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Who's Smarter?

by Cindy Osborne 


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". So, just how ignorant are these people who are

running the country?  Let's look at the biographies of the celebrities and 
then at the "stupid", "ignorant", "moronic" leaders, who are being castigated.

Barbara Streisand: Completed high school

Cher: Dropped out of school in 9th grade.

Martin Sheen: Flunked exam to enter University of Dayton.

Jessica Lange: Dropped out college mid-freshman year.

Alec Baldwin: Dropped out of George Washington U. after scandal.

Julia Roberts: Completed high school.

Sean Penn: Completed High school.

Ed Asner; Completed High school.

George Clooney: Dropped out of University of Kentucky.

Sarah Jessica Parker: Completed High School.

Jennifer Anniston: Completed High School.

Mike Farrell: Completed High school.

Rose O'Donnell: Dropped out of Boston University after one year.


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 and again

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.



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.


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. (Note:

He retired as Four Star General in the United States Army)


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: Raised in a working class

family in veterans' public housing in Erie. He 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 resides in Washington, D.C. 


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.


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?   Does Sean Penn fancy himself a Diplomat, in going to Iraq

when we are just weeks away from war? Does he believe that his High School

Diploma gives him the knowledge to go to a country that is controlled by a

maniacal dictator, and speak on behalf of the American people?  Or does the

fact that he pulls in more money per year than the average American worker

will see in a lifetime give him clout? 



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