I have noticed that a majority of people seem to equate the smooth talking of
someone like Clinton with having superior intellect. My own experiece over the
last half century is just the opposite. Some of the smartest people I have
ever met had great difficulty with public speaking. I remember one kid I went
to school with who had a severe stutter and was constantly being called dummy
by all the other kids. He graduated top of our class and went on to do the
same at MIT.


Bob Reed

Yeah, Bob. A lot of data exists that fortifies your position on this.
Verbal skills are completely different than aptitude for problem
solving. There are many geniuses who are dyslexic, can't speak
without a stutter, can't spell and write poorly. Believe me, I went
to school with many of them in the physics departments of the
universities I attended. You wonder how they got to class that day
but at the end of the semester, they have all the points.

BWB