Sarah Palin Attended 5 Colleges In 6 Years »
Posted By dmwhipp 4 months ago in NewsShe may not be well-traveled in the International arena, but she is certainly well-traveled on the American university circuit.
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- Locky12
4 months ago
VOTE OBAMA! HE USED COCAINE ENTHUSIASTICALLY IN COLLEGE!!!
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WOO HOO! There's a real leader!
-Audacity of Hope (or dreams of my father-- one of those crappy big mouthed books he proudly documented it in!)- mjsposato
4 months ago
Palin admits she smoked pot. So I guess she's not a leader either. Or does it depend on the type of drug?
Reply- Tcaros
4 months ago
Clinton was the best president in recent history!
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He kept us safe. Gave us a budget surplus and was a true leader for the people.
The Republicans became jealous and went after a personal issue. That's when this country drifted into the ill waters of the Bush family facism.- Locky12
4 months ago
He kept us safe? WRONG. All he did was prosecute those involved in the first World Trade Center bombing. That was like killing the cockroaches on your kitchen counter and saying you licked the problem.
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We lost embassies in Africa, the Khobar towers were destroyed, the USS Cole was bombed and the bodies of dead US Troops were dragged through the streets of Mogadishu-- and CLINTON DID NOTHING.
Yeah, the personal issue of perjury.DanmLiberalsComment removed: User banned.
- miklkit
4 months ago
The republicons selected dumbya as their president and he drinks, smoked, inhaled, and snorted.
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- Dionys
4 months ago
"Oh I didn't know Bush was running for president for a third term"
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Sure. Only they're calling him McCain.
As for the 'crack head' comment, I guess it just shows you that racism is (obviously) alive and well within the Repugnant Con party. Did you notice there weren't many black people in the audience at their convention? Wonder why? I don't.- happenings
4 months ago
Blacks and Mexicans were'nt invited because he doesn't like them anyway.
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- Progressive
4 months ago
McSame still boasted he has voted with Bush 90% of the time, more than many other Republicans.
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- Masterblast
4 months ago
I don't care if its a blind monkey, anything is better than FOR MORE YEARS of this lunacy. BTW I am an American red blooded, NRA member but I know a poser when I see them (McCain, Palin)
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- nlknlk7442
4 months ago
He also refused to take Osama on a silver platter when he was offered up. A few years later the man Clinton refused to take brought death and distruction to many. He dodged the draft and he dodged Osama. Yep, I would feel real safe with him as C again. Clinton cought nothing but his zipper in eight years. Even then he lied. He rode an economy that was booming and left one that was slowing. The only credit he gets is having great timing.
Reply- ADAGUY
4 months ago
"He also refused to take Osama on a silver platter"
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At the time he was offered, we did not have enough evidence to convict him of any of the acts mentioned!
- Bruedaddy
4 months ago
you see, the repubs at the time blocked EVERYTHING he tried to do...
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they didn't like the fact he was gonna kick arse. they seem to think they are the only ones that can handle terrorism.......lame blocking arseholes
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- not2needy
4 months ago
Well, little Jenna Bush found her a rich hubby! After she sowed her wild oats all over the country. But you're right, his daughters have definitely shown where and from what they come from.
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- happenings
4 months ago
Yeah, and he had enough money to buy everyone in the house a bag when he left the white house.
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- capecoralM
4 months ago
Well Bush isn't running but, President George W. Bush is the very first President to hold a Masters Degree in Business Administration. Even better (or worse, depending on your perspective), his MBA is from Harvard Business School, where postgraduate management training was invented.
Reply - tchef
4 months ago
He also graduated from Harvard Business School in 1975.
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Judging by the way he has run all the businesses that he has been involved with he didn't learn much.
- doppich
4 months ago
I think Alberto Gonzalesshowed us that a degree from Harvard Law School is no indication of competence, just as Bush showed the same about Harvard Business School. Add in the Bushes and Kerry at Yale and the whole Ivy League becomes questionable
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- Masterblast
4 months ago
Yeah, McCain acutually had worse grades than Bush and his were forgetable
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- PsychoHosebeast
4 months ago
So, it looks like you saved up enough money for another bottle, eh? Ever wonder why you can make a comment, and eight hours later not a single person has given you a favorable vote, despite the fact that there are conservatives posting to the thread? That would primarily be because you're a moron and are even an embarrassment to other Republicans.
Reply- chevydog
4 months ago
Personally, I don't get too worked up about the pot. At a certain time and a certain age, using it was pretty common. But I have different feelings about coke and drinking. Rightly or wrongly, I think that (heavy) repeat use of these implies some sort of fundamental problem.
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As for Palin's academic travels, I can blow both ways. Though I hardly view myself as one, I have a sort of attraction to quirky characters. Sometimes too much normality isn't good for a person. Sometimes people just need to find themselves--not always an easy process. I tend to give people a break if what comes out at the end of the process seems OK. Palin seems OK; maybe not to everyone's political liking, but OK.
- ecotourusa
4 months ago
who cares about any of them?? they are all corrupt and evil.
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use your minds. see that it's only a show to keep us distracted while our VP is trying to start a world war.
read more here:
http://www.propeller.com/story/2008/09/05/in-effec...- not2needy
4 months ago
Sadly you're right, but in the interest of trying to pick the lessor of the evils, we have to insure that McCain doesn't get elected.
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- nlknlk7442
4 months ago
Maybe the facts are more like he finished at the bottom of a class at a very demanding school. Then he took a lot of extra crap serving his country because his dad was an Admiral. If you think the NVA did no takr great pains to break the man because of his family, you are in denial. You offer smoke and ignore the facts. I do not care where he graduated in his class, nor do I care how many schools anyone attended. The fact is Palin has accomplished much more than most her age. Maybe we should all attend many schools.
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- Georgia50
4 months ago
Poor, poor Governor Palin...didn't follow in the footsteps of...
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Bill Clinton, who studied in England with the scholarship funded by a white supremacist who included Americans in the hope that the colonies be folded back into the British Empire, only to be sent packing back to the states after a rape investigation....
Teddy Kennedy, who cheated on his exams...
Joe Biden, who plagiarizes to this day...
What the hell was this girl thinking, just being a normal college kid? Sheesh...what's the world coming to???- dmwhipp
4 months ago
You think normal college kids attend 5 different universities in 6 years? And don't forget one was in Hawaii. Somehow I'm thinking most "normal" parents can't quite afford that...
Reply- chevydog
4 months ago
I got the feeling that her parents may have been fairly well off; or they maybe saw enough promise that they felt that all the hassle would be worth it if she came out OK.
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I one interviewed a girl at a top-drawer engineering school who had 150 college credits and was still classified as a junior. She'd gone through 3 wildly different majors at three different schools, such that almost none of her prior credits ever counted toward her new major. Pleasant and competent, but still one had to wonder when she would ever feel "home".
Don't be too quick to judge. We're all different -- fortunately.
- Dionys
4 months ago
Don't knock Idaho! They've got famous potato(e)s!
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Did anyone else notice that Sarah Palin was raised in
SANDPOINT IDAHO?
Ring any bells? That's right. All the neo-nazi encampments were there.
- Georgia50
4 months ago
Christians have no problem with reason. Our faith does not run contrary to reason; it transcends reason.
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- vettenut
4 months ago
Hey, Dun:
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If you think that Divinity schools and seminaries are "bastions of Republican power," you don't have the slightest hint of an idea of what you are talking about!!!
Those schools are full of things and ideas that are anathema to most Republicans:
advocacy of moral relativism, lack of respect for authority, coddling of Marxist idealogy and its proponents, de-valuation of traditional family structure, acceptance of deviant sexual behavior, and support for more governmental interference into daily life, just to name a few!
Divinity schools and seminaries largely are, in reality, bastions of leftist thinking and left-leaning activism!!!!!
NROTFL!!!- miklkit
4 months ago
Try to peddle that at Pat Robertson's Regent University. Monica Goodling is a graduate of that tier 4 school.
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http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articl...
- Dionys
4 months ago
" ROFLMAO, unless of course you question whats being presented. Sure fire way to get booted from divinity school. thinking and logic have no place there, hence they tend to be bastions of Republican power."
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Well. Any good divinity school allows questions, thinking, logic and requires an excellent foundation in philosophy and logic.
"There's no reasoning allowed in religious schools today."
It depends on the school. Harvard Divinity, SFTS / Berkeley cluster encourage, if not require, questioning, logic, philosophy and thinking.
Perhaps you two are generalizing about divinity schools while referencing evangelical-run schools that are more about indoctrination and follow-the-leader.
The majority of divinity schools that fall outside that narrow definition tend to be bastions of liberal orthodoxy. Christians follow Christ's example and speak strongly about justice, peace and Christ's example as paramount. Buddhists tend to be from the more liberal end of the spectrum. You don't find many orthodox Jews. Nor many fundamentalist Muslims.
Vettenut has it right when s/he says seminaries (especially Catholic) and divinity schools tend (with the exeception of those nasty evangelical schools) towards the liberal (socially) end of the spectrum.
- amazed
4 months ago
yeah, actually I know many people -- current students and those who are now successful adults -- who transferred from several different colleges.
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What very well could have happened -- 1st year in Hawaii -- maybe she was homesick, maybe she was claustrophobic (I've heard from several kids who tried to go to school in Hawaii that the idea is much better than the actuality and living on an island-- even one as beautiful as those in Hawaii i-- made them feel boxed in and trapped. Then, (as transfer students generally do not get as generous of scholarships as incoming freshman) she transferred to a junior college for sophomore year. (She apparently got her associates' degree there, seeing as they are recognizing her as a distinguished alumna). Perhaps after two years in Idaho, she was homesick or perhaps funds were tight -- so she went back to Alaska for a year and then finished in Idaho.
That's IF these stories are more truthful than the Down's kid is really her grandson, and the affair and the rest of the slime coming her way. - Progressive
4 months ago
No, it was books that she attempted to ban from the Wasilla library when she was mayor.
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- tbkennedy53
4 months ago
And Indonesia. Left by not one but two fathers. His and his step dad sent him back to HI.
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- not2needy
4 months ago
dmwhipp, she probably had to keep transferring because of her lack of anger control. Her way or no way!
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- hoomanawanui
4 months ago
Most of the comments on this blog are uneducated emotional words from people who do not identify their qualifications. What makes those people right? Nothing! Our problem in this country is ignorance. If we just want to voice an opinon so be it. but what goes around comes around. I saw McCain (The one who was not so high in his class display class and congratulate Obama for the nomination. I did not see Obama congratulate McCain. I hear Obama call the current administration failed. What gives him the right to pass judgement? He has no qualifications, no administrative experiance in government (small or large) and is friends with a domestic terrorist. So tell me again how ones education holds any importance. I will bet that most of the people passing along these slurs have envn less knowledge and education than Palin or McCain. For sure most have no understanding what it takes to be in government.
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- sortofcute01
4 months ago
AND OBAMA BELIEVES AMERICA IS A UNION OF 57 STATES..... THIS FROM A HARVARD GRADUATE.....GEEEZZZZZ
Reply- Locky12
4 months ago
Because they'd strictly look at my grades.
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I'm not "tan" enough for the admissions board to consider otherwise.
- Bruedaddy
4 months ago
you repeatedly sound like a racist pig.
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can't stand the fact that someone who had SO little does SO well can you?
why are you so afraid?
- happenings
4 months ago
You know while McCain was speaking, Palin was in the back waiting to change McCain's diaper.
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- vettenut
4 months ago
Hey, PHb:
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Here's the source: the mouth of The Most Holy and Anointed One Himself, Barack Hussein Obama!
When: May 9, 2008
Where: Beaverton, Oregon
Here's the YouTube video of him saying that:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws
You perhaps should watch the video about 20 times or so, so the truth of what He says will soak in.......
For a light-hearted remix of The Wisdom of The Anointed One, you can go to this video:
youtube.com/watch?v=dMo0WlSvrIY=1
After you get up off the floor (after either laughing or crying), you will perhaps have another perspective on the person for whom you should vote..........- Ratskii
4 months ago
As was mentioned above, it was clearly a simple slip of the tongue, "40...ah 57 states." You folks are really grasping at straws.
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- CRYMTYPHON
4 months ago
sortofpathetic
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On the plus side, I guess Propeller gives you something to do.
- DoseASpinoza
4 months ago
Did you attend five colleges over six years to get a degree in sportscasting?
Reply - amazed
4 months ago
well, let's see...one starts college at eighteen and, if on the six year plan, is the ancient age of 24 when finished.
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Are you the same person with the same goals, dreams and ideals that you were when you were 17? (The age you actually make the decision of where you want to go to college and what you want to major in).
So, would we prefer someone who says "this is what I'm going to do" and sticks with it regardless of whether the reality of the plan matches the idea of the plan? Someone who won't waver from the original plan, even if they can see that it's nearly or completely a disaster?
Or, would we prefer someone who can and is willing to correct their course mid-stream, if necessary?
Seems to me, that the first description pretty precisely defines some of the left's biggest gripes about GWB.- dmwhipp
4 months ago
No, I went to 3 different colleges. But I'm not under the assumption that I'm prepared to run the United States. And obviously it is unusual that she went to so many schools over that period. Since she is so unknown to most Americans, items like this that are outside the norm are going to garner attention.
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This speaks to McCain's vetting process or lack thereof.