>>>Well that's true - everyone makes verbal gaffes. But that doesn't change the fact that Palin is simply stupid...or at least to dumb to lead a country like the USA. Palin holds a Bachelor of Science degree in communications-journalism from the University of Idaho. Obama went to Harvard and led the Harvard Legal Review....hmmm the distinguished Harvard grad vs the country bumpikn from Idaho. Come on dude! Really ???
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>>>You are confusing education with intelligence here.
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>>"....>Anyway, the school from which one graduates has very little to do with how well educated one is."
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>>OMG your're kidding right? You're argument is now that schools have little to do with educating someone?
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>>>I know lots of people with college degrees and 8th grade educations.
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>>Then I'd say they went to a really crappy college - which either was not accredited or shouldn't be if it is.
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>>>Surely you cannot really be as shallow as this post indicates.
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>>I didn't think I was being shallow??? Harvard > University of Idaho. Leader of Harvard Legal Review > B.S. degree in journalism. I don't consider that shallow - just a fact.
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>They you can't call gw dumb... He graduated from Yale with is just as prestigious as Harvard....

As a legacy, which probably didn't hurt. If his name had been George W. Smith I suspect he would have had a hard time getting in.

Which is not to say he's a dummy. I agree with whoever said in this thread that the media overplayed his gaffes.