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It's also possible that her degrees from MIT and Stanford and experience as a lawyer at Google had something to do with it.

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Her resume is beyond sterling, I literally don't believe you could find someone more qualified. But sure, she got the job because she's a woman. God people are awful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_K._Lee#Education_and_...

I agree, she was an astonishingly qualified candidate at the time of her appointment. It's really unfortunate to see the recent exodus of high-profile intelligent people in the current administration at a time where leadership is needed most.

I was lucky enough to get to know and work with her a bit, before her appointment. She is an amazing person.

Please edit and remove the anchor hashtag. The childhood section is even more awesome.

i just love that she build a TV, and then, as in "later", her "interest grew"–when she was 10.

People may be awful but those who are best at it are often also the loudest.

And something to do with her resignation. Didn't Obama's cabinet have a ridiculous number of PhD's, and Trump's end up replacing some Nobel laureates with Rick Perry?

Steven Chu (Nobel Prize in Physics 1997) was succeeded by Ernest Moniz (Nuclear Physicist, MIT Professor) who was succeeded by Rick Perry (who forgot which agency he was going to abolish if elected [1])

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTNjhcyx7dM

George W. Bush didn't always appoint slouches either. Samuel Bodman was a professor at MIT and then went into industry. Spencer Abrahams, the prior officeholder, was a politico.

Yeah. GWB appointed a horse-trainer with zero experience to be head of FEMA, aka the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which is, not surprisingly, responsible for dealing with, you know, emergencies.

DJT is no GWB.

These are the last 3 heads of the Department of Energy. Perry is especially hilarious in this context because he intended to abolish the DOE.

That wouldn't be so surprising (since the Environment Dept. head wanted to abolish it too, and Betsy Voss I'm sure wants to abolish the Education Dept). The surprising thing is that he believed that the Dept of Energy was to do with regulating the "Energy" aka Oil and Gas industries.

nah she stole that job from an innocent man, no way a woman could actually be qualified.

It's not necessarily about her being a woman, as much as a Google employee. Obama hired dozens of Google employees to prominent executive branch positions during his term.

http://www.googletransparencyproject.org/articles/googles-re...

Please reset your sarcasm filter.

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