Who's Smarter?
by Cindy Osborne (I am not sure who this is)
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> The Hollywood group is at it again. Holding anti-war rallies, screaming
> about the Bush Administration, running ads in major newspapers, defaming
> the President and his Cabinet every chance they get, to anyone and
> everyone who will listen. They publicly defile them and call them names
> like "stupid" ,"morons", and "idiots". Jessica Lange went so far as to
> tell a crowd in Spain that she hates President Bush and is embarrassed to
> be an American. So, just how ignorant are these people who are running the
> country? Let's look at the biographies of these "stupid", "ignorant" ,
> "moronic" leaders, and then at the celebrities who are castigating them:
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> President George W. Bush
> Received a Bachelors Degree from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard
> Business School. He served as an F-102 pilot for the Texas Air National
> Guard. He began his career in the oil and gas business in Midland in 1975
> and worked in the energy industry until 1986. He was elected Governor on
> November 8, 1994, with 53.5 percent of the vote. In a historic re-election
> victory, he became the first Texas Governor to be elected to consecutive
> four-year terms on November 3, 1998 winning 68.6 percent of the vote. In
> 1998 Governor Bush won 49 percent of the Hispanic vote, 27 percent of the
> African-American vote, 27 percent of Democrats and 65 percent of women. He
> won more Texas counties, 240 of 254, than any modern Republican other that
> Richard Nixon in 1972 and is the first Republican gubernatorial candidate
> to win the heavily Hispanic and Democratic border counties of El Paso,
> Cameron and Hidalgo. (Someone began circulating a false story about his
> I.Q. being lower than any other President. If you believed it, you might
> want to go to URBANLEGENDS.COM and see the truth.)
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> Vice President Dick Cheney
> Earned a B.A. in 1965 and a M.A. in 1966, both in political science. Two
> years later, he won an American Political Science Association
> congressional fellowship. One of Vice President Cheney's primary duties is
> to share with individuals, members of Congress and foreign leaders,
> President Bush's vision to strengthen our economy, secure our homeland and
> win the War on Terrorism. In his official role as President of the Senate,
> Vice President Cheney regularly goes to Capital Hill to meet with Senators
> and members of the House of Representatives to work on the
> Administration's legislative goals. In his travels as Vice President, he
> has seen first hand the great demands the war on terrorism is placing on
> the men and women of our military, and he is proud of the tremendous job
> they are doing for the United States of America.
>
> Secretary of State Colin Powell
> Educated in the New York City public schools, graduating from the City
> College of New York (CCNY), where he earned a Bachelor's Degree in
> geology. He also participated in ROTC at CCNY and received a commission as
> an Army second lieutenant upon graduation in June 1958. His further
> academic achievements include a Master of Business Administration Degree
> from George Washington University. Secretary Powell is the recipient of
> numerous U.S. and foreign military awards and decorations. Secretary
> Powell's civilian awards include two Presidential Medals of Freedom, the
> President's Citizens Medal, the Congressional Gold Medal, the Secretary of
> State Distinguished Service Medal, and the Secretary of Energy
> Distinguished Service Medal. Several schools and other institutions have
> been named in his honor and he holds honorary degrees from universities
> and colleges across the country.
>
> Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
> Attended Princeton University on Scholarship (AB, 1954) and served in the
> U.S. Navy (1954-57) as a Naval aviator ; Congressional Assistant to Rep.
> Robert Griffin (R-MI), 1957-59; U.S. Representative, Illinois, 1962-69;
> Assistant to the President, Director of the Office of Economic
> Opportunity, Director of the Cost of Living Council, 1969-74; U.S.
> Ambassador to NATO, 1973-74; head of Presidential Transition Team, 1974;
> Assistant to the President, Director of White House Office of Operations,
> White House Chief of Staff, 1974-77; Secretary of Defense, 1975-77.
>
> Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge
> Earned a scholarship to Harvard, graduating with honors in 1967. After his
> first year at The Dickinson School of Law, he was drafted into the U.S.
> Army, where he served as an infantry staff sergeant in Vietnam, earning
> the Bronze Star for Valor. After returning to Pennsylvania, he earned his
> Law Degree and was in private practice before becoming Assistant District
> Attorney in Erie County. He was elected to Congress in 1982. He was the
> first enlisted Vietnam combat veteran elected to the U.S. House, and was
> overwhelmingly re-elected six times.
>
> National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice
> Earned her Bachelor's Degree in Political Science, Cum Laude and Phi Beta
> Kappa, from the University of Denver in 1974; her Master's from the
> University of Notre Dame in 1975; and her Ph.D. from the Graduate School
> of International Studies at the University of Denver in 1981. (Note: Rice
> enrolled at the University of Denver at the age of 15, graduating at 19
> with a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science (Cum Laude). She earned a
> Master's Degree at the University of Notre Dame and a Doctorate from the
> University of Denver's Graduate School of International Studies. Both of
> her advanced degrees are also in Political Science.)
>
> She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been
> awarded Honorary Doctorates from Morehouse College in 1991, the University
> of Alabama in 1994, and the University of Notre Dame in 1995. At Stanford,
> she has been a member of the Center for International Security and Arms
> Control, a Senior Fellow of the Institute for International Studies, and a
> Fellow (by courtesy) of the Hoover Institution. Her books include Germany
> Unified and Europe Transformed (1995) with Philip Zelikow, The Gorbachev
> Era (1986) with Alexander Dallin, and Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet
> Union and the Czechoslovak Army (1984). She also has written numerous
> articles on Soviet and East European foreign and defense policy, and has
> addressed audiences in settings ranging from the U.S. Ambassador's
> Residence in Moscow to the Commonwealth Club to the 1992 and 2000
> Republican National Conventions. From 1989 through March 1991, the period
> of German reunification and the final days of the Soviet Union, she served
> in the Bush Administration as Director, and then Senior Director, of
> Soviet and East European Affairs in the National Security Council, and a
> Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. In 1986,
> while an international affairs fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations,
> she served as Special Assistant to the Director of the Joint Chiefs of
> Staff.
>
> In 1997, she served on the Federal Advisory Committee on Gender-
> Integrated Training in the Military. She was a member of the boards of
> directors for the Chevron Corporation, the Charles Schwab Corporation, the
> William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the University of Notre Dame, the
> International Advisory Council of J.P. Morgan and the San Francisco
> Symphony Board of Governors. She was a Founding Board member of the Center
> for a New Generation, an educational support fund for schools in East Palo
> Alto and East Menlo Park, California and was Vice President of the Boys
> and Girls Club of the Peninsula. In addition, her past board service has
> encompassed such organizations as Transamerica Corporation, Hewlett
> Packard, the Carnegie Corporation, Carnegie Endowment for International
> Peace, The Rand Corporation, the National Council for Soviet and East
> European Studies, the Mid-Peninsula Urban Coalition and KQED, public
> broadcasting for San Francisco. Born November 14, 1954 in Birmingham,
> Alabama, she earned her bachelor's degree in political science, cum laude
> and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Denver in 1974; her Master's
> from the University of Notre Dame in 1975; and her Ph.D. from the Graduate
> School of International Studies at the University of Denver in 1981. She
> is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been
> awarded Honorary Doctorates from Morehouse College in 1991, the University
> of Alabama in 1994, and the University of Notre Dame in 1995. She resides
> in Washington, D.C.
Barbra Streisand : Completed high school
> Career: Singing and acting
>
> Cher: Dropped out of school in 9th grade
> Career: Singing and acting
>
> Martin Sheen: Flunked exam to enter University of Dayton
> Career: Acting
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> Jessica Lange: Dropped out college mid-freshman year
> Career: Acting
>
> Alec Baldwin: Dropped out of George Washington U. after scandal
> Career: Acting
>
> Julia Roberts: Completed high school
> Career: Acting
>
> Sean Penn: Completed High school
> Career: Acting
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> Susan Sarandon: Degree in Drama from Catholic University of America in
> Washington, D.C.
> Career: Acting
>
> Ed Asner: Completed High school
> Career: Acting
>
> George Clooney: Dropped out of University of Kentucky
> Career: Acting
>
> Michael Moore: Dropped out first year University of Michigan
> Career: Movie Director
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> Sarah Jessica Parker: Completed High School
> Career: Acting
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> Jennifer Anniston: Completed High School
> Career: Acting
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> Mike Farrell: Completed High school
> Career: Acting
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> Janeane Garofelo: Dropped out of College
> Career: Stand up Comedienne
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> Larry Hagman: Attended Bard College for one year
> Career: Acting
>
> While comparing the education and experience of these two groups, we
> should also remember that President Bush and his cabinet are briefed
> daily, even hourly, on the War on Terror and threats to our security. They
> are privy to information gathered around the world concerning the Middle
> East, the threats to America, the intentions of terrorists and
> terrorist-supporting governments. They are in constant communication with
> the CIA, the FBI, Interpol, NATO, The United Nations, our own military,
> and that of our allies around the world. We cannot simply believe that we
> have full knowledge of the threats because we watch CNN!! We cannot
> believe that we are in any way as informed as our leaders.
>
> These celebrities have no intelligence-gathering agents, no fact-finding
> groups, no insight into the minds of those who would destroy our country.
> They only have a deep seated hatred for all things Republican. By nature,
> and no one knows quite why, the Hollywood elitists detest Conservative
> views and anything that supports or uplifts the United States of America.
> The silence was deafening from the Left when Bill Clinton bombed a
> pharmaceutical factory outside of Khartoum, or when he attacked the
> Bosnian Serbs in 1995 and 1999. He bombed Serbia itself to get Slobodan
> Milosevic out of Kosovo, and not a single peace rally was held. When our
> Rangers were ambushed in Somalia and 18 young American lives were lost,
> not a peep was heard from Hollywood. Yet now, after our nation has been
> attacked on its own soil, after 3,000 Americans were killed by
> freedom-hating terrorists while going about their routine lives, they want
> to hold rallies against the war. Why the change? Because an honest,
> God-fearing Republican sits in the White House.
>
> Another irony is that in 1987, when Ronald Reagan was in office, the
> Hollywood group aligned themselves with disarmament groups like SANE,
> FREEZE and PEACE ACTION, urging our own government to disarm and freeze
> the manufacturing of any further nuclear weapons, in order to promote
> world peace. It is curious that now, even after we have heard all the
> evidence that Saddam Hussein has chemical, biological and is very close to
> obtaining nuclear weapons, their is no cry from this group for HIM to
> disarm. They believe we should leave him alone in his quest for these
> weapons of mass destruction, even though it is certain that these deadly
> weapons will eventually be used against us in our own cities.
>
> So why the hype out of Hollywood? Could these celebrities believe that
> since they draw such astronomical salaries, they are entitled to also
> determine the course of our Nation? That they can make viable decisions
> concerning war and peace? Did Michael Moore have the backing of the Nation
> when he recently thanked France, on our behalf, for being a "good enough
> friend to tell us we were wrong"? I know for certain he was not speaking
> for me. Does Sean Penn fancy himself a Diplomat, in going to Iraq when we
> are just days away from war? Does he believe that his High School Diploma
> gives him the knowledge (and the right) to go to a country that is
> controlled by a maniacal dictator, and speak on behalf of the American
> people? Or is it the fact that he pulls in more money per year than the
> average American worker will see in a lifetime? Does his bank account give
> him clout? The ultimate irony is that many of these celebrities have made
> a shambles of their own lives, with drug abuse, alcoholism, numerous
> marriages and divorces, scrapes with the law, publicized temper tantrums,
> etc. How dare they pretend to know what is best for an entire nation! What
> is even more bizarre is how many people in this country will listen and
> accept their views, simply because they liked them in a certain movie, or
> have fond memories of an old television sitcom!
>
> It is time for us, as citizens of the United States, to educate ourselves
> about the world around us. If future generations are going to enjoy the
> freedoms that our forefathers bequeathed us, if they are ever to know
> peace in their own country and their world, to live without fear of
> terrorism striking in their own cities, we must assure that this nation
> remains strong. We must make certain that those who would destroy us are
> made aware of the severe consequences that will befall them.
>
> Yes, it is a wonderful dream to sit down with dictators and terrorists and
> join hands, singing Cumbaya and talking of world peace. But it is not
> real.
>
> We did not stop Adolf Hitler from taking over the entire continent of
> Europe by simply talking to him. We sent our best and brightest, with the
> strength and determination that this Country is known for, and defeated
> the Nazi regime. President John F. Kennedy did not stop the Soviet ships
> from unloading their nuclear missiles in Cuba in 1962 with mere words. He
> stopped them with action, and threat of immediate war if the ships did not
> turn around. We did not end the Cold War with conferences. It ended with
> the strong belief of President Ronald Reagan... PEACE through STRENGTH.