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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on September 08, 2012, 05:29:45 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021302845
Oh my.
grasswire (34,926 posts) Sat Sep 8, 2012, 03:54 PM
A Harvard-educated lawyer tried to talk me into being a Republican today.
I've known this guy for a few years.
He had just come from watching 2016, the movie. He's a very smart guy. A Catholic, who is generous and kind to neighbors and acquaintances. He gives freely of his time, and coaches little league ball and mentors many youths.
He's also racist. Spent a good deal of his life in Richmond.
Told me that he is becoming more liberal, but then began to make birther jokes.
How can someone with a great education be so ignorant?
Arctic Dave (10,585 posts) Sat Sep 8, 2012, 03:57 PM
2. Romney went to Harvard and he's a douchebag
Maybe that will clear things up for you.
unblock (22,338 posts) Sat Sep 8, 2012, 04:06 PM
6. the harvard student body is unique, even distinguished from places like princeton and yale.
while there are certainly over-privileged kids at any ivy league school, harvard has an exceptionally large concentration of them.
especially at the undergraduate level, princeton and some other schools are notably superior to harvard because harvard has such an emphasis on its graduate schools. harvard is all about getting the nobel prize winners and having their professors earn nobel prizes and train their graduate students to win nobel prizes, and to connect to washington and serve in the white house and so on.
that's not to say harvard isn't a great undergraduate education, but it's NOT the best.
it is, however, the single most prestigious school name you can possibly put on your resume. for parents who want their kid to be seen as "#1", that's the ticket. EVERYONE has heard of harvard, and EVERYONE knows it's a great school.
point is, a lot of people attend harvard for the wrong reasons, and a lot of people don't get out of harvard anything like what it has to offer. professors there often teach by video, or have their graduate students do the real work. that rarely happens at, say, princeton. at a place like harvard, you have to be more self-directed. if you want to skate by, if you want to spend 4 years with your eyes closed, doing the work but not fully appreciating it, you can certainly do that at a place like harvard. no one's going to bop you over the head and enlighten you.
Panasonic (818 posts) Sat Sep 8, 2012, 04:14 PM
9. Did you laugh at his face and told him that 2016 is a debunked piece of shit that shouldn't even breathe, and D'Souza thrown into prison?
Then tell him that he's no liberal, and never will be until he realizes that Obama is a better president for his career, and also that Obama is also his alma-mate and shouldn't be insulting him.
grasswire (34,926 posts) Sat Sep 8, 2012, 06:01 PM
11. I try to be kind to him.
He's a Vietnam veteran who endured some of the worst of that war, and has had a couple of strokes recently. I made it clear that I was extremely proud to be a Democrat. I told him Romney is a nitwit.
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Hey grassass - WE DON'T WANT WORTHLESS PIECES OF SHIT like you, on our side. Stay a moonbat, please.
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What grasswipe says: A Harvard-educated lawyer tried to talk me into being a Republican today.
What grasswipe meant: The owner of the building I'm squatting at came by and harassed me today.
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So because he doesn`t want O means he is a racist?
You are are an idiot.
Panasonic (818 posts) Sat Sep 8, 2012, 04:14 PM
9. Did you laugh at his face and told him that 2016 is a debunked piece of shit that shouldn't even breathe, and D'Souza thrown into prison?
This is how they think...pretty scary.
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So because he doesn`t want O means he is a racist?
You are are an idiot.
This is how they think...pretty scary.
When was it debunked?
Rhetorical question, I know that debunked at DU means that someone at DU said it was full of lies so therefore it's debunked.
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grasswire (34,926 posts) Sat Sep 8, 2012, 06:01 PM
11. I try to be kind to him.
He's a Vietnam veteran who endured some of the worst of that war, and has had a couple of strokes recently. I made it clear that I was extremely proud to be a Democrat. I told him Romney is a nitwit.
Odd that she left out certain details, and only bolstered herself.
I suspect he chewed her ass for being a DUmbs****, and walked away.
What's the truth, miss pie-and-jam?
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What grasswipe says: A Harvard-educated lawyer tried to talk me into being a Republican today.
What grasswipe meant: The owner of the building I'm squatting at came by and harassed me today.
Exactamundo.
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Amazing how every single person who doesn't think like them is automatically labeled a racist. If the guy was in Vietnam there's about a 90% chance he fought next to black people. You can hardly be racist if you're putting your life on the line next to someone whose skin is a little darker than yours.
Oh, even the smart, Harvard educated ones seem to not measure up to a DUmmie's intelligence and political acumen. Of course when you're entire political philosophy hasn't changed for 50 years, it's hard to think outside the box.
Cindie
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Odd that she left out certain details, and only bolstered herself.
What's the truth, miss pie-and-jam?
This is what got me:
I try to be kind to him.
I detect condescension in that.
I'll bet the real case is that he's being kind to an addled old woman.
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A Harvard-educated lawyer tried to talk me into being a Republican today.
I've known this guy for a few years.
He had just come from watching 2016, the movie. He's a very smart guy. A Catholic, who is generous and kind to neighbors and acquaintances. He gives freely of his time, and coaches little league ball and mentors many youths.
So she's telling us he's a republican...
He's also racist. Spent a good deal of his life in Richmond.
that has some democrat tendencies.
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I'll bet the real case is that he's being kind to an addled old woman.
He's probably feeling bad about kicking her out into the street with fall and winter right around the corner.
She probably strips off the top ten or fifteen layers of coats when she thinks he might drop by, in an attempt to look more feeble with the cold months coming up.