Well Sure, If You Wanna Believe What Smart People Tell You
A group of ten Nobel Laureates (in economics) have signed a letter endorsing Kerry. But, you know, they probably got their fancy degrees from Harvard or Oxford or something like that. I mention that because some Republican bigwig–I think it was the chairman of the RNC–was on the Daily Show last night to counter Kerry’s appearance. Speaking of which, Hoffmania has a related observation here. Anyway, the GOP guy threw out a line about how he hadn’t gone to one of those big east schools, in a way that was obviously meant to cast aspersions on Kerry’s high-falutin ways. He’s not common people like you and I. Or our president (Yale, ‘68).
I feel another Bartlet quotation coming on…
”. . . . If a guy is a good neighbor, if he puts in a day, if every once in a while he laughs, if every once in a while he thinks about somebody else and above all else if he can find his way to compassion and tolerance then he’s my brother and I don’t give a damn if he didn’t get past finger painting. What I can’t stomach are people who are out to convince people that the educated are soft and privileged and out to make them feel like they are less than, you know, ‘He may be educated but I am plain-spoken like you.’ Especially when we know that education can be the silver bullet. . . . for crime, poverty, unemployment, drugs, hatred.”
–The West Wing, Hartsfield’s Landing
