Regardless of whether academic skill is a good predictor of presidential accomplishments, academic skill is what is supposedly required to get a graduate degree from a major University. Even if "W" had great presidential accomplishments, I doubt many would argue he has the academic skills expected of one with a graduate degree from Harvard.
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However I do believe GWB earned his u/grad history degree (from Yale, in '68, with a 2.35/4.00 grade point average and not a single A). The Harvard MBA was awarded in '75, which seems to predate GWB being famous; he was merely rich at the time.
'Splain to me what value can be placed on academic "achievement" if a man can earn these two qualifications through canonical methods and yet still be virtually incoherent, narrow-minded and egotistical to the point of appearing mentally deficient.
Well, an example of the relative utility of such connections, as compared to innate intelligence and ability.
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I suppose he wasn't "famous" in the Brittney Spears sense, but his fater had been in congress, an ambassador to the UN, cheif of something-or-other in the US mission to the RoC, chairman of the RNC, and was about to be appointed as director of the CIA. His grandfather was also a senator for 10 years. His great-grandfather was at one time president of the USGA. You've perhaps heard of the "Walker Cup"? Well that's what the "W" in GHWB and GWB stands for.
Frat boys like "W" don't have to learn anything to get degrees.
That was the point of the crack about him being an example of a "frat boy". An example of somebody with connections who is able to graduate with without actually learning anything or possessing any academic skills.
In many circles, frats are viewed as a way for the rich and connected to avoid actually learning anything or meeting anybody different than themselves while in college.
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