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I was thinking more along the lines of incompetent, lying, two-faced, untrustworthy idiot.



Better than incompetent, lying, bumbling, untrustworthy daddy's boy. (with a third grade reading level) :P

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with a third grade reading level



You don't tend to become a fighter pilot if you have a third grade reading level.

You don't tend to get an MBA if you have a third grade reading level.
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You don't tend to get an MBA if you have a third grade reading level.



Oh, I think you'd be suprised to learn that it works just like buying a degree off the internet. Just with a slightly higher price tag.

.jim
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with a third grade reading level



You don't tend to become a fighter pilot if you have a third grade reading level.

You don't tend to get an MBA if you have a third grade reading level.



In America anything is possible, especially if you get admitted to college under an affirmative action program for the rich kids of rich alumni, and get preferential admission into the National Guard because of family connections.

You only have to listen to him talk to realize that he is semi-literate.

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You only have to listen to him talk to realize that he is semi-literate.



I live in Georgia. I know several Physicians who speak with deep Southern accents. Doesn't mean they're stupid. My wife is an OB/GYN Physician. She has a slight Southern accent. These are people, I dare say, with just as much higher education as you. And it wasn't "given to them." At least, not to my wife. She's brilliant and a sponge when it comes to learning. I wouldn't perpetuate the false stereotype that most in this country place on Southerners. It just doesn't work across the board.

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You only have to listen to him talk to realize that he is semi-literate.



I live in Georgia. I know several Physicians who speak with deep Southern accents. Doesn't mean they're stupid. My wife is an OB/GYN Physician. She has a slight Southern accent. These are people, I dare say, with just as much higher education as you. And it wasn't "given to them." At least, not to my wife. She's brilliant and a sponge when it comes to learning. I wouldn't perpetuate the false stereotype that most in this country place on Southerners. It just doesn't work across the board.



It's not the accent. It's the mangling of words and the inability to complete a sentence that brands him semi-literate. That is NOT a southern trait.
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You only have to listen to him talk to realize that he is semi-literate.



I live in Georgia. I know several Physicians who speak with deep Southern accents. Doesn't mean they're stupid. My wife is an OB/GYN Physician. She has a slight Southern accent. These are people, I dare say, with just as much higher education as you. And it wasn't "given to them." At least, not to my wife. She's brilliant and a sponge when it comes to learning. I wouldn't perpetuate the false stereotype that most in this country place on Southerners. It just doesn't work across the board.



It's not the accent. It's the mangling of words and the inability to complete a sentence that brands him semi-literate. That is NOT a southern trait.



A couple of the Physicians that I mentioned are also not very good at organizing their words and ramble quite a bit. They're also not very good in front of crowds or with working directly with people. One is a Pathologist and the other is a Radiologist. They are still extremely smart people. You just might not know it talking to them on the street without their Doctor garb on.

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It's not the accent. It's the mangling of words and the inability to complete a sentence that brands him semi-literate.



Yet it seems he is able to communicate his message a little better (maybe alot better) than Kerry, hmmm...

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His quote doesn't point out an accent - nor is it even highlighting dialectal nuances. If the quote truly is what was said, it really was a very poor use of English.

As to whether or not that error was due to becoming flustered in the heat of the moment, (not perfect perhaps for a professional speaker but perfectly understandable and hardly an indictment on this intelligence), or a more basic lack of comprehension, (certainly very damning given the severity of the error), I cannot say.

Given the number of times we’ve seen such mistakes though you have to wonder...

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Could you have bought that over the internet or did you actually have to put a considerable amount of work into it?



Sadly, I will have to relish earning this all on my own. Though I bet if I had a rich benefactor helping me out, I could have drastically sped up my stay here at Mines.

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Sadly, I will have to relish earning this all on my own. Though I bet if I had a rich benefactor helping me out, I could have drastically sped up my stay here at Mines.



Either way, you'd have to be pretty smart (not an “idiot”) and have better than a “third grade reading level.”

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Oh, I think you'd be suprised to learn that it works just like buying a degree off the internet. Just with a slightly higher price tag.



Then why didn't you buy yours?

Plus I doubt Yale or Harvord will let you buy one without the work.
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