Posted on 11/24/2011 2:39:23 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
More back-handed praise I cannot imagine . . . and how much of the “facts” cited are exaggerations.
Reminds me of the title, “Killing Me Softly With Your Song”.
The “sex” scandals are extremely suspect a la Clarence Thomas. - Just wait; who ever the Republican establishment succeeds in getting nominated will be DESTROYED by the Obama juggernaut. Think not? Seen it too many times; and the gullible citizens fall for it every time. Every time. 4 more years of Obama looks unlikely now; but then so did 4 more years of the Clintons back in their day.
I would consider that going from top to bottom!
From experience... Engineers/scientist who know they can’t cut it go in management - or by extension into another field.
When you can put 'been there, done that' next to rocket scientist and bring home the bacon, that isn't a step down, imho.
More experience... I wouldn’t be so easily impressed with the degrees...
Or perhaps his people skills were just simply a strong point with him.
People, who tend to make great engineers tend to not do well in management because dealing with people is a different skill set than dealing with mechanics or formulas.
A lot of idiotic comments mixed in with some backhanded complements.
Cain was smart ~ he got out soon enough to begin a great second career.
Cain was in the navy!...not an engineer and not qualified to work at NASA!
I wouldn’t go that far either... More experience... I know a lot of really good managers who started out as engineers. I also now some that are worthless. It’s a case by case basis kind of thing...
Herman’s degrees and in math and computer science. I’ve worked with many in those fields and engineering. Many I wouldn’t trust to change the tire on my car, let alone be the President.
When I see big hay being made out of degrees etc., I view it with a bit of skepticism.
Remember - Jimmy Carter was a nuclear engineer.
Both in the article and on the thread.
On the other hand Cain was a math major. How dare you speak down to him.
Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer;
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.
— “Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot” by Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
What Gaffs has Cain done? Every one hes been correct on despite the media claiming it was a Gaff. A pause to collect thoughts when tired is not a gaff either.
I had an aquaintance who had a Master's degree in math and "didn't pass" a test to work for AT&T.
Some people with GED's did pass.
Go figure!
Odd statement.
What don't you tell us what Cain's position was with the Dept. of Navy? Sounds like he was an engineer to me.
And your comment about Cain not being qualified to work for NASA is just strange.
It isn't like he started a company...he was a manager of what others built.
There are thousands of people who have done more than Cain...and they aren't runing for POTUS.
He isn't prepared by any stretch of any reasonable imagination.
Why isn't the CEO of PIZZA HUT running for POTUS? It's 10 times bigger than Godfather's!
You didn't have to be a genius to pass it since your level of intellect wasn't what we were after ~ we wanted to know if it would be safe to let you on the workroom floor and not get chewed up by the big machinery they were planning to purchase.
The same test, for the most part, is still in use.
So, think about it ~ I wrote up a safety test that's seen the test of time. No doubt many applicants with doctorates failed that test. So did a whole bunch of IDIOTS who'd been turned into hamburger in the first 10 minutes.
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