[CondoleezzaProtege]

I wonder if the author feels the same way about Obama as he did about Bush and Kerry when he wrote this.

[Vigilanteman]

Generally speaking, our greatest presidents came from no-name colleges (Reagan), were self-taught (Lincoln) or even skipped college altogether (Cleveland).

[wintertime]

Witness the last two Democratic presidential nominees, Al Gore and John Kerry: one each from Harvard and Yale, both earnest, decent, intelligent men, both utterly incapable of communicating with the larger electorate.
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Al Gore and John Kerry are not earnest or decent or intelligent. Their entire lives are proof of it.

[wintertime]

But it isn’t just a matter of class. My education taught me to believe that people who didn’t go to an Ivy League or equivalent school weren’t worth talking to, regardless of their class. I was given the unmistakable message that such people were beneath me. We were “the best and the brightest,” as these places love to say, and everyone else was, well, something else: less good, less bright. I learned to give that little nod of understanding, that slightly sympathetic “Oh,” when people told me they went to a less prestigious college. (If I’d gone to Harvard, I would have learned to say “in Boston” when I was asked where I went to school—the Cambridge version of noblesse oblige.) I never learned that there are smart people who don’t go to elite colleges, often precisely for reasons of class. I never learned that there are smart people who don’t go to college at all.

This smugness is too often found in physicians as well.

[mo]

A full understanding of such limits is most easily perceived in the examination of the structure, functioning, and debt load of the US Federal Gov’mt since the Ivy League started getting involved with it big-time.

[wintertime]

It’s no coincidence that our current president, the apotheosis of entitled mediocrity, went to Yale.
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Our current president attended Harvard Law School. Fox News interviewed 400 people in his class and not even one person remembers Obama attending Columbia ( this includes everyone in his major). Are those in the mainstream or conservative media curious about this? Answer: No!