Must you be a graduate of an Ivy League school to earn your bona fides as a smart person? Is it a requirement that you have great success in the private sector to demonstrate how smart and capable you are?
A nice column by Kathleen Parker on being smart.
Anyone who thinks Republicans are stupid is missing the point. What those dummies Bush and Perry have in common, other than having been Texas governors, pilots and cheerleaders (what is it with Texas?), is that they’re not stupid at all.
This doesn’t mean they’re right about everything or even most things. But they’re smart enough to know that most people in this country didn’t go to Ivy League colleges — or any college for that matter. Most haven’t led privileged lives of any sort, but nonetheless have unspoiled hearts and are willing to help any who would help themselves.
This is the essence of the so-called ordinary American. Self-reliant, individualistic, entrepreneurial, neighborly and strong. These people come in both Republican and Democratic flavors, though we’ve somehow lost sight of that in these hyperpartisan, sound-bite times.
Until someone emerges to remind Americans of who they are in a way that neither insults their intelligence nor condescends to their less-fortunate circumstances, smart money goes to the “stupid” politicians, who are dumb as foxes and happy as clams when their opponents misunderestimate them.
Pres GHW Bush and Pres GW Bush did go to Ivy League schools. Pres GW Bush went to Yale and got a MBA from Harvard.
And I like them anyways.
Posted by: DonM | Monday, September 19, 2011 at 09:43 AM