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VP hopeful Palin attended 5 colleges in 6 years
AP ^ | 9/4/08 | NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS

Posted on 09/04/2008 5:21:30 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD

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To: newheart
She attended Idaho, whose mascot is the Vandals, from fall 1984 to spring 1985.

Obviously this stellar piece of journalism would not have been complete without informing us of the name of the Idaho mascot. Let's see, has the press gratuitously informed us of the mascots at the schools Obama attended?

Obviously it was done on purpose. In order to place PALIN = VANDALS in the same sentence. These people try to be smart, but they're idiots!

101 posted on 09/04/2008 6:02:31 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD (Airlines can take their $15-per-checked-bag surcharge and shove it!)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

I got my first baccalaureate degree 10 years after HS graduation. It still counted!


102 posted on 09/04/2008 6:05:12 PM PDT by jimfree (Dems beat up girls who don't toe the line.)
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To: JLS
So beside having the number of schools wrong the article also has the number of years wrong.

Ironically Reporter Nicholas K. Geranios doesn't know how to count.

103 posted on 09/04/2008 6:07:44 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: svcw
So?

What you said. This sounds like someone's trying to make an ant hill out of a grain of sand.

Much ado about nothing at all.

104 posted on 09/04/2008 6:11:16 PM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

Irregular, but otherwise meaningless. Real-world people often have to juggle things, or otherwise make decisions, that look a little odd to others but do in fact make sense. Main thing is that she GRADUATED.


105 posted on 09/04/2008 6:12:14 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (The average piece of junk is more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. - Ratatouille)
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To: svcw

Exactly what constitutional requirement exists for a candidate to be a college grad? For what’s that worth, didn’t algore drop out of a few colleges and universities?


106 posted on 09/04/2008 6:12:28 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

Then known as Sarah Louise Heath


LOL..Since she attended school under an alias, Sarah Palin is hiding something.


107 posted on 09/04/2008 6:12:51 PM PDT by crazyhorse691 (McCain will screw the conservatives, but, Obama will screw the whole country.)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

You know, I never really thought about it. But I attended 3 schools in 6 years. I started in one place and took classes at another, then finished strong with a BS at a well know state university.

I hope she comes out and addresses it head on. I have a reason and I’m sure she does too.

This is a legitimate vetting topic. I have no problem with it. It is amazing how a practical explanation in the hands of an articulate politician shuts down the media.

I say, bring it on. Let’s hear it.


108 posted on 09/04/2008 6:13:13 PM PDT by Tenacious 1 (We have the ability to shape & polish turds, make em smell nice & sell them as public services)
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To: JLS

From http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-politics/20080904/CVN.Palin.Education/ the 5th is University of Hawaii at Hilo.

“According to a biography — “Sarah” by Kaylene Johnson — Palin and three friends went to the University of Hawaii at Hilo after graduation from high school in Alaska in 1982. But they left after a few weeks because of the constant rain there, the book said.

Palin, then known as Sarah Louise Heath, and a friend then traveled to Honolulu and enrolled at Hawaii Pacific University, a private, nonsectarian school. She attended only as a freshman during the fall of 1982, school spokeswoman Crystale Lopez said.”

I like the way MIchaelTArchangel laid out her education in http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074833/posts. I’ve plagiarized it below. It really tells the story of an average American girl getting her education. I’m impressed with her education choices! It makes mine seem boring. I’ve added comments to his list.

F82: Hawaii Pacific University, Business Administration (With at least one friend. Could have been the friends’ plan to live in Hawaii for a few months and still work towards a degree. Remember her parents are teachers, so she knew education was important.)
S83: North Idaho College, General Studies (a community college - great way to get basic classes in a cost effective manner, and it looks like a cool place to go to school. http://www.nic.edu/overview.asp)
F83: North Idaho College, General Studies (ditto)
S84: No college listed (took a semester off to earn a little money)
F84: University of Idaho, Journalism (?).
S85: University of Idaho, Journalism (?).
F85: Matanuska-Susitna College, Journalism (?) (About 14 miles from her hometown of Wasilla and part of the University of Alaska Anchorage. Maybe something was going on at home and they needed her help, or maybe she needed to be close to home to earn some money again. http://www.matsu.alaska.edu/)
S86: University of Idaho, Journalism
F86: University of Idaho, Journalism
S87: University of Idaho, Journalism


109 posted on 09/04/2008 6:13:55 PM PDT by OrangeDaisy
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To: JLS
Check this incorrect headline out.

Palin switched colleges 6 times in 6 years

110 posted on 09/04/2008 6:14:17 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: DustyMoment

Exactly — this is much ado about nothing. I have degrees from Wellesley and Harvard and no one I’ve met at either school could have given the speech she gave last night. I would take her common sense and political intelligence over my useless PhD any day.


111 posted on 09/04/2008 6:16:14 PM PDT by austen
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

many collegiate athletes transfer frequently, based on play time and team issues. does anyone know if she played college basketball?


112 posted on 09/04/2008 6:18:41 PM PDT by Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh
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To: 6SJ7
Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Rush never even graduated and they turned out pretty good.

Where did Ronald Reagan graduate from college? And what experience did he have?

Oh! That's right he was an actor turned governor turned president. We saw how that turned out.

113 posted on 09/04/2008 6:19:06 PM PDT by Tenacious 1 (We have the ability to shape & polish turds, make em smell nice & sell them as public services)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

I don’t care if she’s a high school drop out...


114 posted on 09/04/2008 6:20:41 PM PDT by lewislynn (What does the global warming movement and the Fairtax movement have in common? Disinformation)
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To: pfflier

I do not think he dropped out, I seem to remember that he was kicked out of theology school.
So you could say he flunked God.


115 posted on 09/04/2008 6:21:55 PM PDT by svcw (http://baskettastic.com/)
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To: Welsh Rabbit

I did 4 different schools in two different colleges over 6 years. And I, too, graduated with a Journalism degree.

Does that make me like Sarah Palin?


116 posted on 09/04/2008 6:28:32 PM PDT by FatherFig1o155 (Politicians, like underwear, should be changed often, and for the same reasons)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

The AP is so desperate to find dirt on Palin that they are reporting that they can’t find anything to report ... yet.


117 posted on 09/04/2008 6:28:38 PM PDT by Jeff Gordon ("An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last." Churchill)
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To: svcw

So? Indeed. The article itself is news because of it’s silly content, foolish intent, and what that signifies. I don’t expect that’s the significance that AP had in mind, however. I generally find AP articles are better read about than read.


118 posted on 09/04/2008 6:29:18 PM PDT by arfingcat
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To: italianquaker

“Wow that equals how many deferments biden received to stay out of Vietnam”

Biden is such a phony!

The only thing “blue collar” about Biden was the color of his middle class sport coat.

JOE BIDEN THE HUNTED PLAGIARISM FLAP SPOILS HIS BIG WEEK
Miami Herald, The (FL) - September 22, 1987
Author: SANDY GRADY Knight-Ridder Newspapers Writer

“I was never an activist,” Biden admitted last week. “I didn’t march on Selma. Vietnam wasn’t a big issue in my college days. I was a middle - class kid in a sports coat .”


119 posted on 09/04/2008 6:29:27 PM PDT by maggief (Difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull ... lipstick!)
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To: newheart
She attended Idaho, whose mascot is the Vandals, from fall 1984 to spring 1985.

Want to bet that the dope that wrote this couldn't tell you who the original Vandals were. When the University of Idaho adopted this as a nickname, the word vandal didn't have the meaning that it has now.

120 posted on 09/04/2008 6:30:07 PM PDT by CommerceComet
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