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Since when has having an excellent education been a detriment to higher office? This is the president we're talking about. How have we come to the point at which we ascribe social class negatives to someone who has worked hard enough to go to fine secondary, undergraduate, and graduate schools? Here's a man who can think. Who can express himself articulately. Who has big values and big ideas. Who can relate to all kinds of people. Seems to me that this is what constitutes leadership--particularly that played out on the world scene (and that's been missing, badly, for many years). Are we as Americans so jealous that we have to put this down? Or should we grow up and look at what our values are?
John McCain has said that he's been in on "every foreign policy decision for the past 25 years..." If this is true, then he's part of the poor decision making that has gotten into the mess in Iraq, that has made America's standing deteriorate in the eyes of the world, that has revoked treaties and generally thumbed its nose arrogantly at Europe and other countries. Rather than a plus, McCain's experience looks like a big minus to me. Time to change things.
