Romney's victory speech in Florida yesterday offered nothing new in terms of dissembling and nonsense but parts of it attained Everestian heights of Cognitive Dissonance. His historic flip flopping trying to please every possible person who might vote for him is well documented.
He has ridiculed President Obama's elite Ivy League background and advisors in the past, and returned to this tack yesterday.
Like his colleagues in the faculty lounge who think they know better, President Obama demonizes and denigrates almost every sector of our economy. I will make America the most attractive place in the world for entrepreneurs, for innovators, and for job creators. And unlike the other people running for President, I know how to do that.
'Colleagues in the faculty lounge who think they know better" got a hearty, if delayed, laugh in yesterday's speech. While Obama has defended the 'savvy businessmen' of Wall St., it's not clear how he and his faculty lounge pals think they 'know better'. However, this meme has become a grievance among Wall St. types and Romney is pouncing on this resentment with his assurance that he will be more fawning to corporations and Wall St.
Here are parts of Romney's resume from his Wikipedia page. He first went to Stanford, then on his father's advice got a joint Law and Business degree from Harvard. That is one more Harvard degree than President Obama has. Perhaps he's trying to make the claim that business majors aren't pointy headed intellectuals so he has no faculty lounge buddies to hang out with.
Romney attended Stanford University for a year. Although the campus was becoming radicalized with the beginnings of 1960s social and political movements, Romney kept a well-groomed appearance and enjoyed traditional campus events.
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Romney still wanted to pursue a business path, but his father, by now serving in President Richard Nixon's cabinet as U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, advised that a law degree would be valuable. Thus Romney became one of only fifteen students to enroll at the recently created joint Juris Doctor/Master of Business Administration four-year program coordinated between Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School. Fellow students considered Romney guilelessly optimistic, noting his strong work ethic along with a buttoned-down demeanor and appearance. He readily adapted to the business school's pragmatic, data-driven case study method of teaching, excelled in classroom participation there, and led a study group whom he pushed to get all A's. He graduated in 1975 cum laude from the law school, in the top third of that class, and was named a Baker Scholar for graduating in the top five percent of his business school class.