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Spider Jerusalem

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11. You don't really need to know a lot of stuff, in fact. That's what advisers are for.

Mon Jan 5, 2015, 02:58 PM

Jan 2015

You DO probably need to know enough to be able to make informed executive decisions. Which isn't always easy; JFK's "best and brightest", McNamara and Bundy et al, were responsible for the debacle of Vietnam with the "domino theory"; Bush's foreign policy advisers were responsible for the mess of Iraq and Afghanistan. Which is probably the result of foreign policy and military policy formulated by ideologues with little to no room for dissent.

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"You have to know a lot of stuff" [View all] kpete Jan 2015 OP

Not really a tough threshold. Jackpine Radical Jan 2015 #1

Kinda like trying to stuff a pea with a pumpkin in his case. Tierra_y_Libertad Jan 2015 #2

Oh, come on, Rick Perry says �Running for the presidency�s not an IQ test,�, djean111 Jan 2015 #3

Didn't GW Bush prove that you don't have to know anything at all? world wide wally Jan 2015 #4

How Insulting! ProfessorGAC Jan 2015 #5

I'm not even so sure of that. He was working on that same pile of brush for 8 years world wide wally Jan 2015 #6

OK. Perhaps I Overestimated ProfessorGAC Jan 2015 #7

^ DUZY. nt TBF Jan 2015 #8

Unless you're a Bush Politicalboi Jan 2015 #9

Just remember your political platform. It's too easy when it's two words Victor_c3 Jan 2015 #10

You don't really need to know a lot of stuff, in fact. That's what advisers are for. Spider Jerusalem Jan 2015 #11

Like the president of Ubekibekibekistanstan NuclearDem Jan 2015 #12

Gee, you have to wonder how he got in medical school TexasMommaWithAHat Jan 2015 #13