…that a country which prides itself on having some of the greatest educational institutions in the world, whose universities are a magnet for the best and brightest all over the planet, takes such perverse pleasure in nominating (and sometimes electing) the underachievers?
Barack Obama: educated at “Tier 1″ schools all the way: Occidental; transferred to get his undergrad in Political Science/International Relations specialization at Columbia; took time off to work and do that community organizing; and then back to school to Harvard, getting his JD magna cum laude after being editor of the Law Review. That’s about as good an education as a person can get in the United States.
Joe Biden: also “Tier 1″ schools: undergrad in History/Political Science double major at University of Delaware, and JD from Syracuse University.
John McCain: US Naval Academy, an excellent school. However, Sen. McCain supposedly graduated 894 out of a class of 899, so…perhaps not one of the Academy’s shining stars.
Sarah Palin: Tier…3. Bachelor of Arts in Journalism, Political Science minor. University of Idaho.
George W. Bush, of course, was Ivy all the way, Andover, Yale…but his SATs were lower than mine (and I studied a grand total of three days, suck at math, and took no PSAT), and the scuttlebutt has always been that he was a poor student, and would not have been admitted, let alone graduated, were he not a Legacy.
