I probably didn't make the point clear enough. You would have figured that 5 different colleges would have taught that Africa is a continent.
My point, however, is that if a person is jumping from job to job or from college to college, the reason is often the fact that they are having difficulties.
To an employer, five jobs in 4 years is a huge Red Flag. In education, it is also a huge Red Flag.
Unless her transcripts are released, we will never know what the truth is.
What worries me is that there seems to be a developing "Cult of Personality" surrounding Sarah Palin. Just because somebody is conservative, lovable and cute does not necessarily mean that she is a rational choice for the Presidency.
When you cannot handle Katie "Colonoscopy on TV" Couric basic questions such as, "name some newspapers and magazines you read for your world view input", you will have a MAJOR problem being taken seriously by the majority of voters in America that are not card carrying members of the Sarah Palin Fan Club.
Any regular poster on FR could have rattled off the Washington Post, the Washington Times, the New York Times, the New york Post, the National Review, the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian (U.K.), etc., etc.
Palin gave me the impression that she, indeed does NOT read very much in regards to foreign affairs and was much less informed than scores of regular posters on Free Republic.
I'm thinking her handlers probably told her to always avoid specifics so they couldn't come back to bite her. Couric and other journalists know this is politician trick so they ask specific questions for a "gotcha" momement. Let's say she said "The New York Times". They would have then asked who her favorite Times writer is. If she doesn't know this then it's "Gotcha". If she answers this then the next question is: What did you think of his article on X and so on and so forth till they come to the gotcha moment.
Palin gave me the impression that she, indeed does NOT read very much in regards to foreign affairs and was much less informed than scores of regular posters on Free Republic.
And when was the last time you met and talked to Gov. Palin?
My husband was 25 when he finished college, and he started when he was 18.
Most people would think that he had some academic problems based on that information - 7 years to finish college.
However, his parents stopped supporting him when he was 18 and he had to pay for college on his own. He worked and went to college. Sometimes, he had to take semesters off in order to finish college.
He only went to 2 colleges because he found work near those colleges. However, it may have been more colleges if he had to move to find work.
He is now a very successful director of a computer company in the Silicon Valley.