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Originally Posted by kazbates
Calling her uneducated is unfair and malicious. She has a college degree, in Journalism. Does that make all journalists unintelligent?
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Just about any idiot can get "a college degree" these days. It is little more difficult than an high school diploma. You just have to show up for classes and make the minimum effort into making passing grades. Being
educated in no way
needs to be connected to
training for a profession which is what most college degrees are. Being
educated is being knowledgeable in a wide scope of areas-- even ones that do not have a direct effect on your daily life-- and having a thirst for continued learning. I can tell that Palin lacks that by the words coming out of her (NOT Tina Fey's) mouth.
So she managed to make it (over 5 years and 6 schools) to a 4-year degree in a light-weight subject, just like many millions of other Americans. How does that make her stand out to lead the free world? When I mean
educated, I mean people like Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine and all the other
educated people who helped frame the philosophy and the fact of this country. I mean intellectual giants with deep thoughts and
advanced educations. People who had vastly less technology, vastly more difficult travel opportunities, and vastly less access to books than Palin had even though she was in Alaska and yet they learned far, far, far more than Palin ever has or (unless she changes radically) ever will. Any one of those men could run circles around almost all elected representatives in the US over the past century. Comparing them to Sarah Palin? She isn't even worthy to shine their shoes.