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Curious. When friends cease being friends over something religious or political, it’s usually one friend who continues to push the issue when the other would rather let it go and get along. Did your friends push the issue, or did you? ..... Melas

From the quote below, it sounds like the latter:

"I have lost THREE real life friends now in trying to defend Sarah Palin. On one hand I tend to think the people who call her stupid are not the kind of people I even want as friends anyhow. However, I wonder if im being too harsh and going too far." ..... se_ohio_young_conservative

Once you "go too far" and push aside "real life friends" over a politician, you really have to get your priorities in order.

Sarah Palin may not be "stupid" but let's just say that it is obvious that she got a public school high school education in a town where academics was not stressed and two of her four colleges in four years, North Idaho College and Matanuska–Susitna College, offered only Associates Degrees. Her sub-standard education shows and her fund of knowledge is rather shallow.:

Heilemann said that even after crash-course tutorials by campaign aides following the convention, Palin was still woefully uninformed about basic policy issues. “She still didn’t really understand why there was a North Korea and a South Korea,”

Yes, Sarah Palin can dish out the talking points that conservatives want to hear. So can everybody on Free Republic.

Be that as it may, anybody that can't automatically rattle off a coherent explanation of the political dynamics at end of World War II that left Manchuria and the Korean peninsula north of the 38th parallel under Soviet occupation has no historical grasp of the world that we live in as is as unqualified to be President of the United States as Barack Obama currently is.

let's just say that it is obvious that she got a public school high school education in a town where academics was not stressed and two of her four colleges in four years, North Idaho College and Matanuska–Susitna College, offered only Associates Degrees. Her sub-standard education shows and her fund of knowledge is rather shallow.:

I agree. Graduates of minor colleges with names we can make fun of obviously have no place in higher office.

Her sub-standard education shows...

Yeah - lack of a proper Ivy-League brainwashing is definately a negative. Especially when compared to the scholarly professor Obama.

I can think of a few negatives about Palin, but the fact that she doesn't recite the views of the leftist professors from the highly-esteemed colleges is not one of them. Frankly, I'd rather have a vocationally-trained diesel mechanic in the White House than the highly-educated street punk that now occupies 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.