President Bush: HBS MBA
Thomas Lifson of American Thinker attended Harvard Business School at the same time as President Bush. He thinks that the effect of the President's education has been underestimated, and has posted a thoughtful analysis of the possible impact of President Bush's MBA on decision making in the Bush administration: "GWB: HBS MBA." Lifson concludes his post with the following observations:
By reputation, the President was a very avid and skillful poker player when he was an MBA student. One of the secrets of a successful poker player is to encourage your opponent to bet a lot of chips on a losing hand. This is a pattern of behavior one sees repeatedly in George W. Bush’s political career. He is not one to loudly proclaim his strengths at the beginning of a campaign. Instead, he bides his time, does not respond forcefully, a least at first, to critiques from his enemies, no matter how loud and annoying they get. If anything, this apparent passivity only goads them into making their case more emphatically.Only time will tell, whether Saddam ever had any WMDs. Their non-existence has not been proven. Only time will tell whether or not Osama bin Laden (or his corpse) will be taken into custody by American Troops. Only time will tell whether or not Iraq will continue to make progress toward a transition toward a peaceful democratic government. George W. Bush knows much more information about these topics than his domestic political opponents do. At the moment, they are betting a lot of their chips on one side of these questions. We will see by November who has the winning hand.
On that, at least, we can all agree. (Courtesy of Malcolm Smordin.)
