[sionnsar]

I was taken with the fact that Ahmadinejad is an engineer

I remember thinking, as an engineering student, that engineers could run the country better than the "political class." Nuclear engineer Jimmy Carter disabused me of that opinion for all time.

[doc1019]

Great observation and conclusion.

[governmentstillsucks]

I remember thinking, as an engineering student, that engineers could run the country better than the "political class." Nuclear engineer Jimmy Carter disabused me of that opinion for all time.

A little trip down memory lane for me: A college political science professor of mine pointed out--with much chagrin--that a Nimitz class supercarrier was to be named after George H.W. Bush (CV-77) while Jimmy Carter had no such distinction, despite being such a competent and qualified nuclear engineer.

The man pronounced 'nuclear' as "nucular!" And he was qualified to do what exactly?

[dr_lew]

Jimmy Carter was never a nuclear engineer. He was tapped by Rickover to serve as a senior staff officer overseeing the nuclear submarine program, and took graduate level courses in nuclear technology to qualify himself for the position. I’m sure he was a serious student, and gained an informed technical perspective from these studies, but he was not studying to be a nuclear engineer, and he was not a nuclear engineer.