re: #483 Stonemason

that’s because you see what you want to see. Back when grades and such were being compared it turned out that Mr. Bush did better in school that Mr. Gore, then, all of a sudden, grades meant nothing.
It takes more than book learnin’ to be President, it takes knowledge. Mr. Bush, while not our most knowledgeable President, was not dumb either.

And yes, what I hear from Mr. Obama is continued campaign rhetoric, I had eight years of listening to Mr. Bush, so I do still feel that he is better off the cuff. Ask me again in four years, maybe Mr. Obama will change my mind.

Well, GW wasn’t dumb, but he was horribly ill read. I think sometimes that a good classical education is better than raw smarts. Obama appears to have had both. He was the son of a single mother and he went to an OK prep school in Hawaii. Then Columbia. He did well enough there to get into Harvard. He was obviously good enough to excel there. If he hadn’t, he wouldn’t have been the editor of the Harvard Law Review.