Garfield is one of the most intelligent president s we have ever had. He is up there in the top half dozen and when we go through his life, by the end of the middle of it, and youre going to say no, that cant be. He cant be that good in that field. Its just not possible, and then well find something else, and youre going to no. He is just incredibly bright, and the hope for his presidency was enormous, and were going to discuss an absolutely brilliant human being. I was chatting with a friend before, and he asked me if i thought garfield was the most intelligent. I dont know how you test Something Like that, and its not as if you give president s iq tests. Its a lot easier with things that are easy to measure, tall ask short. We all know that madison was our shortest president , lincoln was our tallest president because thats easy. I dont know how you know who the most intelligent. Certainly the two adams, jefferson, madison and Lincoln Garfield is right up there. So one of the reasons
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Qaeda. Condemnation of female genital mutilation. We asked kenyan women why they choose to cut their girls. Hello. Tensions are suddenly high in jerusalem ahead of a funeral for a 17yearold Palestinian Youth who was abducted and killed. Abu khdairs family says an autopsy is still being carried out. Ten palestinian as have been injured in air strikes on the gaza strip. The raids are in response to 20 rockets and mortars fired from gaza directed at israel. Were trying to piece together what we can expect to happen in the course of the coming hours. Reporter thats right. Bbc has been speaking to the father of abu khdair. He told us hes waiting for this autopsy to be completed on his sons body. He was told it could have been finished as soon as lunchtime. The actual autopsy could indeed go on until later in the day. We understand its carried out by israeli doctors. Theres also a palestinian doctor present. At this time the Israeli Police are saying what happens to the body is out of their