Academics = Bad

[sleigh]

McCain, in NH today, said the problem with Obama and his economic plan is that Obama is a "detached academic," and "...the one thing academics are good at is inventing and redefining terms, which is what he’s up to with that phony income tax cut for 95 percent of the American people."

What a wealth of prejudice against higher education is contained in that remark... So it's a problem if you're educated and erudite? It's a problem to have a depth of intellectual knowledge about the subject at hand? It's a problem to base your opinions and strategies on hard, cold analysis rather than emotion (you 'detached academic', you)?

No wonder we have a problem with education in this country. If you're actually well-educated and use the knowledge and skills you've acquired, you're mostly worthy of scorn.

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Re: Yes!

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

I think it's just something they're taught to chant for the purpose of getting votes. Many of them never follow through. Of those who follow through, most present changes that are useless or actively counterproductive. They are more interested in gaining power than in actually solving problems; that's bad. We are seeing the results of this in our school system now.