Education is kinda important to me

I was kinda hor­ri­fied that Dubya got Cs at Yale. This little tidbit, bor­rowed from Doug’s friend bunegeria  is even more telling:

Edu­ca­tional Back­grounds of the candidates:

Barack Obama:
Columbia Uni­ver­sity – B.A.Political Sci­ence with a Spe­cial­iz­a­tion in Inter­na­tional Relations.

Har­vard – Juris Doctor (J. D.) Magna Cum Laude

Joseph Biden:
Uni­ver­sity of Delaware – B.A. in His­tory and B.A. in Polit­ical Science.

Syra­cuse Uni­ver­sity Col­lege of Law – Juris Doctor (J.D.)

vs.

John McCain:
United States Naval Academy – Class rank: 894 of 899

Sarah Palin:
Hawaii Pacific Uni­ver­sity – 1 semester
North Idaho Col­lege – 2 semesters – gen­eral study
Uni­ver­sity of Idaho – 2 semesters – journ­al­ism
Matanuska-Sus­itna Col­lege – 1 semester
Uni­ver­sity of Idaho – 3 semesters – B.Sc .in Journalism/Communications (I’ve altered this slightly from the e‑mail because this is what Wiki­pe­dia has…)

I’m won­der­ing why Palin went back and forth between col­leges so often, but at least she did com­plete the degree. No clue as to her skill level though…

Still, I like the polit­ical sci­ence back­grounds of the other guys better… The lawyer thing is intriguing. Someone – I think it was e_dan  – made a com­ment one day about how dif­fer­ent soci­et­ies are based on whether they elect law­yers to run their gov­ern­ments or other career types.