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It is odd what some people get all upset about. Recall that in the first Sherlock Holmes story, Watson is outraged that Holmes was unaware that the Earth rotated about the Sun. Holmes is unabashed, stating that whether the Earth rotates around the Sun, or vise versa, was immaterial to his work (Watson was still trying to work out what Holmes did for a living).
I love geography and maps, and I am pretty disgusted by the geographic illiteracy of many Americans - including ones you would think who would know better.
But the premise of the OP is yet again another feeble and silly attempt at trying to pin an issue on political ideology, or bashing liberals, when there isn't really one. Yet another foolish stab by the One Who Refers to Himself in the Third Person.
I love geography too. It was my favorite subject in high school and middle school. I've participated in geography bees. To say the least I have a passion for it.
And like you, I am not happy with the way this has been turned into a political problem, as a reason to bash those who are liberals.
Lack of geographic literacy is not surprising. This is not a Harvard problem. This is a problem in America as a whole. I remember when I took geography classes. I got the feeling many of my fellow students simply didn't care.
I did not know the capital of Canada. Most Americans really don't care about Canada. It's not that Americans couldn't remember the capital of Canada if they wanted to. Just there is no reason to care about anything Canadian.
Also, you said "liberals prove that their only tactic is to deflect" .. In my "which group is the most disfrachised in the US" thread, you were pretty much calling out errors left and right about spelling, grammar, etc. So you must be a liberal?
And there you have it! Ignorance comes from all quarters and not just the Liberal side of the aisle. American Liberals don't have a lock on the "ignorance franchise"; it's pretty much pervasive across the political spectrum..
This must explain why President Obama thought there are 57 states.
Harvard graduates a lot of liberals.
No wonder a disaster like healthcare.gov was created by them.
It is par for the course.
President Obama "thought" there were 60 states, not merely 57.*
He said he'd campaigned in 57, was set to go to 1 more, and wouldn't go to 2 (Alaska and Hawaii). Wingers can't even get the facts behind their jabs at Obama correct.
*except he didn't really think this. He stumbled on the word forty and what came out was fifty.
47 + 1 + 2 = 50
Anyway, you could go to any college in the United States and find students who don't know the capital of Canada. You really grasp for anything to ding Obama with, pretty pathetic.
In addition to what I said in my last post, there is one thing no one, and I mean NO ONE has thought of so far. Harvard lost its geography department in 1948, and as far as I know, there is just a research center for geography, in 2006.
Considering America's lack of geographic literacy, only having a geography department restored a few years ago doesn't help either. Lack of geographic literacy has nothing to do with Harvard's liberal slant. UC-Berkeley is very liberal and has a geography program.
Harvard students not being knowledgeable in geography has alot to do with Harvard not having a geography program since 1948. It has a geographic research center now, but the university doesn't have a geography major as far as I know.
As far as I know, most people who go to Harvard aren't interested in Geography, and those that are interested aren't going to Harvard. Politics has nothing to do with it, so keep politics out of this.
I would ask you to do the same, since you think he went to college on Affirmative Action. Based on that notion you would expect someone that got into Harvard with AA would finish school in the bottom rung if they even finished at all. Since, you know, they aren't "qualified" to attend. Who would expect someone that graduated from Harvard Law magna c*m laude to be a beneficiary of AA? But as usual your bias is showing.
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