Why Obama is Uneducated

From Selwyn Duke at American Thinker:

This brings us to another fiction: Barack Obama as educated man.

If we were to mention, again, that he thought "Austrian" was spoken in Austria, pronounced "corpsman" "corpse-man" (three times in one speech) or that he called the "transcontinental" railroad the "intercontinental" one (Amtrak to Bangkok, anyone?), we'd obviously have to be racists. After all, anyone can make a mistake. But it's one thing to commit a Spoonerism and say "a scoop of boy trouts" or, like Dan Quayle, correct a spelling-bee participant based upon the antiquated word form "potatoe" (which The New York Times used as recently as 1988). But then there are those mistakes indicating that, just perhaps, you don't really possess the knowledge base one might expect from an educated Western gentleman.

And a fact about Obama's upbringing is that it was defined by fiction. Clergyman Hosea Ballou said, "Education commences at the mother's knee...," but not only was Obama's mother's knee not around all the time, but what an odd knee it was. Her father had given her his first name, Stanley, because he'd wanted a boy, and Stanley Ann Dunham's personal development reflected that bizarre beginning. She attended Mercer Island High in Seattle, which had a wing known as "anarchy alley" that was infested with radical leftist teachers. It is said that Dunham "thrived" in that atmosphere, and she became a committed left-wing atheist herself. Then there was Obama's mentor in Hawaii, Frank Marshall Davis, a pornographic-novel writer and anti-white, card-carrying member of the Communist Party USA. And how radical were Obama's leftist grandparents, with whom he lived in the Aloha State? Obama's grandfather, Stanley Armour Dunham, was the one who chose Davis to be scrambler of young Barry's brains.

The point is that there was no prominent person in the young Obama's life who could or would expose him to reality. It was all anti-American, anti-Western isms and destructive schism. This brings us to Obama's mind-numbingly ridiculous description of his 2008 campaign travels: "I've now been in 57 states; I think, one left to go." Where does such a bizarre mistake come from? After all, that there are 50 states is drummed into every American child so that it just instinctively rolls off the tongue: 50 states, 50 states, 50 states....

That is, again, every "American child."

I think that the Dear Leader has gotten a pass from all his teachers his entire life because he is good looking and well spoken, the political equivalent of a star athlete. An example, Patrick Ewing, former center for the NY Knicks, GRADUATED from Georgetown, but is supposedly a functional illiterate.