[quote=surveyor][quote=drboom][quote=surveyor]My proof lies in that his aility to fly a plane, pass the test and meet qualifications is proof of his intelligence. Those facts expose the lie that he is unintelligent.
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Randy Cunningham was a hell of a fighter pilot. He is one of only two American pilot aces in the Vietnam War.
He also did some things a little later that fairly reek of arrogant stupidity.
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There’s a difference between intelligence and making mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes, intelligent or otherwise. That doesn’t make them unintelligent. It just makes them human.
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The nature and magnitude of Duke’s “mistakes” argue against being smart. If he was so bright he would have been a smidge less obvious, and I don’t think you can call a sustained pattern of corruption a “mistake”.
Anyway, House staffers voted Cunningham the prestigious “No Rocket Scientist” award in 2004, a year before the corruption story broke. Otnay ootay ightbray, according to those who worked with him. Yet he was a hot fighter pilot.