| | Actually, I think is famously recorded -- and likely an urban legend; nothing on Snopes about this -- that President Eisenhower was dismayed when told that half of all Americans are below average intelligence.
Following the links in the stories, here is the Democrat Party IQ Test for their GOP opponents.
“Do you believe that Barack Obama is a U.S. citizen? Do you think the 10th Amendment bars Congress from issuing regulations like minimum health care coverage standards? Do you think programs like Social Security and Medicare represent socialism and should never have been created in the first place? Do you think President Obama is a socialist? Do you think America should return to a gold standard?”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/32003.html#ixzz0dxKUmUcL
I am not sure where President Obama was born. His election as President makes that a moot point. I do see the intent of broad and strong limits on Congress (and the Executive; and the courts) in the 10th Amendment. However, I see it was more clearly investing all other rights and powers in the people (to the exclusion of the States and the Federal government). I see the Ninth as more problematic for those who seek broad powers for the Federal government, but mostly, for all of that, I see ARTICLE 1 SECTION 8 as being the wall they cannot climb over: enumerated powers. The socialism stuff is obvious and easy to run on and people will get it once you say it out loud. As for the "gold standard" it should be pretty clear by now that this, like health care, is a private and personal issue, which many people already have decided on.
The original article linked above, from James Taranto in the WSJ about the flipflopping of Democrat supporters who praised the electorate not 15 months ago is important.
(Edited by Michael E. Marotta on 1/28, 4:36pm)
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Shockingly, half of all Americans have IQs below the median. But intelligence is not the same thing as wisdom or sense. Very intelligent people have been known to advance very compelling arguments on behalf of very bad ideas.
