Mr. Kimball:

You can find the below at http://www.mindingthecampus.com/forum/2008/04/then_and_now.html

“From ‘Failing Our Students, Failing America’, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute report on the testing of 7,000 college students at 50 colleges, 2007-2008:

“‘College seniors know astoundingly little about America’s history, political thought, market economy and international relations… Not one college surveyed can boast that its seniors scored, on average, even a ‘C’ in American civic knowledge. Harvard seniors scored highest, but their overeall [sic] average was 69.9%, a ‘D+’.'”

This is part of what the rest of us understand when we use the word “elite” pejoritatively. Arrogance is part of it. But it is arrogance joined with stupidity and ignorance. Or in Obama’s case, vapidity.