wrote:

http://www.insidepolitics.org/heard/heard32300.html
Confidential college transcripts and test scores obtained by the Washington
Post reveal that neither presidential candidate, George W. Bush nor Al Gore,
were shining students during their college days at Yale and Harvard,
respectively. Although each earned respectable scores on the SAT college
admissions test (a total of 1355 of 1600 for Gore and 1206 for Bush),
neither did that well in their college courses. Both earned a mix of B and C
grades. Gore's lowest grade of D came in a natural sciences course, while
his top grades were an A in French and English, an A in Visual and
Environmental Studies, and an A- in Social Relations. Bush's lowest marks
were a 70 (of 100) in Sociology and a 71 in Economics, while his highest
scores were High Passes in History and Japanese.




Grades?

Sheesh.

Bush may have been clever in his youth, but decades of booze and drugs
did him in. He can barely read. He has no mind for details. He speaks
like an idiot, and can't piece together complex sentences.

Feh.

"Harry Krause" babbled:

Bush may have been clever in his youth, but decades of booze and drugs
did him in. He can barely read. He has no mind for details. He speaks
like an idiot, and can't piece together complex sentences.


Bah.

This comes from the old, dried up wanna-be boater that lives off his old
nurse/wife's stolen Zanax, and the cheapest booze he can find at the
all-night liquor store. If you stood Harry up in front of 20 people, he
would pee himself and drool.

Hey, if Harry can make up crap so can I.

Mine is less of a stretch.

Jack

"Jack Goff" wrote in message
. com...

"Harry Krause" babbled:

Bush may have been clever in his youth, but decades of booze and drugs
did him in. He can barely read. He has no mind for details. He speaks
like an idiot, and can't piece together complex sentences.


Bah.

This comes from the old, dried up wanna-be boater that lives off his old
nurse/wife's stolen Zanax, and the cheapest booze he can find at the
all-night liquor store. If you stood Harry up in front of 20 people, he
would pee himself and drool.

Hey, if Harry can make up crap so can I.

Mine is less of a stretch.

If polished speaking were a true sign of intelligence, news anchors around
the globe would all be rocket scientists.

Businesses would not function if the CEO of every corporation was involve
with every detail of daily business. Businesses that flourish are those
that the CEO underlings to handle the details.


Jack

"Paul Fritz" wrote in message
...

"Jack Goff" wrote in message
. com...

"Harry Krause" babbled:

Bush may have been clever in his youth, but decades of booze and
drugs
did him in. He can barely read. He has no mind for details. He
speaks
like an idiot, and can't piece together complex sentences.


Bah.

This comes from the old, dried up wanna-be boater that lives off his
old
nurse/wife's stolen Zanax, and the cheapest booze he can find at the
all-night liquor store. If you stood Harry up in front of 20 people,
he
would pee himself and drool.

Hey, if Harry can make up crap so can I.

Mine is less of a stretch.

If polished speaking were a true sign of intelligence, news anchors
around
the globe would all be rocket scientists.

Businesses would not function if the CEO of every corporation was
involve
with every detail of daily business. Businesses that flourish are those
that the CEO underlings to handle the details.

Good theory. But, the CEO has to be ready to behead an underling when
necessary, and with little or no warning.

"Doug Kanter" wrote:

Good theory. But, the CEO has to be ready to behead an underling when
necessary, and with little or no warning.


That fits your liberal definition of how business works. But rarely is it
that easy, or tightly defined. In business, we tend to try to give people
at least as much elbow room as you libs want to give *convicted* criminals.

Otherwise, you'd be out of a job in no time flat.

Jack

"Jack Goff" wrote in message
om...

"Doug Kanter" wrote:

Good theory. But, the CEO has to be ready to behead an underling when
necessary, and with little or no warning.


That fits your liberal definition of how business works. But rarely is it
that easy, or tightly defined. In business, we tend to try to give people
at least as much elbow room as you libs want to give *convicted*
criminals.

Otherwise, you'd be out of a job in no time flat.

Jack



The theory of "the buck stops here" is convenient, until it isn't. :-) Your
boy likes to dress up and play house and act like a big cheese, but that's
not leadership. Leadership would consist of few, if any verbal comments from
the White House about an issue like the prison scandal. The comments would
consist of people suddenly out of work.

"Paul Fritz" wrote in message
...


If polished speaking were a true sign of intelligence, news anchors
around
the globe would all be rocket scientists.

Businesses would not function if the CEO of every corporation was
involve
with every detail of daily business. Businesses that flourish are those
that the CEO underlings to handle the details.


Jack


Good points Jack.

It's amusing how many simplistic political watchers think, in a child-like
way, that the POTUS needs to be so "super smart." An effective POTUS of
course is intelligent. But sometimes the best leaders are not the very
"smartest" folks. Who thinks Jack Welch at GE was "smarter" than his

engineers? I read his book. He'll tell you he is not. Jimmy Carter is widely
believed to be our smartest modern prez. A very ineffective leader as we all
know (but a good man IMO). G. Washington was driven but not brilliant but an
excellent leader. Jefferson, the most brilliant of all, had a tumultuous
tenure, deeply polarizing the nation, yet a good prez. Clinton -undoubtedly
a very sharp mind, but a lousy leader who frittered away an economic boom
time and period of relative world peace, will be remembered for ejaculating
on his staff and tugging at his peckerwood in the oval office. He too
bitterly polarized the nation, but hey he was SMART. Some of the smartest
people you'll ever find are in the US University system. Most of those folks
are a mile deep and an inch wide, but many couldn't lead a cub scout troop
to Chucky Cheeze. Read Bob Woodward's book "The President at War." Extensive
interviews and I don't think Mr. Woodward would say GWB is stupid.



Stupid is as stupid does. Afghanistan is successful thus far. The economy is
coming back. Iraq is a disaster, but the jury is still out there - it's not
even half time yet.



If we can actually get those medieval nuts to govern themselves peacefully,
than Bush will come out looking like a winner. If we can't, he's in trouble.
If the economic rebound falters and Iraq can't be tamed, he's toast. A
second term is in jeopardy now, no doubt. But I'm amazed that Sen. Kerry was
the best the Democrats could come up with. A decent candidate could cream
Bush. Whatever happened to the Sam Nunn (D-GA) type of Democrat?



Kind regards - Zing

"Zing" wrote in message
...

Stupid is as stupid does. Afghanistan is successful thus far. The economy
is
coming back.

What??? Where did you hear that? And, in your own words, please describe
"the economy" of Afghanistan with a little bit of detail.

On Wed, 19 May 2004 13:12:35 +0000, Doug Kanter wrote:

"Zing" wrote in message
...

Stupid is as stupid does. Afghanistan is successful thus far. The
economy
is
coming back.

What??? Where did you hear that? And, in your own words, please describe
"the economy" of Afghanistan with a little bit of detail.

Well, the opium crop is doing quite well. I check the following link
periodically, and the situation has seemed to settle a little, but it is
still *far* from a success.

http://afghanistannews.net/

A little tidbit on the continuing prisoner abuse scandal:

http://paktribune.com/news/index.php...7 3ca79393cc9

"thunder" wrote in message
news
On Wed, 19 May 2004 13:12:35 +0000, Doug Kanter wrote:

"Zing" wrote in message
...

Stupid is as stupid does. Afghanistan is successful thus far. The
economy
is
coming back.

What??? Where did you hear that? And, in your own words, please describe
"the economy" of Afghanistan with a little bit of detail.

Well, the opium crop is doing quite well. I check the following link
periodically, and the situation has seemed to settle a little, but it is
still *far* from a success.

http://afghanistannews.net/

I was wondering if zing could say with a straight face that the economy's
doing well, when it's based on a drug which our gov't would stamp out
completely if it could.