Educational Backgrounds of the 2008 Presidential Candidates and Their Running Mates ...

Did you ever see that Samuel L. Jackson movie "A Time to Kill?"

Do you remember the courtroom scene near the end? The one where his lawyer asked the jury to close their eyes and imagine while he painted the picture of Jackson's daughter's rape, and then ended it off with "Now open your eyes ... and imagine she was white."

Here's an experiment ... Let's look at the educational background of the candidates and see what they bring to the job. And I don't really care if you open or close your eyes.

The "imagination" comes into play in "imagining" that all of these candidates will be looked at as equally human.

Barack Obama:


Occidental College - Two years.
Columbia University - B.A. political science with a specialization in international relations.
Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude






Joe Biden:


University of Delaware - B.A. in history and B.A. in political science.
Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)








John McCain:

United States Naval Academy - Class rank 894 out of 899 (meaning that, like George W. Bush, McCain was at the bottom of his class).

I have a couple of questions ... If you want to win the World Series, do you take coaching tips from the team that was at the bottom of the league the previous season? Taking nothing away from McCain's service to this country, how does being a Prisoner of War make one suited to become Commander & Chief? Personally, I'd like to have a leader who went out and fought - not one who got shot down & caught. Personally, it makes me think because of that experience he is more prone to use war as a means of "conflict resolution" over diplomacy.


Sarah Palin:


Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester
North Idaho College - 2 semesters - general study
University of Idaho - 2 semesters - journalism
Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester
University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in journalism