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Yes, I am an elitist when it comes to education. No, I don't have any problem with community college or people who go to it. I know some smart people who went to community college, and have been very successful, and that's fine for them. You, personally, may have taken that opportunity and done a lot with it, Bill. That doesn't change the fact that there are differences in opportunity between random community college A and Columbia University. That doesn't change the fact that someone who bounced around for years because she was busy doing beauty pageants going to five different colleges probably doesn't value her education very much. Nor does it change the fact that at no point in the entire campaign did she should any shred or glimmer of knowledge that one might glean from getting an education and caring about it.
Is it elitist for an employer to favor someone who graduated from Columbia and Harvard Law compared to someone who graduated from the University of Idaho with credits from 3 other community colleges? I think that's good sense, particularly when their conduct verifies the superficial guess you'd get about the difference between people with degrees from those schools.
And furthermore, when we're picking the president and the vice president, for the zillionth time I ask, why is elitism bad? We're not talking about your fishing buddy or your plumber. We're talking about, arguably, the most power executives on the planet. I want the very best possible. I'm not sure in some grand sense I'm thrilled with Biden and Obama, but Palin pandered to the lowest common denominator in every aspect of her conduct. I don't want that. I don't like that Bush did that, either.
As for the Africa statement, I think you're taking it too literally. If someone said to me "BoR didn't know that Africa was a continent" I would say, "That's odd, because he seems like a smart guy. I wonder how he missed knowing such a crucial and obvious fact." When I (and a lot of other people) heard that Palin didn't know it was a continent, not a country, we said, "Yeah, that's about what we've come to expect."
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