Do you know how you can tell that you are a student at a prestigious university dedicated to higher learning? When they DON'T hire Sarah Palin as the "star attraction" at their leadership forum.

Courtesy of The Ledger:  

Southeastern University is gearing up for its annual fundraising leadership event next week, featuring former Alaska governor Sarah Palin as star attraction. 

Palin, 49, the 2008 Republican candidate for vice president, will be at the 2013 National Leadership Forum along with a list of other speakers. She will talk about leadership. 

Brian Carroll, vice president for university advancement, said ticket sales are going well, but there still are some available.

Yeah well if they are expecting Sarah Palin to help sell out the available seats they are about three years too late. She is well past her sell-by-date.

She is talking about "leadership?" How does a half term governor, who left her job to pimp herself and her family on book tours and reality television have anything to contribute about leadership?

If THAT is the kind of leader they respect then why didn't they simply schedule Honey Boo Boo? At least the ratings for HER reality show did not dry up after the first episode.

But don't for a minute think this is a serious school.  Check out their Mission Statement:

Southeastern University is anchored by Spirit-empowered education in a Christ-centered, student-focused learning community. Southeastern’s global impact is marked by a deep commitment to transforming minds and engaging culture through the integration of faith, learning, and service. Each student’s divine design is nurtured and unleashed through the investment of faculty and staff, relationships within the community, the rigor of scholarship, diverse learning experiences, and the discipline of spiritual formation, which propels students into a lifetime of serving the world in the Spirit of Christ. 

In other words this is a school you attend for training as future evangelists. Essentially focusing on teaching, communications, and business, all to spread the gospel to the unsaved, and therefore non-tithing, pagan minions of the world.

You know now that I think about it, this may in fact be the perfect place for Sarah Palin to speak. After all who knows more about spreading mythology to the masses, in order to trick them into handing over their cash, than Sarah Palin?