Ha ha ha ha... I've been totally vindicated on a character judgment

For three of the past four years of my undergrad education, I've taken several classes that sadly have brought me into contact with a certain classmate who I absolutely can't stand. She's the person who's always asking questions (often dumb ones) just so she'll have a reason to draw the prof's attention. She's the person who tries to catch the professor in some kind of contradiction (and usually fails). Most of all, I've noticed that she has been absolutely unable to analyze anything of a remotely political nature without coming down on the side of the right.

In short, I've thought her kind of a jerk. Fortunately for me, last year, I was usually right and she was usually wrong. This was due to her complete inability to give the USSR credit for anything at all. She strenuously advocated in a class on Soviet history that the USSR contributed next to nothing to Allied victory in WWII. Her reasoning was that anything and everything made by the Commies had to be a piece of crap that didn't work. End of story. That's the high-level kind of reasoning I've come to expect from this young lady.

Well, going to school in Canada, I've always assumed this girl is a Canadian. Nope, she's a fellow American, I learned today. Well, ok. So we were talking before class about our post-graduate plans. Her goals? She wants to get a think-tank internship.

Not wanting to name names, but this fine "think" tank to which she has applied has advocated for the abolition of the minimum wage, as well as social security, and the introduction of school vouchers. At the end of our discussion she smugly added "nope, I'm definitely not a Democrat!" even though I hadn't brought up anything about party affiliation. It's rare when people completely confirm your views about them, but today I was right-on.

at the conservative "think-tank!"

:hi:

in Canuckistan then? :shrug:

It obviously isn't because she admires their social health care system. Of course, neither of those are why I'm here either, although I can't deny that it's much cheaper to go to school in Canada (which is nice).