No more IVY League presidential candidates

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<p>They are so out of touch with America. I’m leaning towards Edwards on the democratic side, depending on how much he is going to cost me.</p>

<p>On the Republican side, I’m leaning towards Guiliani. He went to private colleges, but his father was in trouble with the law, so it balances out.</p>

<p>I am fed up with the Ivy leaguers on both sides of the aisle.</p>

<p>Poverty at record high…</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-02-25-us-poverty_x.htm?csp=34[/url]”>http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-02-25-us-poverty_x.htm?csp=34&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>This one never gets old:

but, as WFB, I say we start with Harvard; then as dstark suggests, the rest of the Ivy league.</p>

<p>It would be a fine start, even if a slow one.</p>

<p>…perhaps we need more trial lawyers?</p>

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<p>Edwards’ daughter is a Princeton gal, I believe.</p>

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<p>Then I won’t vote for her. ;)</p>

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<p>His daughter graduated from Princeton and is now at Harvard Law School, if that matters to anyone. Personally, I would consider the candidate rather than the alma mater.</p>

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<p>Yeah, you’re right. I might vote for the daughter. I would never vote for the ambulance-chasing, hairsprayed, pretty boy Edwards.</p>

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<p>They are all ambulance chasers.</p>

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<p>Obama, (Columbia grad!:)), is not. He was busy running community development programs.</p>

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<p>hhmmmph. Well I’m not voting for Edwards because apparently UNC-CH was good enough for him, but NOT for his daughter. ;)</p>

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<p>“He was busy running community development programs.”</p>

<p>He is going to be busy chasing ambulances now. :)</p>

<p>“hhmmmph. Well I’m not voting for Edwards because apparently UNC-CH was good enough for him, but NOT for his daughter.”</p>

<p>Maybe, I should reevaluate.</p>

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<p>Well I have to admit that as U.S. Presidents go, Ivy Leaguer GWB has really stunk the place up. But can that be blamed on an athletic conference?</p>

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<p>Well how do you feel about the other 89.3% of people on both sides of the aisle? Taking a look at the aisle and the people sitting on either side, we see that 21 members of the Senate and 36 members of the House attended at least one Ivy League school. For a grand total of 57 members of Congress. 57/525 = 10.7%</p>

<p>So if poverty is at a record high why blame the 10% minority of Congress? They can’t by themselves vote anything in. Seems like the 90% who <em>didn’t</em> go Ivy should get most of the blame. </p>

<p>Source for educational background of current Congress:
<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States_Congress[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States_Congress&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>“They are so out of touch with America. I’m leaning towards Edwards on the democratic side…”</p>

<p>Yeah, he’s in touch alright:
<a href=“http://carolinajournal.com/exclusives/display_exclusive.html?id=3848[/url]”>http://carolinajournal.com/exclusives/display_exclusive.html?id=3848&lt;/a&gt;
Don’t we all live like that? The White House will be a come down, if he gets there.</p>

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<p>^ Smart Move. Good Investment.</p>

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It will be rather humbling for the former big-bucks attorney. I view his ambition to relocate into the humble digs of the White House as a first step in his road to recovery.</p>

<p>Soon enough he will be one of the common-folk staking out their claim on Pennsylvania Ave. </p>

<p>A victory for the “working man,” I suspect.</p>