No wonder she is so brilliant while being entertaining at the same time. A real refreshing change for the usually dull and factually void TV news. Also, so nice to see a woman who isn't slathered in tons of make-up, with the ever-present blond hair.
Yes, its nice to see a smart Brunette for a change. The blondes/makeup enthusiasts over at Fox aren't worth their weight in salt.
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You say her resume is impressive, but what has she done? From what I know all she did was graduate from an Ivy League school. We conservatives aren't impressed by that.
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share"You say her resume is impressive, but what has she done? From what I know all she did was graduate from an Ivy League school. We conservatives aren't impressed by that."
Do you have any idea how dumb you just made yourself sound?
She didn't go to an Ivy League school. She's an Armed Forces brat, graduated from Stanford, and got a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, where she earned a D.Phil. Her dissertation had something to do with AIDS among prisoners, I think. (I might be wrong.)
She picked up some good habits in the course of her education. She's a disciplined scholar, checks her facts, invariably cites her sources, and presents the information in a way that's both understandable and entertaining -- at least for those of us who aren't turned off by higher education.
I'm just thinking about it. Maybe Oxford is even WORSE than an Ivy League school. Think so?
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Are you responding to my post? I was being sarcastic and replying to a post by some guy who said that Rachel Maddow graduated from an Ivy League School and so what? "We conservatives aren't impressed by that." When I said that maybe Oxford was even WORSE than an Ivy League school, I only meant that, from the poster's point of view, Oxford may even have more cachet than an American university.
Her higher education is not a turn off for me, and some of my best friends are educated people. I have two PhDs, one from an Ivy League school and one from an experimental program in Palo Alto, and I've worked at places like UCSF and Princeton. I never intended to put her CV down.
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I don't understand it either. Maybe some of us associate higher education with interactional sensitivity, hesitation, subtlety, and nuance and think of these as feminine traits, unworthy of a real leader. However, they only seem to apply to liberals. It was perfectly okay for George W. Bush to be born in the small Texas town of New Haven, Connecticut, go to Philips Academy, Yale, and Harvard. He was never criticized for his academic background. (It was just never brought up, hidden away in the cellar as a shameful but undeniable fact.) I doubt that Woodrow Wilson, former president of Princeton, would have a prayer of a political career today.
shareBoth G. W. Bush & Barack Obama are Harvard and Yale graduates, proof that you can attend the finest universities and still be a complete nimrod.
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