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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (89845)	11/6/2008 4:42:38 PM
From: Cynic 2005	13 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116555

I never mentioned their degrees, nor their pedigree. Executive experience is no substitute for intelligence, nor is a Harvard degree. My judgment on their intelligence is based on my watching them think on their feet and respond something worthy of any substance. I am a professor. I get to grade crappy papers by students who fill their papers with BS, which just read like Palin's speeches. She is a natural politician, but an intellectually dumb one. She is good at getting elected. Once she got elected to an office and she became "an executive." No real executive in the real mind would even consider hiring her for any position of responsibility, let alone an executive position. That said, yes, I can name dozens of dumb people who were also executives. That is because they were good at playing the "game" but not good at executing. Much like Bush. As with Palin's very own "executive" experience, running up $20 mil debt for a town of 7000 population is not exactly the experience I would respect.

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (89845)	11/6/2008 5:20:35 PM
From: ajtj99	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

Hey, before you wet yourself, my two 4th graders can name all 7-continents. They also have executive experience, having run a killer Kool Aid stand a couple years ago. That job involved marketing, budgeting, payroll, and dealing with special interests and lobbyists. They were beaming when I told them they had what it takes to run for Vice President of the United States!

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (89845)	11/6/2008 5:35:44 PM
From: Sea Otter	16 Recommendations Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 116555

Jim, she thinks the world was created 4,000 years ago. She doesn't know who belongs to Nafta, She thinks Africa is a country. She couldn't name a single Supreme Court decision beyond Roe. She never had a passport or traveled outside the US - nor expressed the slightest interest in doing so. She's a creationist. When a comedian calls her pretending to be the French president, she's as dumb as a rock and never figures it out. She'd never heard of the Bush doctrine, she thought the VP was head of the Senate ... etc etc. In short, she's ignorant, incurious and just not that swift on her feet. She makes Bush look pretty capable by comparison. And you think she could actually run this country? Deal with other world leaders? She simply doesn't have a clue. We'd be the laughingstock of the solar system. I agree: degrees don't tell us a lot. But intelligence and knowledge of the world do.