Frances, are you on a crusade against Bachmann and Palin?

She does….and she has experience to be President.

Although BS seems to be the only qualification needed after 2008.

Like Palin, she built her career based on a willingness to engage in demagoguery. She and others on the far right can GFT STH.

“as the head of a movement that routinely excoriates education,”

Frances has become part of the far left LOONS.

Isn’t she just a glorified accountant?

Elitism
1. The belief that certain persons or members of certain classes or groups deserve favored treatment by virtue of their perceived superiority, as in intellect, social status, or financial resources.

Only the far left loons need to show their superiority by putting everyone else down.

Moderate said:
“as the head of a movement that routinely excoriates education,”

Frances has become part of the far left LOONS.

Moderate said:
Elitism
1. The belief that certain persons or members of certain classes or groups deserve favored treatment by virtue of their perceived superiority, as in intellect, social status, or financial resources.

Only the far left loons need to show their superiority by putting everyone else down.

Frances is right you twit.
That’s great…Bachmann went to school…good for her,at least she’s got more credentials than Pizzaman to run a goddman country….now if she can stop saying batshit crazy things maybe we’ll stop noticing them huh….

She’ll CRUSH the intellectual dilletante in the White House!!

The community-organizer grifter vs. the true intellectual!

“Whether the Tea Party impulse to distrust formal education so profoundly is a beneficial one to their cause is a political discussion to be had among Tea Party members themselves, but the fact is that the defining trait of the sort of Tea Party member who would support someone like Rep. Bachmann (again, it can never be stressed enough that the Tea Party is not an ideological monolith by any means). And now Rep. Bachmann has chosen to defy any potential meme that she may not be smart enough for the presidency with her formal education– distinguishing herself from Tea Party favorites like Cain and Palin, and possibly making her a marked woman for the Tea Partiers.”

This paragraph by Frances is completely false and defamatory. I am not impressed Frances. You made this up and it is b.s.

Where you got the “brilliant” idea that the Tea Party distrust formal education. How dare you? Your left wing bias is always evident – but now you’ve crossed the line.

Since the Palin ‘Documentary Thread’ was was closed for comment…Matt did a wonderful job of illistrating Bashire’s contempt for anything Palin.  Bashire has now officially lost what little, if any, credibility he may have had.  Current is looking for a few good men like you!

When the news media run a thousand articles attacking a specific political figure, yet none of these articles mention a single policy statement or position on issues, you can rest assured that you are being manipulated.

seek said:
Where you got the “brilliant” idea that the Tea Party distrust formal education. How dare you? Your left wing bias is always evident – but now you’ve crossed the line.

That certainly is true, both my parents are well educated and they are Tea Party fanatics and close to being Libertarians.

I truly think Frances has to be called out for this “hit piece”. It is defamatory and just plain false. What the hell was she thinking?

Yes, she attended the Christian Broadcast Network School of Law. Scholarly indeed!

Breaking news about this fraud:

While Rep. Michele Bachmann has forcefully denounced the Medicaid program for swelling the “welfare rolls,” the mental health clinic run by her husband has been collecting annual Medicaid payments totaling over $137,000 for the treatment of patients since 2005, according to new figures obtained by NBC New

http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/06/28/6968201-bachmanns-husband-got-137000-in-medicaid-funds

GTH hypocrites.

While Rep. Michele Bachmann has forcefully denounced the Medicaid program for swelling the “welfare rolls,” the mental health clinic run by her husband has been collecting annual Medicaid payments totaling over $137,000 for the treatment of patients since 2005, according to new figures obtained by NBC New

http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/06/28/6968201-bachmanns-husband-got-137000-in-medicaid-funds

almost every single republican candidate is pathetically confused about not only themselves,
but also the major issues.

bachmann, cain and palin are (by far) the most idiotic and ideological. they make contradictory
and illogical statements every time they open their mouths.

only in the american political discourse can you say something just utterly ridiculous, and
still be taken seriously.

bachmann fancies herself as “scholarly”? you’ve got to be f*cking kidding me.

NORBIT Jr. said:
She’ll CRUSH the intellectual dilletante in the White House!!

The community-organizer grifter vs. the true intellectual!

see what i mean? you have a fairly large % of americans who think bachmann
is an “intellectual”. it’s no wonder most foreigners think americans are lunatics.

bachmann would never be considered for any political office in a foreign country.

but in america? step right on up!

seek said:
I truly think Frances has to be called out for this “hit piece”. It is defamatory and just plain false. What the hell was she thinking?

like anyone cares about a “hit piece” on someone so utterly vapid and unqualified.

Fokker News said:
her husband has been collecting annual Medicaid payments totaling over $137,000

Doctors lose money on Medicaid patients so that was very generous of him.

Frances needs to get her facts somewehre other than msnbc; thisarticle is nothing but bs.

“Whether the Tea Party impulse to distrust formal education so profoundly is a beneficial one to their cause is a political discussion to be had among Tea Party members themselves, but the fact is that the defining trait of the sort of Tea Party member who would support someone like Rep. Bachmann (again, it can never be stressed enough that the Tea Party is not an ideological monolith by any means). And now Rep. Bachmann has chosen to defy any potential meme that she may not be smart enough for the presidency with her formal education– distinguishing herself from Tea Party favorites like Cain and Palin, and possibly making her a marked woman for the Tea Partiers.”

This is rather distorted to say the least.

Polls have shown the Tea Party people to be largely middle class and college educated.

They don’t mistrust “formal education”, they mistrust the corruption of it as seen in the sort of goofy grievance studies, speech codes, and political correctness that takes the place of intellectual rigor.

Moderate said:
Doctors lose money on Medicaid patients so that was very generous of him.

“She’s giving hypocrisy a bad name,” said Ron Pollock, executive director of Families USA, a consumer health care advocacy group, when asked about the Medicaid payments to Bachmann & Associates. “It’s clear when it feathers her nest she’s happy for Medicaid expenditures. But people that really need it — folks with disabilities and seniors — she’s turning their backs on them.”

GuessWhoSuka said:
good for her,at least she’s got more credentials than Pizzaman to run a goddman country…..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Cain

Herman Cain (born December 13, 1945) is an American businessman, politician, columnist, and radio host from Georgia. He is the former chairman and CEO of Godfather’s Pizza and a former deputy chairman (1992–94) and chairman (1995–96) of the board of directors to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Before his business and economics career he worked as a mathematician in ballistics for the United States Navy.[2] Cain’s newspaper column is distributed by North Star Writers Group. He lives in the Atlanta suburbs, where he also serves as a minister at Antioch Baptist Church North.

He graduated from Morehouse College in 1967 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and received a Master of Science degree in computer science from Purdue University in 1971,[8] while he was also working full-time in ballistics for the U.S. Department of the Navy. Cain has authored four books: Leadership is Common Sense (1997), Speak as a Leader (1999), CEO of SELF (October 2001), and They Think You’re Stupid (May 2005).

After completing his master’s degree from Purdue, Cain left the Department of the Navy and began working for The Coca-Cola Company as a business analyst. In 1977, he joined Pillsbury where he rose to the position of vice president by the early 1980s. He left his executive post to work for Burger King – a Pillsbury subsidiary at the time – managing 400 stores in the Philadelphia area. Under Cain’s leadership, his region went from the least profitable for Burger King to the most profitable in three years. This prompted Pillsbury to appoint him president and CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, another of their then-subsidiaries. Within 14 months, Cain had returned Godfather’s to profitability. In 1988, Cain and a group of investors bought Godfather’s from Pillsbury. Cain continued as CEO until 1996, when he resigned to become CEO of the National Restaurant Association – a trade group and lobby organization for the restaurant industry – where he had previously been chairman concurrently with his role at Godfather’s.[9]

Cain became a member of the board of directors to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City in 1992 and served as its chairman from January 1995 to August 1996, when he resigned to become active in national politics.[10] Cain was a 1996 recipient of the Horatio Alger Award.[11]

Cain was on the board of directors of Aquila, Inc. from 1992 to 2008.[12]

Seniors get Medicare not Medicade.

Moderate said:
Seniors get Medicare not Medicade.

Some people qualify for both Medicaid and Medicare, Medicaid is sometimes used to help pay for Medicare premiums. People who qualify for both programs are called ‘dual eligible’.

More brutal savagery on the part of the left:

The Hate-Heads at MSNBC are already unleashing the SMEAR on Michelle Bachmann.
She missed a question on her History Test, and the Media mocks another conservative woman as stupid.
(Where’s the PHONY group, N.O.W., to defend her? What’s the story, N.O.W.? She’s not a Lefty?

BUT – when the community organizer tells us there’s 57 States, there’s SILENCE from the Media; and they try to convince us how smart this intellectual dilletante is!

FIGHT BACK!

Expose the Democratic Smear Media!

Elite means THE BEST

It’s obvious Bachman is not of the INTELLECTUAL ELITE

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHQHQHA

CNN has Karen Chitry in attack mode as well. It is too funny to watch them all melt down beause strong conservative woman is on the scene.

NOW is silent, as usual. Remember, they threw a white house intern under the bus to stand by the man who got his jollies with cigars and interns….that was just fine with NOW.

They are a useless organization.

TfT said:
strong conservative woman is on the scene.

this is the main problem in politics in this country.
People want “strong”. They wouldn’t mind getting oppressed, but they would like a strong candidate that BOMBS other countries and is “tough” on the corporate lobbyists of the other party. The other party puts forward same bullshit and nothing gets done.

Fokker News said:
Breaking news about this fraud:

While Rep. Michele Bachmann has forcefully denounced the Medicaid program for swelling the “welfare rolls,” the mental health clinic run by her husband has been collecting annual Medicaid payments totaling over $137,000 for the treatment of patients since 2005, according to new figures obtained by NBC New

http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/06/28/6968201-bachmanns-husband-got-137000-in-medicaid-funds

GTH hypocrites.

So a medical clinic is supposed to work for free? What exactly is your point? It’s a business and business’s don’t stay in business unless they get paid.

darladoon said:
almost every single republican candidate is pathetically confused about not only themselves,
but also the major issues.

bachmann, cain and palin are (by far) the most idiotic and ideological. they make contradictory
and illogical statements every time they open their mouths.

only in the american political discourse can you say something just utterly ridiculous, and
still be taken seriously.

bachmann fancies herself as “scholarly”? you’ve got to be f*cking kidding me.

see what i mean? you have a fairly large % of americans who think bachmann
is an “intellectual”. it’s no wonder most foreigners think americans are lunatics.

bachmann would never be considered for any political office in a foreign country.

but in america? step right on up!

You realize the “community organizer” has less education than Bachmann? You also realize she knows tax inside and out. You do realize all this and yet you think she’s not qualified but Obama was. Tell me, in your vast experience in such matters, how did you come to that brilliant conclusion?

seek said:
You realize the “community organizer” has less education than Bachmann? You also realize she knows tax inside and out. You do realize all this and yet you think she’s not qualified but Obama was. Tell me, in your vast experience in such matters, how did you come to that brilliant conclusion?

Less education than Bachmann? She’s a Regent University School of Law graduate which is a tier 4 school! That means it has the lowest ranking possible for a law school!

darladoon said:
almost every single republican candidate is pathetically confused about not only themselves,but also the major issues. bachmann, cain and palin are (by far) the most idiotic and ideological. they make contradictoryand illogical statements every time they open their mouths. only in the american political discourse can you say something just utterly ridiculous, andstill be taken seriously. bachmann fancies herself as “scholarly”? you’ve got to be f*cking kidding me. see what i mean? you have a fairly large % of americans who think bachmannis an “intellectual”. it’s no wonder most foreigners think americans are lunatics. bachmann would never be considered for any political office in a foreign country. but in america? step right on up!

lol
You have a community organizer in the White House who LIED about evrything he was going to do- transparency, stimulus, lobbyists, health care, shovel-ready, too big to fail… Everything! – and a GOP candidate who reads esoteric economic theory at the beach.

Considering the state of our economy, who would you want to give 4 years to?

YO! – INEPT GOP!

See above: THAT’S A COMMERCIAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ElCapitanAmerica said:
Less education than Bachmann? She’s a Regent University School of Law graduate which is a tier 4 school! That means it has the lowest ranking possible for a law school!

Yes in fact he does. She has 2 law degrees:
n 1979, Bachmann was a member of the first class of the O.W. Coburn School of Law, a part of Oral Roberts University (ORU).[12] In 1986 she received a J.D. degree from Oral Roberts University. She was a member of the final graduating class of the law school at ORU, and was part of a group of faculty, staff, and students who moved the ORU law school library to what is now Regent University.[14]
In 1988, Bachmann received an LL.M. degree in tax law from the William & Mary School of Law.[15][16] From 1988 to 1993, she was an attorney working for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

ElCapitanAmerica said:
Less education than Bachmann? She’s a Regent University School of Law graduate which is a tier 4 school! That means it has the lowest ranking possible for a law school!

Well, that is the same acclaimed school that Monica Goodling graduated from. And we know how she turned out.

P.S. Pat Robertson couldn’t be more proud of two graduates than those two hacks.

seek said:
Yes in fact he does. She has 2 law degrees:
n 1979, Bachmann was a member of the first class of the O.W. Coburn School of Law, a part of Oral Roberts University (ORU).[12] In 1986 she received a J.D. degree from Oral Roberts University. She was a member of the final graduating class of the law school at ORU, and was part of a group of faculty, staff, and students who moved the ORU law school library to what is now Regent University.[14]
In 1988, Bachmann received an LL.M. degree in tax law from the William & Mary School of Law.[15][16] From 1988 to 1993, she was an attorney working for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

Are you trying to equate a law degree from Regent (former Oral Roberts U) with a degree from Harvard Law School? Are you serious???

This is like saying engineering degrees from Phoenix University are even in the same league as MIT.

ElCapitanAmerica said:
Are you trying to equate a law degree from Regent (former Oral Roberts U) with a degree from Harvard Law School? Are you serious???

This is like saying engineering degrees from Phoenix University are even in the same league as MIT.

She has 2 law degrees – she also has her masters. Tell me about the ‘difference’ between law degrees depending on which school you could afford to go to. Tell me about how many times John Kennedy Jr. flunked the bar exam having attended the best law school. Tell me all about it.

So, go make up your ridiculous lies elsewhere.

ElCapitanAmerica said:
Are you trying to equate a law degree from Regent (former Oral Roberts U) with a degree from Harvard Law School? Are you serious??? This is like saying engineering degrees from Phoenix University are even in the same league as MIT.

In fact, Harvard Alumni were well-represented by the Government Carpetbaggers and Wall Street Profiteers during the most recent financial crisis!

I’d like to see a Bachmann – Obama debate.
Contrary to Media-Legend, Obama has never shown himself to be very quick-witted or well-reasoned. He’s somewhat glib, and he’s calculatingly dishonest.
Bachmann has shown some aptitude and integrity, and I think she would crush him with the unapologetic rationale of her positions.

the moron left cant face that she is far more intelligent then 99% of the liberals who attack her. Its easy to throw rocks from there moms basements …

the left were violently attacking Palin and now like a sheep moves over to Bachmann … like a flow of idiots with the only thing that makes them feel good is vial hate for a conservative woman, no matter who it is…

“But as the head of a movement that routinely excoriates education, is this a wise campaign move?”

Frances:
There you go again. You’ve proven that your knowledge of the tea party is on par with Blago’s knowledge of ethics. It’s absurd that I have to explain this to you but here goes: The tea party doesn’t “routinely excoriate education”. They excoriate those who belittle others because those others didn’t attend the same schools the elites & their their closed-minded buddies did.

Your writings about the tea party make you an “elitist”, regardless of whether or not you actually received an education.

ElCapitanAmerica said:
Are you trying to equate a law degree from Regent (former Oral Roberts U) with a degree from Harvard Law School? Are you serious???

This is like saying engineering degrees from Phoenix University are even in the same league as MIT.

Did you hear that 60% of their grads fail the bar? Good work!

MIchele Bachmann……tough! Like John Wayne Gacy!

Nacho said:
Isn’t she just a glorified accountant?

If being the top federal tax attorney for our country with multiple degrees somehow is a glorified accountant ….What would your messiah be?
I know Obama worked as protester with Acorn as a community activist. He had friends like Rev Write and Bill Ayers, he thinks we have 57 states and does not know the difference between memorial day and veterans day…

ElCapitanAmerica said:
Are you trying to equate a law degree from Regent (former Oral Roberts U) with a degree from Harvard Law School? Are you serious???

This is like saying engineering degrees from Phoenix University are even in the same league as MIT.

She has an advanced law degree from William and Mary.

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Cecelia said:
She has an advanced law degree from William and Mary.

Maybe you’ve heard of it…

I had posted that – the honest left wanted to ignore that. Moral fibre and the lefties are mutually exclusive.

Fokker News said:
Well, that is the same acclaimed school that Monica Goodling graduated from. And we know how she turned out. P.S. Pat Robertson couldn’t be more proud of two graduates than those two hacks.

I guess they didn’t have a history course either… LOL

seek said:
I had posted that – the honest left wanted to ignore that. Moral fibre and the lefties are mutually exclusive.

That’s not true of the majority of liberals, or the majority of liberals here.

What you’re seeing here at Mediaite is two to three liberal political operatives who post under many sockpuppet identities.

seek said:
You realize the “community organizer” has less education than Bachmann? You also realize she knows tax inside and out. You do realize all this and yet you think she’s not qualified but Obama was. Tell me, in your vast experience in such matters, how did you come to that brilliant conclusion?

(most hilarious thing i’ve read all day)

and says all you need to know about seek

bachmann went to:

winona state and william & mary

obama went to harvard and was the editor of the harvard law review

he’s WAY smarter than bachmann

and if bachmann knows “tax inside and out” then why is she opposed to tax
increases on the super wealthy?

oh yeah. she knows taxes (i.e. how to cut/lower them, and that’s it)

anyone who thinks bachmann is “scholarly” is unqualified to discuss
ANYTHING scholarly.

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It doesn’t matter how many mistakes she gets caught on, the “teas” don’t care about facts. I do give her credit for being smart enough to admit some of those gaffs, because it may bring her back to a few middle votes and she would never lose the wack wing anyway. She is making some better moves now, but I still pray for her to make it along with the whitehouse, please keep it up, please go the distance!

Bill Huggins said:
Elite means THE BEST It’s obvious Bachman is not of the INTELLECTUAL ELITE HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHQHQHA

While elite does mean the best and Bachman seems to be in that category contrary to your bigoted opinion an elitist is one who believes that the elite should have privilege over the non-elite. Tea party members understand this and don’t have a problem with the elite only with elitist. Thus the idea they have a problem with education is BS. It always amazes me that the party that claims superior intelligence doesn’t seem to know the difference between elite and elitism. The RINO’s the tea party wish to get rid of in the republican party are often elitist. They are not working for the people.

darladoon said:
anyone who thinks bachmann is “scholarly” is unqualified to discuss
ANYTHING scholarly.

She’s scholarly so I guess she can’t discuss “deep” issues with you, too bad – a real loss.

p.s. I think she’s educated so that leaves me out of discussing it with you also – again a real loss. lol

timcajun said:
It doesn’t matter how many mistakes she gets caught on, the “teas” don’t care about facts. I do give her credit for being smart enough to admit some of those gaffs, because it may bring her back to a few middle votes and she would never lose the wack wing anyway. She is making some better moves now, but I still pray for her to make it along with the whitehouse, please keep it up, please go the distance!

Well you seem to function without caring about facts. So if it’s good enough for you, why do you begrudge us the same courtesy?

seek said:
She’s scholarly so I guess she can’t discuss “deep” issues with you, too bad – a real loss.

p.s. I think she’s educated so that leaves me out of discussing it with you also – again a real loss. lol

how does a scholarly person, who regularly invokes the founding fathers, not know
who the founding fathers were?

or not know where the battles of lexington and concord were?

she got an education, she just didn’t retain much.

but to argue that she’s “scholarly” or an “intellectual” is obviously absurd on its face

I have a bag of hammers in my garage that is more schlorly than Ms. Bachmann. John Quincy Adams…..a founding father, John Wayne Gacey from Waterloo, Iowa? ILOFL

Oops, it’s scholarly, now I have to go talk to my hammers again.

try a ball peen – it hurts less

This time next year, people are going to feel pretty dumb having wasted time arguing about Michele Bachmann, since she’ll be already faded back into obscurity at that point. I would actually vote for Palin over her, because Bachmann is just a joke, and no one takes her seriously. I just can’t see her as president, it would just be ridiculous. And I’m not saying this to be mean, but I just don’t see America voting in a woman, let alone this dummy. And I don’t say that to be sexist, I just don’t see it happening any time soon.

The Tea Party people are referring to the Ivy League people who have apparently been appointed to run our country. I agree with them. We need to break away from this Harvard control of the presidency. It’s the road to ruin, a bunch of people who sat in a classroom for decades and never accomplished anything other than to suck the life’s blood out of the country.

If she catches on ‘fire’…You libturds should/are/will be VERY afraid. You go girl!.

Paul G said:
If she catches on ‘fire’…You libturds should/are/will be VERY afraid. You go girl!.

If she catches on fire, I’ll suddenly believe that there is a god who dispenses justice.

Oral Roberts University is not a university that indicates a strong academic background, in fact it indicates just the opposite. Only extreme right wing nut job evangelicals go to that school, the kind that believe the earth is 5000 years old and deny the reality of human evolution. In other words ignorant people.

‘and she told us she didn’t witness any of the hostility Beck describes. She said that, in fact, she saw people going up to shake his hand’.

She also has an advanced degree from William and Mary.

Bachmann vs Paul

Two terms in Congress for Bachmann, as opposed to 12 terms for Paul.
As a legislator in Minnesota, Bachmann allegedly proposed US$60 million in earmarks.
In Congress, in 2007, Bachmann appropriated US$3.7 million in federal pork.
A report shows Bachmann’s counseling clinic got US$30,000 in state and federal subsidies, and a family farm received a US$260,000 federal farm subsidy.
In 2008 Bachmann voted for Nancy Pelosi’s stimulus bill.

Paul is indeed a true advocate for “the little guy,” Wead writes, noting the Texan argues against the taxing of waitress’ tips while Bachmann, as a tax attorney, allegedly went after a taxpayer earning less than US$10,000 a year.

While Bachmann has strode to the head of national polls mainly due to media exposure not given to Ron Paul while borrowing his views and Tea Party, Wead says the fact that Paul’s views are being accepted is a good thing and supporters should not panic.

“Remember, the media did its worst against Ronald Reagan in 1980, calling him a racist and a warmonger and he eventually prevailed. His cause was to save America from totalitarian communism. Our cause is to save it from ourselves.”

Ron Paul 2012!!

darladoon said:
how does a scholarly person, who regularly invokes the founding fathers, not know
who the founding fathers were?

or not know where the battles of lexington and concord were?

she got an education, she just didn’t retain much.

but to argue that she’s “scholarly” or an “intellectual” is obviously absurd on its face

or how to pronounce corpsman
or how many States are in the Union
or that dead people are not in the audience
or that he really didn’t give a medal to a dead person
or that……

(and this from a man who hasn’t written a damn thing for himself – it’s all prepared and checked and researched by a team of “experts”)

….or what year it is
—or how to greet people in foreign lands
- or keeping their hands off the Queen
- or…..

When you pause for thought it’s rather telling that all the knives are now out for Bachmann. The audacity of the woman to serve her Country and to be proud of her Country.

Let’s look at what happened. Wallace interview – the right thought he was rude and called him on his behaviour – he listened and apologized. Have you ever heard of the left calling on what Matthews said about anyone and calling him on it – and he acknowledging that he did wrong?

No – so tell me about how that is a point of pride with you all. Tell me about your humanity and calling out bad behaviour by your own pundit and stating that it’s not right, not acceptable, must stop. You never do – you take your marching orders and then lower the bar for human behaviour and are fine with it. In fact you just parrot what you hear on t.v. by the likes of Matthews, Olbermann, Stewart, O’Donnell, Maddow. You just start with what they say and take it to a base level.

Frances, you misunderstand the Tea Party and education- they DO NOT see an educated person as the enemy- no matter how hard the media tries to portray them as backward, white, racist trailer park trash.

“But as the head of a movement that routinely excoriates education” Say What?! Could you please substantiate that comment other than with your personal opinion?

President Obama brought NOTHING to the table except his Ivy league education. No practical, work experience. How many of us would run for office of the POTUS on a job we had in our 20′s? (community organizer) and 165+ days as an elected official? Not many.
What I believe they find appalling, is that the current president’s reputation was literally “created” with the help of the media as this polished, Ivy League, scholar, a genius no less, without any proof- other than relentless spin, no transcripts, no works of literary or legal documents drafted by Obama the student or the expert constitutional attorney. Nada.
The real question is: Can you blame them? – What has this brilliant master of higher education done lately?

Education is not the problem, it is the fear that those who spend their days around a conference table and in a lecture hall discussing theories, social ills of society, education and the economy etc without any firsthand knowledge or experience to back up their hypothesis, except as a giant experiment on the American people, are what set everyday Americans on a path to mistrust. I think we all understand the power of knowledge.

All political parties would agree that education is crucial. By implying that Tea Party members are somehow okay with a dumb/uneducated America is only adding to propaganda and stereo-type.

correction:

I also doubt that she knew John Wayne Gacy was a liberal Democrat.
http://historicalmeetups.com/post/2976715698/rosalynn-carter-demure-first-lady-meets-john

ElCapitanAmerica said:
Less education than Bachmann? She’s a Regent University School of Law graduate which is a tier 4 school! That means it has the lowest ranking possible for a law school!

I know that Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama, both graduates of Harvard Law, failed the bar exam the first time — Clinton in the District of Columbia and Obama in Illinois. So was this a deficiency in the education they received at Harvard, or evidence of stupidity?

Ajolily said:
an elitist is one who believes that the elite should have privilege over the non-elite.

That’s not true. It’s simply a recognition shared by our Founders that people aren’t identical.

J Baustian said:
I know that Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama, both graduates of Harvard Law, failed the bar exam the first time — Clinton in the District of Columbia and Obama in Illinois. So was this a deficiency in the education they received at Harvard, or evidence of stupidity?

You don’t study much state law in law school – it’s mostly Federal cases, so law school is NOT a preparation for passing state bar exams.

darladoon said:
how does a scholarly person, who regularly invokes the founding fathers, not know
who the founding fathers were?

or not know where the battles of lexington and concord were?

All that Founding Fathers and Originalism stuff is just shadow play to fool the rubes (Baggers).

Looks like a Bachman/Paul/Romney contest. Prob will go with Romney because of the electability issues and either Bachman or Paul would round out the ticket.

Ajolily said:
While elite does mean the best and Bachman seems to be in that category contrary to your bigoted opinion an elitist is one who believes that the elite should have privilege over the non-elite. Tea party members understand this and don’t have a problem with the elite only with elitist. Thus the idea they have a problem with education is BS. It always amazes me that the party that claims superior intelligence doesn’t seem to know the difference between elite and elitism. The RINO’s the tea party wish to get rid of in the republican party are often elitist. They are not working for the people.

I don’t know what jughead invented the acronym RINO (Republican in Name Only). It’s inaccurate and presupposes that either neo-cons or tradtional conservatives like Pat Buchanon are the only Republicans in the Party. Nonsense. There have always been liberal, moderate and conservative (and radical) Republicans. This is just a cold, hard fact and cannot be debated. So, in conclusions, the term RINO is overused and inaccurate.