Nothing better illustrates how the ideas of the university fail more than the presidency of former professor Barack Obama.
I wonder why they’re so reluctant to release the transcripts. By now, the myth of the highly intelligent Obama has been thoroughly shattered to all but the most loyal and self-deluding groupies, so I doubt they’re worried that people will see how average his grades were and how he relied on characteristics other than intelligence to get by.
I’m betting he was the beneficiary of a “gentleman’s C” on more than one occasion. I doubt anybody would really be surprised to find this is the case.
I figure there are two possibilities: 1) He’s worried that his failure in office, when combined with the exposure of his intellectual weakness will make people question affirmative action. Or 2) He is worried that people will see that, instead of going to college to get an actual education, he went to college as more of a leftist finishing school, taking nothing but a mixture of really easy and really leftist courses. I would be absolutely shocked if he took a mathematics course that was not absolutely required. I would bet heavily that he never took calculus.
The failure of his administration? It’s the failure of the ideas he learned in college.
Back in high-school, I was a republican. I remember all the ruckus over W’s college grads. The C’s he received. At the time I’d retort that these were C’s at Yale, not a little state school. In the end, it doesn’t really matter. C’s don’t make or break persons intelligence. and unless we’re going to start requiring a certain GPA for presidents, it won’t change.
I would be surprised if any of the current republican candidates had taken a calc course. Except Ron Paul, he probably does that for fun.
I’d be surprised if Romney didn’t take math. Very surprised. Although I’m voting Romney, I’m kind of holding my nose in so doing. I’m not saying it because I like the guy. He is, like about three hundred and ten million Americans, more competent than Obama.
You and every other republican. Romney is about the only one that stands a chance against obama, because Huntsman never had the name recognizability. I’m still half expecting Ron Paul to pull out and run as an independent, just to extend one final middle finger to them all. I’m pretty much going to vote for Obama again, mainly because I don’t care for the Make-America-Jesus-Land approach the republican party is touting once again.
Good point, I suppose being a corporate robot would require math. (Not so much value judgement as a dude-has-no-personality observation) Afterall, there’s a couple of reasons why nobody wants to vote for him.
I’d say more competent is, well, yet to be seen. At least I’d have liked for him to have had the balls to defend “Romneycare”. Or release his tax returns without looking like a fool.