March 12, 2009

Are you smarter than me?

By Alicia Colon
If you surf the Internet, you've seen the ads for IQ tests which claim: Barack Obama's IQ is (the numbers vary from 135-171); Joe Biden's is 150; Hillary Clinton's is 155 and so on. Naturally, Republicans are rated much lower and a fake article on the presidents' IQ once claimed that George Bush's IQ was the lowest of all. The ad goes on to ask-Are you smarter than...? Well, I am and I can prove it unlike all these so-called claims of how smart our newly elected president is.There may be substance to these judgments of Barack Obama's intelligence, but read carefully and you'll learn that these assumptions are made on evidence that does not exist. Writers of these fabulous tales will say "estimated" frequently because Obama's educational records have never been released. They assume that he was selected to be the first black president of the Law Review because of his high grades, but it's far more likely that political correctness had something to do with that. I say that...(Read Full Article)