Former Harvard Business Professor Blasts Bush

[kentuck]

Notice in the article also that the WH refused to comment on Bush's time at Harvard Business School...
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http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=503181

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Tsurumi—now a professor of international business at Baruch College in the City University of New York—said he remembers the future president as scoring in the bottom 10 percent of students in the class.

Thirty years after teaching the class, Tsurumi said the twenty-something Bush’s statements and behavior—“always very shallow”—still stand out in his mind.

“Whenever just bumped into me, he had some flippant statement to make,” said Tsurumi when reached at his home in Scarsdale, N.Y. “The comments he made were revealing of his prejudice.”

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Tsurumi said he particularly recalls Bush’s right-wing extremism at the time, which he said was reflected in off-hand comments equating the New Deal of the 1930s with socialism and the corporation-regulating Securities and Exchange Commission with “an enemy of capitalism.”

[colonel odis]

1. does ANYONE who had contact with bush in his younger days

have something good to say about him?

did absolutely no one like him?

[southernleftylady]

2. When I brought this up on another board the righties said...

well havent you changed since you were in college too....
they will nnot come arround and it drives me crazy...
either someone has a personal agenda against bush, or was some how "hurt" by him or trying tomake money... they dont believe ANYTHING bad that comes out about him... makes me want to scream!

[brokensymmetry]

3. May I add a further quote from Tsurumi?

“All Harvard Business School students want to become president of a company one day,” Tsurumi said. “I remember saying, if you become president of a company some day, may God help your customers and employees.”

Nothing to add...

[Scooter24]

6. LOL...n/t

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. The Grapes of Wrath 'corny'???????

Shrub has no sense of compassion, no idea of how other people live. He's cocooned in his bubble of privilege, and always has been. He reminds me of the frat boys who lived on either side of my grandmother's apartment house on the University of Illinois campus. They were rude, irresponsible, and sometimes dangerous (they played a game called 'who can shoot at the old lady and not hit her' once). I recall how they sicced their dog on me when I was 8, terrifying me. They thought it was an hilarious joke. And since they were rich, the cops only gave them a warning each time.

[RoeBear]

5. I wondered when this would come out...

...bout time.

[mandyky]

7. Let's get Air America Radio

to interview this guy. Maybe we can shame the "mainstream media" into doing the same.

[Bozita]

8. He was on with Janeane Garafalo on Friday

I can't find any archives, though.

[mandyky]

11. He needs to make the rounds on all their show

to get this out here. I don't usually listen to AAR after 3 PM unless there is something special on.

[Raster]

9. my faves (bold emphasis mine)

“I vividly remember that he made a comment saying that people are poor because they’re lazy,” Tsurumi said.

Tsurumi also said Bush displayed a sense of arrogance about his prominent family, including his father, former U.S. President George H.W. Bush.

“ didn’t stand out as the most promising student, but...he made it sure we understood how well he was connected,” Tsurumi said. “He wasn’t bashful about how he was being pushed upward by Dad’s connections.”

Tsurumi said that the younger Bush boasted that his father’s political string-pulling had gotten him to the top of the waiting list for the Texas National Guard instead of serving in Vietnam. When other students were frantically scrambling for summer jobs, Tsurumi said, Bush explained that he was planning instead for a visit to his father in Beijing, where the senior Bush was serving at the time as the special U.S. envoy to China.

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When he discovered that his former pupil was vying for the presidency in 2000, Tsurumi said he tried to inform the public about his experience with the then-Texas governor at HBS—but got few results beyond hate mail.

“Last election time, if you recall, the American mass media did a shameful job of vetting ,” Tsurumi said.

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“I always remember two groups of students,” Tsurumi said then, according to published reports. “One is the really good students, not only intelligent, but with leadership qualities, courage. The other is the total opposite, unfortunately to which George belonged.”

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=503181

[Redleg]

10. Score one for the Prof.

It does my heart good to see fellow b-school profs trying to do right and promote ethical decision-making in their courses. Too bad Bush didn't give a rat's ass when he went to school.

[Raster]

12. harvard and yale were both paid for with family connections...

..."Gentleman's C" MY ASS!!!

Just for shits and giggles, does anyone that attended Yale or Harvard Business School believe that gee-dubya actually EARNED a diploma from either institution? Come on now, tell us how you really feel!

[Octafish]

13. "Frat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son."

"Zero point zero."