h/t susiemadrak.com for this one.
I read Frank Rich yesterday and he alluded to a similar thing and it gave me pause. But this article, from the WAPO is mind numbing.
But skeptics say Obama’s predilection for big thinkers with dazzling résumés carries risks, noting, for one, that several of President John F. Kennedy’s “best and brightest” led the country into the Vietnam War. Obama is to be credited, skeptics say, for bringing with him so few political acquaintances from Illinois. But, they say, his team reflects its own brand of insularity, drawing on the world that Obama entered as an undergraduate at Columbia and in which he later rose to eminence as president of the Harvard Law Review and as a law professor at the University of Chicago.
I get it, he should put the CEO’s of all the fortune 500 companies that have dazzled the country with their Brilliance and success? I mean, we go from an administration that riddled the Dept of Justice with lawyers from Regents University? We had a guy that was a horse judge run FEMA? And now, that damned liberal MSM is going to complain about Obama appointing…wait for it….smart people? Rhodes Scholars, MIT and Stanford Grads and others from Ivy League institutions? He should be appointing the CEO from Astra Zeneca to run the FDA?
jesus christ…I’m going to be sick reading this…continue on if you can. liberul media my ass
The Ivy-laced network taking hold in Washington is drawing scorn from many conservatives,
ohhhbooooo fucking hooooo.
buried all the way towards the bottom is this:
All agree that the picks reveal something about Obama, suggesting he will make decisions much as he did in the U.S. Senate — by bringing as many smart people into the room as possible and hearing them out. This contrasts with the style of President Bush, who played down his own Ivy League credentials and played up his mangled elocutions and the gentleman’s C’s he received at Yale and Harvard.
What a novel idea and remarkable way to want to run a country.
Bush’s first Treasury secretary, Paul H. O’Neill, went to Fresno State, Vice President Cheney dropped out of Yale before graduating from the University of Wyoming, and
strategist Karl Rove never finished college
. Dozens of administration members hail from Regent University, founded by Pat Robertson. And many of Bush’s hires were friends from Texas, such as former attorney general Alberto R. Gonzales, former White House counsel Harriet E. Miers and Education Secretary Margaret Spellings.
Astounding, but not really at the same time.