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I' with you Mistyk-- We've have 8 years of idiocy. I don't necessarily need a giant IQ in office, but at least someone smart enough to surround himself with smart people. Obama has.

Now if he can read as many newspapers daily that JFK did he has a real quality.
The high IQ is part of his problem maybe? It has got to be tough to relate to people when you are so far above them on that scale.

Educators really do not use IQ as a sign of ability by the way....Maybe Barack should not broadcast this quality

That sounds within reason; but I can't verify any of this on Washington Post's website. Can you please provide a link to the source of your post? Or if you had clipped a paper, can you please provide a citation as to the name, date, page of the paper? How did you learn about this?

I would love to provide your post to my skeptical friends (as to why he hasn't been willing to release his school records .... he would be pegged as an ultra elitist); but without more supporting verification they would not buy it.

This does not surprise me in the least. Just by listening to Obama, reading his books, seeing the choices he has made in life, and watching how he is running his campaign, it's easy to see how incredibly smart he is. It really baffles me why anyone would want a person running the country who wasn't smart! But I do think IQ information gathered by schools, etc., is supposed to be confidential and not released without the consent of the person who was tested.

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Where do you get your information about Obama's i.q. scores? I was under the impression that he has not released his scores, so it is still open to debate and speculation.

Gee, guys, I can't find the source anymore. I'll keep looking.

Can't wait to have an intelligent person as President....again. Eight years of a ZERO!

I've seen this same message/article/report in various places on the web (not just here), usually posted in response to an anti-Obama blog or article, always without attribution or source.

As much as I would love to see it supported/sourced, I have a couple of reasons to doubt its veracity.

First, it's illegal to release student records without the student's or parent's permission. That "former guidance counselor" would be in VERY big trouble if this were true.

Second, the name of the test is incorrect. It's not Stanford-Banai; it's Stanford-Binet. And it's not the Stanford-Binet(Banai) IQ Test; it's the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale. Interestingly, I found one other place -- a response to a blog entry talking about IQ and IQ tests in more general terms -- that included this same misspelling, but the poster was "anonymous."

I have no doubt that Obama is of above average intelligence. You don't get into Harvard Law, become editor and then president of the Law Review, without having some pretty significant smarts. Watching Obama in action, it's easy to see that he is able to "assemble" many aspects of a problem into a coherent statement.

But until Obama or his campaign releases his test scores, anything else is purely speculation.

One of the qualifications of Harvard for acceptance is not a high IQ it is a high IQ combined with being an all around person. The fact that Obama has been associated with Harvard "just shows to go you" that he is not only an intellectual but is an all around person that can relate to almost anyone at anytime. That makes him a person whose IQ combined with his younger background allows him to relate to the average citizen.

Frankly I'm tired of having a president that makes my face turn red whenever he speaks. A president that can't hold his temper is hardly much of a step up. McRash simply won't cut the mustard.

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