College: the opposite of snobbery.
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Millionaire blue-blood George W. Bush pretended to be a down-home cowboy. Two-time divorcee and longtime Washington influence peddler Newt Gingrich struts around preaching about traditional family values and insisting he's a D.C. outsider. Now, topping them all is Rick Santorum, who recently declared that only "snobs" support efforts to make a college education more accessible to all Americans.
Santorum, of course, has not one, not two, but a whopping three separate degrees, two of which come from public universities — that is, two that were taxpayer-subsidized, courtesy of the "big government" Santorum now claims to loathe.
Hypocritical — and dare I say, snobbish — as it is for someone with such a pedigree to attack President Barack Obama's college-affordability initiatives, Santorum did inadvertently stumble into a significant question: Is higher education for everyone? The answer today is, not necessarily, but that's precisely because of the affordability problem Obama aims to solve.
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As the facts prove, though, the real crisis is about a conservative economic agenda whose anti-government extremism is making the path to a degree and a decent job even tougher than it naturally is during tough times.
Trying to make that path just a tad easier — like it was when Santorum got his three degrees — isn't snobbery. It's the opposite.
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