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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tommaso who wrote (91184)	6/9/2001 10:48:45 PM
From: George Acton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

It's hard to know the source of Bundy's tragic flaw. Maybe it was the arrogance of the Brahmin-Groton-Yale-Harvard background. Or it could have been the top grades and SAT scores which led to over-confidence. He might have been just as disastrous if he'd come from a farm community in Iowa. I'd lean to the latter view. Some members of the Clinton team had that irritating high-SAT-score quality and they were just lucky that they didn't face the setup for a disaster like Vietnam. Hillary's health care plan certainly sounded like something that would get an A in a Yale Law School seminar course. ObInvesting, a certain kind of verbal glibness is perhaps a warning sign. One characteristic of the recent bubble was the frothy language. "Mindshare" being my favorite. Thanks for the reminder that Train wrote up Cabot. I think it's very impressive, considering his background and age, that he could pony up serious endowment money for DEC, Data General etc. If we gave grades on living up to potential, he'd get a fine score. And I recognize this grudgingly, since his ancestors left my ancestors the bagholders in the Triangle Trade.