Recall that Margaret Thatcher once said, “Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not.”

My collie says:

I guess that’s why we have video clips of Joe Biden telling others that his IQ is vastly superior.

Here’s the transcript:

On April 3, 1987, at a campaign stop in Claremont, N.H., a voter named Frank innocently asked Biden what law school he attended and how he performed there.

“I think I have a much higher IQ than you do,” replied Biden, who went to Syracuse University College of Law. “I went to law school on a full academic scholarship.”

He told the astonished man that while he admittedly did not do well his first year because he didn’t want to be in law school, he did much better his second and third years and ended up in the top half of his class. “I won the international moot court competition.”

Without being asked, Biden then boasted about his performance in college, at the University of Delaware, telling Frank that he had been named the “outstanding student in the political-science department. . . . I graduated with three degrees from college. . . . And I’d be delighted to sit back and compare my IQ to yours if you’d like, Frank.”

CyberCipher on September 8, 2008 at 8:00 PM