We could go on and on on.and speculate til the end of time...with college professor reccomendations etc etc...we could call Mittens MBA a "glorified business degree" as much as we could assume Obama made Harvard review because he was "black" or tokenized for it. (I don't think either are true)
Yes, it's true that potential speculation is endless, but I do think we have ample biographical info on both men's college years now to at least support my point that Romney's degree was almost certainly pure business. All the info we have stresses his completely depoliticized education and educational choices. In short, before he was governor, and maybe even then, he did not have an education in politics, broadly speaking.
Who knows? If Obama applied to the MBA/JD and had no interest in HLR would he have gotten in? It Mittens wanted to forego the MBA/JD program and take a stab at HLR would he have gotten it? WHo knows.
Yes, we don't know the answer to this, but I'm willing to lean towards arguing that Romney would not have been able to do the HLR- Obama was a con. law specialist, while Romney only did business law.
But for what we know...Harvard JD/MBA>>>Harvard JD/HLR for President
Can you elaborate on this? It might have been more work, but substantively, I'm not sure it has the advantage if it was purely business-oriented.
Bain/ Boston Group Consulting>>> (junior) Civil Rights Attorney
Maybe. Obama wasn't a civil rights attorney for very long, I'll give you that. He did accomplish a considerable amount in that period, though. I also honestly believe that community organizing shouldn't be dismissed in this discussion, much as some Republicans scoffed at it as a non-job. In many ways it's more substantive than the managerial many MBAs . It also teaches you a lot about the connection between federal, state, and city politics, and between all of those and nonprofit work, community-building, the lives of average Americans, and the ways the problems that affect them intersect. Until Romney was a governor, he would have had no experience with any of that.
Quick question...roll back to 2008...WHo's more "qualified" on paper? Obama or McCain?
To be honest, I don't remember McCain's background now. I've completely forgotten it.