Pali(g)norance

Sarah Palin has made friends and earned money by celebrating ignorance and revelling in it. It is a sad commentary on the media and on the country. Ignorance is deified and education is mocked.

First lady Michelle Obama went through the Chicago Public Schools, then went to Princeton and to Harvard. Unlike GWB, she does not appear to have rich parents who used alumni connections to get her admitted to Ivy League schools- she earned her way.

Sarah Palin- went to five different schools to get her undergraduate degree:

Hawaii Pacific University (Fall 1982),

North Idaho College (Spring 1983 & Fall 1983),

University of Idaho (Fall 1984 - Spring 1985),

Matanuska-Susitna College (Fall 1985) and

University of Idaho (Spring 1986, Fall 1986 and Spring 1987 ).

First Lady Michelle Obama: "...A product of Chicago public schools, Mrs. Obama studied sociology and African-American studies at Princeton University. After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1988, she joined the Chicago law firm Sidley & Austin, where she later met the man who would become the love of her life. After a few years, Mrs. Obama decided her true calling was working with people to serve their communities and their neighbors. She served as assistant commissioner of planning and development in Chicago's City Hall before becoming the founding executive director of the Chicago chapter of Public Allies, an AmeriCorps program that prepares youth for public service. In 1996, Mrs. Obama joined the University of Chicago with a vision of bringing campus and community together. As Associate Dean of Student Services, she developed the university's first community service program, and under her leadership as Vice President of Community and External Affairs for the University of Chicago Medical Center, volunteerism skyrocketed... (from http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/first-lady-michelle-obama)

Palin Slams Michelle Obama Again, This Time For Anti-Obesity Campaign: "An appearance by Sarah Palin on Laura Ingraham's radio show Wednesday morning drew a bit of pre-Thanksgiving buzz for a swipe she took at Barbara Bush for suggesting that the 2008 vice president nominee would be best served in 2012 by staying in Alaska.

'I don't think the majority of Americans want to put up with the blue-bloods -- and I want to say it will all due respect because I love the Bushes -- the blue bloods who want to pick and choose their winners instead of allowing competition,' said the former Alaska Governor.

But it was another swipe at another first lady that stood out in a notably charged interview. For the second time this week, Palin threw jabs at Michelle Obama (the first instance came with the publication of Palin's book), this time calling her campaign to improve child nutrition another instance of a philosophical devotion to big government..."

Palin education took her to five colleges: Former Gov. Sarah Palin | adn.com: "Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin attended five colleges in six years before graduating from the University of Idaho in 1987."