So you gotta figure they ain't that damned smart after all.
Raider was damned smart, and good at what he did.
Whoever he's really working for thinks he's damned smart sending a black man to make this offer.
The main thing you noticed right away was how damned smart he was.
Thus, he was a genius-too damned smart to connect with ordinary voters.
They've been infiltrating too long, and some of them are damned smart.
"Damned smart computer, to take the bird across interstellar distances."
You need a damned smart biologist to work down at the nanometer scale.
But like you said, the guy is a businessman first, and a damned smart one, too.