Reply #28: Am I deceiving myself by saying that Kerry isn't like that? (Yalie snob)

[beachmom]

I think he greatly appreciated the educational opportunities there, but he doesn't strike me as a person (and, sorry I have met people like this) who would look at me and say "Oh, you only went to UConn. I went to Yale". He's just not like that. Am I right? Before you even answer about what he was like, I feel I know part of the answer, which comes from Vietnam. We'll assume he was all snootty Yalie grad, but once he was on that boat, who you were, what school you went to, and what family did you come from became irrelevant. So, BC is cool, too (my sister looked into it before deciding on UConn), but it's Vietnam that defined Kerry for me, not Yale. And, of course, him travelling around the country and meeting regular people has certainly cured him of any Ivy League pretention.

But, he didn't strike you as snobbish, right? (Inquiring minds need to know!).