Does Sarah Palin Think a College Education Is Too Elitist for Her Daughter Bristol and Son Track?

Sarah has slagged President Obama as an elitist. Is she so anti-uppity that she would sacrifice her own children's future opportunities?

It's so strange: You went to college, five colleges in fact, before you wrapped up your bachelor of communications degree from the University of Idaho. Your father was a science teacher, your mother was the school secretary, and your brother Chuck is a teacher -- so why don't you ever promote the value of education even in your own family?

You have no problem speaking out against First Lady Michelle Obama's anti-obesity campaign for children. That means you don't even like the idea of Michelle "educating" parents on the dangers of fattening food.

And having watched every episode of Sarah Palin's Alaska, I've heard you repeatedly laud "family values," the "work ethic" and the importance of taking individual initiative.

These are all great things but I've never heard you mention the value of education... once.

And I'm wondering if you are shortchanging your own children by not encouraging and enabling them to go to college. Take Bristol, for example -- her dreams of going to college to get a nursing degree were cut short by her teen pregnancy at age 17. Then once she had baby Tripp, now 2, she sadly resigned herself to possibly going to a community college to study real estate instead.

And even that was dependent on getting free babysitting from her father Todd, sister Willow and other family members, she said.

Now Sarah, why should her dreams and opportunities be cut short because she was a teen mom?

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Comments

[paullink82]

09:31 AM on 12/31/2010

Sarah Palin is the icon of the anti-education right. I'm not sure how FOX and the right have so successfully demonized having an education among their base. I'm only sure that it has happened. I recently got into a debate with a tea partier (proudly NOT college educated) about whether or not the US is technically a democracy. He claimed it wasn't. The silver lining of this is that people as a whole are getting smarter and the anti-intelectual movement is doomed to eventually eat itself.

[HarlenScogs]

10:03 PM on 01/24/2011

I wasn't aware of that silver lining. If anything, I believe we are getting dumber by the moment. Instead of encouraging the public to aspire to be more intelligent, we see political and cultural leaders drive debates to the lowest common denominator.

Many tea baggers like to say that the U.S. is a "democratic republic". Well, that's what North Korea is supposed to be, so we can see their intended path for our nation.

I find it laughable that the tea party bemoans "elitists", and yet want to repeal the 17th amendment and take our right to vote for our Senators, and hand the power over to a few, easily bribe-able state representatives. They are truly a joke.

[DarthCalvin]

01:07 PM on 12/30/2010

I'm no Palin fan by any means, but isn't her son named "tripp" or something like that and not "track"?

[abbienormal]

09:18 PM on 12/30/2010

She has two sons.

[SeaShell226]

05:45 PM on 01/02/2011

one son & 2 grandsons

[Idean Salehyan]

02:39 AM on 12/30/2010

A haiku:

Sarah Palin, oh!
Pandering to the right wing
We deserve better

[Am-I-Dreaming]

01:03 PM on 12/28/2010

Bristol bought a five-bedroom house and will be attending ASU? Methinks I feel another reality show coming on.....

[DarthCalvin]

12:58 PM on 12/30/2010

Another one to ignore...somehow Bristol and reality shouldn't be used in the same sentence...

[MuchMadness]

12:51 PM on 12/28/2010

Maybe Bristol will pursue a career that has better job prospects and more stability than a lot of the careers that require university degrees. There are many careers that require good vocational and technical training but not a university education.

[Godweiser]

01:47 AM on 12/28/2010

The cost of pretending one person's ignorance is as good as another's knowledge is holding this country back and one of the root causes of our current decline.

[violettefemme]

12:48 PM on 12/28/2010

Beautifully stated.

[DarthCalvin]

12:58 PM on 12/30/2010

I second that...

[punknoir]

10:14 PM on 12/27/2010

Why would she value education? She's raking in the dough and still one of the least educated people on the planet.

[johnminehan]

03:36 PM on 12/27/2010

Not everyone wants . . . or needs . . . a degree.

[rowdiman]

09:10 PM on 12/27/2010

Good point. Bill Gates was a high school drop-out.

[LShkr]

10:40 AM on 12/28/2010

Bill Gates graduated high school in 1973, scored 1590 on his SAT's and enrolled at Harvard in fall of 1973.

[Lisa Shields]

11:30 AM on 01/03/2011

Bill Gates wasn't a single mother.

[punknoir]

10:17 PM on 12/27/2010

Agreed. But we're talking about education. It's hard to argue against learning, isn't it?

[Boor123]

03:28 PM on 12/27/2010

I deeply dislike Palin. Her loss in 2012 to Obama will be sweet.

But Fuller needs to try using the googlination device before writing a column--even ignoring the fact that Bristol is now going to ASU. So, no dreams being cut short.

"I've never heard" something is not a good basis for writing a definitive about whether something exists.

http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/Sarah_Palin_Education.htm

[c-tom]

04:08 AM on 01/03/2011

Can going to ASU really be considered going to college.

[Boor123]

09:38 AM on 01/03/2011

Yes if you like a$$ shakin' in the middle of the desert.

]I have no idea what that means]

[Cleverboots]

11:50 AM on 12/27/2010

Reply to Lola Goetz-Thanks for your reply! F&F Don't forget how he cheated the American people for 8 years. Happy New Year!

[IWantTofu]

08:48 AM on 12/27/2010

Elite. I don't think the word means what she thinks it means.

[Nagarjuna]

11:34 PM on 12/26/2010

"Elitism" is a peculiar concept in our national discourse. Who are the "elite?" It's not rich people -- Americans tend to worship rich people. It's the educated who are considered the "elite." It's smart people that people like Palin despise.

[rowdiman]

08:55 PM on 12/26/2010

You may need to define the word "elitist" for her.

[llibsetag]

08:16 PM on 12/26/2010

The Far Right Rich only think THEIR children deserve to go to college ( PRIVATE COLLEGE ) & that the working class goes to community colleges for their Associate Degrees. The Rich Right own the corporations & the lower class work for them & their children for very little money. EDUCATION / KNOWLEDGE = POWER & Far Right Rich FEAR the Education of the masses because then they can think & earn for themselves PLUS you can see through them & their power games.

POWER TO THE PEOPLE!

[Nagarjuna]

11:18 PM on 12/26/2010

The little people. FF

[Scott Page]

09:57 AM on 12/27/2010

"The Far Right Rich only think THEIR children deserve to go to college ..."

That is not much of an exaggeration - many years ago, George Will wrote an op-ed in which he advocated doing away with grants and college loans - hos position was basically if you cannot afford to go to college, you shouldn't. THAT is about as elitist as one can be.

[alahnar]

06:44 PM on 12/26/2010

This hatred the far right has of higher education really scares me. What other societies or cultural movements have so despised the educated? I think you understand what I'm saying here.

[DarthCalvin]

01:02 PM on 12/30/2010

Not just higher education...liberal education. To the Right, engineering and business is okay...liberal arts will send them screaming about birth certificates or worse...