Is Sarah Palin ready to be Commander in Chief ?

[Dos Equis]

Yes, it's elitist to compare college degrees in determining the value of an education.

Spoken like a person without a college degree, BB

Spoken like someone with a mail order degree with little real life experience.   

[CQ]

Yes, it's elitist to compare college degrees in determining the value of an education.

Of course it matters, and it is daft to say it doesn't.

If any of our kids were on their deathbed, and we had a choice between a Harvard educated doctor and a Uni of Idaho doctor - we'd all go for Harvard and we know it.

[240 is Back]

I thought Beach Bum was a college Professor? 

He did work in education - with those who really do need it - the one thing that I actually do admire about him.  The minute I leared that part was real, I found a new respect for him and stopped flaming him all the time.   hence my playing nice lately

[240 is Back]

Spoken like someone with a mail order degree with little real life experience.   

I see.

You put the same value on a harvard law degree as on a journalism degree from idaho?

[Dos Equis]

Of course it matters, and it is daft to say it doesn't.

If any of our kids were on their deathbed, and we had a choice between a Harvard educated doctor and a Uni of Idaho doctor - we'd all go for Harvard and we know it.

No "we" wouldn't.  I would choose the doctor with a track record of success.  I could care less where he or she went to school, so long as he or she can get the job done.  

[Dos Equis]

He did work in education - with those who really do need it - the one thing that I actually do admire about him.  The minute I leared that part was real, I found a new respect for him and stopped flaming him all the time.   hence my playing nice lately

 

[Dos Equis]

I see.

You put the same value on a harvard law degree as on a journalism degree from idaho?

Of course not.  One is an undergraduate degree and one is a professional graduate degree.  Obviously, a graduate degree is typically more "valuable" than an undergraduate degree. 

[CQ]

No "we" wouldn't.  I would choose the doctor with a track record of success.  I could care less where he or she went to school, so long as he or she can get the job done.  

All other things being equal, the sheet fact remains education is not all the same.

To deny that a Ivy League degree is technically superior, and that having 2 is better than 1, simply defies any point of classification.

[Dos Equis]

All other things being equal, the sheet fact remains education is not all the same.

To deny that a Ivy League degree is technically superior, and that having 2 is better than 1, simply defies any point of classification.

I was denying your contention that I'd prefer a Harvard doctor over an Idaho doctor (assuming Idaho has a medical school).  I have never asked a professional that I was going to hire for personal services where they went to school.  And if the issue came up, it was not so I could determine whether they were qualified. 

I've met and dealt with some very smart people from Harvard et al. and some dummies from Harvard.  I've met and dealt with some very smart people who went to small schools, etc. 

Dubya graduated from Harvard and Yale and some people think he is stupid, incompetent, etc.
 

[calmus]

Dubya graduated from Harvard and Yale and some people think he is stupid, incompetent, etc.
 

Douche Mark conveniently forgets that like Mac, Dubya got in on his connections, obama on merit.

[Dos Equis]

Callous, the law school flunky, should also add that a law degree is much more valuable when the graduate passes the bar exam.  Right callous? 

[Benny B]

Douche Mark conveniently forgets that like Mac, Dubya got in on his connections, obama on merit.

Dubya's admittance to Yale was ENTIRELY based on family connections.

[headhuntersix]

And Obama's rise to head of the Law Review was based on the fact that somebody decided they were not color balanced. Who gives a shit. It matters what u do with the degree. Obama has done nothing, never led, never been in charge, never done the same full time job for more then four year. She has been an executive, a leader. The boss......

[calmus]

And Obama's rise to head of the Law Review was based on the fact that somebody decided they were not color balanced.

Dumbass. 

[CQ]

Dumbass. 

It will be the only reaction some are capable of.

McCain had tons of solid picks like Romney - but whipped out an Idaho college grad, with 4 kids to take care off, who has only left the USA twice, and is an 18 month governor of a tiny state and under investigation for abuse of power.

Hard to make any rational case she's a great pick, so the MO of tossing dumb stuff at Obama will continue.

[headhuntersix]

Dumbass. 

Law review prestige
In the fall of 1989, when Obama returned to campus for his second year, students were protesting the lack of minority law school faculty. They staged sit-ins in the law library, camped outside the office of Dean Robert C. Clark, and carried signs that read "Diversity Now" and "Homogeneity Feeds Hatred." The tensions continued the following spring, reaching a high when Derrick A. Bell Jr., the first tenured black professor at the school, resigned in protest. Obama was a member of the Black Law Students Association, which organized many demonstrations that spring. But he was less confrontational than some of his peers.

"Barack was a stabilizing influence in that he would absolutely support those efforts, but was also someone who could discuss and debate them with students or faculty who had different views," said Professor Charles J. Ogletree Jr., who became Harvard's seventh tenured black professor in 1993



Hence the pressure to get a Black guy as the head of the review....not some bs CT site...Boston Globe

[headhuntersix]

Obama got himself named editor of the Harvard Law Review. This is a signal achievement, no question about it. The kind of thing that would be mentioned about a person for the rest of his life, as has been the case with Obama. But then... he writes nothing for the journal.


Now, let's get this straight: here we have one of the leading university law journals in the country, one widely cited and read. Entire careers in legal analysis and scholarship have been founded on appearances in the Review, including some that have led to the highest courts in the country. Yet here's an individual who, as editor, could easily place his own work in the journal -- standard practice, nothing at all wrong with it. But he fails to do so. And the explanation? There's none that I've heard. We can go even farther than that, to say that there is no explanation that makes the least rational sense. 

[youandme]

Douche Mark conveniently forgets that like Mac, Dubya got in on his connections, obama on merit.

 

Affirmitive Action and being mixed race did not help at all

[calmus]

Affirmitive Action and being mixed race did not help at all

Learn how to spell "affirmative," dumbass... it'll help you sound smarter. 

Yeah, I'm sure that's why Obama graduated with great grades while Dubya scraped along.

[Dos Equis]

Interesting find HH.  Definitely puts this whole "law review" thing in context.  

[headhuntersix]

Not in the least.....but honestly it doesn't matter. He's done nothing up until he he was elected to the US senate to merit any real greatness. He made a speech to get his name on the ballot...and he made speeches to get himself nominated. Who the hell writes an autobiography in his early 30's. He graduated Harvard in 91...and writes a book about himself in 95....having done what exactly.

[CQ]

It's funny really, as anyone is near delusional if they think Palin didn't get the nod as she is female.

If she was male, McCain would not have even considered her.

Affirmative action through and through.

Amusing really

[headhuntersix]

No she got the nod because she was female...she got it because she's a conservative, she's pretty, smart....fiesty and to grab some Hil supporters...alot of reasons.

[240 is Back]

No she got the nod because she was female...she got it because she's a conservative, she's pretty, smart....fiesty and to grab some Hil supporters...alot of reasons.

all true.

I didn't know obama engineered a coup to have himself nominated then given the job of law review president!  Definitely devalues it, but at the same time demonstrates what i've been saying all along - he is one shrewd, cold dude.

[calmus]

all true.

I didn't know obama engineered a coup to have himself nominated then given the job of law review president!  Definitely devalues it, but at the same time demonstrates what i've been saying all along - he is one shrewd, cold dude.

Yup, I have more respect for him now that I've learned he not only

Gamed the law school exams that are graded blindly

Outmaneuvered some of the brightest, most competitive and grasping people in the civilized world.