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. It's the graduate degrees

artappraiser — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 19:47:40 +0000

In reply to As a junior, I believe, but

It's the graduate degrees where you really have to perform, period.

I so agree with this, it's one of my favorite points. Partly because I myself was a perfect example: a hard working undergrad (and high school) student with excellent grades and I didn't have a clue until challenged in grad school. After hiring quite a few college students as temp workers over the last couple years, nothing changed my opinion on this front. If anything, undergrads at Ivy League and other more prestigious schools are more clueless than those from lesser schools.

As a junior, I believe, but

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 19:21:53 +0000

In reply to Trump attended Fordham

As a junior, I believe, but same thing - an undergrad degree with unremarkable grades doesn't make you a genius, whatever school, and getting through only 2 years of a tougher school less impressive than 4 years. It's the graduate degrees where you really have to perform, period. Or almost period - I think MIT and CalTech and such have some bizarre weird & challenging engineering creation requirements at undergrad level, etc. But still, more self-serving pat-himself-on-the-back stuff from the burnt squash man.

Since you have no evidence to

rmrd0000 — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 15:27:46 +0000

In reply to Clearly , I'm a slow learner

Since you have no evidence to support your hopes, you might fail back on advising what Democrats need to do. Trump supporters are willing to stand by while Trump attacks minorities, LGBTQ,, and women, Trump voters may be expressing frustrations about the economy, but minorities, LGBTQ, and women suffer economically. For the most- part people who did not vote for Trump speak out when minorities, and others are attacked. Trump voters say nothing. Nicholas Kristof tells us that Trump voters are not the enemy. He identifies with the plight of Trump voters, but at least in his op-ed glosses over the harm felt by minorities and others. Cornell Belcher points out that pit will be hard to convert the Trump supporter.

Kristof ( as noted in the "In The News" section

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/opinion/even-if-trump-is-the-enemy-hi...

Cornell Belcher

http://www.salon.com/2017/02/20/obama-pollster-cornell-belcher-on-the-fa...

Trump attended Fordham

rmrd0000 — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 15:16:25 +0000

In reply to A business education, even

Trump attended Fordham University and transferred to University of Pennsylvania as a senior. He got an undergraduate degree from Wharton, not an MBA.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/wharton-donald-trump_us_57b2371be4b0...

A business education, even

ocean-kat — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 05:20:07 +0000

In reply to Clearly , I'm a slow learner

A business education, even from Wharton, doesn't give me much faith in Ivanka's ability to think or the extent of her knowledge outside her career as a model and manager of a fashion line. Aside from what Ivanka believes or plans you believe that she has the ability to manipulate or control her father. I've seen no evidence of that. She's always seem pretty sycophantic to him, which is what he seems to want from everyone.

Clearly , I'm a slow learner

Flavius — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 02:46:59 +0000

In reply to The only dupes were those who

Clearly , I'm a slow learner since I still believe Ivanka and her husband are too smart and too concerned about their own children not to have a plan to maneuver Ivanka's father away from his no-nothing stance on global warming.

Apart from GW , haven't a clue what the handsome pair think about mining waste and the Dakota pipeline.

Unless Ivanka is a 21st century Goneril chances are that the more her father is attacked the more likely she'll support him.

Yes, 100 times.

Peter M Schwartz — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 01:55:17 +0000

In reply to We don't have time for

Yes, 100 times.

The only dupes were those who

rmrd0000 — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 20:31:33 +0000

In reply to Liberal dupes of the Dagblog

The only dupes were those who suggested that Ivanka would convince Trump not to place an anti-environmentalist in charge of the EPA, not to dump mining waste in waterways, and restart the Dakota pipeline. Those who held such beliefs might stop and reflect before providing advice on how to move forward. Their instincts seems off-kilter.

Liberal dupes of the Dagblog

Flavius — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 15:53:50 +0000

In reply to Jesus, 7 of his cult-mates

Liberal dupes of the Dagblog unite! We have nothing to lose but the argument.

Far and away my chief concern

Flavius — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 15:45:36 +0000

In reply to Flavius, I appreciate the

Far and away my chief concern is that we rigorously distinguish between being "charged" and being

"guilty". Particularly when dealing with those who are themselves unappealing, are accused of seriously

bad sounding crimes (like the Central Park 5), or just with whom we are politically at odds like Trump's cabinet choices.

It's going to be a long 4 years and we're going to need whatever protection the laws give us.