Comments on: Poison Ivy (League)

By: Reader

Reader — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:49:08 +0000

This article is quite crass and is precisely the type of “trash” at which many of those you despire would turn up their noses. The author scoffs at the world’s group of most elite schools for quite unfounded (and uninformed) reasons. The answer to the title of this article is really quite obvious: the Ivies are bastions of intelligence and resource and hence are more prone to producing alumni that assume prominent positions in society. Perhaps the author should first consider reasons why the rest of non-Ivy society has NOT produced presidents and why he believes that the mere attendance at one of the aforementioned schools “poisons” the political sphere. In short, the author reveals his fundamental insecurities with his own social class rather than actually considering possible explanations for why things are the way they are.

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By: Night Owl

Night Owl — Thu, 15 May 2008 07:09:04 +0000

Even in a country built on the idea of equality among people, the elite of the Ivy League still likes to picture itself above all other Americans. It shouldn’t be too surprising that a majority of those seeking political office would come from this self-assured, privileged class.

All political candidates need to have a strong ego and sense of entitlement to get through the election process. And most candidates possess an “I know what’s best” attitude, or they wouldn’t be running for office. Those in the Ivy League possess this attitude in abundance.

Lucky for us our system of govt attempts to limit their despotic tendencies, and the damage caused by the incompetent and corrupt among them.

By: John F Kerry

John F Kerry — Wed, 14 May 2008 23:14:59 +0000

Do you know who I am!?

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:11:14 +0000

I see that others have also noticed how the supposed elites put in piss-poor performance. From Valerie’s comment, it looks like arrogance and hubris is taught to the Ivy Leaguers (”They are taught that they are the best this country has to offer, and that they are entitled to run it.”). I think we’re seeing a real life example of why the Constitution included a clause that says no titles of nobility may be granted. Those who are taught that they are “entitled” to run the country and believe that b.s. turn into pompous pricks who believe their turds don’t stink and that they can do no wrong (and frequently look at you as if to say, “Who the hell gave YOU a right to breathe MY air!”). They forget they are still human and still make mistakes. But the pompous pricks who believe they can do no wrong refuse to admit ever making a mistake, and taking the necessary actions to correct it when they inevitably do make one. Nobody, not even the smartest person in the world, can possibly take everything into account. Something they didn’t count on is going to blow up their model sooner or later, and they’ll have made a mistake that needs correcting. If they don’t have the humility to do so, and keep on doing the wrong things, those little mistakes have a tendency to grow into huge, disastrous, damaging errors. Note the Keynesian thinking about the economy as Exhibit A.

By: Zach

Zach — Wed, 14 May 2008 00:11:03 +0000

And he certainly didn’t go to an Ivy League school. Gettysburg College, 1957.

By: Zach

Zach — Wed, 14 May 2008 00:08:42 +0000

Ron Paul was never a lawyer…

By: Ann

Ann — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:57:06 +0000

Worse than having Ivy League candidates is the utter takeover of nearly all of American politics by lawyers. Only John McCain, of the entire crop of munchkins who wanted to be president this year, was not a lawyer.

STOP ELECTING LAWYERS!!!

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Never Yet Melted » Poison Ivy — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:36:42 +0000

[...] Bert Prelutsky, at PJM, has a few choice remarks on presidential politics and the Ivies. [...]

By: Billmor

Billmor — Mon, 12 May 2008 04:03:19 +0000

First, to get into most Ivy Leage Universities in the first place you need either a straight-A averae, or a position in the very Upper Class. Secondly, many of not most Ivy Leagers do feel entitled to their position by virtue of their family’s position in society, third, many of the undergraduate courses are fluff courses many with a Pass-Fail grade, or none at all, and finally they serve as finishing schools for elites, rather than intellectual powerhouses that they purport to be..A good public University will more likely turn out a better Phi Beta Kappa than an Ivy League school, but those schools do not make the A-List when it comes to hiring…More and more books are being written by students to refllect these views–read “Privilege” for example, about Harvard University