealing from others on the same vessel). The term has been used throughout history to refer to raids across land borders by non-state agents.

Machiavellianism (or machiavellian mask) is, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, "the employment of cunning and duplicity in statecraft or in general conduct", deriving from the Italian Renaissance diplomat and writer Niccolò Machiavelli, who wrote Il Principe (The Prince) and other works. The word has a similar use in modern psychology where it describes one of the dark triad personalities, characterised by a duplicitous interpersonal style associated with cynical beliefs and pragmatic morality. "Machiavellian" (and variants) as a word became very popular in the late 16th century in English, though "Machiavellianism" itself is first cited by the Oxford English Dictionary from 1626.

Playing dumb or feigning ignorance is an effective tactic that manipulates the person confronting the behavior into having doubts about the legitimacy of the issue they’re trying to bring to the other person’s attention.

In Gotham City, The Joker and his accomplices rob a mob-owned bank. The accomplices kill each other off one by one in a sequence masterminded by the Joker, who escapes alone with all the money. Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight? Why so serious?

[Daniel]

And your point is that he was smart enough to trick people into voting for him because he just seemed like such a good guy? That's not really a positive in my book.

No, Bush isn't stupid. You can't be that destructive and do it by accident. Shock and Awe on major cities in Iraq did nothing to endear the people to us. The Patriot Act, which just seems to be par for the course now, for some terrible reason.