Okay. I've been to college, and been to college, and been to college. That's what you have to do to get a doctorate. I've met people with doctorates who I felt couldn't communicate clearly (that is, they couldn't give directions to the corner store). I've met people with doctorates who seemed bumfuzzled. If they understood what they were saying, good, but it was way way over my head. I know the cliches about having "book sense" but no "common sense." There are enough absent-minded professors to keep that going. I've met people with doctorates who had so many personal problems that they couldn't really function in society.


However, on the whole, people with this much education tend to be pretty sharp people. They can analyze, synthesize, interpret, communicate, illuminate, teach. They are scholars--they can do research and discover "new" knowledge. These are the kind of people you want to run the country--not "C" students who barely escaped college with undergraduate degrees. I went to college over and over, without ever making a "C." I either made an "A" or almost made an "A" in every class. "C" students have the same number of "D"s as "B"s and as many "F"s as "A"s. George Bush was a "C" student. John McCain is a bottom of the class guy. To get grades like this you have to have some problems. Either you are: dumb, drunk or stoned most of the time, totally disinterested in learning anything, expecting something for nothing (a degree for no work), too immature to live on your own and take care of your life, or mentally disabled. I can't think of any other choices.

The newspapers say that America wants a "regular guy" to be president rather than some elite ivy league graduate, surely not the editor of the Harvard Law Review. To that I say, "Wake up and smell the coffee, America." The good ole boy, shotgun toting Texan, with bad manners and no smarts has not been good for us. It has set the country back to have gone into needless war because of our pride and bravura. We needed to beat someone up because we had taken a beating. We needed to kill lots of Arabs. A disaster. Our economy is a shambles, our infrastructure crumbling, pension plans disappearing (invest in the stock market--right!), social security unfunded, the national debt overwhelming and sold to China, security remains lax, regulatory agencies stripped of power, our armies depleted, our veterans abandoned, our schools overwhelmed and underfunded. Eight years of neglect.

This time let's elect the smart guy.