"They have gone to some great schools and they are intellectually smart, but he does not have wise people around him ... He has listened to smart people but nobody who has real wisdom," Perry said."
September 15, 2011: Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Resigns Over Global Warming Dr. Ivar Giaever, a former professor with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the 1973 winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, abruptly announced his resignation Tuesday, Sept. 13, from the premier physics society in disgust over its officially stated policy that "global warming is occurring."
Look out CW, the bashbots are waking up about now.
perry is a curve ball that the media has yet to understand.
I could engrave everything that Ezra Klein knows about science on the head of a pin and still have room for the complete texts of War and Peace, Gone with the Wind, the Bible, and the Oxford English Dictionary (Unabridged Edition), including supplements.
I just don’t like the MSM saying anything nice about my candidate. It’s almost like they are trying to be a mush. I can’t have this!
“It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist. Anyone who has the faintest doubt that this is so should force himself to read the ClimateGate documents, which lay it bare. (Montford’s book organizes the facts very well.) I don’t believe that any real physicist, nay scientist, can read that stuff without revulsion. I would almost make that revulsion a definition of the word scientist.”
“I want no part of it, so please accept my resignation. APS no longer represents me, but I hope we are still friends.
Hal”
Harold Lewis, Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, former Chairman; Former member Defense Science Board, chmn of Technology panel; Chairman DSB study on Nuclear Winter; Former member Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards; Former member, President’s Nuclear Safety Oversight Committee; Chairman APS study on Nuclear Reactor Safety Chairman Risk Assessment Review Group; Co-founder and former Chairman of JASON; Former member USAF Scientific Advisory Board; Served in US Navy in WW II; books: Technological Risk (about, surprise, technological risk) and Why Flip a Coin (about decision making)
“Perry continued on the intellect theme, explaining why he thinks it’s a problem that many of Obama’s advisers come from academia.
“They have gone to some great schools and they are intellectually smart, but he does not have wise people around him ... He has listened to smart people but nobody who has real wisdom,” Perry said.”
The above is an excellent analysis on Gov. Perry’s part....and reflects what many of us have been saying for some time.
You don't have to have a PhD from Harvard to understand that statement!!
Although I'd question how "smart" some of those people really are, myself, and I've never bought the claim that Obama is "smart" either.
“...Carney invited political scientists into Perry’s 2006 gubernatorial reelection bid. He allowed them to create, in effect, a laboratory for experiments testing different forms of campaigning. “
I thought Romney was a skillful political operator but after reading that, I am pretty sure Perry will win this thing.
`Mexican standoff’: Perry doesn’t think we can return millions of Mexican cooks, while the liberals think we can actually lower the Earth’s temperature by eating less Mexican food ...
On second thought, maybe they’re both right.
CW, I went to the actual article and read the entire thing. It was really interesting to see how Rick Perry brought in political scientists who would challenge traditional politics, and it was even more interesting to see the guts Rick Perry exhibited to follow their innovative campaigning suggestions. It will be refreshing to see no more “politics as usual”.
The garbage global warming nonsense the author tried to compare with the use of innovative political changes never made it to first base though.
Thanks for the article!