OT: Why Obama is Mum About Harvard

[patb]

[quote=drboom][quote=surveyor][quote=drboom][quote=surveyor]
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The nature and magnitude of Duke’s “mistakes” argue against being smart. If he was so bright he would have been a smidge less obvious, and I don’t think you can call a sustained pattern of corruption a “mistake”.

Anyway, House staffers voted Cunningham the prestigious “No Rocket Scientist” award in 2004, a year before the corruption story broke. Otnay ootay ightbray, according to those who worked with him. Yet he was a hot fighter pilot.

Next genius theory, please?[/quote]

I work around a bunch of test pilots, some are incredibly bright, well read,
lots of math background, lots of historical background,,,

Some just have a really good spatial awareness, and are otherwise ignorant hicks.

To be a good pilot you have to have a good 3D feel, you need to sense
what the vehicle state vector is and you need to sense what you can do to control it.

Look some real gibbering idiots in Pakistan fly F-16’s and we were selling
fighters to some real third world hellholes.

Does GWB have the same minimal skill set as some degenerate camel
jockey princeling in Saudi Arabia? Probably.

Does that make him on par with US Air Force standards? Nope.

And could he work in a more technically challenging field like
flight test? I doubt it.

Look, being a football player requires a broad quick set of reflexes,
some physical toughness and the hand eye coordination to toss and throw.
Does that make these guys bright? Usually not.

Sure some are scholar athletes, but most are monkeys in pads.

[drboom]

Pat, it would really help if you got the hang of the quoting markup. Put your followups after the ending [/quote] tag. The way you did it makes it look like I wrote some things I didn’t, that EconProf wrote what I did, and makes your additions hard to follow.

[drboom]

Pat, it would really help if you got the hang of the quoting markup. Put your followups after the ending [/quote] tag. The way you did it makes it look like I wrote some things I didn’t, that EconProf wrote what I did, and makes your additions hard to follow.

[drboom]

Pat, it would really help if you got the hang of the quoting markup. Put your followups after the ending [/quote] tag. The way you did it makes it look like I wrote some things I didn’t, that EconProf wrote what I did, and makes your additions hard to follow.

[drboom]

Pat, it would really help if you got the hang of the quoting markup. Put your followups after the ending [/quote] tag. The way you did it makes it look like I wrote some things I didn’t, that EconProf wrote what I did, and makes your additions hard to follow.

[drboom]

Pat, it would really help if you got the hang of the quoting markup. Put your followups after the ending [/quote] tag. The way you did it makes it look like I wrote some things I didn’t, that EconProf wrote what I did, and makes your additions hard to follow.

[EconProf]

Here are a couple of facts released by Treasury about two weeks ago in various sources.
This year will see a federal deficit of 1.84 trillion (note: historically Treasury usually underestimates deficits). This is over 4 times last year’s fiscal year deficit under Bush.
So while Bush was clearly a big spender who thereby did great harm to the conservative cause, his deficits pale next to what we are now in for.

[EconProf]

Here are a couple of facts released by Treasury about two weeks ago in various sources.
This year will see a federal deficit of 1.84 trillion (note: historically Treasury usually underestimates deficits). This is over 4 times last year’s fiscal year deficit under Bush.
So while Bush was clearly a big spender who thereby did great harm to the conservative cause, his deficits pale next to what we are now in for.

[EconProf]

Here are a couple of facts released by Treasury about two weeks ago in various sources.
This year will see a federal deficit of 1.84 trillion (note: historically Treasury usually underestimates deficits). This is over 4 times last year’s fiscal year deficit under Bush.
So while Bush was clearly a big spender who thereby did great harm to the conservative cause, his deficits pale next to what we are now in for.

[EconProf]

Here are a couple of facts released by Treasury about two weeks ago in various sources.
This year will see a federal deficit of 1.84 trillion (note: historically Treasury usually underestimates deficits). This is over 4 times last year’s fiscal year deficit under Bush.
So while Bush was clearly a big spender who thereby did great harm to the conservative cause, his deficits pale next to what we are now in for.

[EconProf]

Here are a couple of facts released by Treasury about two weeks ago in various sources.
This year will see a federal deficit of 1.84 trillion (note: historically Treasury usually underestimates deficits). This is over 4 times last year’s fiscal year deficit under Bush.
So while Bush was clearly a big spender who thereby did great harm to the conservative cause, his deficits pale next to what we are now in for.

[partypup]

[quote=EconProf]Here are a couple of facts released by Treasury about two weeks ago in various sources.
This year will see a federal deficit of 1.84 trillion (note: historically Treasury usually underestimates deficits). This is over 4 times last year’s fiscal year deficit under Bush.
So while Bush was clearly a big spender who thereby did great harm to the conservative cause, his deficits pale next to what we are now in for.
[/quote]

There is simply no historical precedent for the debt that Obama is generating now. We are in uncharted territory. The “I inherited this mess” defense will only go so far. It’s like inheriting a house from an aunt that is worth less than the mortgage on it, then going out and borrowing even more against the house. Sure, you inherited a dog, but your incompetence has turned the asset into an even bigger dog.

[partypup]

[quote=EconProf]Here are a couple of facts released by Treasury about two weeks ago in various sources.
This year will see a federal deficit of 1.84 trillion (note: historically Treasury usually underestimates deficits). This is over 4 times last year’s fiscal year deficit under Bush.
So while Bush was clearly a big spender who thereby did great harm to the conservative cause, his deficits pale next to what we are now in for.
[/quote]

There is simply no historical precedent for the debt that Obama is generating now. We are in uncharted territory. The “I inherited this mess” defense will only go so far. It’s like inheriting a house from an aunt that is worth less than the mortgage on it, then going out and borrowing even more against the house. Sure, you inherited a dog, but your incompetence has turned the asset into an even bigger dog.

[partypup]

[quote=EconProf]Here are a couple of facts released by Treasury about two weeks ago in various sources.
This year will see a federal deficit of 1.84 trillion (note: historically Treasury usually underestimates deficits). This is over 4 times last year’s fiscal year deficit under Bush.
So while Bush was clearly a big spender who thereby did great harm to the conservative cause, his deficits pale next to what we are now in for.
[/quote]

There is simply no historical precedent for the debt that Obama is generating now. We are in uncharted territory. The “I inherited this mess” defense will only go so far. It’s like inheriting a house from an aunt that is worth less than the mortgage on it, then going out and borrowing even more against the house. Sure, you inherited a dog, but your incompetence has turned the asset into an even bigger dog.

[partypup]

[quote=EconProf]Here are a couple of facts released by Treasury about two weeks ago in various sources.
This year will see a federal deficit of 1.84 trillion (note: historically Treasury usually underestimates deficits). This is over 4 times last year’s fiscal year deficit under Bush.
So while Bush was clearly a big spender who thereby did great harm to the conservative cause, his deficits pale next to what we are now in for.
[/quote]

There is simply no historical precedent for the debt that Obama is generating now. We are in uncharted territory. The “I inherited this mess” defense will only go so far. It’s like inheriting a house from an aunt that is worth less than the mortgage on it, then going out and borrowing even more against the house. Sure, you inherited a dog, but your incompetence has turned the asset into an even bigger dog.

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