Our President has never impressed me with his intellect, and his former teachers and professors from prep, undergrad and graduate school, sadly, say the same thing. I would love to actually administer a Stanford-Binet IQ test and see how he does for myself. Until I can do that, I'll trust the folks who taught him. His various teachers have been interviewed quite extensively over the years, and they all agreed he was a nice and friendly fellow with good social skills and athletic abilities but not one who was inclined toward intellectual curiosity, creative or abstract thought, or academics. He himself even jokes about those facts if you listen to his speeches. (For anyone who ever maintains that only highly smart people graduate from Harvard, I can personally introduce you to two really dumb Harvard grads tomorrow if you'd like to meet them. Wealthy but not-very-smart folks with social standing graduate from there, just like they do other Ivy League universities, all the time.)

Bush is said to have a fairly high degree of emotional/intuitive intelligence, which I think is admirable, and to have very good sense about people and their loyalties and sensitivities. And he couldn't be completely clueless or he wouldn't have married a woman like Laura Welch. The smartest of the four Bush children is Jeb, who graduated Phi Beta Kappa from my alma mater, UT, in only two and a half years and made excellent grades. If this gives you any scale of comparison, I graduated from there in four years plus an extra semester with a 3.83 and barely made it into PBK by the skin of my teeth in my senior year. Jeb could eat my lunch academically.