The Dismal Science

Re: Legacy

Don Schenk — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:44:20 GMT

Folgers:

I noticed Al Gore III had attended Harvard. I thought the era of admitting the stupid children of rich people ended about the time George W., John Kerry and Al Gore went to the Ivy League, but apparently the tradition continues.

Four years at Harvard, four driving/drinking/drugging arrests, a bogus job at a bogus magazine owned by a campaign contributor. Al Gore III even looks like an idiot.

For all the snide remarks about Dubya's intelligence, at Yale he had a higher GPA (by one point) than Kerry and went on to earn a Harvard MBA, while liveEarth preacher-man Al Gore II, son of a segregationist Senator, flunked out of Duke divinity School.

And the same media that before the 2000 elections just had to let us know that the Bush girls tried to buy a drink while still in college must have figured that al Gore III's under-age DUI in August 2000 was just more of the same. The media was exposing hypocrisy, you say? Unintentionally, I guess; after all, Tipper Gore was the one who wrote "How to Raise PG Kids".

Re: Legacy

Mujokan — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 05:52:57 GMT

"In Larry's case, we would need an international airport. Yale could use an international airport, Mr. Burns"

Re: Legacy

Folgers — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:12:50 GMT

I noticed Al Gore III had attended Harvard. I thought the era of admitting the stupid children of rich people ended about the time George W., John Kerry and Al Gore went to the Ivy League, but apparently the tradition continues.

Four years at Harvard, four driving/drinking/drugging arrests, a bogus job at a bogus magazine owned by a campaign contributor. Al Gore III even looks like an idiot.

school of hard knocks

OneTokeUnder — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:29:13 GMT

Not everyone in Congress attended the same college, let alone attended Yale, but they all do seem to have learned a thing or two from old Prescott Bush.

When we go to hang them, we should make sure that the room into which they're to drop is crooked, slanted, askew...just to make sure that not one among them has been denied a degree.

Re: Legacy

DKenner — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:27:59 GMT

While I certainly do not want to suggest that Dubya was admitted on the merits, I doubt that it's true that "thousands of dollars" from H.W and grandfather Bush swayed Yale's admissions process. More likely, Yale was attracted by the prestige of having the son of a former US Senator and a (prominent) sitting US Congressman at their university. The connections the university gained were probably more valuable than the actual funds. And, after all, rubbing elbows with The Next Generation of America's Leaders has always been one of the great attractions of attending an Ivy League university.

Legacy

Alabama Al — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:13:32 GMT

How do you think Dubya got into Yale University despite a prior, shall we say, lackluster academic record? That Dubya's father and grandfather were both notable alumni who over the years gave thousands of dollars to the august institution was surely irrelevant to the Yale admission decision process.