Well if the US means Fineman and Matthews the answer is easy.

A ROCK would best the combined IQ of those two...

patience and intelligence in the leftest world. Up is down, down is up, unicorns and fairies exists in their world. In the real world where the rest of us live, it is simply the left trying to make chicken salad out of chicken ****.

CHRIS MATTHEWS: He's hung back at a point that's almost driven us crazy. He has let Harry Reid carry the ball.

  Hey... that's cause bammie is too cool to sweat.  He leaves all the work to his homies.

..of course he's smarter than YOU TWO! He's gotten clowns like you two morons to carry his water for 2 years now, and whatever credibility you had is now completely gone. You should feel very proud of how you helped promote this Manchurian candidate, and now, while he is in the process of ruining our nation, you still kiss his ass daily. MSNBC and NEWSWEEK are useless pieces of flotsam at this point. 

President Obama is nothing more than a lying empty suit; a Hollywood style special effects smoke and mirrors show that has shown itself to be a total fraud.  

WAKE UP AMERICA! SAVE OUR CONSTITUTION! 

            I would put my inteligence against obama's, any time. Same goes for these idiots.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

...but there is <i>no way</i> I'd make a good President. And my knowledge of that fact makes me smarter than Obama, too.

"Smarter than us?"

Well, certainly "Smarter than we?" if "we" are media commentators  with no grasp of English grammar ...

 But I do know that a common garden slug has much more smarts than Crissy Matthews, Howard Fineman, and every other insipid dolt on MCNBC...

Do you think Tingles has a poster of Obama hanging over his bed?

Another gag gag moment with Chris Matthew!

When I was in high school we had a more meaningful term for these types of guys. Today the language has been cleaned up a bit, now they’re referred to as girly men. Somehow that term just doesn’t quite provide the proper description of their journey.

To reiterate so many comments here:

I have a ribeye roast, wrapped in cheesecloth, aging in the bottom drawer of my refrigerator.  Within it, some chemical enzymes are acting on the beef to change it's composition.  The enzymes are not living organisms.  The enzymes are still smarter than Matthews and Fineman. 

On the other hand, there are some bacteria that have formed around the outside of the beef.  The bacteria are living things.  They are not necessary to the dry-aging process, just unfortunate byproducts living off of the good beef and leaving poisonous excretions in its' place.  Since they spoil the meat on which they live, they, and the spoiled meat, must be removed and discarded.  This bacteria has a higher IQ than BHO.  And they both have similar effects on their surroundings. 

Chris the Wide Mouth Frog and Howard "He's So Fine"-man exhibited what I've seen in many other conversations by many other many others committing adulation with O'Bama in public: offering such over-exaggerated compliments, often unsolicited or un-triggered, that it cannot be anything but praise-for-his-race's sake.

All the heavy breathing, from Keith "I can see my pole number's rising from my bathtub" Olbermann to Ed "Pillow-talking to the pooch" Schultz to Rachel Madcow, comes across as more than using the ladies' tee, as more than moving the goal posts, as more than a Chris Dodd-style friendly loan. It consists almost exclusively of guilt-edged, specifically white-guilt edged, plaudits, encomiums, paeans, and shout-outs.

Criticism of O'Bama is denounced as wrong, because it is presumptively racist. Thus the converse is true. Adulation of O'Bama is often unfounded, and thus is racist, too. But it's a new, proactive, constructive, compassionate, post-racial racism.

He must be.  He managed to fool enough voters to elect him president.

There is no evidence that Uhbama is smarter than your average avocado. 

"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me

"MATTHEWS: Howard is he smarter, Howard is he smarter than us?

FINEMAN: Of course he is! Much smarter!"

Oh, good grief!!! I can just picture Finman patting Matthews on the and saying,,," there, there, Chrissy. Don`t worry. Of course he`s smarter than us."

Holeinthehull

(As bad as this sounds and as bad as it is),  you just saw to grown girly men, courageously have an orgasm at the same time over another man.  The good thing though is only 37 people in the country were watching including the camermen and the other contributors sitting around the wack circle and probably Obama.

He got elected president of this idiocracy, so I guess the Dem shills are right.

One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 86% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.

Just observe when Obama's teleprompter goes out. His "brilliance" is obvious for all to see. Kind of like a deer in the headlights, a stumbling, bumbling, stuttering fool. Fineman is a moronic, sychophantic a$$ kisser. A presstitute of the lowest order. I look forward to a debate between Obama and Mit Romney. My God, that will be a thing to see as the sitting president is obliterated intellectually and embarrased by a private citizen. Romney is at least as smart, smooth, handsome and intelligent as JFK.

"... is he smarter than us?"  Well, Chrissy, Howard, it depends on the composition of the set labelled "us".  If by "us" you mean the subset of all humans composed of Chris Matthews and Howard Fineman, then the answer is, indeed, yes.  However, if the subset of "us" includes anyone who is NOT Chris Matthews OR Howard Fineman, then the answer is no. 

"A communist is someone who reads Marx.  An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx."  Ronald Reagan

First, how do we know he's smart? He's never published his college transcripts, for all we know, he skated by with Cs and Ds. He certainly doesn't sound smart or make smart decisions.

I have a sister who is quite the academic brainiac. But she lacks a lot of common sense. There are different kinds of smarts.