People like you scare the crap out of me. Given that North Korea is a present day threat, knowing the historical context of the Korean War is important in making good decisions about policy. This is not a test in history class, where if you get a question wrong it is no big deal.
You seem to be of the opinion that any old moron could be president. The booboisie is very offended if told that their emotional opinions are wrong - that evolution happened, that the banks not being bailed out would have had disastrous consequences, that climate change is happening. They don’t get why people think Harvard, Yale and MIT are better than Podunk Community College.
Rabble rousing, by the way, does not imply intelligence. And I would thank you to not insult my country by saying it is as stupid as Sarah Palin.
“Dare To Be Stupid” used to be a parody song by “Weird Al” Yankovic, and you’ve turned it into a rallying cry. Is Deliberate Ignorance something you are actually proud of?
Granted, but that’s all irrelevant to the issue at hand – namely, whether Palin “struggled for years through a battery of community and state colleges to amass enough credits for a Bachelors Degree.”
One can acknowledge that she does not have the Ivy League pedigree of Barack Obama, but this does not mean that she struggled through a series of lesser schools. Frankly, there’s just no evidence that this was the case.
That’s right. When I pointed out that there’s no evidence of Palin having struggled through school, you asked, “Would it disturb you more if she was actually stupid, or just acting stupid?” So yes, you did ask a separate question – a completely irrelevant one.
If I were attempting to defend her intelligence, your objection might have some validity. I said nothing either way about her intelligence or her behavior, though. Rather, I pointed out that it’s grossly unfair to assume that she “struggled for years through a battery of community and state colleges to amass enough credits for a Bachelors Degree.” We know that she switched schools multiple times, but that’s obviously not the same thing.
In other words, your challenge is completely irrelevant to the objection that I was raising, and you know it.
No, you weren’t. You specifically said that she struggled through school, and that she scrambled to scrounge up enough credits to earn her degree. That goes far beyond merely contesting the notion that her degree indicates a certain level of intelligence.
Except for the documented series of lesser schools, you mean?
I think the only thing you have an issue with is the word, “struggled.” You don’t have to accept that characterization if you don’t want to, but all I was really doing was countering the suggestion that having a collge degree, in itself, was evidence of an above average intelligence. I’d say her college credentials are the definition of “average,” and maybe a little bit less.
A-friggin’-men. I don’t understand why this isn’t obvious. I don’t want the President of the United States of America to be someone that I can hang out and have a beer with, shooting the breeze. I want someone who is REALLY smart, very focused, intellectually curious, able to admit when they don’t know something and then able and willing to seek out the information they need to fill that gap.
And someone who recognizes that the reality of the current world situation is not black and white, “you’re for us or against us,” but is a myriad of colors, all of which require thinking outside of a parochial mindset.
I DON’T want someone who celebrates ignorance as a virtue.
I’m saying that she’s not doing herself any favors. However, trying to use as a hammer against her only manages to endear her to her supporters. That’s sort of the gist of what I’m trying to say.
I didn’t say I thought she’d make a good president. I said she’s going to stir up a huge amount of money for pubs in the next election.
I don’t think she’s electable.
Also, I like smart people. I like people who are intellectually elite. The views of the rabble are not necessarily those those expressed by me.
I have the opposite feeling - she’s going to draw shit tons of crazy voters and donors, and turn off independents and moderates. It’ll be the same effect she had on the McCain campaign - she preaches to the choir well, but is a shitty evangelist, as it were.
