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Offline Maverick

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« Reply #45 on: October 04, 2002, 04:43:30 PM »
Todd,

Ummm who is it that makes that book "required reading" for all administrations since Nixon????? :confused:

Last I heard only sonmeone in a supervisory position OVER the employee could MAKE the employee perform a function like that. Your assertion indicates that the President, and the leaders of Congress and Senate have a boss other than the population of the United States. Just who might that be that assigns "required reading"???  :eek:


PS please don't use the hillary word. :p :p
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« Reply #46 on: October 04, 2002, 05:11:34 PM »
This is the (air)coolest professor ever lived
inventor of the beetle (over 22 milion PRODUCED!!)

see link : http://www.schwab-kolb.com/porpr17.htm
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« Reply #47 on: October 04, 2002, 05:47:49 PM »
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Ummm who is it that makes that book "required reading" for all administrations since Nixon????? :confused:


Don't be obtuse.  :)

Nixon's chief of staff required new staff members who hadn't read the book to familiarize themselves with it (by his own admission to Neustadt).  Though at this point, it's unlikely that any incoming staff members wouldn't have read Neustadt before joining a presidential administration.  

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« Reply #48 on: October 04, 2002, 06:01:24 PM »
While DMF Mav and Myelo have a little intellectual mutual masterbation session let me just say that I don't think badly of all professors.  I have only run across a few bad ones.

Even so most of 'em are still bleeding heart liberals.

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« Reply #49 on: October 04, 2002, 07:15:15 PM »
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While DMF Mav and Myelo have a little intellectual mutual masterbation session let me just say that I don't think badly of all professors.  I have only run across a few bad ones.

Even so most of 'em are still bleeding heart liberals.

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So you're saying mostly the smart, open-minded people are professors?   ;) hehe
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« Reply #50 on: October 04, 2002, 07:31:47 PM »
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So you're saying mostly the smart, open-minded people are professors?   ;) hehe


You are not trying to say that liberals are smart and open-minded, are you?
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« Reply #51 on: October 04, 2002, 09:23:34 PM »
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You are not trying to say that liberals are smart and open-minded, are you?


You're trying to say they aren't?  ;)

Actually I have found most professors to be intelligent in their fields. Some actually are quite open-minded, allowing for debate/arguement counter to their ideas, allowing one to try to disprove their theory. I don't see them falling for the silly name-calling that I see go on in these boards. LOL, I find those that resort to using 'labels' and to namecalling far from 'open-minded' and intelligent. IMHO
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« Reply #52 on: October 05, 2002, 09:41:22 AM »
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But in some states you are actually required to register as Dem or Repub, and have to vote along party lines.  



...s'cuse me?  Please elaborate.
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« Reply #53 on: October 05, 2002, 09:44:19 AM »
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 Einstein was a professor.....
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:rolleyes:   Everyone know's it was Einstiens wife who did all the work... sheesh  :D
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« Reply #54 on: October 05, 2002, 01:06:10 PM »
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Don't be obtuse.  :)

Nixon's chief of staff required new staff members who hadn't read the book to familiarize themselves with it (by his own admission to Neustadt).  Though at this point, it's unlikely that any incoming staff members wouldn't have read Neustadt before joining a presidential administration.  

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I am not being obtuse. I am just pointing out a falacy in your statement. here it is again if you have forgotten.

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Richard Neustadt in 1960 wrote a book on presidential power that has been required reading for all incoming administrations since Nixon. The fundamentals of power politics he lays out there have shaped the way presidential administrations conduct business

This statement indicates you have exclusive knowledge of what reading material is "required" for ALL administrations since the Nixon era. I am still waiting for you to reveal just who it is that is "requiring" all administrations since Nixon read that book. I am very interested in who is able to mastermind this conspiracy to influence all these administrations. This implies a very great power. It is up to you, nay you are ethically obligated, to reveal this powerful figure / group! Share the knowledge that we all may be enlightened by your vast intimate knowledge of all these administrations.
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« Reply #55 on: October 05, 2002, 01:08:36 PM »
Curvall,
How long have you had this obsession with masturbation? :rolleyes:
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« Reply #56 on: October 05, 2002, 01:22:53 PM »
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Curvall,
How long have you had this obsession with masturbation? :rolleyes:



Since I was about fourteen...wait a minute, my name isn't Curval!
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« Reply #57 on: October 05, 2002, 01:49:24 PM »
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I am not being obtuse. I am just pointing out a falacy in your statement. here it is again if you have forgotten.


Your inability to distinguish between a general statement of fact versus a specific one points to your obtuseness.  When I say that Neustadt is "required reading," I'm pointing to the importance of his work in general, not to some specific conspiracy to require reading his work.  LOL.  And he's probably the first required reading on any list of books in a course on the presidency, so most people in any administration are already familiar with him.

Neustadt lays out a very specific framework for when to use presidential power, how it manifests itself, how to use it properly, and how to increase long-term power.  The fact that this framework ostensibly works has endeared it to administrations.  Obviously some administrations are better at this than others for a variety of reasons.

But I digress... this has little or nothing to do with the original thread, and it's some silly sidenote you've endeavored to create out of nothing.  

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« Reply #58 on: October 05, 2002, 02:25:49 PM »
Without reading this whole thread (maybe this has been mentioned) it's worth looking at the classes offered at many universities.

I can tell you at OSU (Oregon State University) the Engineering department faculty is probably mostly Republican.  (Both in the political leanings of the students and professors.)  I'd venture a guess that the Physics department is the same.  Most of the other departments are dominated by Democrats.  

(LOL, I actually had to take a class on environmental issues where the professor called Dick Cheney "the most despicable man on the planet." :D )
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« Reply #59 on: October 05, 2002, 10:49:34 PM »
Todd,

I'm still waiting for the source of your statement. I just have to know who is really running the country. I haven't gotten the experiance in conspiracies you know. :p :rolleyes:
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