Obama said "...and where we expect all our children not only to graduate high school, but to graduate college and get a good paying job. It's time to ask ourselves why other countries are outperforming us in education. Because it's not that their kids are smarter than ours..."

Why should all children be expected to graduate college? College should be expected of the most intelligent 30% (IQs above 110), everyone else should be getting vocational education and work apprentice or if their IQs are quite low (below 85, as is the case with about half of blacks and Hispanics) they should probably get a job in unskilled labor. A good new book about the concept that not everyone should aspire to college is Real Education by Charles Murray.

How can we be sure that the populations of some countries (e.g. Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Germany, Sweden) are not on average smarter than our country? Immigrants from these countries, and their descendents, tend to score significantly higher than average on all measures of smartness (academic achievement tests, admissions to colleges etc.). Liberals like Obama and illegal immigration amnesty proponents like McCain seem to be very enthusiastic about the fact that our country is absorbing tens of millions of low-IQ Hispanics. Of course our country is going to become dumber and dumber.