Reply #22: You're joking, right?

[Occulus]

I once knew someone who appeared to be very unintelligent; I went to high school with him. He dated my sister for a while.

He was very good at making people think he didn't understand, he had things backward, etc. He seemed to be an idiot to those who did not know him.

He was no idiot. He was very, very good at getting people to underestimate him, and then using their lack of attention to what he was doing to his own benefit. People were objects to be used until he had attained his goals.

Bush is nobody's fool, but there are a lot of people who are his fool. Bush is apparently (by all accounts) quite intelligent.... smart enough to know that the vast majority of Americans don't pay attention, really, and a lot of us (not here at DU, but in general) are as dumb as a box of rocks. Dumber, in fact.

He uses that. How many times have we heard about people saying Bush is the kind of man they'd like to have a beer with? That they're glad we finally have a President who isn't smarter than they are? Who, in fact, don't want a President that actually changes his mind as the situation changes?

Idiots all, and Bush knows it and uses it. That's why he's so popular to them- he caters to their lowest possible common denominator, and many people just eat that up.

Deception, deception, deception. Exactly what an antiChrist would be smart enough to do. And masses are falling for it.