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I always said the vast majority of todays political leaders( both sides) pale in comparison intellectually to our Founding Fathers.
Transport them back in time 250 years and they'd be working the fields, tending livestock, loading wagons, working as store clerks, waiting tables, doing kitchen work, cleaning houses.
Do we really want these mental lightweights and lackwits monkeying around with our Constitution and deciding domestic and foreign policy?
If you can do better run for office then
Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison (even Jackson) were Arstocratic people and Hancock was a Criminal smuggler. Adams although supr intelligent was an ineffective leader, Jackson was an awful President, even Jefferson made huge mistakes (Embargo act?) so people from the revolution era are romanticized beyond belief.
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they each only had two years of formal schooling between them!
Jefferson completed the course work to graduate from William & Mary in only two years so he would hardly be considered 'uneducated' by those who believe 'schooled' is synonymous with 'educated'..
I'd consider the people who confuse school attendance with 'education' to be not very aware of what 'education' actually is but thanks for playing the "Let me make yet another baseless "liberals this" and "liberals that:" game. .
BTW, Harry Truman didn't have a college degree and I'd take another POTUS like him in a minute ahead of any of the recentcropof those with MBAs, JDs, and other pieces of paper that say nothing of their ability to function in the real world.
Oh it's because their great, white brains were so capable of absorbing so much knowledge in a very short amount of time. Aren't I right?
Any great brain can absorb knowledge in the same way many early Americans did, not just white people. A lot of black people got the same sort of education Lincoln and Jefferson did when they had the chance, and the right to educate oneself and choose one's own destiny in the world was part and parcel of the world that racial minorities were fighting to be included in, a world of education that has unfortunately been destroyed by big government and big institutions. It's strange how minorities fight to be included in the world of the legally white, and then politicians proceed to destroy that world of independence, initiative, and freedom because the minorities need to be helped, which is pretty racist if you ask me, and contradictory to what was being demanded originally.
Back to the original topic, people and candidates should be judged on their knowledge and abilities, not what credentials they have or what connections they have. Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson had very little formal edcation, yet were vastly more educated than George W. Bush, who went through 12 grades of school and obtained a big-time college degree. Formal education is not the sole or even primary means of becoming educated.
Deifying the Founders doesn't do them any favors...or us.
They were not demi-gods. They made many mistakes, had issues in their private lives, and were, essentially, just as human as the rest of us. Making them out to be something beyond mortal that no one else can ever aspire to equal is against every principle they left to us.
You do know "they each only had" and "between them" are conflicting phrases right? So which is it?
LOL, I was going to point that out if no one else had.
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