tyme:
If GWB is short bus material, what does that make you, since I suspect you lack his Harvard MBA?
In fairness, there are lots of Arab princes who have ivy league type MBAs, Phds, and assorted letters after their names that would be lucky to get an xbox working without help.
But yeah, obviously GW had more brains than John Kerry. I don't think anyone could fairly watch the foolishness that was the Kerry campaign and say otherwise.
What I liked about Sarah Palin was that she obviously didn't spend all her life preparing for nuclear wars, reading foreign policy magazines, and immersing herself in "big boy" (ie, good ol' boy) political topics. Unfortunately, most Americans don't seem to be happy having someone who will only know how to run day-to-day life in America versus managing far-flung parts of the world alongside the stock markets.