Guess where the Iranian leadership was educated...

[DonViejo]

http://www.businessinsider.com/does-it-matter-if-irans-leaders-are-us-educated-2014-10

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. No doubt they are better-educated than those 47 GOP knuckleheads.

[1StrongBlackMan]

28. Well ...

they are certainly better educated than the gop front-runner ... but then, so is my daughter.

[freshwest]

33. Your daughter is light years ahead of those goons.

[RoccoR5955]

45. My amoeba is better educated than the GOP front runner! n/t

[hifiguy]

2. Not surprising, actually.

Probably a lot smarter than those 47 Repuke asswipes.

[3catwoman3]

5. No probably...

...about it.

[Richard D]

17. The dirt in my potted plants

Is smarter than them.

[Spazito]

3. It seems they paid attention when the Constitution and International Law...

unlike the 47 republican scumbags.

[libdem4life]

4. Oh my, good information...shocking, actually.

[FSogol]

6. Where was Scott Walker educated?

[Takket]

8. S.H.I.T.

[link:|

[Major Nikon]

13. I thought it was the Florida University of Continuous Knowledge

Good ol' FUCK U.

[Hutzpa]

15. lol

Sniffing Koch University

[lastlib]

27. (I thought Stevens-Hoboken Inst. of Tech. had that moniker!....)

My BIL went there!

[DonViejo]

9. Three and a half years at Marquette University; quit the second semester of his Senior year.

[FSogol]

10. It was rhetorical. Walker, the Koch brother's drooling half-wit, has no degree.

[DonViejo]

12. I thought you were being rhetorical...

but, Walker's lack of a diploma and when he quit, need to be mentioned whenever his name is mentioned. Democrats need to know it by heart. Apologies for not acknowledging your original intent in the other comment.

[Thor_MN]

23. We should give him credit where due. High School Graduate Walker has a nice ring to it.

He did earn that diploma, we shouldn't take that away from him.

[justhanginon]

11. Seems almost Palinesque!

They don't seem to be good finishers.

[Major Nikon]

14. Quite possibly better than Goodhair Perry almost flunking out of animal husbandry

...at an agricultural university.

[HERVEPA]

31. A line from Tom Lehrer.

"He majored in animal husbandry. Until they caught him at it"

[ladjf]

7. That's impressive. n t

[Scurrilous]

16. K & R

[niyad]

18. very interesting, but not really surprising.

[Thespian2]

19. So Let me see.

Iranian leaders were intelligent enough to receive outstanding educations in American universities. The ass-wipe who is destroying Wisconsin for the swinging Kochs dropped out of university to become the drool-dropping half-wit that he is. I got it now. Walker has kissed enough corporate ass, hopefully he thinks, to become president so he can then have America's military blow the shit out of Iran. Do I understand the Koch-sucker plan correctly?

[ND-Dem]

20. not a bit surprised. there were huge numbers of iranian students in the US under the Shah.

That's the generation more or less that's in power now.

If you were 20 in 1979 when the shah was deposed you'd be 55 now.

[catchnrelease]

25. I remember this

I went to Cal Poly Pomona in the late '60s, early '70s and there were many many Iranian students there. I remember them having protests against the shah in the central gathering area. I think most were there for engineering degrees, but the school also has many ag programs. I also remember them being referred to in derogatory terms and have always wondered if that had influenced their view of Americans.

[ND-Dem]

29. i remember the student protests but don't remember the iranians being treated badly.

Last edited Tue Mar 10, 2015, 12:00 AM - Edit history (1)

on edit: one thing I do remember is that some Iranian students were paranoid about the Iranian intelligence service SAVAK -- paranoid that some of their fellow students were spies.

[catchnrelease]

39. I just remember the terms

I recall someone referring to 'C-J's' and I asked what that was. Told it meant camel jockeys and referred to the Iranian or other Middle Eastern students. I remember guys saying that the 'cj's' were always trying to get the blonde girls. I honestly don't know that they were treated badly, or if they knew about these terms but I would think they would have heard them.

That was around '69/'70 when I was a freshman and was sort of shell shocked by the whole college scene, just trying to adjust to it all. I just thought/think it was pretty mean to use those names.

[ND-Dem]

41. I remember "c-j-" as a generic term for arabs, not iranians -- but i suppose it depended where

you were and when etc.

[catchnrelease]

42. You're right

I think I associated it with the Iranians because they stood out on campus at that time, with the protests against the shah, and the name was directed towards them. But I'm sure you are right and it probably was used for anyone from the Middle East then, and I just wasn't aware enough to know the difference.

[Raine1967]

35. Regular Iranians don't have a bad view of Americans or of the USA.

The documentary:

and for myself, even more important, his lecture about his visit afterwards:

[catchnrelease]

40. I have always heard this

That Iranians in general like Americans and our culture (what are they thinking, lol!) I hope it's true.

[progressoid]

48. I haven't seen this yet.

Thanks posting.

[Hekate]

21. Not awfully surprised. Our wingnuts are deeply, deeply ignorant. And deeply stupid.

Why do they need to know how government is supposed to work when they went to Washington to dismantle it?

They are a national embarrassment.

[Dreamer Tatum]

22. Why didn't they go to the prestigious universities in Islamic countries? nt

[Spazito]

24. I guess for the same reason US students study abroad...

http://www.iie.org/Research-and-Publications/Open-Doors/Data/US-Study-Abroad/All-Destinations/2011-13

[Dreamer Tatum]

36. It was a trick question. nt

[ND-Dem]

30. because most were in university while the shah was in power?

first guy on the list, javad sharif, went to study in the US in 1977, for example.

[Deertoil]

26. Not sure who this relects upon more poorly - Iranian leadersip or our colleges?

Perhaps neither.

[Cleita]

32. I once worked at UCLA and I worked with many educated Iranians.

They studied here and in Europe.

[Fred Sanders]

34. The GOP Letter of Shame has had the unintended consequence of humanizing Iranian leadership.

No wonder the useless corporate media has avoided covering the story....and the GOP is so clearly WRONG and confusing a treaty with a multinational agreement....this will not end well for the GOP.

Better to avoid discussion of it.

Great information, Manny.

[DeSwiss]

37. K&R!

- Damn! We should try to get them to run for office here!

[center][font size=3]''I went to almost that many schools myself!''[/font]
[/center]

[father founding]

44. IKES!

Wow, Is she gorgeous !

[seveneyes]

38. Guess where the followers of mayhem and hate were educated

From their teachers from the uneducated masses of intolerance and superstition derived from the absence of curiosity of the unknown gift of life and logic of compassion.

[ND-Dem]

43. huh?

[marym625]

46. better educated than Scott walker

[Rex]

47. I don't understand, why would they come here and get educated by the Great Satan?

CIA double agents. YUP. YUP.