Thursday, October 30, 2008

Obama and experience

Whenever people say, "But what about Palin? She has no experience." Generally the response from a Palin supporter is: "And Obama? What about him?"

Well, what about him? There is a difference between the two of them that is never brought up-and that is education. Palin graduated after hopping around 5 colleges. Eventually she graduated in 1987 at the University of Idaho. Obama, graduated at Columbia college, and then later Harvard where he served as the president of the Harvard Review. In terms of education, I hear that Ivy league schools are hard to get into, and becoming the president of the Harvard review is even harder.

Just the other day somebody said, "So what about education? George Washington was the president and he didn't graduate high school." Me being the sort of person who needs to digest problems and let them sit for a while was rather baffled and didn't comment on that, but now I do have a response.
1. Do you think George Washington could handle an economy where we're 10 trillion in debt? He lived in an age where people were still traveling my horse and used slaves. Sure he was a good president then, but the requirements for being a president were a lot different then they are now.
2. The idea that education is irrelevant is asinine. Education is the base of plenty intelligence that is required to be a president, and the better education the better the president is likely to be.

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