Doctor E. Llelleyn Taalbert, the eccentric neurologist from The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly called Stanford, indicated that his preliminary observations of potential clinical prospects in the Washington area proved fruitless. "I have my own criteria for measuring acceptable applicants, and throughout Washington, I have found no male or female applicants with acceptable brain tolerances. To simplify my findings, using a scale of 10 as acceptable, I am finding only 5's in the Washington area."
Taalbert expressed concerns that finding the needed intelligence in this country, or anywhere, may be difficult. The initial group of politicians who volunteered for the project, as a whole, showed results that were comparable to a blank sheet of paper.
"It looks like," he added, "that in order to compile any results at all, on what we call the Obama Brain Initiative Program, we are going to have to 'lower the bar,' considerably."
