I couldn’t agree with you more! I would much rather have an intelligent person with leadership skills (not management skills) who didn’t have an Ivy-league illuminati socialistic education. I worked for a company who’s requirement to a promation was based on popularity and not merit. (thankfully I left and started my company) I’m not saying networking is not important, but when a person has ZERO accomplishments it stands to reason that they are not ready to go to the next level. What was Obama’s great accomplishment again?

I think the best example of this difference in the real world would be Harry Truman as compared to the Ivy League educated of his day. Truman never attended college yet Truman correctly identified Stalin as an evil bastard and communism as a dangerous ideology on par with fascism. Those educated in elite universities during the 30’s and 40’s by contrast had a generally positive attitude towards the dictator and a disturbing number of them were communist or fellow travelers.

Unfortunately, to many people are educated and then work in fields of endeavor wherein being right and being wrong are matters purely of authority and popularity. These people build an intuitive sense that an assertion is correct when everyone else says it is. They lose the intuitive sense that reality and our models of it can, and usually do, diverge strongly.

I already thought I’d much rather vote for her than any of the other three on the ticket. A practical, ambitious, intelligent person.

Word.