if Romney becomes president....
will that make him the most prestigious person ever?
Harvard MBA/JD Bain & Co. CEO Bain Capital Co-founder and CEO Governor of Massachusetts President of the United States
I sure hope he makes that his email signature if he wins
BYU Ugrad will forever stain him, he should've stayed at Stanford
Yeah he is dinged. If you want to be King Prestige you need to be batting a thousand. .900 ain't gonna cut the mustard, and with that group of people you best believe that mustard is Dijon.
Good country club memberships can make up for a bad undergrad though.
I know no one will go for this but James Simon to me is prestigious as fuck. Also Reid Barton, 4 times IMO & Putnam winner, as well as working at RenTech.
Guess it depends on our perspective
I'm surprised that reid barton, uber math genius, left academia to work in the private sector. I guess he got burned out and realized that he could use his talents to make tons of money and get girls who never gave him the time of day before.
Gabriel Carroll, another 4-time Putnam fellow, is in academia, as an econ professor at stanford.
where did reid barton go to? couldn't find any info on where he works
Hard to say. I do think the obama-romney election is the smartest presidential duel since kennedy-nixon in 1960. The republicans in particular have had a tough time putting up a nominee who is smart, experienced, knowledgeable, and articulate. Romney is the first gop nominee since maybe eisenhower who brings all these traits to the job. And his debate victory over obama was probably the biggest ass whooping by a republican in a debate since reagan 1980 (and even that was not as clear cut as romney's performance).
Really? Richard Nixon was probably a genius--at least as smart as Romney straight up intellectually. He got into Harvard (but couldn't afford it even with a scholarship) and went to law school at Duke. He was an officer in the military. He was a Congressman, Senator and Vice President of the United States. He was also quite articulate, although he was kind of caught between pre-TV politics and current politics. I'd think his resume is above reproach with regard to the list you laid out here.
Then you've got George H.W. Bush, who was a Yale graduate, a successful businessman, a Congressman, an ambassador, head of the CIA and Vice President. He was articulate enough, although he was no Reagan, Clinton or Obama. Again, I would say that his resume is also beyond reproach. Not sure I agree at all that Eisenhower was the last truly legitimate GOP candidate.
One can't necessarily say the same things about George W. Bush, Bob Dole, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, or Barry Goldwater, but they all had their positives as well.
George H. W. Bush is a true war hero. The shit he did in WWII is pretty unreal. I think he's got to be up there near the top in terms of preftige.
he'll need a nobel peace price =)
he missed the Rhodes scholar part
BYU Valedictorian (that is impressive as shit under virtually any metric).
I think in his case I'd just about allow a two-page CV.
Uh, ever heard of George Washington? Let's see here:
-net worth of over half a billion USD in today's currency -Colonel (and commander in chief) of the Virginia Regiment (American, but under the command of the English Governor) -14th Chancellor of the College of William & Mary -Delegate to the 1st and 2nd Continental Congress -Commander-in-Chief, Continental Army -Senior Officer of the Army (AKA Chief of Staff) -1st and only 6-star General (posthumous, honorary, only made 3 star general while actually in the army) -Presided over the Constitutional Convention (where the Constitution was written) -1st President of the US -His Farewell Address is considered one of the most influential statements of republicanism -Could have created a dictatorship, but he was above that -Founding Father of the US
This is mostly from wikipedia, with a few other tidbits thrown in. Obviously it's not everything about the man. Oh, I almost forgot, ranked top 3 POTUS by almost all historians and he has a huge dick in DC with his name on it. Beat that shit, son.
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