(04-08-2009 08:00 AM)DrTorch Wrote:  Geez,
I just remembered this thread

http://www.ncaabbs.com/showthread.php?tid=338818

Quote:What a rube. I expect Martin Sheen to get a staff apointment any day now.

In this country fact is fiction and TV, reality.

I'm about ready to take up drinking as a full time occupation.

It doesn't work. All it does is give you a really bad hangover when you wake, and you realize that not only are you still in deep sh!t, but now you can taste it...

What is the problem with this?

I'm not an Obama fan, but really guys. . . Are you just going to say everything he does is stupid? When do you get tired of that?

He's an intelligent, well educated person. Heck, even his most famous CHARACTERS have been doctors or med students.

(04-08-2009 09:35 AM)Raider_ATO Wrote:  I'm not an Obama fan, but really guys. . . Are you just going to say everything he does is stupid? When do you get tired of that?

For 8 years Bush got blasted on daily basis. I think I can muster up the energy to last longer than a few months.

onlinepole Wrote:"Kumar" double majored in Theater and Sociology at UCLA and is completing a Masters Degree Program in International Studies at Stanford. In other words he's more qualified than most Rethugs that have held office.

What exactly did Anuld accomplish before he was elected governator? What were Raygun's qualifications before he ran for gov of Cal and then Pres? He wasn't even a decent actor. Bush graduated at the bottom of his class at Yale while McSain crashed 5 planes on his way to graduating at the bottom of his Naval Academy class. I'll take competency over underachieving drunks who only succeeded because of daddy's help.

You are mistaking "degrees" for "competency." Just because someone has a fancy degree doesn't make them competent, or qualified to run a country, or even to be a White House staff member. You contradict yourself BIGTIME in this post. You seem to think that just because Kumar and the Barackstar have degrees that they are competent, but dismiss Bush' Harvard MBA. You say that Bush, McCain, etc. only made it because of "daddy's help." Well, don't you think Kumar is at an advantage because he is in movies/tv? Do you honestly think that if he were just a regular Master's Program student, he would be working in the White House?

(04-08-2009 12:27 AM)onlinepole Wrote:  "Kumar" double majored in Theater and Sociology at UCLA and is completing a Masters Degree Program in International Studies at Stanford. In other words he's more qualified than most Rethugs that have held office.

I personally believe the world would be a far better place if possession of a degree in sociology were a capital offense.

(04-08-2009 12:27 AM)onlinepole Wrote:  [quote='BlazerFan11' pid='4217324' dateline='1239135904']

Quote:Actor Kal Penn joins White House team


Another wonderful appointee by the celebrity president. I wonder how much Kumar owes in back taxes?

Then again, I guess he is as qualified to be in the White House as the guy who hired him.

"Kumar" double majored in Theater and Sociology at UCLA and is completing a Masters Degree Program in International Studies at Stanford.

Someone who dresses up and plays make-believe?

"International studies"

You seriously think these degrees are meaningful, don't you?

You really do...

He has a MS in International Security, the same degree afforded to the best of the Intelligence Community. Even with that bit of information I do not understand what is so important about this hire. It is the White House Office of Public Liaison, not the friggin Joint Chiefs of Staff, or Secretary of State. It's one of those positions that you will never have heard of if he didn't hire this guy. It's no major deal.