alice on Sunday, October 26th, 2008 at 11:12 pm

This is making the rounds lately via email and it’s not a minor point. Not if you’re one of those people who wants your surgeon to be a med school graduate and — beyond any of the anti-intellectual BS that tends to follow this issue around — there’s a good reason for wanting your surgeon to be a med school graduate.

Barack Obama:

Columbia University - B.A.
Political Science with a Specialization in International Relations.

Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude

John McCain:

United States Naval Academy - Class rank: 894 of 899

Joseph Biden:

University of Delaware - B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science.

Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)

Sarah 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

2 Responses to “Elitism”

  1. Just looking at this makes me shudder…God, I can’t stand the thought of having an intellectual vacuum in the white house again.

  2. The anti-intellectual crowd loves it, though. All that hockey momism. This is why we are in such a crisis; no one can read and interpret.

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