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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 1145878, member: 40"]
This is going to be my last post in this thread Otto, because like you I don't want to get argumentative over this.  You can certainly draw inferences from grammar.  But to base it on quotes in the newspaper or twitter, with its character limitations... well, let's just say that formulating conclusions from that is pretty weak as far as evidence goes.  There are lots of highly intelligent people who can't spell, or aren't the most eloquent writers.  I can point to numerous examples of people I've directly worked with at the executive level of fortune 500 businesses who can't write or spell worth a damn [nor does it matter, because they delegate most of those tasks out to subordinates anyway].  It doesn't make them any less intelligent or succesful. Several of these people were making 7 figure incomes, btw.  They weren't dumb by any means--they just didn't happen to write particularly well.  Punctuating "it's" incorrectly is unfortuantely quite common as useage errors go.  If everybody who does that wrong is an idiot, then the world is full of idiots.
 
McDonald is a public figure who gets interviewed daily, so there's bound to be examples of him not perfectly constructing a sentence, or a tweet where he uses the wrong punctuation.  But to base an opinion of someone's intelligence and defend labeling them an idiot based upon some twitter misspellings and him not calling a formation you'd prefer is, at best, questonable.  And at worst, in really bad taste.
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