PALIN IS NOT IN THE 8TH. GRADE!

PALIN IS NOT IN THE 8TH. GRADE! (Mother Jones)

I read a ridiculous article that compared Sarah Palin to an 8th. grader, just because her Emails writing wasn't the  best, or "up to snuff." Gees I write like that everyday, "on an 8th. grade level" and get away with it, "maybe people are making allowances for me," if so, "thanks."

Sarah Palin has compared herself to a Momma Grizzly, and that analogy,  I find offensive. Have you ever been up close and personal with a bear, "they stink" are ill tempered and completely unpleasant. Maybe a deer, a raccoon or a squirrel, but a stinky old bear, come on Sarah, "think outside the box."

The huge cache of Sarah Palin's emails that have been released offered not only a chance to see what she was writing about as Alaska's governor, but also an opportunity to see how well her composition, spelling and subject content was.

Experts read several of the thousands of the emails and came away convinced that Ms. Momma Grizzly was operating at little more then an 8th. grade level. According to their analogy, "many CEO's operate at little better then an 8.5 grade level. That might explain why the country is in the tank at this juncture.

I love to bash the former Alaskan governor as much as possible, she continues to give great subject matter for pundits like me. She seems to be going along her merry way, not caring how people perceive her activity, what she says, or for that matter how she looks. She seems to be free and easy, with an agenda all her own.

I guess I have always wondered why it is so important for the U.S. to have a Rhodes Scholar to operate as the leader. With few exceptions, the countries leaders have been well educated people, with degrees coming out of their butts, mostly law degrees. Exactly where has all this education gotten us, let me count the ways:

1. a never ending series of wars

2. an economy that seems in the tank

3. between 40 and 60 million uninsured health care citizens with nowhere to go

4. underfunded social security program for those 65 and over

5. a 50 year old infrastructure that is crumbling at the same time throughout the country

6. a power grid that is falling apart

7. bridges that are unsafe all over the country

That is what highly intellectual people have done for the country, and the general population bares the brunt of the responsibility for the problem. The general electorate has taken the feeble idea that "college degrees equate into sound leaders with good decision making skills." We all know that is untrue, but we continue to elect the same tired lot of leaders.

I don't like Sarah Palin, I think that she is a fake, enamored with herself, and is far worse then a Momma Grizzly, she is a devious politician, in the game only for herself and as she continues along her merry way, she actually begins to believe what she is spiting out, which is the worst part.

She may write at an 8th. grade level, but her mentality is that of a time old perception of what a political figure is, deceptive, cunning and power hungry.