Tests prove: Sarah smarter than Obama... Bush WAY smarter...
The test results are in... Ratings for miscellaneous Presidents, and others...
Quote:
Sarah Palin's critics routinely mock her intellect, so when the state of Alaska released 24,000 emails she wrote while serving as governor, "AOL Weird News," an offbeat component of AOL.com. had a representative sample analyzed to see how well she wrote. They expected the results to confirm their anti-Palin bias, but they were in for a surprise.
Far from being an illiterate bumpkin, the standard Flesch-Kincaid readability test showed that Ms. Palin's emails were written at an 8.5 grade level. This was "an excellent score for a chief executive," AOLWN reported. To put some perspective on this number, Martin Luther King's August 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech -- much more heavily edited than Ms. Palin's emails -- ranked at 8.8 on the same scale, while Lincoln's Gettysburg Address came in at 9.1.
A study by Smart Politics on the readability ratings of recent State of the Union addresses also showed Ms. Palin in good company. President George H.W. Bush's average SOTU score was 8.6. Bill Clinton came in at 9.5. Ronald Reagan, who like Ms. Palin was heavily criticized by liberals and regarded as a doddering old fool, logged an impressive 10.3 rating. And George W. Bush, who earned even more left-wing contempt than Mr. Reagan, if that's possible, edged the Great Communicator with a 10.4 ranking.
Then there is President Obama, heralded as the smartest president and the most gifted orator in living memory, but whose 2008 "Yes we can!" victory speech came in at a comparatively anemic Flesch-Kincaid rating of 7.4. Some numbers just speak for themselves.
Summary, with some editorializing:
George W. Bush: 10.4
Ronald Reagan: 10.3
Bill Clinton: 9.5
Abraham Lincoln: 9.1
Martin Luther King: 8.8
George H.W. Bush: 8.6
Sarah Palin: 8.5
Da Turd's 7.4 rating will put him very high on the relative intelligence scale of the bracheating minions drooling over his name in the voting booth. He knows his audience and while to normal folks he's a borderline mental defective, to his minions, he is Glory herself perched at the pinnacle of enlightenment. Just like a lib to mistake a turd for a pearl....
Hehehh...... I guess that's why they object to a minimum IQ requirement before they'll let a mouth-breathing bracheator into the voting booth to vote Democrat...hehehehh
Yes but his speechwriter has previously said it's a collaborative effort. In addition, each of these people would obviously have to read and approve their speeches before just blindly reading them.
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Wait a minute....I've been barking at the moon....these ratings....these are a rating of the speech maker's ability to READ the material set before him/her ? HOly crap we're truly circling the toilet when the chief executive is rated on reading skills....he should be WRITING his speeches for a rating as I expect any President or legislator, for that matter, to be able to read anything in the English language. I do not know the significance of the ratings then, other than to say that Reagan and Bush were MORE LITERATE than our 'head start' president ?
Tests prove: Sarah smarter than Obama... Bush WAY smarter...
