This rhetoric from the left is laughable. Evry election thay paint the conservative as a dummy and the dem candidate is something so much more brilliant. Now you are going to continue the arrogance and say that those who vote dem are smarter than those who vote conservative. Tyopical drivel.
Hardly rhetoric. I know facts are difficult for you to accept, but they're all posted in the tables above. I guess that reality has a well-known liberal bias, right?
Oh please, it's a general rule. Sure, there are some 2* and 3* football recruits who turn into studs. But I'll take a team of 4* and 5* any day of the week.
The chart that you have posted above does nothing to support that the Dem candidate is more intelligent than the Rep candidate.
I think that what is being referenced here is more of a government IQ test. Knowing who is running for different offices what their stances are on different issues. We are not taliking somebody's ability to get into a certain college, it is more of a question of whether they are able to cast an informed vote.I didn't see this addressed, so I figured I'd go ahead and dispel this myth. The most recent polls just show the nation's recent lean towards Obama. But look back to when the two were posting similar overall numbers and you'll see that the "HS or less" category was basically within the margin of error. The telling number is the distribution of postgrads, which have hugely favored Obama since day one.
This kind of tired stubbornness is typical of your posting. I find it amusing that you see no relation between intelligence and level of education.
Imagine that I introduced you to someone you had never known before. Then, I told you that this person had accomplished the following things in life:
Well that's the exact accusation to which I responded, actually. Higher education was specifically mentioned to favor McCain, and I aimed to show differently.
It would succeed according to the goals of those who wrote it, and that's what I'm afraid of.
I think you are "generally" correct in your comparisons partically in DC. I moved to an area years ago that was in the process of building many new schools to catch up with the population growth. I have compared local public schools in my area with local private schools and draw a far more favorable comparison. I know the principals at the public schools and many of the teachers. The public schools in my area are as good as the area private schools. My kids have been invited to attend some private schools but we are more than happy in the school system our kids will be in throughout their education. I realize that this is the exception, not the rule. I think that public schools (as a whole) are in much worse shape than private schools. I can go 30 miles in several directions from my house and be in pretty dire circumstances. I attended both private and public schools growing up and feel that the better education was offered at the private schools.
What makes one assume that Obama is so much more intelligent? Are you proving my point about the arrogance of the left by assuming that their candidates are always more intelligent than the rights?
Well, according to your reasoning, George W Bush must rate pretty high on your intelligence scale. What you describe here is intelligence gained from a book and not from life experience.
I would like to add, how many people that you went to school with that had straight As. How many of them have failed in life? Most of the sucessful people that I know were B, C type students. Many of the straight A students went on the be drug addicts, are still finding ways to go to school and get their tength degree in something because it is easier than working with all of the pressure of running a business or they teach.
I would be extremely impressed by anyone who had accomplished the following:
Not at all, because I never said that. Bush Sr. was probably more intelligent than Dukakis, and Goldwater was probably smarter than Johnson, for example. I thought I would have put that to bed by talking about some of the obviously brilliant people in Conservatism, but I guess not.
Oh, I think he might have a few more intellectual/political skills than that, based on his track record. (Referenced above.)
No, he just has economic policies that you disagree with. Then again, I'm betting that you also don't think much of Paul Krugman, the 2008 Nobel Prize winner in economics. There are many people who have ideas that I disagree with but are clearly brilliant people anyway. I don't have a PhD. in economics, so I don't pretend to be the arbiter of strong economic policy.
If you aren't impressed by anything that Obama has accomplished, then you and I are just impressed by different things. I'd say they've brought Obama some real world success so far, and I've always found them pretty useful when it comes to figuring out complex issues.
I don't think GWB is stupid. I think he's a bright guy who has made some really bad decisions.
I didn't think anyone would be that impressed with his time as a community organizer and his cases as a lawyer. Is it now impossible to gain "life experience" while getting your education or while educating others? I've learned an awful lot of life lessons doing both.
You're absolutely right. I'm just arguing that Obama has accomplished some very impressive things, and he has translated his potential into success in different areas.
McCain is obviously a very intelligent person who has learned a ton from his experiences.
GS,
One data point hardly dispels what you refer to as "a myth."
Good one. Private schools can discriminate and it has nothing to do with "merit". It mainly has to do with money. Public schools have to teach any student that walks through the door. Private schools don't, they can turn them away.
