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le corrected:
"Obama Loved By The Indoctrinated"
Obama Still Loved By The Over-Educated
President Obama's popularity has slipped among a wide swath of the population. Among the nation's over-educated, however, he continues to do just fine.
Gallup surveyed more than 25,000 voters over the past calendar year and found that the president remains well-liked among those with multiple degrees.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/201...uffpost/440998
le corrected:
"Obama Loved By The Indoctrinated"
By the same poll, he's doing quite well with the GED set too.
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Seriously, what is the point you're making?
I did not write the article or do the research….It is just saying that educated people like Obama…
Some do, so true dat.
In other news, fire is hot.
I'm educated.
And yes...I have multiple degrees.
I hate OBAMA.
My stepfather has a PHD. Taught Business at Our Lady of The lake University. He loves Obama.
My stepfather is an idiot...and knows about actually running a business.
Which is why he taught about it instead.
...anecdotal, I know. Still, Education doesn't always equate to wisdom. I find experience has more to do with it. Educated fools are quite numerous.
It's a sad state of our country when someone who has multiple degrees is called "over-educated". What a ing joke. I guess our country is happy having good old boy rednecks being the majority of the population. If there's one thing I despise about the U.S. it's that education and knowledge are never highly valued. Maybe they never have been.
Wisdom is the virtue of those who ed up so many times in their life now they are around to tell you what not to do.
so you weren't idoctrinated?
I guess you mean to say that smart people are dumb.
Absolutely I was. I even campaigned for McGovern.
Starting a running a business cured me pretty quickly tho.
This is the sick part of this to me, too. To my way of thinking, there is no such thing as 'overeducated'. The fact that many university teachers (with notable exceptions in particular professions) cannot afford to send their children to college is a pretty clear example of the low value associated with
higher education in the U.S.
What is the level of education at which it becomes 'over-education'?
True, it is anecdotal. And it does not really relate to the study finding in anything but your own experience. There are any number of 'idiot Ph.D.s'.
There are an even larger number of 'idiot non-Ph.D.'s. To close the loop, there are even quite a few 'non-idiot Ph.D.'s.
There are also huge numbers of poorly educated idiots. They elect politicians all the time, because there are a lot more of them there are educated idiots.
The beauty of education is that even very small children can excel the adults around them. There's no set level at which education becomes "over-education" IMO.
Having both taught at the University level and run the finance department of a Fortune 500, I learned that there is a 'business savvy' that is quite different than the skills necessary for higher education. One of those differences is that, if properly done, the attainment of a Ph.D. means that the person has done originalresearch that is based on the empirical process, and that adds to the body of knowledge in his/her field.
Does that have anything to do with running a business? Of course not. Does it mean that someone who is a successful businessman understands the difference between causality and correlation? No.
My point is that you cannot reasonably make the inference you seem to be trying to make from the data presented. I would hope that your father-in-law, idiot though he may be, would recognize that, at least.
That's, ehem, regulated socially.
Fair enuf...anecdotal information is just that.
Still, I have never confused educated with smart...or even educated with wise.
Most people are smart...older experienced people are "generally" wiser than younger inexperienced people.
Educated people are more educated. What that means depends totally upon what they were educated in, and how and what they were educated on.
I have said all my life...average people need an education to be successful. Above average people with drive and determination don't. Some of the most sucessful people I know, have the least amount of formal education.
In my case, I needed the education, lol.
In other words, for President... I would take a high school dropout, who has run a sucessful business and met payrolls of over 50 people for a few years...over an "educated" person who has never run a thing or never met a payroll in his life.
Obama is not experienced or competent enough to run an ice house successfully...let alone the largest economy the world has ever known. He simply doesn't know what he is doing.
Unfortunately, competence and experience doesn't seem to be a requirement for his job.
Lucky us.
You must be ing nuts! I wouldn't take a high school drop out for my President...ever! Voting for a complete dumbass ed up the first 8 years of this decade.
You could say the same thing about every President we've ever had. None of our Presidents have been economists from what I can tell. That's why they have a cabinet, and advisors.
Of course the ignorant and those who believe they can run the lives of the ignorant approve of the current president.
If you are free, you don't really give a .
WTF? Every President in our time has come from a cozy Ivy League School, even Dubya...
Exactly right.
Meet the new boss...same as the old boss.
To get multiple degrees, you have to be in college for a long time. There is alot of REAL life experience you miss out on, being in college into your mid 30's.
I also don't know where you get that the US does not value education. We have the best colleges in the world. We also value on the job experience journeyman type jobs, which although does not include a piece of paper with a stamp is education.
The old Republicans are stupid and Democrats are smart bull . It has gotten bad!
My own sister told my republican mother that becuase she is a republican means she is a idiot!!!!!! I was shocked and my sister was dead serious. Like most Obama dems the conversation ended with "you just are." No explanation when pressed.
Obama and his clones brainwashed her. She told her own mother, a mother she loves that she is a idiot because she is a registered republican! My sister is 40 and we are not a political family. We NEVER talked politics with each other until her last visit . My sister represent a whole bunch of Obama dems. I know plenty of them. Her friends blamed the "rural" people of Massachuttes for the USA not getting free healthcare. The once intellectual state has been broken down into sections. Dumb (repugs) and smart (dems).
My sister has a Masters and doesn't know about politics.
As a side note, I love comparing the hardcore profs who do nothing but "research" to the professors who are actually the real deal and only teach to supplement income.
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