Leave it to the Coast to Coast AM guys to find this story:
The “tomb” stands dark and hulking at the heart of the Yale University campus, almost windowless, and shuttered and padlocked in the thick snow of winter storms.
Built to mimic a Greco-Egyptian temple, it is the headquarters of the Order of the Skull and Bones, America’s most elite and elusive secret society – and it has become the unlikely focus of this year’s presidential election. It turns out that four leading contestants for the White House in November’s election were 1960s undergraduates at Yale: President Bush and Democratic rivals Governor Howard Dean, Sen John Kerry and Sen Joseph Lieberman.
What is more, two are “Bonesmen”. Both Sen Kerry, now the Democrat front runner, and President Bush belong to the 172-year-old society, which aims to get its members into positions of power. This presidential election seems destined to become the first in history to pit one Skull and Bones member against another.
The phenomenon of the “Yalies”, as Yale alumni are known, has provoked an intense debate over apparent elitism among Americans amazed that – in a democracy of almost 300 million people – the battle for power should be waged among candidates drawn from the 4,000 who graduated from Yale in four different years of the 1960s.
This should keep the conspiracy freaks going for a while.
BigFire
Being a Bonesman isn’t quite as elitism as some conspiracy theorist have claimed. Berkeley Breathed, the creator of Bloom County is a member of Skulls and Bones as well.
Andrew Lazarus
Cheney was also at Yale in the 1960s, but he didn’t complete a degree.
John Cole
I thought he went to Wyoming.
Jason
Cats & dogs living together! Mass hysteria!
andrew
LaRouche likes to talk about this society. Personally I think it is no more that a little club.
Jon H
“I thought he went to Wyoming.”
He did, after he left Yale.
I guess his family didn’t have enough clout to keep him in.
Giladani
Amongst the more fantastic rumors of what’s inside that building: a swimming pool filled with champagne.
Sigivald
Well, given that you have to be at least 35 to be president (and practically speaking, you have to be no younger than your late 40s to actually get elected), and that people who went to the top Ivies are disproprtionately in the high end of politics (though which way the causality goes here is uncertain; rich, connected families both tend to politics and tend to the Ivies. This hardly indicates that Yale leads to the Presidency so much as that families who are rich and run to politics are both more likely to send kids to Yale and to have kids become President), it’s thus hardly surprising that of the current candidates should include some of the 4,000 people who attended Yale in those years.
In fact, it would be an amusing thing to go through the records and see how many Presidential campaigns didn’t involve at least one Yalie. (Ditto Harvard, and any other comparable school that might exist.)
Of course, critical thinking like that is incompatible with being a moonbat.
Jon H
“This should keep the conspiracy freaks going for a while.”
Wake us when David Icke starts getting airtime to explain how Bush and Kerry are actually shapeshifting lizard-men.
*That* is a conspiracy theory with real amusement value.
M. Scott Eiland
“LaRouche likes to talk about this society.”
So does Gary Trudeau, who has been known to drift into LaRouchean levels of moonbattery when pursuing his loathing of the Bush family in “Doonesbury.”
andrew
M. Scotty-
Liberal bias on the funny pages is a danger to our democracy.
Russell
Wait, let me get this straight… you’re telling me that the people running for president are those that went to the best school in the country?
The scandal’s been blown wide open! We’re through the looking glass here, people…
BigFire
Well, it isn’t as bad as in France, where practically the entire government (and most of the industries) are run by graduate of ONE school Ecole nationale d’administration (National Academy of Administration).
andy
Do the CtCAM callers give anyone else beside me the willies? I share oxygen with these people?
Kate
“Well, it isn’t as bad as in France, where practically the entire government (and most of the industries) are run by graduate of ONE school Ecole nationale d’administration (National Academy of Administration).”
Or Canada, where all of them have been in the employ of Paul Desmarais’ “Power Corporation”.
arbacus
there are bones men in roxbury as well, one goes by the name of ryan keisling.
Andrew | BYTE BACK
Dana Milbank as I have seen reported elsewhere is a member of the S & C.
BFD. This is not something we want to waste ANY time on.
Andrew | BYTE BACK
S & B
(I was thinking skull and crossbones.
Pirates? :)
john
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Peter Atkinson
There’s a fascinating page on Bush, Kerry and Skyll and Bones at survivalistskills.com/bushkery.htm. Very interesting reading!
Kathy Johnson
If you’re interested in ‘Skull and Bones’, you’ll finfd these links extremely useful:
survivalistskills.com/bushkery.htm
survivalistskills.com/BUSHSKUL.HTM
survivalistskills.com/MORSKULL.HTM
survivalistskills.com/SKULLSEC.HTM
survivalistskills.com/BONESMEN.HTM
survivalistskills.com/SECEST.HTM“
http://www.survivalistskills.com/kemp.htm
survivalistskills.com/WHOSWHO.HTM
survivalistskills.com/TRAGEDY.HTM
survivalistskills.com/TRUEBUSH.HTM
survivalistskills.com/BUSHLOVE.HTM
survivalistskills.com/IMDECEPT.HTM
survivalistskills.com/RICHRULE.HTM
survivalistskills.com/BUSHGROV.HTM
survivalistskills.com/BUSHSAUD.HTM
survivalistskills.com/BUSHMIAS.HTM
survivalistskills.com/YALEBONE.HTM