Following article points out how George W. is going to make the conservative attack on affirmative action look almost impossible to maintain (and why George W. has never joined that parade very hard).
--Nathan Newman =========================================== Time to Abolish Affirmative Action
(TJWalker.Com)—NEW YORK CITY—Nov. 4th.Conservatives are right: Affirmative Action is a disaster that stigmatizes its supposed beneficiaries and dooms them to a lifetime of self-doubt and failure.
I now feel sorry for George W. Bush, for he is truly a victim of an ill conceived, "liberal" attempt at social engineering. Thanks to the New Yorker, we now know that Bush was admitted to Yale University with a mere 1200 on his SATs, an impossibility for any high school student who isn’t subjected to some patronizing affirmative action scheme. We also know that he got into the Harvard Business School with a "C" average in college. That’ s not affirmative action, that’s more like "someone must have had nude photos of the Dean with farm animals" in order for Bush to been admitted to a program that routinely denies admission to thousands of straight "A" students per year.
The problem with affirmative action, as its conservative opponents have told us and I now finally understand, is that it sets up unreasonable expectations for everyone involved. Imagine, if you were a Texas oil millionaire in the early 1970’s and a man from a good family with degrees from Yale and the Harvard Business School asked you to invest millions in a business. Of course you would assume he was bright enough to know how to make money. Bush did this repeatedly, losing millions every time for his investors.
This was so unfair to Bush, who has been given unreasonable career expectations given his aptitude. If it weren’t for the evil, socialistic affirmative action program that placed Bush in a world he should have never been, he could have thrived.
Given Bush’s average aptitude and winning personality he could have gone to Texas A&M University and possibly graduated with a B or B+ average. Then, he could have gone onto a successful career as a fertilizer salesman. Instead, he was unwittingly forced into a series of oil schemes that were far beyond his talents, all of which lost fortunes.
Bush was not the only victim here. These Texas millionaires were misled. And, as is the case of so many liberal do-gooder schemes, the unintended consequences were even more damaging to society. These Texas fat cats now likely look at all white men with greater scrutiny and even cynicism. Even white men like me must pay for the crimes committed by the relatively few, like Bush, who have placed in positions far above their abilities.
Bush's numerous financial failures obviously took a toll on his self-esteem. Now we know the real reason he drank himself silly until his 40th birthday; he knew he was a fraud.
No wonder Bush refuses to debate his Republican opponents. He is consumed with self-doubt and doesn’t want to expose himself as the meritless, affirmative action case he knows himself to be.
How many more times can he use "is" in a sentence that needs an "are" before even his own daughters laugh at him at the dinner table? Society owes Bush a huge apology for forcing him into a life that he was not meant for.
Dear George, we are sorry. We realize our mistake. You are now free to quit the presidential race, resign your governorship and take that sales job at Archer Daniels. Good luck.
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