I'm not hung up on academic credentials - I'm just stating the obvious fact that Palin is an idiot compared to Obama - and if you're going to attempt to compare Palin with Einstein and Edison I'd say this conversation is pointless.

>Lots of ;)'s ahead...
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>>>>>Obama/Palin is easy. Palin by a WIDE margin. She may have her intellectual faults, but I put her mental capacity far and above Obama's. I have yet to be presented with any shred of evidence as to His superior intellect.
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>>>>Ok let me be SURE I have this right - you think Palin's intellect is equal to that of Obama's, and claim there is no evidence to suggest otherwise?
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>>>You snipped too much ;)
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>>>His ideas and policies are a tried and failed regurgitation of bankrupting socialist domestic policy, detente kowtowing foreign policy and historically inept Keynesian fiscal policy.
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>>>I take the President at his word that he believes the policies he has advocated and implemented will make America stronger and safer. A simple examination of the historical record demonstrates exactly where his policy decisions will lead. Therefore, I conclude him to be intellectually inept.
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>>>If you prefer, I could impose the W or Quayle IQ standard and point out his gaffes (see Auschwitz, 57 states, 10000 dead in Kansas, profit/earnings, 8% unemployment, stupid police...)
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>>>One may also consider him to be insane if applying Einstein's definition. ;)
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>>Ok well you unsnipped too much.
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>>Look - if you think Barack Obama, caught up in the fervor of a campaign speech, overstating the Kansas tornadoes death toll suddenly put his intellect on par with Palin's your nuts.
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>>Palin went to North Idaho College and got a b.s. in communications. Meanwhile Barack Obama is a graduate of Harvard Law School, magna cum laude and Columbia University - BA, Political Science.
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>Ah, I see, you're hung up on academic credentials.
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>Einstein, Edison, the Wright Brothers...all elementary school dropouts.
>Gates, Dell, Jobs...all college dropouts.
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>Clearly all are far less intelligent than the president...right? ;)
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>One's ability to stay in the coddled surroundings of college does not impress me. The fact that he applied that "superior" education to "community organizing" is much more telling. ;)
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>>Palin's foreign relations skills are that she "can see Russia from her house"
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>So her foreign relations skills are on par with your research ability, since she never said what you quoted. That's Tina Fey. ;)
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>>and duh unable to tell if Africa is a country or not.
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>I'll give you credit, at least you didn't use quotes this time, since this rumor is attributed to “sources within the McCain campaign.” ;)
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>and then there's, duh, "countries like Europe". ;)
>http://vocalminority.typepad.com/blog/2010/05/will-obama-get-the-palin-treatment-for-calling-europe-a-country.html
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>>Even if you don't agree with what Obama has done (or is doing) surely you can't actually think we'd be better off with an idiot like Palin responsible for our country do you?
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>Yes. With the exception of certain war policies (once he eventually hemmed and hawed and made a freaking decision), he has done nothing positive. Our foreign policy is a joke, from the apology tour, to ignoring the Iranian citizens uprising, to the Russian policy of give Putin what he wants...I mean "reset". His administration is suing a state for having the gall to pass a law to mimic unenforced federal law, while ignoring obvious election violations purely based on politically calculated, racial grounds. He has been making one incompetently politically motivated decision after another regarding the Gulf oil spill while ignoring the obvious, simple acts that he can do with the stroke of a pen between swings of his golf club. Then there's the the 2000+ page domestic policies he has pushed and are unhelpful at best and economically disastrous at worst. The health care takeover, as many of us knew beforehand and others are slowly learning, is Madoff, Stanford, Medicare and Social Security on steroids combined with a centrally controlled bureaucratic web of rationing and containing a fistful of private insurance destroying mandates. Financial "reform" makes "too-big-to-fail" bailouts and private company seizures standard practice while completely ignoring the $350 billion (to date) Fannie and Freddie gorillas swept under the rug.
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>A thousand times yes! Give me Palin over this inept, egomaniacal, narcissistic, moron!
>Hell, I'd even take Hillary! ;)
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>>Even if you like the idea that she wants to "shake things up in Washington and ruffle some feathers" at least admit if that's what she wants to do then she should become a senator and learn a few things before she tries to handle international relations for our country like the USA.
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>Personally, I like where she is now. I think she's found her niche. In addition, I hope we allow the president to return to his community organizing niche in January 2015.