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Scott Walkers lack of College Degree.

Is Scott Walkers lack of a degree an issue

  • Yes, I dont take orders from some quitter

    Votes: 13 21.0%
  • No, he has enough real world experience to do the job

    Votes: 43 69.4%
  • Somewhat, I would like to see him finish.

    Votes: 6 9.7%

  • Total voters
    62
  • Poll closed .
Well, if nobody else is going to ask the obvious, I will. Would anybody here be willing to vote for a beauty school drop out like Frenchie? :2razz:
 
County EXECUTIVE of a major urban county and governor of a state, are pretty impressive career accomplishments

IF democrat Gary Locke of WA (who has identical credentials plus a degree) was running you wouldn't be questioning him on the basis he's only the former executive of king county and governor of Wash

Sorry. I didn't realize that important county position was a title in ALL CAPS. Must be really impressive. I just thought it was a local county office that a local politician got voted into.
 
Obama is Harvard educated. Look how that turned out.

That's true. Harvard doesn't seem to have the standards that it used to. Didn't W Bush attend Harvard Business School also?
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Walker is not one semester shy of graduating. He is at least a year short of having enough credits to graduate.

He attended college for four full years. Musta flunked a lot of classes, or either he took a part time load. Sounds like a slacker to me.
 
Sorry. I didn't realize that important county position was a title in ALL CAPS. Must be really impressive. I just thought it was a local county office that a local politician got voted into.

It is a huge distinction, County commissioner is a legislative function, sometimes executive depending upon the laws of the state in which the county is located. But in a typical set up, a county commissioner exist within a general law county which are normally small and rural in nature, however urban counties are usually charter counties, such as Milwaukee county, in this set up, a county executive would be like the CEO of a corporation. The county executive is directly responsible for managing the entire county and various departments within. It is a position that usually carries a lot more responsibility than the typical County Commissioner


Another distinction, is that in a general law County a county commissioner generally attends maybe two meetings a month, and are part time. A county executive, is a full-time position
 
Again, business. Not a governing body.

It is well known that anyone in government employment - whether police or politicians - are perfection - and your contempt and claim they are inferior for business owners and anyone else who isn't government. You despise business people, no surprise.
 
He attended college for four full years. Musta flunked a lot of classes, or either he took a part time load. Sounds like a slacker to me.

He left with 34 credit hours remaining of the 128 hours needed and a 2.59 average with a triple major. What no one knows is the number of classes he needed to graduate. With a triple major you need more than 128 hours. No one knows what classes he needed to satisfy graduation requirements. He had at least a year of classes remaining, probably more.

He could have taken all his general education classes in his first two years. Some people do that. In the first two years some/many (most?) take at least a few classes in their major to spice the drudgery of general ed. But for the sake of argument let's give him the benefit of the doubt and say he took exactly all the classes he needed in his first 2 years and completely satisfied his general ed requirements. He would then have two years left to satisfy his major requirements for one major. If he got the classes he needed exactly when he needed them (something as you know that is often impossible) for one major only and he left 34 credit hours short, then he left with a year early.

Walker may not be like most college students. He may have taken the classes needed for one major and had only the classes remaining for the other two majors. He probably didn't, but he could have done it that way.

Far more likely, he probably had a class or two remaining to satisfy general education requirement. Also he probably mixed classes from his 3 majors. If he did that it would be highly likely that he doesn't have enough hours in any of the 3 majors to graduate in 34 hours. He could easily have a year and a half left to graduate with one major. Those who have gone to college know that that scenario is much more likely.

It is my guess that Walker did not get booted from school. I suspect that in class hours he may appear to be a senior but in reality he left school as a sophomore or as a rising junior at best.
 
It is a huge distinction, County commissioner is a legislative function, sometimes executive depending upon the laws of the state in which the county is located. But in a typical set up, a county commissioner exist within a general law county which are normally small and rural in nature, however urban counties are usually charter counties, such as Milwaukee county, in this set up, a county executive would be like the CEO of a corporation. The county executive is directly responsible for managing the entire county and various departments within. It is a position that usually carries a lot more responsibility than the typical County Commissioner


Another distinction, is that in a general law County a county commissioner generally attends maybe two meetings a month, and are part time. A county executive, is a full-time position

Elected local career politician.

I'm not impressed.
 
Elected local career politician.

I'm not impressed.
Of a county of 1 million people with an annual budget of over a billion dollars, then governor of a state of 5 million. That's a very accomplished political career
 
Why is no one questioning Jeb Bush's level of education? He had 2 1/2 years of college in Latin Affairs. That's it.

But the Left absolutely wants Jeb Bush, not Walker, to be the Republican nominee. First, it will be much easier a campaign for Hillary against Jeb and, regardless, even if Jeb Bush won they still prevented a conservative from being in the White House and will get their millions of new Latino Democrat voters thru Jeb Bush too.

So continue to watch the media push Jeb Bush and gun down any other Republican.
 
Why is no one questioning Jeb Bush's level of education? He had 2 1/2 years of college in Latin Affairs. That's it.

But the Left absolutely wants Jeb Bush, not Walker, to be the Republican nominee. First, it will be much easier a campaign for Hillary against Jeb and, regardless, even if Jeb Bush won they still prevented a conservative from being in the White House and will get their millions of new Latino Democrat voters thru Jeb Bush too.

So continue to watch the media push Jeb Bush and gun down any other Republican.

Wow. Both are quitters.

The GOP base is gonna love it.
 
There are a number of reasons I would never support Walker, but honestly Walker's lack of a degree is not one of the reasons.
 
apparently 9 presidents had no degree, and a degree didn't safeguard us from that monumental dumbass bush II

i find it a bit hard to swallow that they alone can appoint SCOTUS judges, all of whom since early 1940s had a law degree, without being educated themselves

other than that i don't really care
 
He left with 34 credit hours remaining of the 128 hours needed and a 2.59 average with a triple major. What no one knows is the number of classes he needed to graduate. With a triple major you need more than 128 hours. No one knows what classes he needed to satisfy graduation requirements. He had at least a year of classes remaining, probably more.

He could have taken all his general education classes in his first two years. Some people do that. In the first two years some/many (most?) take at least a few classes in their major to spice the drudgery of general ed. But for the sake of argument let's give him the benefit of the doubt and say he took exactly all the classes he needed in his first 2 years and completely satisfied his general ed requirements. He would then have two years left to satisfy his major requirements for one major. If he got the classes he needed exactly when he needed them (something as you know that is often impossible) for one major only and he left 34 credit hours short, then he left with a year early.

Walker may not be like most college students. He may have taken the classes needed for one major and had only the classes remaining for the other two majors. He probably didn't, but he could have done it that way.

Far more likely, he probably had a class or two remaining to satisfy general education requirement. Also he probably mixed classes from his 3 majors. If he did that it would be highly likely that he doesn't have enough hours in any of the 3 majors to graduate in 34 hours. He could easily have a year and a half left to graduate with one major. Those who have gone to college know that that scenario is much more likely.

It is my guess that Walker did not get booted from school. I suspect that in class hours he may appear to be a senior but in reality he left school as a sophomore or as a rising junior at best.

idk, i had like 40 credits before finishing high school...

in a lot of programs, you can apply certain gen ed credits towards majors - ex: inorganic chem for a premed major plus the science gen ed. This allows you to skip intro classes and add majors without taking 5 years.

However, you can declare a new major without dropping the old one (i wouldn't even know how to do this), so he probably just had the 3 majors with no intention of finishing 2 of them. After failing a 3rd time, he dropped out

So he may as well have been a freshman, being unable to handle upper level classes in any major
 
He left with 34 credit hours remaining of the 128 hours needed and a 2.59 average with a triple major. What no one knows is the number of classes he needed to graduate. With a triple major you need more than 128 hours. No one knows what classes he needed to satisfy graduation requirements. He had at least a year of classes remaining, probably more.

He could have taken all his general education classes in his first two years. Some people do that. In the first two years some/many (most?) take at least a few classes in their major to spice the drudgery of general ed. But for the sake of argument let's give him the benefit of the doubt and say he took exactly all the classes he needed in his first 2 years and completely satisfied his general ed requirements. He would then have two years left to satisfy his major requirements for one major. If he got the classes he needed exactly when he needed them (something as you know that is often impossible) for one major only and he left 34 credit hours short, then he left with a year early.

Walker may not be like most college students. He may have taken the classes needed for one major and had only the classes remaining for the other two majors. He probably didn't, but he could have done it that way.

Far more likely, he probably had a class or two remaining to satisfy general education requirement. Also he probably mixed classes from his 3 majors. If he did that it would be highly likely that he doesn't have enough hours in any of the 3 majors to graduate in 34 hours. He could easily have a year and a half left to graduate with one major. Those who have gone to college know that that scenario is much more likely.

It is my guess that Walker did not get booted from school. I suspect that in class hours he may appear to be a senior but in reality he left school as a sophomore or as a rising junior at best.

Then he has enough hours to equal a degree.

Of itself, the paper means nothing in terms of education.
 
idk, i had like 40 credits before finishing high school...

in a lot of programs, you can apply certain gen ed credits towards majors - ex: inorganic chem for a premed major plus the science gen ed. This allows you to skip intro classes and add majors without taking 5 years.

However, you can declare a new major without dropping the old one (i wouldn't even know how to do this), so he probably just had the 3 majors with no intention of finishing 2 of them. After failing a 3rd time, he dropped out

So he may as well have been a freshman, being unable to handle upper level classes in any major

And you may be a high school dropout after failing the 6th grade for the 4th time. Since there is nothing showing he failed anything, my speculation about you is as factual as your partisan hackery message attacking him with crap you make up.

Still waiting to see Obama's dissertation.
 
Why is no one questioning Jeb Bush's level of education? He had 2 1/2 years of college in Latin Affairs. That's it.
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Maybe that's because a) The topic here is Walker or b) no one posted one about Jeb.
 
And you may be a high school dropout after failing the 6th grade for the 4th time. Since there is nothing showing he failed anything, my speculation about you is as factual as your partisan hackery message attacking him with crap you make up.

Still waiting to see Obama's dissertation.

A 2.59 GPA and leaving college "just" 34 credits from graduating and with 3 majors, that's a 3 times failed college student if there ever was such a thing. Why the hell you bringing up dissertation during discussion on an undergrad dropout? Do you even know what a dissertation is?

I never once mentioned politics or obama, you did that. Keep this up and i will tell your special ed teacher to put you in the corner with a dunce hat
 
And you may be a high school dropout after failing the 6th grade for the 4th time. Since there is nothing showing he failed anything, my speculation about you is as factual as your partisan hackery message attacking him with crap you make up.

Still waiting to see Obama's dissertation.

Obama by his own admission was a poor student in HS, yet somehow he ends up in the Ivy leauge. Affirmative action anyone?
 
Sorry. I didn't realize that important county position was a title in ALL CAPS. Must be really impressive. I just thought it was a local county office that a local politician got voted into.
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Walker was the County Executive of Milwaukee Counties Board of supervisors, which isn't that important. They only make headlines here in WI when they keep voting themselves raises for doing nothing.
 
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