Who do liberals trust more?

Question

Bush:
Bachelor from Yale and MBA from Harvard

or

Bush's critics:
Michael Moore - High school graduate
Sean Penn - High school graduate
Barbra Streisand - High school graduate
Natalie Maines - High school graduate/college dropout
George Clooney - High school graduate/college dropout

Answer 1

Great call, like I said before. they are just jealous that a Texan made it.



MUAHAHAHAHAHHAHA

Answer 2

Bush failed Government twice at Yale. He couldn't have gotten into Yale on a prayer without his daddy's checkbook. Everybody knows that. Alumni pressure. I am taking AP Gov & Politics in school right now. I am carrying a 93% in that class. Last time I checked, that's an A. If you look at it logically, I am smarter than the President. I mean, we are studying the same topics and authors...Locke, Madison, Burke, Mill, Dewey.....the 19th century theorists. The fathers of modern day politics.

You also seemed to be very picky in choosing your Bush critics....
Al Franken is a Harvard fellow, not a professor, but on staff
Barack Obama graduated from Harvard Law with HONORS
Bill Gates pratically created modern day technology. Just think, without him you couldn't post your rants here.

Answer 3

Why shouldn't someone trust Barbra Streisand as much as a PhD climatologist with 20 years of field experience? Don't you know that we live in an era where legitimate credentials are not only considered superfluous, but are actually looked upon with distrust?

Want to know about an important topic? Don't read boring books, just watch a Michael Moore movie, and poof! You're an instant expert, and you've been provided with pre-packaged sound bites you can use to impress your friends.

We don't need legitimate academic achievement anymore because everyone has a right to their opinion. Telling someone they aren't qualified to comment on a topic is so... exclusionary. Won't it hurt people's delicate egos to be told they actually need to study before claiming knowledge in a field of study?

Teens in high school and college want to imagine themselves as instant experts in everything. Nowadays, they don't have the patience to really research an issue and become a legitimate expert, and Liberalism is a great escape. You don't need real facts, you just need to present an issue cloyingly cloaked in words like "fair", "equitable", "just", and "compassionate". Libs just eat this stuff up.

Young people believe they have all the answers, but are often still thinking at the 8th grade level in terms of politics, and what is reasonable, fair, and feasible.

Just as the Khmer Rouge was doomed to fail because it was run by ignorant, reckless teens who didn't value the real expertise of the truly educated people in Cambodian society, the Liberals are poised for failure because they rely on the opinions of people who have no credentials.

Think of it this way: when you're flying across the Atlantic at 35,000 feet, isn't it comforting to know the pilot didn't just read a magazine article on how to fly a plaine?

Answer 4

Bush critics ... why? they have no motive to lie

... but to say I trust everything these people say isn't true ... I sift through the BS just like everyone else

as a good man put it: "To comfort the afficted and affict the comfortable"

Thomas Jefferson was a realist.That's why he also maintained that if there was one thing in the Constitution that could never be sacrificed, it was freedom of the press, so that there would always be an effective whistle-blower that could not be silenced. Is it working?

Answer 5

The premise of this question is absurd, it's silly to generalize or make stereotypical comments. Trust is a relative word and on a personal basis, it doesn't really apply to celebrities I don't know personally.

Bush may have some fancy degrees, but he is a surprisingly incurious and unworldly man who is incredibly ignorant and ill informed about the world and other cultures. He certainly didn't make full advantage of his Ivy League education to "enlighten" himself.

On the other hand, you can be well read and informed about the world even if you don't have a fancy degree, if you are engaged and interested in world affairs, public policy, and the like. And IMO, these celebrities that you so disdain because of their lack of degrees are 10x more informed about public policy and world affairs than our President.

Judge a person by what he or she says and does, not necessarily by what educational level they've achieved. And it's a sad state when a president who had the best educational opportunities fails to use it constructively.

Answer 6

The masses are just under educated and it appears at yahoo there are people around the world who use this format to spread misinformation that the ignorant believe.

Answer 7

Liberals trust We The People. That's why we wrote those words into the Constitution after we overthrew the conservatives of the day. We The People own our government.

As for education, I personally don't put much weight in a sheepskin (though to be fair, I have a pair myself). Experience and character count far more.

Answer 8

Hey allie

How about Bill Clinton?

Chanting Ho Chi Minh, Ho Chi Minh back in the 60's in England going to school on the U.S.'s dime, basically supporting a communist dictator?

Look at the libs responses. Any other time they would be saying how much MORE educated they are over cons.
Now they aren't?

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!

Answer 9

Fancy degrees do not an educated person make. I am college educated myself and work in a college. I can tell you that the more education someone has, the less common sense they retain. It's like all that learning chases out the common sense and leaves just the learning. That's great for some things, not for all.

Answer 10

You make an excellent point.

It shows that you DONT NEED TO GO to an ivy league school to get the best education in the country.

Just look at Bush, how he embarass himself in public with his inept public-speaking skills which is a prerequisite skill for a president. He certainly proves that he is not very bright in the brain dept.

Fool me .. Fool ... Fool me .... .. ... err.

Save your money by not sending YOUR kids to those schools, there are better schools out there.

Answer 11

I would suppose a liberal would not trust either of them_from both of the groups you mention_since, I truly believe most liberals trust their instincts mostly. And many of the times they are right on the money! Is it because being "liberal"_not to confuse this with "libertine"_have made them live life more deeply, such as by engaging all and everyone in debate, have open mind, etc.

I think that by not shunning anyone, the liberals, get to have firsthand knowledge of the real world around them. They get to probably have a better understanding of the hopelessness of many, since they "mingle" with everyone, including homeless, ex convicts who've paid their dues to society. The unwed mothers who probably did not make it a choice to be such. The undocumented workers, whom suddenly everyone finds to have "broken the law".

In few words I think liberals can well fence for themselves.