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SoDesuKa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 12:28 AM Original message |
How'd Bush Get a Harvard MBA? |
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shraby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 12:30 AM Response to Original message |
1. Lotsa money works wonders. |
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Buddyblazon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 12:34 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Beat me to the punch.... |
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amitten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 12:38 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Love the Ralph picture...that's perfect!! n/t |
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PowerToThePeople (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 03:57 AM Response to Reply #1 |
15. Damn, I was gonna say "Big donnations by Daddy." n/t |
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Jack from Charlotte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 12:00 PM Response to Reply #1 |
33. Nobody flunks out of The Ivys....... |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 12:32 AM Response to Original message |
2. A Harvard MBA is about the most overrated degree that exists. |
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AllyCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 12:40 AM Response to Original message |
5. Daddy's money. |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 07:56 AM Response to Reply #5 |
26. It's called Affirmative Action for rich, spoiled white boys. |
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OrlandoGator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 12:40 AM Response to Original message |
6. Didn't one of his professors say he was memorably rude/ignorant in class? |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 12:45 AM Response to Original message |
7. Back then the program was brand new |
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carpetbagger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 12:58 AM Response to Reply #7 |
11. I remember hearing he got by because it was group work. |
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OrlandoGator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 07:07 AM Response to Reply #11 |
21. Most MBA programs are heavy in group work. |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 11:36 AM Response to Reply #21 |
31. It's my impression there're two 'schools of thought' on that. |
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mestup (756 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 12:51 AM Response to Original message |
8. Remark he made about Harvard Bidness School |
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Erika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 01:00 AM Response to Reply #8 |
12. Bush was an elitist who got the education handed to him |
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ComerPerro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 07:59 AM Response to Reply #8 |
28. Yeah, I remember a similar moment. |
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Erika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 12:53 AM Response to Original message |
9. Yeah, Daddy paid for it |
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shanti (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 12:54 AM Response to Original message |
10. he paid for it, dad gummit! |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 01:18 AM Response to Original message |
13. His daddy was a big-shot with connections |
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tenshi816 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 06:32 AM Response to Reply #13 |
16. I thought that at the time Junior was at Harvard, |
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moondust (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 03:07 AM Response to Original message |
14. Legacy. |
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Skidmore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 06:35 AM Response to Original message |
17. Poppy bought it for him and he learned one multisyllabic word |
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henslee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 06:40 AM Response to Original message |
18. I just discovered an old friend went back for a Havard MBA and he |
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no_hypocrisy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 07:01 AM Response to Original message |
19. Be grateful that his application was turned down by the University |
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Kickin_Donkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 07:06 AM Response to Original message |
20. It's called white man's affirmative action ... |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 07:13 AM Response to Original message |
22. Very rich people always pretty much always get a degree |
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AllyCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 11:29 AM Response to Reply #22 |
29. Does that explain why Liz Cheney got through my school? |
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WilliamPitt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 07:48 AM Response to Original message |
23. The hardest thing about harvard |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 11:45 AM Response to Reply #23 |
32. Exactly. It also seems to be an 'accomplishment' few are able to overcome |
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Bridget Burke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 07:53 AM Response to Original message |
24. Connections & money got him in. |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 07:54 AM Response to Original message |
25. i like that line of: tina sabatini in 'the freshman' as to clark's grade.. |
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ComerPerro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 07:58 AM Response to Original message |
27. Simple answer is $$$$. But I know what you are really saying, so I |
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AllyCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 11:30 AM Response to Reply #27 |
30. It was this fact alone in 1999/2000 that made me believe Bush* would |
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ComerPerro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 12:01 PM Response to Reply #30 |
34. Me too. Back then, I just thought he was a joke |
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AllyCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 12:31 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. They didn't nt |
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ComerPerro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 02:06 PM Response to Reply #35 |
38. Enough of them did to make the fraud look legitimate |
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AllyCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 02:09 PM Response to Reply #38 |
39. True, true... |
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xxqqqzme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 12:35 PM Response to Original message |
36. been wondering when the person they |
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lateo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 12:37 PM Response to Original message |
37. He got "Gentleman's Cs" according to one of his former teachers. |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 02:46 PM Response to Original message |
40. $$$$ and daddy's power |
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