Posted on 01/13/2011 6:25:59 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
For the first time every I was not proud of being a American!
Obama poll number will go down in about a week!
It was like the Wellstone memorial!
For the first time ever I was not proud of being a American!
Obama poll number will go down in about a week!
It was like the Wellstone memorial!
If she runs, she will wipe the floor with Obama in the debates. When she debated Biden, she had just a few weeks to prepare to be unscripted on the national stage. She won. ;o)
“In fact, the last President to lack such an elite degree was Ronald Reagan – but he was kind of an exception. He already had wide name recognition as a Hollywood actor and even then he had to spend years building his political career in California, struggling long and hard to make it to the White House. Reagan was almost a septuagenarian when he first assumed office.”
I don’t know if Sarah wants to run, or not. In fact, I like the position she has now...as kingmaker and chief Obama rebutter.
However, she is an exception, too.
How many women have come as far, on their own, with such vitriol against her...and have been left, not only standing, but growing in power and driving the national debate as she has?
The letter was a parody, but I see the spineless GOP leadership that way.
Obama may have gone to an ivy league school but he falls way short in the pedigree department.
Really? It was a big fake, a put on, a sham. It wasn’t a real letter, so your damnation of anyone who “signed it” is fairly amusing.
Where does it say it’s a fake?
Just a point in fact..... GWB’s elite educational pedigree didn’t carry too much weight with the left did it? He was still considered stupid. One could be a liberal with a GED and work in a sewer and they would be considered smarter than a Ivy educated conservative.
It is so ludicrous the author, no doubt, didn’t think he had to.
Do you REALLY think that such a thing would be printed out on paper, that people really put on paper such satire of their actual thoughts and actions?
Only if they are trying to be funny. Do you think Bob Dole was trying to be funny, or do you assume that someone was trying to be funny at Bob Dole’s expense?
Really? You actually assumed such a thing was real?
Not only real but i didn’t see any thing funny about it.
That they would then actually SIGN IT (the “signatures” are just typed names), and then send it to Sarah Palin?
And then Sarah Palin sends it to a FReeper who then posts its gospel truth out to you?
Do you REALLY think that is the way it all went down?
And people think I am strange when I say that ANY image that is shopped (no matter how obviously shopped) should be identified as such before FReepers go off the deep end thinking it might be real!
Do you realize that when you post such a thing without attribution some of our less rational FReepers might assume it is real?
Hearts full of youth, hearts full of truth, six parts gin to one part vermouth.
I laugh at the idea that an Ivy League degree is necessary for a President of the United States. Having been there, I'd say that an Ivy League education is frequently out of touch with the real and practical world.
On the other hand, the out-of-classroom Ivy League experience was extraordinary. At the state universities and Harvard, there was plenty of drinking, drugs, and sex available, if that's what you wanted. However, the topics that students casually discussed in the Ivy League setting were wildly different than those discussed at state universities. Instead of football, cars, current movies, music, and television, and politics on a light level, conversations casually went to U.S. policy regarding Israel, recent scientific findings, history, or analysis of current events in much greater depth and detail.
As a Scoutmaster, I've always told youth that a college experience comes in three parts. The first is what you learn in the classroom. The second is what you learn about yourself as a person, as you mature and take responsibility for your actions and decisions without a parent or parents present. The third is what you learn from the experience - the famous guest speakers visiting campus, art and other cultural exhibits, and the various opportunities a university provides for learning outside the classroom, including things you learn from other students.
My personal Ivy League experience offered much greater opportunities to learn outside the classroom - university museums, cultural and artistic events, and, most importantly, "just shooting the breeze" conversations with other students. The opportunities were available at state universities, but not to the degree or quantity available at Harvard. Of course, that experience is also available at many outstanding universities outside of the Ivy League, public and private - Stanford and Virginia pop to mind.
For better or worse, that was simply my experience.
But do I have any concerns about a President simply because his or her college degree came from a state university or non-Ivy League school? Heck no. Intelligence, knowledge, ethics, and executive administration, among other presidential skills, aren't confined to those with degrees from any particular group of universities.
He was a Yale undergrad, but got an MBA from Harvard.
I know they just give them to any old moron, but he did go there on a legacy admission and pick one up that was laying about. ;)
Actually, George W. Bush's Harvard MBA is probably the most impressive accomplishment of all of those Ivy League degrees mentioned (and let's not forget that Bill Clinton didn't finish his Oxford program - allegedly due to a sexual assault scandal). Harvard Business School actually mandates that the professor give a "low pass" to the bottom 10% of students in each class he or she teaches, even if that bottom 10% scored a 90 (for example) in the class. As a student, if you accumulate a certain number of "low passes" (LPs, or 'loops'), you automatically flunk out. There's only one exam per semester, and it's graded anonymously based on a student number.
A significant percentage of student flunk out, because the low passes are cumulative from the first semester of the first year through graduation. Pressure is great - due to the suicide rate, there's a mental health professional available on campus 24/7/365.
I have plenty of friends who went through the joint program of Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School. Each tells me that the HBS experience was more intense and difficult.
I can only say that, after going through HBS, law school was a breeze. I felt as if I'd been through the fires of hell and law school was a backyard BBQ.
Understood. Unless things have changed, Harvard Business School's grading system is much more strict than that of the Law School.
Do you remember back in the day, when journalists somehow were able to obtain the academic records of politicians? If I remember correctly, GW's prep school and college scores were higher than Gore's or Kerry's. And, of course, Bush never flunked out of divinity school.
As Rush pointed out a long time ago, they have a very limited playbook.
Reagan was dumb. Bush was dumb. Palin is dumb.
The next conservative that comes down the line, what do you assume will be the general assessment of their intellectual capacity by the media?
Why, the next conservative will probably be stupid enough to think that our astronauts left a US flag on Mars; or that Guam will tip over if we station additional troops there; or think that the Declaration of Independence begins with "We the People . . ."; or that they speak Austrian in Austria and Mexican in Mexico; or that corpsman is pronounced "corpse-man"; or . . . wait . . . never mind.
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