...and has worked so hard on a Master's degree (though granted it seems to have been about the Olympics),...
Olympia, what was Michelle´s master thesis? Maybe i ll get ideas if I want to be a diplomat in the very far future.
I can be a Condoleezza Rice then from my failed gymnastics careerarty:“I believe I may have learnt more from my failed figure-skating career than I did from anything else. Athletics gives you a kind of toughness and discipline that nothing else really does."
thanx Alica is almost all North European!
I can be a Condoleezza Rice then from my failed gymnastics careerarty:
^ok then I ll tell my dad to hire you as my assistant. Although I know geography myself.
Condoleeza Rice was perhaps the worst Sec of State and least qualified Natl Security Advisor in the history of American govt.
She was hired by Bush Sr because someone needed to teach junior how to pronounce the names of the capitol cities of foreign countries.
She did well at this and never let on how little jr knew about the world.
The rest led to some of the worst and most failed foreign policy in the history of the USA.
In her career (Michelle Kwan) has received 57 perfect 6.0 marks in major competitions...
I am beginning to understand why this site in general discourage mixing skating and politics. Assuming you are joking, what you mentioned still offend me.
Hey, at least Bush knew there were only 50 states in the Union, rather than "57" states like our current "dear leader" believe. Nor did Bush denigrate the vast majority of US citizens as "bitter cringers" touting guns and religions. I am neither Christian nor a gun-owner, but I couldn't believe the arrogance with which then candidate Obama looked down upon my fellow Pennsylvania citizens. :scowl:
Nothing this man has done since has changed my mind. I'm pretty sure I could say Mr. Obama as one of the worst presidents with many facts to back up when his term is up. But hey, that's just my humble opinion.
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I dont eat pickles but as an outsider observer that I am, Mr Obama is far more popular and respected by the general public in this side of the ocean than team Bush, the reasons are pretty much known, but anyway , i m just the messenger. Me, I would vote for Michelle anyway.
Too bad Rice never taught junior how to pronounce "nuclear."
I don't want to continue the discussion of contemporary politics, so as not to cause distress to anyone.
But I can't let pass Mathman's remark about having taken part in that earlier convention as a Fannie Lou Hamer delegate. How wonderful, Math! Hamer is one of my great heroes, as is Bob Moses, the CORE worker who did so much to help get voters registered in Hamer's home state of Mississippi that year. He could share your screen name, Mathman: he is the founder of the Algebra Project, designed to teach math literacy to low-income children. He believes that math literacy is in a way the civil rights issue of our time, and I am inclined to agree with him.
For those of you who are too young or who are from elsewhere, one main goal of the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and the 1960s was voting rights. If people can vote, they can change the laws. This is why in many states in the South, African Americans were intimidated and otherwise kept from registering. Dr. Rice's father was one. Fannie Lou Hamer, a Mississippi sharcropper (a kind of tenant farmer), was another, and there were hundreds of thousands more. The Civil Rights movement used all sorts of nonviolent tactics, including marches, voter registration drives, and masterful publicity, to convince the Federal government to enact a law that would ensure the voting rights of all. They succeeded in 1965. I won't go into the whole story here, but it is one of the most breathtaking achievements in American history. Another of my heroes, John Lewis, was an activist from that time. An indication of our progress: he is now a longtime member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
He believes that math literacy is in a way the civil rights issue of our time, and I am inclined to agree with him.