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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?
