Obama will be the smartest Prez ever during my lifetime

[MrScorpio]

Not just smarts but the skills to use them

It's about freakin' time!

[BrklynLiberal]

1. I cannot wait to be proud again...

[Lancer]

2. I don't remember JFK because I was just a kid, so I'd say yeah, he will be. . .

if elected! Obama will also be the first president younger than I am. Arrrggh!

[Flying Dream Blues]

14. Me too, Lancer...but having it be Obama will lessen the sting quite a bit! nt

[BlooInBloo]

3. Or anyone's lifetime, most probably.

[undeterred]

4. Bill Clinton is pretty damn smart

but right now I like Obama better. I heard Bill Clinton speak in person for an hour in 2006 - of course he doesn't need a teleprompter - and it was so wonderful to listen to him after all these years of the moron. I got to shake his hand. But Barack Obama is something pretty special and I am looking forward to his presidency.

[applegrove]

8. I agree with all you said.

[dsc]

5. actually for all his corruptness Nixon was by all accounts brilliant

and Clinton was no one's fool. It would be hard to be sure Obama was clearly number one in that regard.

[TTUBatfan2008]

6. Bottom line...

he's way the hell up there on anyone's list.

[renie408]

11. I think in Nixon's case, being batshit nuts counteracted the brilliance. n/t

[Art_from_Ark]

7. Jimmy Carter was no slouch

He was a nuclear engineer, fer Pete's sake. As President, Carter had to deal with a lot of problems that had festered throughout the '70s, and he showed much insight in dealing with them. For example, we would have been in much better shape if his successor, Ronald Reagan, had not scrapped Carter's energy program. Carter also had the foresight to set aside huge tracts of public lands because he knew what Reagan wanted to do with them. He also was able to get Egypt and Israel to quit fighting each other, an effort for which he eventually received the Nobel Peace Prize. However, he could not overcome two problems that were his undoing-- inflation, which had started to heat up under Nixon, and went essentially unchecked under Ford, and the Iran hostage crisis, which the "liberal" media was only too glad to rub in his face each night on the TV news.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

9. Are you seven years old?

[ileus]

10. My congressman told us last Saturday the same thing.

Except he said the smartest person to run for president....anyone that's run in the past 26 years.

[ChimpersMcSmirkers]

12. He's a bad ass pure and simple. He's a brillant cat who knows how to operate,

who's trying to make America a better place.

[Faygo Kid]

13. Carter was damned smart. Nukular engineer, after all.

So I assume you are a Reagan baby, you youngster.

By the way. Go Green.

[texpatriot2004]

15. I want the smartes m...f... in the room and it is him. nm

[MaraJade]

16. Have you lived 50 years or more. . . ?

Just asking. This has all BEEN DONE BEFORE by great Presidents like FDR, Like JFK, like Truman.

Any of those greats in your lifetime?!?

Just asking. . .