UPDATE: Here is an Obama supporter, and presumably voter. She must be highly educated and she wants to nationalize the US oil industry. What a brilliant idea ! She must be very, very highly educated. It takes years of Marxist economics to arrive at those brilliant insights !
A few people have noticed something when Obama voters are described. They are all “highly educated”. What does that mean ?
Here is one characteristic:
I stole a friend’s idea and devised “The World War II Test.” I invited the applicants for interviews. These PMI wannabes came off as slick and somewhat rude. I noted something among my subjects, a sense of entitlement, they all, to varying degrees, emitted a message along the lines of “Why are you bothering me with this silly interview? I am obviously brilliant. I have a degree from Columbia. I am not going to spend my whole life as you have in this stupid bureaucracy. I just need this to add to my resume. I am in a hurry.” I hit them with the test, which consisted of about dozen questions about WWII and its aftermath. I recall a few.
He asked them a few questions like “Who were our allies in World War II?” One applicant said “Why are you asking about World War II when the job is about NATO ?
Hmmm…
Now, here is someone who is not “highly educated” and is probably not an Obama voter.
We do know that there are Obama voters out there from stories like these.
No doubt those people are “highly educated.”
If you wonder who Marcus Luttrell is, this is his story.
Tags: education, Maxine Waters, military, Obama
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Again, Dr. K., “Generation Me” addresses this cult of entitlement. Most of my students today do what I call “chain studying”: they study for the next test. This works, albeit not perfectly, early on. But when Finals roll around, it is a snowball become a boulder become a mountain.
And even if they do well, they have no recall. I cannot begin to number the students who do well in, say, biochemistry, but do poorly on integrative, cumulative tests such as the MCAT.
The response? Take a special course to cram for the MCAT!
Sigh.
This is why the students don’t have context. The “WWII Test” is a great example.
I loved the question about what does the Cold War have to do with World War II. Clueless. I love that movie because it has a message beyond the comedy. If you haven’t seen it, you should.
Ah, Maxine Waters! Check out her entry in Wikipedia for a start:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxine_Waters
I love the bit from CREW on Waters’ being one of the most corrupt members of Congress:
http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/19007
But wait! Only Republicans are corrupt.
Keep in mind Waters’ comments during the LA Riots: she called the looting “an insurrection.” I wonder what she would have said if it had been her house or business that was robbed?
Anyway, are you surprised by any of her ignorant nonsense, Dr. K.?
Finally, unless she has changed her vote, she was until very recently a HRC Superdelegate (and how I love the innate…democracy…of the superdelegates, from the people who keep telling us how important the will of the people is!).