Common Sense and common senseless

The GOP and extreme right wing puppeteers are being charlatans when they talk about President Obama lecturing, and living in an Ivory Tower as if education is a bad thing and college is a place to be indoctrinated.

Rush Limbaugh graduated from Cape Girardeau, Missouri Central High School, in 1969. Because of his parents' desire to see him attend college, he enrolled in Southeast Missouri State University but left the school after two semesters and one summer. According to his mother, "he flunked everything", and "he just didn't seem interested in anything except radio."

It isn't any wonder Rush Limbaugh resents education and makes statements like, "Now, we've all acknowledged while they are book smart, they're genuinely ignorant, devoid of common sense, real-life experience people. "

There is such a thing as smart and scheming and Rush is probably a little of both with his love on power and money far exceeding his morality and common decency.

Then there is Glen Beck.In 1996 Beck took a theology class at Yale University. The class was called "Early Christology" and it marked the extent of his post secondary education. This was followed by Beck going on a "spiritual quest" where he "sought out answers in churches and bookstores." As Beck later recounted in his books and stage performances, his first attempt at self-education involved six wide-ranging authors: Alan Dershowitz, Pope John Paul II, Adolf Hitler, Billy Graham, Carl Sagan, and Friedrich Nietzsc

Today Glen Beck lectures his followers in front of a blackboard while complaining about how President Obama acts like a professor (which he was, teaching Constitutional Law) when giving a speech.

It is Beck and Limbaugh and others that have convinced their listeners that only they know the Constitution of Common Sense and it's all smoke and mirrors.

There is no one who respects common sense more than I do but the common sense does come equally to those with an education and those without. I've known some very wise people in my lifetime who never went to a University and some really dense people with a Doctorate. I have also met some really misinformed individuals with no education and some very brilliant college professors who have a great deal of common sense and a genuine humble personality.

The most unsettling thing about Beck, Limbaugh and their followers is that while they say they want to restore the Constitution they at the same time have tried to tear down everything in the constitution except the Right to have a firearm.

They are teaching anarchy in the name of patriotism and division in the name of unity and neither is qualified to teach a dog to roll over.

Government is not the problem these people are the problem or spokesmen of a higher power with lots of money, gold and drugs.