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In reply to the discussion: Two Things I Will Remember GH Bush for: 1) his Eternal Hoax on the Public and 2) how he conceals it [View all]anobserver2
(923 posts)I appreciate your reply. I think you raise good points, chief among them, that you really don't want a person in a position of power who could be blackmailed by others ( "lies make leverage" ). I agree with you.
But here are three points I have thought about, and perhaps deserve consideration:
1) Yale never complained. If the Ivy League school which allegedly issued a degree is mum on the matter, how can the CIA raise the issue years later? It makes it appear that: Yale was covering up. Does the CIA, which I have recently read recruits from Yale, want to make Yale look bad?
Also bear in mind this background: GH Bush was admitted as a legacy. In addition to his father, his grandfather and uncle went to Yale. So, no matter how much of a disaster he may have been as a student, he was going to: Yale.
However, over the years, it seems to me that Yale and its legacy policy changed, and Yale would no longer accept legacy admits who could not handle the work - a case in point being Jeb Bush. (The Boston Globe did a big article on Jeb Bush's high school years at a private high school, published in Feb 2015, and it is quite obvious from that article, wherein Jeb Bush was interviewed and did not dispute the claims made, that he was a disaster in high school in terms of academics. He was almost expelled for: "low grades." )
So, while Yale was willing to admit legacy admits in GH Bush's time - no matter how ill prepared the legacy may have been -- it seems to me, in my opinion, by the 1970's, this was no longer the case at Yale.
2) With Yale not complaining, how often does the government really complain when it discovers a govt employee has faked a degree? Maybe to our govt it is just not a big deal -- whereas in the private sector, it IS a big deal - and the person who fakes a degree is outed and ousted.
I read somewhere that hundreds or thousands of govt employees are known to have "degrees" from: diploma mills. These are fake degrees that are known to be fake, from fake institutions, etc. I was shocked when I read about this. Maybe it was all "fake news." I don't know. But I know that I thought: Gosh, it appears one can use a fake degree anywhere in our government - and obtain taxpayer dollars in salary. No big deal.
3) There was another point I wanted to make but I will post it later.