And for applicability towards business, he has been fairly successfull. I will easily grant the rich fucktard that much. As a president, he proved himself an idiot several times.
Were she to be nominated as Surgeon General, I'd question her college degrees. She's got a law degree and is nominated as a judge.
Bill Gates dropped out of college and seems to have done well in business. Rick Wagoner has an MBA and 25 years in the auto industry but Obama thinks that he and Timmy Geitner are better suited to run GM.
Bill Gates Ah, yes, my field. Bill is notably brilliant, but will happily admit there are people smarter than him. And he knows it. So he pays them lots of money to work for him. Part of what made him what he is was his ability with computers, and the rest was his ability to deal with people. He could sell it like no one else, which is unusual for "geeks", now and then.
Rick Wagoner The head of GM when it lost lots and lots of money. Replaced by Fritz Henderson, who had been serving as GM's President and Chief Operating Officer. And yes, the principle that the government should get some say in what happens to it's money when auto executives come begging in their private jets is just about right.
And were he to offer some sort of basis for his commentary, I'd grant him the benefit. He is instead offering the usual Rovian politics to fight her nomination.
Please don't compare the joke that is an MBA with the real degrees that people earn. Imagine if your airline pilot came on the intercom and said "hi folks, I've never actually flown a plane before, but I have read the instruction manual!". Srsly. I've heard it said (I think in the programme I linked to above) that this isn't a financial crisis we're having, but a management crisis. There comes a problem when the people running the business have NFI how the business operates, but do have some swank theories on how a business *could* operate.
To be completely fair, managing a business is so absolutely, horrifically difficult that chances are no degree can prepare you for it. I will agree that an MBA degree is pretty worthless in general (and I have one), but I would stipulate that there is no possible degree program that can make someone a good manager, entrepreneur, or leader. Put simply, I don't think it's because MBA programs are turning out bad people, I think it's because people with MBAs think that the degree makes them a manager.
The truth is that good managers in the business community are a rare and precious resource, and they tend to be born far more than made.
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Were she to be nominated as Surgeon General, I'd question her college degrees. She's got a law degree and is nominated as a judge.
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Rick Wagoner The head of GM when it lost lots and lots of money. Replaced by Fritz Henderson, who had been serving as GM's President and Chief Operating Officer. And yes, the principle that the government should get some say in what happens to it's money when auto executives come begging in their private jets is just about right.
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Not the goal of education.
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I don't care if you subscribe to newspeak or not -that's still wrong. It's Racism with a capital R as well as Sexism with a capital S. Claiming that White Males are somehow inferior because of their sex and/or skin color is as abhorrent to me as someone saying that Black Women are inferior in the same way.
This Nation is running off the rails if this kind of thought process is what gets you into high office or the highest court of the land.
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The truth is that good managers in the business community are a rare and precious resource, and they tend to be born far more than made.
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