‘President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob!’ Seriously? Not that he forget to mention career-based education. But really? You’re a snob because you want other to be ABLE to even have the choice to go to college?! I might make a fine and dandy maid or nanny, but if I have the money to keep myself in college than you’re darn straight I’m guna do it and that CERTAINLY doesn’t make me a snob!

Also, something I learned from “snobby” social psychology class. How hate, elitism, and prejudice occurs on the left AND right sides: “THEY think they’re better than you” (college ppl think they’re better than working class). “THEY don’t care about you” (college ppl don’t care about working class ppl) “THEY’RE conspiring against you” (keep them stupid) etc.

Grow a brain people. There’s something wrong with both sides. Difference is… whose the best out of all those wrongs?

It’s not bogus at all, although I suspect you accidentally misunderstood the statement. The republican party depends heavily on a certain base of voters or they’d be toast, especially in this election season when they’ve already alienated a crapton of demographic segments. The base they depend on is a white, lower income, very low- or uneducated base who thrive on the violent and nasty rhetoric. This in no way implies that the entire base is ignorant or uneducated; merely that the ones who are such are a base the republican party cannot afford to lose now. Many of believe there is some truth to the idea that the republican party wants to keep a portion of its base “dumbed down”, because it keeps them buying into their trashy, venomous talk and it supplies a good solid bloc of low wage workers. The republicans are always always about profit: low wage workers = more profit for corporations.

You are correct, not everyone is meant to go to college, and Pres. Obama understands that. He also understands how the country has changed dramatically, with so many outsourced jobs, and he’s trying to say….anyone that wants a chance to go to college should have that chance, and he’s promoting the idea that if you aren’t a college-bound student, at least strive for a one year program of some type of training, which should *also* be available to anyone wanting that.

The hypocrisy here is that Santorum is trying to denigrate anyone that *does* want a college education, despite the fact that he has three degrees from PUBLIC universities, and despite the fact that he advocated for the very thing he’s trashing now, back in 2006. And he has the balls to call Romney a flip-flopper?