So here's the message Palin is sending on behalf of the rest of us (the down-market masses Dems love at election time and ignore once the voting's done): The rule of the snobs is over. It's time to give one of us a chance to lead.
Now who's "us", exactly ? Those that haven't attended college but who don't need any thing between their ears beyond "le bon sens paysan"? We're in good shape.
Let's think of the bon sens paysan, Pepe. The surge was cooked up by a couple schmucks went to West Point, Fordham, and some shit in NC while all the wiseasses in Harvard Square go to, uh, Harvard. Who was right on this one, baby? And even after it's working the Harvard illiterati are denying it.
Some schools have plenty books, yeah, and teach physics and math better than anywhere. But those same places are where the soft stuff is stupidest and what they do is indoctrinate frauds.
We've been around and around with this one for a while now. Couple of points, one mo' time.
(1) Of course, Ike's big thing before the Presidency was being Supreme Commander, Europe. But, how do you get from here to there? A stint at an Ivy is not a bad way to transition -- maybe Petraeus should follow this model, if he wants to move up at some point? (Speaking of which, don't you think he'd be more qualified for the VP slot than anyone running now? I do.)
(2) At least one of the Ivies, and at least 60 years ago, had the gumption to put a real war hero in charge. How many Podunk U's done that?
Pres of Columbia =/= janitor. Of course, he could have gone on Wall Street, or something, but he chose to so something more elevated. At any rate, I do think it was good a good move for him to do that.
By the way, while Pres of Columbia, Ike took a leave absence, to take care of a little side job: Never the most engaged of presidents, in December 1950 he took a leave of absence from Columbia to become the first supreme commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). He retired from active duty in 1952, but not from the Columbia presidency, to campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.
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Now there's a guy that knows how to jerk off! Mossad and Palin! Whoa!
Go ahead, campaign strategists: Mock Americans who go to church and actually pray.
Ok.
Our country can't afford another one of these clowns. Harvard isn't the answer - Harvard's the problem.
Yup, dem payple, dem's too ejacated. Dass da problem: dem books' bad fer ya.
Pol Pot's philospohy before the implementation. The triumph of the ignoramus.
So here's the message Palin is sending on behalf of the rest of us (the down-market masses Dems love at election time and ignore once the voting's done): The rule of the snobs is over. It's time to give one of us a chance to lead.
Now who's "us", exactly ? Those that haven't attended college but who don't need any thing between their ears beyond "le bon sens paysan"? We're in good shape.
Let's think of the bon sens paysan, Pepe. The surge was cooked up by a couple schmucks went to West Point, Fordham, and some shit in NC while all the wiseasses in Harvard Square go to, uh, Harvard. Who was right on this one, baby? And even after it's working the Harvard illiterati are denying it.
Some schools have plenty books, yeah, and teach physics and math better than anywhere. But those same places are where the soft stuff is stupidest and what they do is indoctrinate frauds.
You should know this having gone to UCB.
The question isn't whether the "educated" make mistakes or not. It's whether the rubes would do a better job.
Sometimes, yes. Depends what the job is. By the way, what University did Napoleon attend?
Napo? He lost every guerre he started. He must've gone to Columbia with Zbig and Hussein.
Hey, hey, hey -- you keep forgetting Ike was Pres of Columbia.
Right AI. That's the experience he had that qualified him to be POTUS, not that skirmish with the French or whatever.
We've been around and around with this one for a while now. Couple of points, one mo' time.
(1) Of course, Ike's big thing before the Presidency was being Supreme Commander, Europe. But, how do you get from here to there? A stint at an Ivy is not a bad way to transition -- maybe Petraeus should follow this model, if he wants to move up at some point? (Speaking of which, don't you think he'd be more qualified for the VP slot than anyone running now? I do.)
(2) At least one of the Ivies, and at least 60 years ago, had the gumption to put a real war hero in charge. How many Podunk U's done that?
By the same logic, AI, it would've done Ike some good to take a janitorial position between Sup Cmdr Forces Europe and POTUS.
Pres of Columbia =/= janitor. Of course, he could have gone on Wall Street, or something, but he chose to so something more elevated. At any rate, I do think it was good a good move for him to do that.
By the way, while Pres of Columbia, Ike took a leave absence, to take care of a little side job:
Never the most engaged of presidents, in December 1950 he took a leave of absence from Columbia to become the first supreme commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). He retired from active duty in 1952, but not from the Columbia presidency, to campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.
What's Bollinger doing these days compared to Gates? Just askin'.
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