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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 agree that Thomas Jefferson was a pretty smart fellow but had some pretty
radical ideas (of course, I jest), such as:
Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work, and give to those who would not.
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the Government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Of course, has nothing really to do with Palin and her book, but touches a bit on the drift the thread has taken about government, and Jefferson
was mentioned as an intelletual giant with deep thoughts.