As for the comments of David Thomson (#3), George W. Bush graduated from Phillips Andover Academy in 1964, from Yale College in 1968 and from the Harvard Business School in 1975. There is nothing in his entire record as president to suggest that he was “uncomfortable rebuking the elites.” The vast majority of his key appointments were not “elites” if by that you mean (and I don’t, but Thomson apparently does) alumni of Ivy League schools. Finally, if he were such a loyal Yalie, afraid to rebuke “elites,” he would have pardoned I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Jr., Yale ’72, who fell on his sword for Vice President Cheney, who,like hundreds if not thousands of Yale alumni as well as virtually the entire intelligentsia of the East Coast, sent petitions, private letters and emails to President Bush beseeching him to grant this pardon, which would have permitted Libby to practice law again. I find no evidence in the record of his gubernatorial or presidential administrations that George W. Bush was in the slightest “uncomfortable rebuking elites.”
