Between Doctors, Lawyers, and Politicians whose the smartest?

I have been pondering this question for months now. One would have to have been locked in a casket for the past twenty years to have missed the marvelous advances that medicine has seen and the people that have brought them to us. Indeed they are smart.

Lawyers, they have the skills to weave through thousands of pages of evidence and transcripts; disecting this information and presenting it to a panel of twelve ordinary people in a manner that they can understand. They have the ability to cite case after case off the top of their head and not miss a beat. Indeed they are smart.

Politicians - are they as smart? Smarter? Ten years ago I would have laughed at such a question and said that anyone stupid enough to ask that question is a certifiable idiot. I was wrong. We have all heard people like Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Hillary George W. Bush called stupid, idiots, dumb - and anyone that uses such a term is wrong.

These are some of the smartest people alive. I can hear the laughter so I will explain; and I will use George Bush as my example (and not for any particular reason).

So let us examine the record of why people call him stupid.

His speech leaves much to be desired.....true, but does poor speech patterns indicate a level of inferior aptitude ? Winston Churchill had a speech impediment but I seriously doubt that anyone would call him an idiot or stupid. Sir John Hicks, an enconomist also had serious problems with his speech, yet no one would remotely consider him stupid or an idiot. So speech certainly is not the problem.

Some will claim that his policies are the reason he is an idiot. Well, he was able to convince enough members of the U.S. House and Senate to implement them and that is not something that is easily done. Scratch that argument.

The first reason I would call him one of the smartest people alive is simply - HE GOT ELECTED. Now, you may call the American people stupid, and that is your choice, but again you would be wrong. If anybody could do it, we would have had a plumber as President or a stripper as Governor.

Some will say that it was not him that won the election but those in charge of his campaign.....well ok, if I concede that I have to ask the question - WHO HIRED THEM?

You cannot have your cake and eat it too, and if you are going to call him stupid, or Bill Clinton, or any other successful politician you must also call every single person they hired and who voted for them stupid as well and doing that makes you look like the idiot.

So whose the smartest? I will leave that for you to decide, but calling politicians stupid really only shows your own ignorance.