Former Harvard Business School professor recalls Bush as a terrible student - New England Patriots Forums

***weswelker#83*** · 03-04-2008, 06:52 PM

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"But I always remember two types of students. One is the very excellent student, the type as a professor you feel honored to be working with. Someone with strong social values, compassion and intellect -- the very rare person you never forget. And then you remember students like George Bush, those who are totally the opposite."

http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feat...09/16/tsurumi/

Ladies and gentlemen , the president of U.S.A.

Holy Diver · 03-04-2008, 06:58 PM

The most inetresting thing I took away from "An Inconvienient Truth" is the fact that Al Gore listened and learned from his college professor about th econnections between CO2 levels and the global temperature of the Earth.

This man went on to be a Senator, VP and Nobel Prize winner.

I then started to visualize George Bush in college, Probably a prankster, drunk, who had a Sugar Daddy who could erase any f-up he had. I then imagined if he would have lost the 2000 election, would he still be persuing something that he believed was important to the future of mankind?

CERTAINLY not.

***PressCoverage*** · 03-04-2008, 07:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Holy Diver

The most inetresting thing I took away from "An Inconvienient Truth" is the fact that Al Gore listened and learned from his college professor about th econnections between CO2 levels and the global temperature of the Earth.

This man went on to be a Senator, VP and Nobel Prize winner.

I then started to visualize George Bush in college, Probably a prankster, drunk, who had a Sugar Daddy who could erase any f-up he had. I then imagined if he would have lost the 2000 election, would he still be persuing something that he believed was important to the future of mankind?

CERTAINLY not.

Amen.

He'd be like Spaulding on Caddy Shack.

***maverick4*** · 03-04-2008, 09:03 PM

APPALLING, and I don't see why this professor has any reason to lie.

Why didn't some paper cover this 8, or 4 years go!?!?

Wildo7 · 03-04-2008, 09:05 PM

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Originally Posted by maverick4

APPALLING, and I don't see why this professor has any reason to lie.

Why didn't some paper cover this 8, or 4 years go!?!?

You don't see any reason? Are you serious?!?! He's a professor, he reads books. Anyone who reads books hates America dummy.

***maverick4*** · 03-04-2008, 09:10 PM

Woops I forgot!! Anyone who questions the government is a commie. Time to go back to my newspeak and doublethink

***weswelker#83*** · 03-04-2008, 09:11 PM

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Originally Posted by maverick4

APPALLING, and I don't see why this professor has any reason to lie.

Why didn't some paper cover this 8, or 4 years go!?!?

He explains that he was on a green card and became a citizen just to tell this. If he spoke before being US citizen, he could have been in trouble .
you know how easy to be deported, it takes only a couple phone calls.

Stokes · 03-04-2008, 10:05 PM

Here's an interesting article from the Boston Globe in 1999, paints a very different picture of Bush's time in business school.

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/...en_at_harvard/

Have his grades or anything ever been released? I'd be interested to know what he got in these classes.

***PressCoverage*** · 03-04-2008, 10:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Stokes

Here's an interesting article from the Boston Globe in 1999, paints a very different picture of Bush's time in business school.

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/...en_at_harvard/

Have his grades or anything ever been released? I'd be interested to know what he got in these classes.

How is it painted "differently?" Reads like more of the same, with a bit of "charisma" thrown in:

For some, the memories of him remain vivid. One of Bush's former professors, Howard Stevenson, recalled Bush as a student who "wrote a decent essay," and "didn't bust his tail" trying to be a top scholar, but who did show genuine leadership potential. Former classmate Bill Strong, who photographed Bush for the Harvard yearbook, added tellingly, "I marvel 25 years later; the charisma was there." By all accounts, Bush was a middle-of-the-pack student who, far from being casual about classwork, had to work extra hard to keep up with the assemblage of the best and the brightest who got into the B-school.

Stokes · 03-04-2008, 10:36 PM

I just thought his time there was presented in a much more positive light. Some people saying he did work hard, that he was popular with classmates, etc. The tone of it was much more positive, just the way I read it though. The other article paints him in a very negative light. Not saying the globe article was right and the other was wrong by the way, just that the opinion of him in the other article is not universal. Really the proof is in the pudding though, I'd love to see the grades he got, especially the grade he got from the professor that is speaking out in the article.