November 21st 2008
Quote Of The Day: Rah! Rah! Boom! Edition
If a foreign enemy attacks the United States during the Harvard-Yale game any time over the next four years, we’re screwed. - David Brooks
D
avid Brooks writes today of the Obama valedictocracy (rule by those who graduated first in their high school class):
Jan. 20, 2009, will be a historic day. Barack Obama (Columbia, Harvard Law) will take the oath of office as his wife, Michelle (Princeton, Harvard Law), looks on proudly. Nearby, his foreign policy advisers will stand beaming, including perhaps Hillary Clinton (Wellesley, Yale Law), Jim Steinberg (Harvard, Yale Law) and Susan Rice (Stanford, Oxford D. Phil.).
The domestic policy team will be there, too, including Jason Furman (Harvard, Harvard Ph.D.), Austan Goolsbee (Yale, M.I.T. Ph.D.), Blair Levin (Yale, Yale Law), Peter Orszag (Princeton, London School of Economics Ph.D.) and, of course, the White House Counsel Greg Craig (Harvard, Yale Law).
This piece is a hoot; a serial killing with a keyboard of any citizens who hang onto the idea that Obama is anything but an elitist:
Already the culture of the Obama administration is coming into focus. Its members are twice as smart as the poor reporters who have to cover them, three times if you include the columnists. They typically served in the Clinton administration and then, like Cincinnatus, retreated to the comforts of private life — that is, if Cincinnatus had worked at Goldman Sachs, Williams & Connolly or the Brookings Institution. So many of them send their kids to Georgetown Day School, the posh leftish private school in D.C. that they’ll be able to hold White House staff meetings in the carpool line.
Read it all here.
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November 24th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
We want elite fighters in our SEAL, Commando and Marine units. Why wouldn’t we want the very smartest, most knowledgeable and qualified people running the highest levels of government? This elitist argument is really silly. Do you seriously want the real-life equivalent of Ted Bundy or Homer Simpson elected POTUS? Please.