In the post you didn't include that I was answering what you wrote. "Trump, Palin and Hilary in a threesome....by my mathematical calculations...that's one brain cell between them"  Notice no mention of good politician or good political candidate.

You said brain cells.  Money is the judge of most things.  So how much does a high school dropout make the first year he drops out of high school?  Wharton grads make 2 and one half million baht a year and Yale Law school is the best law school in the USA and doesn't admit dummies.  So that piece of paper is called a degree and the USA spends 8% of its budget on education.  

You wrote, " both lawyers and politicians are self serving, power hungry, lying, cheating bastards without a degree of empathy for anyone except themselves... ."  Gandhi was a lawyer.  Lincoln was a politician.  I could name a 10,000 more who are the exact opposite of your statement. 

I do agree though with one thing you wrote.  A PhD who would hang around with you is probably not the brightest fellow in the world. 

You have a strong anti education bias stemming from little education yourself.  OK I can understand that but the rest of the world evaluates people based on education and accomplishment.  Trump made a large fortune out of a small one and Hillary was Secretary of State and is running for the Presidency of the most important, powerful, richest country in the world.

To say Trump and Clinton are not intelligent only demonstrates your bias and not reality.  Book smart means a foundation in history as opposed to listening to the village elders chant.  Book smart is what took the world into the modern era as a result of the printing press (perhaps the most important invention in history). 

I'm book smart.  Einstein was book smart.  Everyone holding a position of importance in the modern world is book smart.   You learned how to speak and write English from a book.  We could not be having this conversation in the INTERNET if it were not for book smart people.  Unintelligent  people do manual labor the same as a savage out of the bush for two weeks can be trained to do.  I can train a dishwasher in 20 minutes it takes 15 years of structured education to become a lawyer.  Of all of the lawyer candidates only the best of the best get into Yale law school. 

Henry Ford was one of the brightest and most important men in the history of the world.  You should watch the movie on Netflix about him.  He really could have used an education.  As rich and powerful as he was he came across as an illiterate imbecile in person.  His kids didn't respect him and the country laughed at him.  He was also a supporter of Hitler and an anti Semite because of his lace of education.  He could have done so much more and been respected as well as rich.