Since when is it a bad thing to have a Harvard education and it is a good thing to barely graduate from college and have no interest in the world other than through the Bilble’s interpretation?

…if you are actually worried about Palin’s foreign policy experience….

Is an obvious troll.

I spent a summer in the Soviet Union, can I be a VP too?

The college records of candidates say a lot to me about people and their perseverense and goals. Obama’s ‘magna cum laude’ law degree says that among very select bright peers, he was graduated “with great honor”, the only higher designation being ’summa cum laude’ reserved to one recipient. There can be more than one ‘magna’… Next down fom ‘magna’ is ‘cum laude,’ in itself hard to come by without a lot of hard work. To read how low a standing John McCain had in his West Point class is disturbing. What on earth was he doing instead of studying? Don’t bother to answer that onel

To me, Obama has the intellect and judgement to make full use the knowledge gained from really applying himself during his years of formal education. I want someone smarter than myself in the White House, and have been waiting a long ime for someone of his stature to come along. He represents my values and I am sure he has the skills and experience necessary to lead our country.

When she flies off the handle at Russian incursion into Georgia, and proclaims that we may have to fight Russia, does she understand that not only is there the WWII analogy of Neville Chamberlain to consider, there is also the web of alliances and over-”readiness” that led to WWI? Does she even know how that war began and the lessons it teaches about the stupidity of bluster in international affairs? Does she really know the difference between the Sunni and the Shia? What about the Kurds? What’s her position on Kashmir? Where does she think the US should be on Darfur? Can she find it on a map? Does she own a map?

She brags about how energy policy is “her baby.” Give me a break. Does she know anything substantial about energy policy other than crude oil mining in Alaska? Does she know anything at all about solar, nuclear, geothermal, ethanol? What’s her position on the Investment Tax Credit? What about the Production Tax Credit? Should both be extended at current levels? How about Yucca Mountain? Does she know what state it’s in and why it’s relevant to energy policy? Is that part of “her baby,” or something she still needs to bone up on before debating Biden?

I have no doubt that all three of the other candidates– McCain, Obama, and Biden– are each intellectually curious people who view knowledge of history and current affairs as an absolute necessity to the jobs they’re seeking. Palin’s faking it, and it shows. That’s what the Putins, Chavezes, and, yes, Bin Ladens of the world will see: that she’s not just unqualified now, but unqualifiable ever because of her incredible shallowness.

Contrary to the McCain/Palin campaign, America does, in fact, need elite– in the sense of well-educated, intelligent, thoughtful– people in key positions of government and business. The system normally produces that result, with notable exceptions. Explicitly rejecting the need for intellectual depth and breadth, and picking someone because of their similarity to some oversimplified version of “real America” (e.g., “hockey moms”) to steer the country through a tremendously complex world is national Russian roulette.

It’s an American tragedy that she ever rose beyond the ranks of TV news.

As for McCain, the Social Security Administration’s actuarial tables give him a 1 out of 7 chance of dying during his first term, and a 1 out of 3 chance if the country were foolhardy enough to elect him to a second term. I don’t think she’ll be any more qualified then than she is right now, which is to say– not at all.

I think both parties would be apt to lie or mislead about their experience with foreign policy. The hot button topic at the moment is the economy, and I tend to think that right now, because they are connected to the Bush record with a Republican Congress for several years, McCain has many things he will have to defend (and likely lie about).

On either side, I see no solutions coming from either of these people, and that’s pretty freaking scary.

and “Juris Doctor” isn’t even a real doctor- another strike against Obama!

Obama:
Occidental College – Two years.
Columbia University – B.A. political science with a specialization in international relations.
Harvard – Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude

& Biden:
University of Delaware – B.A. in history and B.A. in political science.
Syracuse University College of Law – Juris Doctor (J.D.)

vs.

McCain:
United States Naval Academy – Class rank 894 of 899

& Palin:
Hawaii Pacific University – 1 semester
North Idaho College – 2 semesters – general study
University of Idaho – 2 semesters – journalism
Matanuska-Susitna College – 1 semester
University of Idaho – 3 semesters – B.A. in journalism

Now, which team are you going to hire ?

What, exactly, was John Edwards’ foreign policy experience in 2004, when he was selected as Kerry’s VP in the middle of his single term in office?

What, exactly, is Obama’s foreign policy experience, aside from secretly negotiating in violation of the Logan Act?

Instead of just reading today’s talking points, why don’t you seriously consider if you are actually worried about Palin’s foreign policy experience verses Obama’s, or verses Edwards’, or verses Clinton’s. The fact is, each party brings with it its team of advisors and think-tank people. So a President always learns on the job, along with the Vice President.

The person with the MOST foreign policy experience ever to be Vice President was probably Dick Cheney. Yet you’d recoil at him. So I detect no consistency at all in the level of support of a person based on experience, yet I do detect a lot of snark.

Keep patting yourself of the back. No one is laughing at you.