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Originally Posted by ardeegee
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.
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I am assuming that you feel you have the right to make these kinds of comments because you are far more intelligent than the "any idiots" who have gotten college degrees. I have two college degrees. One in Computer Science and one in Education. Which one of those do you feel lacks "weight"? By reducing her accomplishment, you reduce those of anyone who has ever received a degree in that field, even some of those people contributing to sources you've quoted.
I know nothing about Mrs. Palin's actual intelligence, sound bites from the media not withstanding, or yours for that matter, so I don't make disparaging remarks about it. Having said that, it is very obvious from the sources that you have quoted that you tend to receive the majority of your information from Liberal sources which, to me, indicates that your viewpoint's would be biased.
I will grant you that there have been people with great intellect who have been instrumental in the foundation of this country. However, I do not place them in the category of demagogue nor do I think that they were the standard to which we should all adhere. They were men (and women) with flaws and idiosynchrosies and, at times, radical viewpoints. I'm sure that in their time there were those who considered them "idiots" and not worthy to shine someone's shoes, too.