Oh, Really

I've lost track of how many people have e-mailed and commented to me that "Sarah Palin attended five colleges!" with the breathless assumption undergirding the exclamation point that she must, therefore, be a dim bulb.

Best overview of the point -- http://www.slate.com/id/2201332/

Once again, i only like her better for reading Tim Noah's mean-spirited snark. I took six and a half years to graduate, from a land grant state school (Purdue, to which you can readily compare U of Idaho at Moscow). I didn't end up spending stretches back at home taking courses at local colleges, but i also didn't live in a state that was thousands of miles away from the bulk of the US, either. Between a sojourn into the Marine Corps and living on friends' sofas while working an odd set of jobs i never entirely withdrew from Purdue, playing "beat the reaper" with the bursar's office, and racking up some ghastly semesters, grade wise, while also picking up my share of A's in some challenging courses. A reporter would have a field day with my transcripts, just as they're having fun with the Hawaii-Idaho-Alaska-Idaho peregrinations of the young Sarah Palin.

Oh, and Obama hasn't released squat from his college transcripts, Occidental, Columbia, or Harvard Law.

Capper -- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/01/AR2008100103437_pf.html