Obama's Washington: What Hath Harvard Wrought!

The American Thinker ^ | June 24, 2010 | Stuart Schwartz

[Scanian]

It is time to put together an intervention. Form a new group, call it "Idiots Anonymous," and open it to anyone in the Obama administration with a diploma from an elite university. If you have an Ivy League degree, you get to attend meetings at no charge. And if you're from Harvard...well, you're large and in charge of the meetings.

Of course, don't expect the meetings to accomplish much. Generally, self-anointed smart people succeed largely in making themselves comfortable at the expense of what the BP chairman recently described as "small people."

Witness the White House entertainment budget and growth in government salaries. The people who tell you how smart they are talk and eat, talk and meet, talk and travel, talk and party...you get the picture. They do not do. Doing is for "small" people; transformation is for brilliant people.

Meanwhile, we small people have our lives turned upside-down when others transform based on what elite-stamped smart people think. This is what happens when hubris is institutionalized and self-styled elites -- what David Brooks of the New York Times calls the "educated class" -- achieve critical mass in government, as they have in Obama's Washington.

Barack Oabama specifically set out to "fundamentally transform" the United States, using what William Kristol of the Weekly Standard describes as "the government schemes of pointy-headed intellectuals" to re-engineer a nation he views as foundationally flawed.

[missnry]

Obama flunked lunch at Harvard! America is seeing the effects of affirmative action in a supreme way right now.

[Vaduz]

Of course, don’t expect the meetings to accomplish much Obama&Co. are old school socialists idiots on the march.

[SES1066]

Just to add some high-flamability fluid to this polemic; If Ms. Kagan wins her nomination to the Supremes, it will be completely composed of 2 school graduates, Harvard and Yale. Not saying that I think any the less of Roberts & Co., but I dislike such concentration of graduates.

[libertylover]

Ivy League-educated administration officials offer us warmed-over Chinese and Soviet communism, which resulted in the murder of more than 100 million. They are pushing us into the centralized health care model drawn from some of the world's worst medical care. And their economic prescriptions have underlined some of the most soul-numbing poverty the world has seen.

This pretty much sums it up.

[Jacquerie]

Last Fall, I met a ‘68 Harvard Law grad.

There was no doubt that given the power, his people would happily march every freeper off to the rice fields.