Posted on 05/26/2008 5:01:21 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Have a few minutes to spare? Go to "Google," type in the phrase "highly educated voters," hit "Search News." Go ahead. We'll wait . . . OK, what do you get? All sorts of stories about Obama voters, and how he attracts the "highly educated." You will get the same from the pundits on network and cable news: lots of blather about how Obama appeals to "highly educated" Americans.
That, of course, is just more MSM "spin doctor" nonsense and we conservatives let them get away with it. We heard the same song when John "Xmas in Cambodia" Kerry ran for President, to wit, the "highly educated" went for Kerry the ignorant ones went for Bush........
A few years ago, more than I care to mention, I headed a large office at the State Department. I got tasked with hiring a couple of Presidential Management Interns (PMIs). These PMIs come from the elite of the elite student body at the elite of the elite universities. They get hired on a temporary basis and then, usually, get offered prestigious jobs in the government. I was told, in no uncertain terms, that whatever else I did, I had to hire women. So I began to pore over the resumes. My heart sank. I felt inadequate and so, so inferior to these kids.
(Excerpt) Read more at diplomadic.blogspot.com ...
before it’s all said and done, this scrawny huckster will us all at each other’s throats.
One of the better blog/posts I read in a while.....nothing like a good “historical” anecdote to illustrate a modern day truth.
Highly “educated” MEANS Hightly INDOCTRINATED
As a bit of an old timer who just spent the last two years completing a degree I left unfinished years ago, I can vouch for the ignorance of far too many of the college students and unfortunately some of the professors are even worse.
Go to GoogleFight. This site pits two keywords or phrases against each other, and the one that comes up with the most search results wins.
Enter "stupid voters" and "highly educated voters" and see what the winner is.
I went back and finished my degree in the late 80s. Even then, I was appalled at the kids who were in college. They all wanted to study with me because I made all As (it seemed pretty easy if one studied). I felt like a genius.
Then I came to FR and I feel pretty average again, compared to some of the intellects here.... :)
susie
Couldn’t agree more. Educated, Indoctrinated, Kool-Aid sippers....
Thanks for the great post.
Group propaganda.
We wish to be though of as “highly educated”, intelligent, thinkers.
The group we wish to belong to all are voting Obama.
If I want to be in that group, I must support Obama too, or the group will not accept me.
It is always the same. The media claims that the “highly educated voters” - read that “professors at liberal colleges” - all vote for the ‘Rat candidate and us low class idiots vote for the GOP.
ping for later
When I was in college I had to work several jobs to support myself. I was in Engineering School and had two brothers in college at the same time, one in Medical School and one in Veterinary School. My parents were not wealthy and I worked because I wanted to graduate with no student loans.
One of my jobs was as a math tutor for the Veterans Administration. I often spent more than my aloted time with veterans who were going back to school and were having problems with mathematics up to calculus, but usually just remedial algebra. It was hard work and these veterans were using a benefit for tutoring because they were really struggling. I am sure that none of the veterans I tutored would be called “highly educated” today, but all were working to earn every grade point they could earn. I would rather hire one of these people over one of the “highly educated” elitists any day.
“The media claims that the “highly educated voters” - read that “professors at liberal colleges” - all vote for the ‘Rat candidate”
And rarely, I bet, do they ever make this claim in a room full of doctors or MBAs.
Even worse, there are something like 6.2 million teachers in the country—lots and lots of flimsy M Ed degrees among all those NEA members.
Our 'elite' schools, the exact definition probably escapes all but those it self defines, have become the grist mill for our letter bureaucracies since Franklin Roosevelt, and accelerated with John Kennedy. Their 'old school networks' are second to none and regardless of their regional origin, they appear to exit school shaped to become the ideal left-leaning, big government is good, apparatchik bureaucrat. They work equally well in the various governmental agencies, the foundations, academia, legal profession and journalism.
God help us all, I am sure the majority mean well and seek to do a good job. It is just that they work to their training, always seeking more power to do more good. As Tolkein and Lord Acton have memorably written, power, even with the best of intentions, feeds the need for more power and corruption can make that power come easier.
Our Founders, wise in the way of autocrats and tyrants, strove to limit our government by limiting its powers, making it strive against itself in 3 branches and making it free of hereditary nobility. The fact that the majority of the legislature has safe seats (as a rule) from their self-serving reapportion schemes, the bureaucracy is almost permanent below the executive appointment levels and the fact that the current POTUS is the son of a former POTUS with another active candidate being the wife of another POTUS and several states have 'family tradition' control of governmental offices, makes me think that we have run out our luck in this area.
Check out this awesome video:
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The same kind of terrorists who support Obama did this:
http://www.frugalsites.net/911/attack/
Never apologize for them.
Never appease them.
Never forget.
What do the most educated do? Why they educate. Teachers for Obama sounds more like it.
More educated does not mean more intelligent.
My dad is a case in point. Only went to school thru 10th grade, went into the service (back when you didn’t have to have a hs degree—in fact, he was drafted if I recall), ended up in the Army Air Corps and was chosen to be a pilot (he said it was random, but I am sure they tested for aptitude). He ended up getting some training in the Air Force and taught electronics and when he retired worked as an electronic technician. One of the smartest people I know (very mathy, wish I had inherited that). Not highly educated, but he can do almost anything involving math and technology.
susie
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