Yeah. Interestingly, a year before Dubya left office the GOP was *STILL* blaming all his problems on Bill Clinton — 7 years after Clinton had left office! But I guess reading calendars is hard and requires skills not taught in fundie home schools :twisted:.

Anyone who graduates with a degree in Art History is obviously more disadvantaged than anyone with an MD. Medical schools are controlled by the guild of former barbers and all of the positions in any program at the private Ivy League schools are subject to alumni preference, which outranks every other consideration [must think of the endowment], so even if she were the ‘single most disadvantaged student’ at the Harvard Medical School, she received advantages only available to a very limited number of wealthy white males. It would be highly unlikely that she was forced to open an office in a trailer in Appalachia.

Harvard is a private university subject to its own rules. She should complain to the trustees, not the rest of the US if she has a problem with the way Harvard does things. The government has only limited control in very restricted areas at private universities, like Harvard. At the end of January of 1993, Bill Clinton assumed office of President after 12 years of Reagan and Bush, so any problems she had were with Reagan and Bush policies, not Clinton policies.

In addition to maps, these people need calendars.

“The woman, who appeared to be white, added that “because of the color of my skin,” she was the “single most disadvantaged student” at Harvard.”

and this moron graduated Harvard Medical?

I’ll say it again…

It is no wonder the USA (and especially the education and medical systems) are totally FUBAR!

Then again… she will probably end up being another ‘Joe the plumber’. 😈

*shrug*

What’s the matter, Kryten, aren’t you aware that your boss is supposed to be as ignorant or more ignorant than you are? That’s the Republican way. It’s how the Shrubbery got in the White House. You can’t have people who know what they’re doing in charge. 😈

Have you seen this thread @ C&L (it mentions Warren)? I don’t think there is an adequate single word in English for it! I can think of a sentence with several however, none of which would be complementary in the least!

Supporter Complains to Ryan: ‘Educated People’ Are ‘Telling Me What to Do’

Seriously??! 😯 🙄

No wonder the USA is so FUBAR!

And when it comes to running a campaign, Obama is decidedly a master. He doesn’t make mistakes. He just doesn’t. And he runs a tight campaign. Everybody is on message, there are no freelancers. Well, except Joe Biden, but everybody pretty much just rolls their eyes and says “there’s Joe being Joe again!”, and I’m not sure how many of Joe’s “gaffes” really *are* freelancing, he may be a nicer Spiro Agnew (a.k.a. Nixon’s henchman who specialized in stabbing people in the back under orders from his boss), rather than the dumb likable goofball that he presents to the world…

So I guess we get four more years of things going to h*ll in a handbasket slowly, rather than quickly. Maybe that’s the best we can do right now. Sigh….

They have embraced the right-wing lint that flaked off the tip of the fringe. Their national security/foreign policy advisors are firmly stuck in the 1980s and have no desire to move on.

Actually, it depends on the Senator. John Ashcroft lost his Senate reelection to a guy who made the ultimate campaign error of dying before the election. Some incumbents can defeat themselves. Brown is a very likable person, so he is a tough opponent as long as the Republican Party doesn’t try to ‘help’ him. That said, she is obviously doing things right, especially peaking when she needs to. She connects to people because she understands their problems.

Obama can run an effective campaign, he’s just worthless at doing the job. He has that in common with the Shrubbery.

Of course, the same was true of Obama, but that was more a case of liking the style and overlooking the lack of, well, substance. In the 2008 campaign John Edwards’ health plan was eight pages of dense text. Hillary Clinton’s health care plan was at least twenty pages of detailed charts and graphs in addition to dense text. Obama’s health care plan? A couple of pages of vague generalizations and handwaving. Yet people call the plan passed by Congress “Obamacare” even though it more closely resembles the plan that Hillary Clinton ran on. So it goes.

That said, compared to Rmoney, Obama is the second coming of Eugene Debs. Which just shows how far to the right that Rmoney’s campaign has veered. The Rmoney/Rand campaign makes friggin’ Ronald Reagan look like a raving liberal, for cryin’ out loud. Which for those of us who were alive and politically aware during Reagan’s Presidency know, means they’re way past the end of the right-hand side of the scale and done fallen off clean into the loony bin.

John’s problem is going to be Ayn Rand Paul Ryan who is beloved by many wealthy whackos, so there won’t be the slam dunk that the Mittster had against the B team.

Yeah, Elizabeth Warren really frightens the gamblers because she knows the game inside and out, and has seen a lot of their books. After 4 years in the Senate she will be ready to do something else. For a first timer she is running a good solid campaign, and she can explain things to people as well as Bill Clinton does, something Zero has never mastered.