[BaalChatzaf]

Here is Al Gore's report card. Notice his grade in natural sciences.

http://newsbusters.o...ciences-harvard

To think this blow-hard has the ever loving gall to make pronouncements on climate change or any other topic of natural science.

Ba'al Chatzaf

[Michael E. Marotta]

BaalChatzaf, on Mar 29 2009, 07:35 PM, said:

To think this blow-hard has the ever loving gall to make pronouncements on climate change or any other topic of natural science. -- Ba'al Chatzaf

Well, there are a number of ways to interpret the data. It might be said that Ivy League education does not prepare you to be president. It might also be the case -- as I advocate -- that schooling is wasted on the young: they should work; we all should work; then, go to college and university in mid-life with an accumulated nest-egg and a lifetime of realworld experience.

That theory is based on my own experience, perhaps different from yours, as I understand that physics and math are for the young .. though university education is designed to beat the creativity out of them. At the same time Al Gore and George Bush were doing poorly -- and Bill Clinton was on his way to be a Fulbright Scholar -- I was also doing poorly at a succession of schools. In April 2008, I graduated summa cum laude with a BS in criminology. I am working on a master's now. Standard fulltime enrollment for grad school is 9 credits; I'm going to ask for permission to carry 18. Not only is school easier these days (there is that) but I don't have the problem now that Al Gore and George Bush and I had in 1971 with beer, girls, etc. My daughter is grown and long gone. If I tell my wife that I'll be at the library til 11:00 PM, she doesn't wonder if I still love her.

So, maybe Al Gore learned a lot more science in the last 40 years. Doubtful, in his case.... but that's a separate assertion. As in the exemplar of former Presdient George W. Bush, I repeat the assertion that college doesn't prepare you to be President of the United State. What can?

As for Kennedy:
Jack, on the other hand, seemed somewhat less ambitious. He was active in student groups and sports and he worked hard in his history and government classes, though his grades remained only average.
http://www.jfklibrary.org/ Click on Historical Resources and drill down or google "John Kennedy Harvard grades."
JFK continued to make only lackluster grades–"gentleman's C's," as the expression went. He wrote occasionally for the Harvard Crimson, the campus newspaper, but had little involvement with campus politics ...
http://www.sparknote.../section2.rhtml

Like President Clinton, Herbert Hoover excelled in college.
Schoolhouse to White House here:
http://www.archives....choolhouse.html

Global warming disbeliever FREEMAN DYSON has only an honorary Sc.D. to cap his mere BA in math from Cambridge. (Before earning that degree, he invented operational research. So, there is that...)

[Selene]

EARTH DAY FOR AL GORE: BUSINESS AS USUAL

Saturday was Earth Day, when upstanding citizens were instructed to turn off all electronic appliances for one hour starting at 8:30 p.m. Some conservatives mocked the directive, turning on lights and appliances in defiance, but it turns out that a key lib did as well. Al Gore, mansion-dwelling denizen, decked out his driveway in floodlights and had a number of televisions running right in the middle of the hour, despite being a leading proponent of Earthly objectives. President of the Tennessee Center For Policy Research Drew Johnson wrote that the floodlights highlighted Gore?s ?gaudy trees? and that ?most of the windows were lit by the familiar blue-ish hue indicating that floor lamps and ceiling fixtures were off, but TV screens and computer monitors were hard at work.? Sounds like the kind of hard work Gore usually exerts when it comes time for him to follow his own directives on the environment.

[Reidy]

He's not much of a classicist either, having given a speech once to the effect that "e pluribus unum" means "out of one, many", an 18th-century endorsement of multiculturalism. At least Leo DiCaprio thinks he's an intellectual.

[Michael E. Marotta]

E plu...what?
"We can build a collective civic space large enough for all our separate identities, that we can be e pluribus unum -- out of one, many."
(Source: January 1994. From a Milwaukee speech to the Institute of World Affairs as quoted in Investor's Business Daily, October 25, 1996.)

That one and many more here:
http://www.gargaro.com/algore.html

and a few more here:
http://www.positivea...otes/scar_d.htm

This post has been edited by Michael E. Marotta: 01 April 2009 - 04:12 AM