The Dream Team: 894 out of 899 and "We've never been staunch anything."
The anti-intellectualism of America continues unabated.
Do people know that Senator McCain graduated 5th from last in his class at the Naval Acadamy? And that there is speculation that the only reason he got in was family connections? At best, he was a poor student in his younger days. Maybe he had "other priorities", as Vice President Cheney once famously said about his decision to avoid serving during the Vietnam War.
And do people know that Governor Palin attended five different colleges before receiving a degree in journalism from the University of Idaho? Today, the New York Times is running a story about her younger days, and quotes Palin's mother as saying, "We've never been staunch anything." And her classmates seem to have no memories of Palin doing or saying anything of consequence.
Wow. A guy who was a terrible student in one of the nation's elite schools before becoming a pilot and eventually a prisoner of war and war hero, and a woman who drifted from school to school without making much of an impression on anyone could be the next President and Vice President. I guess when someone says to their child, "You know, you could grow up to be POTUS someday", they might be right. Especially if that child and that family hold no real political or societal views of consequence, are indifferent students, and drift from one school to the next.
Contrast this with Senator Obama, who did admittedly attend two different colleges before receiving his Bachelor's from the Ivy League's Columbia University, then becoming the very first African-American to be elected President of Harvard Law Review.
Who would you rather have leading this nation in one of the worst economic crisis' in our history? I know I want the smart, committed guy.
Do people know that Senator McCain graduated 5th from last in his class at the Naval Acadamy? And that there is speculation that the only reason he got in was family connections? At best, he was a poor student in his younger days. Maybe he had "other priorities", as Vice President Cheney once famously said about his decision to avoid serving during the Vietnam War.
And do people know that Governor Palin attended five different colleges before receiving a degree in journalism from the University of Idaho? Today, the New York Times is running a story about her younger days, and quotes Palin's mother as saying, "We've never been staunch anything." And her classmates seem to have no memories of Palin doing or saying anything of consequence.
Wow. A guy who was a terrible student in one of the nation's elite schools before becoming a pilot and eventually a prisoner of war and war hero, and a woman who drifted from school to school without making much of an impression on anyone could be the next President and Vice President. I guess when someone says to their child, "You know, you could grow up to be POTUS someday", they might be right. Especially if that child and that family hold no real political or societal views of consequence, are indifferent students, and drift from one school to the next.
Contrast this with Senator Obama, who did admittedly attend two different colleges before receiving his Bachelor's from the Ivy League's Columbia University, then becoming the very first African-American to be elected President of Harvard Law Review.
Who would you rather have leading this nation in one of the worst economic crisis' in our history? I know I want the smart, committed guy.
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