Republican vice presidential nominee Palin attended 5 colleges ...

and just exactly what is your point...
you don't recall in studying to be a writer; you're suppose to
keep the writing pertinent

She had 6 more years of college than Washington or Lincoln!

I'm not sure if this is directed at me. Sentance fragments and incomplete sentances are really hard to follow.

If your comment was targeted at me, I will help you through the obvious.

If you look at Obamas resume, and you remove college and volunteer work, it's prety weak compared to Governor Palin's.

Now if you wish to compare his resume to the republican Presidential cantidate, well now Obama gets really out of his league

everready wrote:

and just exactly what is your point...
you don't recall in studying to be a writer; you're suppose to
keep the writing pertinent

Mimi wrote:

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Should we just rely on education and trancripts in choosing the next administration? I've worked with enough Ivy League grads that I'm not impressed with the degree alone. By the time a person is in his/her mid-forties, he/she should have developed experience (or an aptitude) for the job. She's been an executive. I haven't seen anything in Barack Obama's resume that suggests any sort of executive experience, or, for that matter, any significant legislative experience.

While education isn’t the sole criteria that we should look at, it is an awfully good starting point.

We are talking about the potential leader of the most powerful country on the planet. This person must be able to digest massive amounts of information, make informed decisions and negotiate with world leaders on complex issues - do you think that person should be of even average intellect?

I commend her on earning her degree, but multiple trips to community colleges does not reflect well on ones commitment to education or intellectual capacity.

I'm not sure that any experience can adequately prepare you to be the vice president. Serving as the governor of the 47th least populated state for less than a single term sure doesn't impress me relative to the over 35 years of legislative experience that Biden brings as the potential democratic VP.

As far as Obamas resume goes, if you cant find significant legislative experience on his resume its because you are relying on conservative commentators for information instead of investigating for yourself. Go check the thomas database & see what hes done.

Opine wrote:

If you look at Obamas resume, and you remove college and volunteer work, it's prety weak compared to Governor Palin's.
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Yes, less than one term as governor of one of our least populated states & being the mayor of town of 9000 people is really much better than over 10 years of legislative experience. Oh yeah, she was in the PTA too, lets not sell her short...

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B Moe wrote:

That is only four schools you have listed there. People who can't count to four probably shouldn't be casting aspersions on the education of others.

There are different campuses for Uof Idaho. You don't count all of the U of I as one college. Just like anyone wouldn't confuse going to University of California Berkeley with going to University of California Riverside. I'm a lifelong Republican but this pick scared the hell out of me. I hate Obama's tax policies but guess who I'm voting for? Obama. I went to a pretty good school-Stanford- so I resent all the affirmative action crap that gets tossed about. Did you know Stanford denies admission to more than half of the students who have over a 4.0 average? Harvard, Yale, all those places do the same thing. So we're heading into a recession if we're not in one right now and we need someone to lead us during this rough patch. I'd rather have someone who was elected Harvard Law Review editor than some intellectual lightweight.

And this is a story because.........? I mean, aside from the fact that the AP and Tribune want Obama to win?
By the way, AP/Chicago Tribune, who was Obama's Coke supplier in college? He wrote that he used it. Where did he get it? How did he pay for it? What were his SAT and LSAT scores? Oh, you never tried to find out? Why am I not surprised?

I graduated from h.s. in 1962. I couldn't afford to go to college at that time, and over the years I took a few courses as time permitted, but I was far from graduation. I worked in customer service for a few years, managed a small office for about 6 years, was hired by a client of my employer where I worked independently for almost 17 years in a supervisory role, as well as assisting consultants in their work. I gave presentations to senior level executives, conducted training sessions, travelled to meet with clients, and worked on a team where the others all had their masters. I performed the same work as those with a masters degree. When I retired, I earned just over 80,000 per year. Probably not much in the way of income for many of you, but the point I want to make is this. I was fully capable of doing the same work as the people with the advanced degrees. It was an accomplishment that gave me a sense of pride.
Don't count Gov Palin out, I believe she is a sharp cookie.

Oh, and as a side note, I am a woman, and we all know women are underpaid :-)

Mia wrote:

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Huh? They haven't?
Let's talk a bout a different record. Let's talk about what John McCain was doing while Obama was excelling at Columbia. John McCain was slumming around with Gary Hart and John Tower, banging every bimbo they could chase onto Monkey Business.
You see, he had just returned from a prisoner of war camp. He came out of Annapolis a bad soldier because he refused to study there, a worse flier because he refused to study in flight school, and he got captured because of that. He was in so much pain from his injuries that he identified himself as the son of an admiral and offered to "be interviewed" if the enemy would take him to the best hospital in the country. They did and he did sing for them.
I would have done the same thing.
Guess what though. I'm not a hero. And neither is he.
John McCain is a regular guy, a bit on the mean side (perhaps rightly bitter), who like his running mate, is poorly educated by choice and seeking the presidency because there are so many people in his life who will be sorry when he gets to be president.

"Poorly educated by choice?" McCain? The Naval Academy. Hey. in McCain's time--probably even now--they studied real subjects--calculus, physics, chemistry. No soft phony courses that are no more than group grievance sessions led by bitter losers--Gender studies, Ethnic studies, oppression this, oppression that, Patriarchy nonense 101, queer subtexts in Shakespeare. PLEASE. Did you read Michelle's thesis? And she went to a supposedly "elite" school. Obama thought there are 57 states. No mere slip of the tongue either, as is obvious from the tape.

She's unstable, obviously. Anyone who would not protect wildlife in America's last wilderness sanctuary and not allow girls who have been molested by their fathers to have abortions has problems with their decision making and reasoning. She switched colleges 5 times because she's UNSTABLE, knee-jerkin' just like McCain.

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With that academic record, she'd be hard-pressed to move up the ladder in private industry.

I moved up the ladder with NO degree, you pompous a**!

She kills any animal in sight and from helicopters.....

And Mitt Romney is one freaking scary dude. He is bipolar and no idea what kind of extremist stuff he is going to do. His speech was bordering on a rapture and he clearly wants to kill anyone and eveyone who is not like him. What he would really like to do is choke McCain and as Mc More of the Same is expiring he wants to defecate on the old coot face and say, take that mormon dung will cure your melanoma you freaky too old no good for nothing. But if he can not do that, then he is like Max Headroom of the old computerized anima cartoons. He is the face of the Party with the moose killing helicopter wolf shooting Butcher from Wasilla.

Sarah and Mitt Romney together, ummmmmmm, two of them could make Hitler come back from the grave. WHAT A FRIGHTENING SCARY BUNCH OF SUPREMACISTS GATHERED IN THAT CONVENTION. If you are jew, black, hispanic, and a darker than normal italian or mediterranean type, run for your life if they get on top.

"There is a tendency in the media to kick ourselves, cringe and withdraw, when we are criticized. But I hope my colleagues stand strong in this case: it is important for the public to know that Palin raised taxes as governor, supported the Bridge to Nowhere before she opposed it, pursued pork-barrel projects as mayor, tried to ban books at the local library and thinks the war in Iraq is "a task from God." The attempts by the McCain campaign to bully us into not reporting such things are not only stupidly aggressive, but unprofessional in the extreme." ......... Joel Klein / Time Magazine

"Poorly educated by choice?" McCain? The Naval Academy. Hey. in McCain's time--probably even now--they studied real subjects--calculus, physics, chemistry."

The naval academy is a really good school, no question. Finishing 894th out of a class of 899 - very questionable.

I'm sure that the fact that his father & grandfather were both four-star admirals had no bearing on his admission though.

The quality of education in our country has been slipping over the years, but how low should we set the bar for our leaders?

Contrary to what several of the posters have written, her educational background is important. Even if she did not attend any prestigious institutions, knowing her experiences will help the citizens of this country make a decision about who our future leaders will be.

Yes, I am personally concerned that she bounced between so many schools before finally earning her bachelor degree. But, I am also very disappointed in this day and age that she does not possess some sort of advanced degree...be it in business, law or perhaps psychology, which would better prepare her for the sort of leadership role that she is seeking.(I realize that not everyone can be admitted to the most prestigious universities, let alone afford the tuition...but a good advanced degree education can be obtained from affordable state or regional institutions as well, and still count. And, unlike previous generations, a woman can pursue an advanced degree without the stigmas attached to an educated female in previous generations...so Palin's lack of a masters or law degree is a negative to me.)

In John McCain's acceptance speech of Thursday he said he was not going to bring back the jobs lost to the globalization but instead he was going to open up the community colleges to retrain the workers of the nation, to presumably get them ready for new jobs.

THIS IS RIGHT OUT OF THE 1960'S AND EARLY 1970'S and it is just not possible today. MCCAIN IS ABSOLUTELY INSANE PUTTING THAT OUT THERE. Sending people to the junior colleges is something we used to say 30 years or more ago because it was fashionable.

1) Already educated engineers and pHd's in all industries who have lost their jobs to overseas outsourcing.

2) There are people in Silicon Valley that have lost their jobs and these are engineers who have a great amount of education

3) Workers who felt pride in their job, for example someone in Ohio who used to build television screens that have gone to China, sure do not want to go back to college to spend time in a classroom for jobs that do not exist anyway. What would that factory worker do, go to a community college to become an investment banker, or a senator, or an economist.

4) If you tell displaced workers that they need to go back to school they resent it as someone telling them that their previous life and what they are is not good enough.

Big deal. What a silly article. I recall that Obama switched schools several times "trying to find himself" before ending up at Columbia. He attended Harvard under an affirmative action program (something Palin probably wasn't eligible for) and probably would not have been accepted otherwise. His grades were crappy.

I think the current President went to Yale, and look what we ended up with. If we only selected Presidents who attended Yale, Princeton, and Harvard we would get a very inbred bunch.

I can only assume that when the "journalist" that wrote this story does find some old college friends that remember her we will be treated to another silly article about how she drank beer and dated a few guys while at college. OMG!

At least she went to school out-of-state and graduated. It costs money to leave Alaska to go to school, and there are many Alaskan kids that go south for a couple of semesters and then come home to work for a few to earn money to go back.

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Why doesn't Obama stay home and take care of his kids too.

Uhh, Obama's kids aren't a newborn (w/ special needs) or pregnant (if that were the case, Obama should also have refrained from the rigorous and timeconsuming demands of a campaign).

If Palin's youngest son was say 2 or 3 and her daughter wasn't in her condition, then there would be no issue.

But it's really not about the kids, but rather Palin's lack of judgment/consideration in knowing that her teenage daughter would be exposed to national/int'l media.

So much for "family values".