The Forces of Ignorance Lost. Oh Happy Day!

It took Nick Kristof to remind me, clue me into the obvious fact that the Obama/Biden Ticket defeating McCain/Palin means the intellectuals soundly thrashed the anti-intellectuals.


Obama and the War on Brains
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: November 9, 2008

Barack Obama’s election is a milestone in more than his pigmentation. The second most remarkable thing about his election is that American voters have just picked a president who is an open, out-of-the-closet, practicing intellectual.

We can’t solve our educational challenges when, according to polls, Americans are approximately as likely to believe in flying saucers as in evolution, and when one-fifth of Americans believe that the sun orbits the Earth.

Almost half of young Americans said in a 2006 poll that it was not necessary to know the locations of countries where important news was made. That must be a relief to Sarah Palin, who, according to Fox News, didn’t realize that Africa was a continent rather than a country.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/opinion/09kristof.html?em


Am I happy to see the anti-intellectuals soundly rejected by the majority of voting Americans?

Yew Betcha!