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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 .
Brazil elected an illiterate clown to be a national congressman. Well, technically Sao Paulo elected a clown who scored 30% on a literacy test to be their congressman. I think he received the second most votes ever for that particular elected position. One of his slogans was "what does a congressman do? I don't know, but if you elect me, I'll let you know."

We should elect a President like that. Every day he can have a press conference where he explains recent events and how he, nor any other man who could have been elected, played no part in those events. In case I'm being too vague, what I'm saying is that the President is a figurehead and the massive bureaucratic infrastructure combined with the oft-lamented 1% determines policy. It's not the President, nor the electorate, nor the illuminati. Although it can be the electorate but only if not doing what the people want results in the loss of income for rich or government people.

So to answer the question, I don't care that Scott Walker doesn't have a degree. What I do care about is that he would be a meaningless figurehead. The only kind of man who would make the Presidency meaningful is the kind of man who would have the guts to expose the meaninglessness of it all.
 
Mustachio said:
Brazil elected an illiterate clown to be a national congressman. Well, technically Sao Paulo elected a clown who scored 30% on a literacy test to be their congressman. I think he received the second most votes ever for that particular elected position. One of his slogans was "what does a congressman do? I don't know, but if you elect me, I'll let you know." We should elect a President like that.....<snip>
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We already did. His name is George W Bush.
 
Someone is good and experienced or he is not, degrees only tell you (normally) that a person is book smart but that does not mean he is a good leader/politician. And not having a degree does not make someone a bad leader/politician.
 
Peter King said:
Someone is good and experienced or he is not, degrees only tell you (normally) that a person is book smart but that does not mean he is a good leader/politician. And not having a degree does not make someone a bad leader/politician.
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Exactly. And I wonder how all those rank and file democrats that never spent a day in college feel about their partisans attacking a man because he lacks a college degree.
 
CRUE CAB said:
Is it an issue for you. I like him, but that is a sticking point.
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I could care less about him not having a college degree. I judge him on his experience as governor of Wisconsin. He gets my vote.
 
sawdust said:
Just like Bill Gates. It's a non starter. He's accomplished enough in his career to know that he can handle the job.
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I think the left is very frustrated. They are starting to see Walker as a threat. They have done tons of opposition research and all they can come up with is he left college before graduating.
 
SlevinKelevra said:
The curriculum for the degree is set by the faculty of the department (or higher up, too) to complete a prescribed course of study that satisfies their level of minimal study to show higher level education in that area.

Would you hire someone as mechanical engineer who never graduated with his degree and decided not to take statics and dynamics?

Further, would you say someone has a high school education if they dropped out after 9th grade? Of course not. "Has an education" _in "X" implies they took (and passed) the patently obvious and requisite courses to fully attain that education.

He took a bunch of college courses, but he didn't complete a degree. What field is he educated in specifically at a collegiate level?
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He seems to have mastered running the state of Wisconsin and taming the labor unions. I would also bet that he is making more money then you.
 
ObamacareFail said:
He seems to have mastered running the state of Wisconsin
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then why do they lag regional and national employment and job creation stats?


I would also bet that he is making more money then you.
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Considering that if he is--- it's off the back of taxpayers, you're bragging about that? HAHAHA. Wow.
 
Dirt Racer said:
I am not hung up on the fact he doesn't have one. I feel you can gain more valuable experience from hands on more so than from a book.

That's my opinion
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Or hands on and book combined. In my first job, I worked with an electrical engineer, who never went to college a day in his life. He was self taught. A college degree is wonderful, however most of the employers I have worked for valued experience more then degrees.
 
Unrepresented said:
Our expectations and access to education have greatly changed during the seventy years since Truman first became president.

During Truman's era, only one in twenty Americans would compete their bachelors degree. Being in the top five percent of educated people would be a great asset to have for the leader of the free world, but it's not a compulsory expectation. Today, however, not having a degree puts you in the bottom two thirds in education attainment. I expect more from a leader.

Educational attainment in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Who cares what you expect? The voters of Wisconsin like him.
 
justabubba said:
you would think that with the strength of connections to protect him in that degree they would also be able to buy him a diploma
worked for dubya
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Ah...the ole daddy bought him a diploma at two ivy league leftwing universities, Harvard and Yale tactic. You are attempting to have it both ways. You want to criticize Walker for not having a degree...yet you cheapen degrees by suggesting that they can be bought at Yale and Harvard,.
 
SlevinKelevra said:
i'll take holy screwed up comparisons for $1000, alex.
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There is a big difference between a person being a cog in an assembly, and being the top executive
of an organization. The universities have successfully marketed their product as the only viable
product in town.
 
joko104 said:
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.
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I do? Hmmm, odd. I have never shown contempt for biz here before.
 
ObamacareFail said:
Or hands on and book combined. In my first job, I worked with an electrical engineer, who never went to college a day in his life. He was self taught. A college degree is wonderful, however most of the employers I have worked for valued experience more then degrees.
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Was he running for President?
 
ObamacareFail said:
He seems to have mastered running the state of Wisconsin and taming the labor unions. I would also bet that he is making more money then you.
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OK, but what kind of following will he have from military officers that must have college degrees to do their jobs?
 
Unrepresented said:
Our expectations and access to education have greatly changed during the seventy years since Truman first became president.

During Truman's era, only one in twenty Americans would compete their bachelors degree. Being in the top five percent of educated people would be a great asset to have for the leader of the free world, but it's not a compulsory expectation. Today, however, not having a degree puts you in the bottom two thirds in education attainment. I expect more from a leader.

Educational attainment in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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So Bush satisfied your need because he has two higher education degrees.
 
justabubba said:
you would think that with the strength of connections to protect him in that degree they would also be able to buy him a diploma
worked for dubya
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Which diploma was bought for him, and how much did it cost? Please post some links.
 
joko104 said:
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.
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Neat. I love it when people make these kinds of posts.

Jeb Bush has 2 1/2 years of college ("That's it.") because he graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Texas after managing the full course load in only - you guessed it - 2 1/2 years.

But I'm sure you'll manage to get some clueless Liberals excited at your implication that Bush didn't finish college.
 
ObamacareFail said:
Ah...the ole daddy bought him a diploma at two ivy league leftwing universities, Harvard and Yale tactic. You are attempting to have it both ways. You want to criticize Walker for not having a degree...yet you cheapen degrees by suggesting that they can be bought at Yale and Harvard,.
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no. i only want to have it one way

there is no way dubya enjoys his ivy league 'success' without daddy's help
one of the repeated knocks on him as president was his obvious lack of interest in anything intellectually rigorous. which is why he abdicated to cheney and other neocons surrounding him to think and become informed on his behalf
and in no way have i criticized walker for his lack of a degree. i would criticize him for most of his views, but not for failing to own a diploma; for a number of reasons. as an elected official, those who placed him in office found his intellectual capacity adequate for the job without a degree. ditto for the shrub. but more significantly, there are a great number of very smart, very accomplished people i have met who were without a degree. most were self educated by personal choice. others were forced to work to assist their families. and there were those who tried it and found that the university was too slow for them. bill gates comes to mind as an example from that latter group

and if i were forced to speculate, based on the shown post and others devoid of critical thinking, you would appear no where among those i have pointed to as being accomplished
 
CRUE CAB said:
OK, but what kind of following will he have from military officers that must have college degrees to do their jobs?
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I don't know any military officers so I don't know how they'd feel, but do you believe that the military officers respect non-military people giving them orders simply because that person has a college degree? And what if your college degree is in Sports and Leisure studies from a college where you simply show up and pay money, and it's totally non-competitive to get in, and you can stay in by buying more attempts at credits?
 
justabubba said:
no. i only want to have it one way

there is no way dubya enjoys his ivy league 'success' without daddy's help
one of the repeated knocks on him as president was his obvious lack of interest in anything intellectually rigorous. which is why he abdicated to cheney and other neocons surrounding him to think and become informed on his behalf
and in no way have i criticized walker for his lack of a degree. i would criticize him for most of his views, but not for failing to own a diploma; for a number of reasons. as an elected official, those who placed him in office found his intellectual capacity adequate for the job without a degree. ditto for the shrub. but more significantly, there are a great number of very smart, very accomplished people i have met who were without a degree. most were self educated by personal choice. others were forced to work to assist their families. and there were those who tried it and found that the university was too slow for them. bill gates comes to mind as an example from that latter group

and if i were forced to speculate, based on the shown post and others devoid of critical thinking, you would appear no where among those i have pointed to as being accomplished
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So you have as much evidence that Bush got into and graduated from both Yale and Harvard based on his father's influence as people do about Obama getting into Occidental, Columbia and Harvard based on Affirmative Action.
 
tres borrachos said:
I don't know any military officers so I don't know how they'd feel, but do you believe that the military officers respect non-military people giving them orders simply because that person has a college degree? And what if your college degree is in Sports and Leisure studies from a college where you simply show up and pay money, and it's totally non-competitive to get in, and you can stay in by buying more attempts at credits?
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At least you showed the wearwithall to get a degree.
 
CRUE CAB said:
At least you showed the wearwithall to get a degree.
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I don't even know where my boss and his boss got their degrees, or for that matter, even if they have them. They may not.

I got a degree. I have a BA in English with a minor in History. I graduated with Honors, and high Honors in English. I aced my LSATs and was offered full scholarships to two top 10 Law Schools, both of which I never acted on and instead went to work. 30 years later, I don't use my degree at all. I was 22 when I graduated from college, and as clueless as the day is long.
 
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