11-21-2008, 10:44 PM
swampy wrote:
There's a difference between sense and horse sense. Some of the dumbest people I've ever known had degrees from prestigious Ivy League schools.
I'm not sure you're qualified to make that judgement, based on the utter fiction you often post here as fact. In any case, except for those placed in and coddled through Ivy League schools based on their connections (GWB being one of them), your point is one of those typical BS stereotypes often thrown out by Joe Six-Pack types to denigrate those who are smarter than them. You have no concept of the amount of hard work and brainpower it takes to successfully get through an Ivy League school.
swampy wrote: My point being that many of these "elite" have no way of relating to what it's like in the "real world" so I'm not impressed with the so called educational credentials.
That's nonsense. They are only "elite" in terms of their intelligence. Obama and most of his appointees are "pull themselves up by their bootstraps" types who have lived their lives in the real world. The type of "elite" you are talking about is for the most part a description of the leading republicans. The Bushes are the "elite of the elite" in this regard, having come into their fortunes and careers based on their inheritances and connections derived from an isolated and insanely rich dynasty of Bushes.