Alex Massie Alex Massie

There’s No Stupidity Like Palin Stupidity

You’d have to stupid to think an Ivy League* education must be a necessary qualification to be President of the United States but you have to be even dumber to consider it a disqualification.

And, to be sure, there are many ways of answering the question Bill O’Reilly asked a prominent American politician the other day. O’Reilly’s question was:

Do you believe that you are smart enough, incisive enough, intellectual enough to handle the most powerful job in the world?

And this was Sarah Palin’s answer:

I believe that I am because I have common sense and I have — I believe the values that are reflective of so many other American values. And I believe that what Americans are seeking is not the elitism, the kind of a spineless — a spinelessness that perhaps is made up for that with some kind of elite Ivy League education and a fat resume that’s based on anything but hard work and private sector, free enterprise principles.

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