Why has Jeb Bush's college graduation year been omitted by the media for at least 30 years now?

[muriel_volestrangler]

93. You really don't understand how normal people talk, do you?

When they mention a degree, they do not feel bound to find out a month or a year for it, and, even if they know that, they don't think they have to mention it.

I think that's your problem - you can't really imagine writing something so that people want to read it. You can only see it as a list of facts that has to be included for someone to check up on decades later.

From your post before that:

"Do you think maybe the alumni magazine should have disclosed that his "employer" was actually a family friend?"

No. Why on earth would they? It's an ad in the magazine saying "we employ these alumni, and we're proud of it". It's to encourage alumni to apply for jobs there, and give them confidence they'll get a good career. Do you really think that it's up to a magazine editor to vet the people featured in an ad for how well they know the head of the company they work for? You assume all the people in the ad are on good terms with the company anyway, otherwise they wouldn't have been put in the ad.

The point is that if your idea that Bush didn't get a degree were true, then Bush wouldn't have agreed to his employers publishing it in the place where all the people who'd know it was a lie would see it. You've never been able to point to anyone who was at Austin saying that Bush didn't graduate. We know that he's been saying it for 40 years, right in front of the exact people who would know, and no one has ever said "that's not true".

All that's happening is you saying "I'm going to ignore the standard evidence we have that he graduated, say 'what if he didn't?' and then start threads on DU trying to make it look as if I've shown something". This thread is a massive waste of everyone's time. It belongs in Creative Speculation, though it may be too trivial for that.