Any single one of Christine O’Donnell’s questionable claims over the past several years about her educational background might be able to be written off as a misunderstanding or miscommunication. But when you string them all together, and add in the fact that she wasn’t finally awarded an undergraduate degree until this month, and it looks like a classic case of trying to overcompensate for a lack of credentials you desperately want. But whatever was going on in her head — and really, who knows? — it requires a very skewed reading of her history of fibbin’ to conclude it was all just accidental.

David Kurtz

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