Try getting a juris doctor of law look at that accomplishment; or a masters in business at the same tiime. I am willing to bet you have neither! It is amazing how the fly swatter freepers just dismiss accomplishments like this when they could not hold a candle to Romney. So predictable.
Then Romney has three degrees, not eight. I said nothing about his three real degrees, just expressing my contempt at the whole idea of honorary degrees.
Romney is a smart guy and I hope he wins (faute de mieux), but he is no intellectual. In this is is like most every American politician — no classical education or exposure to the liberal arts, and therefore not an educated man but a mere technocrat: a muddled thinker with no philosophical core and no systematic grasp of logic or rhetoric. It leads to an unprincipled, pragmatist, incoherent, and sentimental approach to the world entirely in keeping with one who would point to honorary degrees as an academic attainment.
I could buy five Ph.D.s on line before lunch, every bit as notable as Gov. Romney’s.
Romney’s getting his J.D. and MBA degrees simultaneously from Harvard (and I assume while married with at least one child) is an amazing accomplishment. Why clutter that with honorary Ph.D.s? The point of those posts was that the ‘honorary Ph.D.s’ take away from the earned degrees, if merit as between the two candidates is what is being compared.
Kid most of the FReepers could have got 2 degrees at the one time if we didnt have to work our way through college...
Your Wee Willie didnt work a day while he was in college...
nor did his wife have to work...
I worked, kept house, raised children and helped my husband who was also in college full time and working..
and thought nothing of it...
everyone I knew in college was doing the same...