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It is clear the Left’s 30+ year effort to dumb down the population by turning our educational institutions into PC re-education camps has had its desired effect. Exhibit A is the election of Sen. Barack Hussein Obama (D-ACORN), propelled into office by millions of uninformed, emotion besotted dimwits and white guilt afflicted liberals. To see the Obamabot ignorati in full display check on this hilarious, albeit disturbing, video from the website howobamagotelected.com.

Today the Intercollegiate Studies Institute released a study confirming the fact that our country is suffering from an epidemic of ignorance about basic civics.

Third Intercollegiate Studies Institute Report on Civic Literacy Suggests There is an Epidemic of Historical, Political and Economic Ignorance in America; Colleges Must be Main Part of Cure

Washington, D.C., November 20, 2008

Are most people, including college graduates, civically illiterate? Do elected officials know even less than most citizens about civic topics such as history, government, and economics? The answer is yes on both counts according to a new study by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI).

More than 2,500 randomly selected Americans took ISI’s basic 33question test on civic literacy and more than 1,700 people failed, with the average score 49 percent, or an “F.” Elected officials scored even lower than the general public with an average score of 44 percent and only 0.8 percent (or 21) of all surveyed earned an “A.” Even more startling is the fact that over twice as many people know Paula Abdul was a judge on American Idol than know that the phrase “government of the people, by the people, for the people” comes from Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. (ISI Press Release)

So the Bill Ayers inspired curriculum has, to quote another FOB (wow–it is a 3rd Clinton administration!), Rev. Jeremiah Wright, come home to roost.

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