What do you mean "automatically"?
It took years of listening to that fear-mongering, racist ***** to come to that conclusion.
Only an idiot would be impressed with a long list of degrees at face value without analyzing her content. If you're impressed with the crap she writes, you go right ahead and keep buying her crap. Fools and their money are soon parted.
Yet that is exactly what you and millions of other people did in regard to Barak Obama.
When people on the right continually asked "what is so special about the man"...
All you would hear is
"he is brilliant. He went to Harvard, Columbia"..
When asked of his voting record as a state senator?
All we got was 95% party line and 5% "present", but the man is brilliant.
When we asked about legislation he wrote?
None. But he is brilliant. He went to Harvard.
When we asked about his "content"?
He is brilliant is all we heard.
When we asked about his associations?
All we heard was "Irrelevant. The man is brilliant and what this country needs"
And by the way genius....
schol·ar·ly
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adjective
1. of, like, or befitting a scholar: scholarly habits.
2. having the qualities of a scholar: a scholarly person.
3. concerned with academic learning and research.
adverb
4. like a scholar.
schol·ar
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noun
1. a learned or erudite person, especially one who has profound knowledge of a particular subject.
2. a student; pupil.
3. a student who has been awarded a scholarship.
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