# Is Jeb! really the smarter brother?

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [August 27, 2015, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-jeb-really-the-smarter-brother/729034 "2015-08-27T06:30:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2015, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-jeb-really-the-smarter-brother/729034/41 "2015-08-29T16:01:34Z")

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> [@marshmallow](#):
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> W’s stammering cowboy routine was a sham. Look up his debates in Texas from the '90s. He talks in complete sentences at a brisk pace and sounds like he has his shit together. Even during his first presidential run he wasn’t _that_ bad.
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> What confused me when he was POTUS is every once in awhile he would have embarrassingly cringe worthy moments during more somber events that would just go on and on, like when talking about terrorism or some war memorial or whatever. I remember some speculating it was some biological based cognitive decline, but there hasn’t been a diagnosis for anything, has there?

Don’t even get me started on that Potempkin(sp) village ranch of his that he sold within IIRC a year after leaving the White House.

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