some cleverness, some intellect, some knowledge to fix the problems that plague our nation. So, who is better prepared?

Team A:

Columbia University - B.A. Political Science with a Specialization in International Relations.
Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude

University of Delaware - B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science.
Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)

Or:

Team B:

United States Naval Academy - Class rank: 894 of 899

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.A. in Journalism

Palin has gone from"Fargo" to Far gone in a short two weeks

Palin/McCain (deliberate) are not the best people for America

Obama for President 2008

Your post smacks of elitism to me. It is the Ivy League crowd that got us into this mess to begin with. Maybe we need some common sense to get us out.

I suppose the answer might depend upon if you are one who feels that cleverness, intellect, and knowledge are only obtained from universities and institutes of higher learning.

Begging to question how it is our founding forefathers, in all their infinate wisdom, neglected to leave us with the instrustions to require only the ones graduating soon-to-come-loudly from some big eastern academy be appointed as our leaders.

"elitist"? Only since some drugged up buffoon said so.

Working hard to get an education used to be a primary goal, part of the American Dream. Sorry about your inferiority complex though, to bad for you.

Since WHEN you ask?

Oddly enough, it was at damned near the same time the notion of "Working hard" for ANYTHING went away and the "primary goal" became getting just enough of an education to demand that your government take from others and give you whatever you view as "the American Dream".