S.N.O.B. (Someone Needs Our Brains)

If you are running for the highest office of a country which has the power to affect the very climate of the planet, the political security, medical health and economic stability of other nations, and plays a critical role in preventing a world war, you will need to be (at least!) a college educated man or woman, even to contemplate running for that incredibly onerous office. And if you obtained that lofty position, you would need to make sure that every cabinet post, every high-ranking aide position, every secretarial post, every judicial position was filled by someone with (at least!) a college degree. There was a time when people could be leaders without a college education. It was called the Middle Ages. If seeking a college education is an act of snobbery rather than a simple act of survival, then I would like to inquire what collection of imbeciles in this great good land of ours exported to the Third World all the gainfully employing jobs that did not require a college degree, and thereby forcing all of us with any desire not to live in utter poverty to commit the unforgivable sin of "snobbery"! And if going to college destroys a person's spirituality, how come a great many of us had it rescued by our college education? Twenty years ago, a candidate speaking such stupidities in public for such a high office would have been called an "ass". Thirty years ago, such a candidate would have been called a "fool". Forty years ago the pertaining party would have quietly and politely asked such a person to withdraw from the race. By the way, does anyone remember SPUTNIK?!