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Nostatic makes a good point: education does not give the full story with the cabinet. I've heard Bush was a C student and his highest achievement in college was ordering keggers for his fraternity's weekend parties. For all the education Rumsfeld met with at Princeton, he certainly missed the class on public speaking and tact.

Hollywood is famous for people dropping out of college. But Hollywood has its share of performers who are also very academic . Jodie Foster went to Yale and studied, I believe, comparative literature. James Woods went to MIT and was a math/engineering major. Tommy Lee Jones went to Yale (though I can't recall what he studied). I think Arnold Schwarzenneger has an MBA from University of Missourri.

In Hollywood, there's a lot of talent that is very highly educated, and in DC, a lot of so-called highly educated that has absolutely no talent.

For my sheepskin, Rice and Powell are the real deal. I don't think either had many connections to pave their way for them.