RobMoney$
09-06-2008, 11:15 AM
Do intelligence and education matter to you when considering who is best suited for the President and Vice President jobs? I get the idea of wanting to be able to "relate" to the president, and I'm not saying I want an obnoxious jerk up there who is full of himself and listens to no one else. But again, all else being equal, I do want someone far smarter than me leading the country.
I mean having more education doesn't make you smarter. There are some really dumb people who have graduated with really elevated degrees. Look at the current "genius" in the White House. He has a high level of education (Yale), but I would think his intelligence is average at best.
I mean we all know the stigma about academics and them not being able to tie their own shoes or being able to relate to people. They know about things in their field, but in terms of life, in terms of common sense, in terms of dealing with people, they suck. It's the same reason we don't often elect former Generals from the military. I realize a law degree is fantastic background for government. Success in law school also typically indicates intelligence and a strong ability for identifying issues, analyzing issues, and arguing them.
Palin: Finally graduated from undergraduate with a journalism degree after a long trek through six schools including a few dropouts and community college stints.
McCain: Graduated from the US Naval academy leading his class in demerits and ranked 894 of 899 in his class, where he studied how to be a pilot.
Obama: Graduated from Columbia University in 1983. He later earned his law degree from Harvard in 1991, where he became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review.
Biden: Graduated from Archmere Academy in Claymont, Delaware and, in 1965, from the University of Delaware in Newark, where he double-majored in history and political science. He went on to receive his J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law, finished at the bottom of his class and was almost kicked out of the school for plagiarizing a law review article in his student note.
I mean having more education doesn't make you smarter. There are some really dumb people who have graduated with really elevated degrees. Look at the current "genius" in the White House. He has a high level of education (Yale), but I would think his intelligence is average at best.
I mean we all know the stigma about academics and them not being able to tie their own shoes or being able to relate to people. They know about things in their field, but in terms of life, in terms of common sense, in terms of dealing with people, they suck. It's the same reason we don't often elect former Generals from the military. I realize a law degree is fantastic background for government. Success in law school also typically indicates intelligence and a strong ability for identifying issues, analyzing issues, and arguing them.
Palin: Finally graduated from undergraduate with a journalism degree after a long trek through six schools including a few dropouts and community college stints.
McCain: Graduated from the US Naval academy leading his class in demerits and ranked 894 of 899 in his class, where he studied how to be a pilot.
Obama: Graduated from Columbia University in 1983. He later earned his law degree from Harvard in 1991, where he became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review.
Biden: Graduated from Archmere Academy in Claymont, Delaware and, in 1965, from the University of Delaware in Newark, where he double-majored in history and political science. He went on to receive his J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law, finished at the bottom of his class and was almost kicked out of the school for plagiarizing a law review article in his student note.