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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 .
academic supremacists make me giggle.

He has a college education, he lacks the degree, though.

It's a simple case of....the democrats see Walker as a possible threat to them in 2016, they have done opposition research, and all they can come up with is "no college degree". So they will attempt to get mileage off of that.
 
Is it an issue for you. I like him, but that is a sticking point.

No: he's a profound idiot and doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell of winning a presidential election. He's the reverse side of the Sarah Palin coin.
 
It's a simple case of....the democrats see Walker as a possible threat to them in 2016, they have done opposition research, and all they can come up with is "no college degree". So they will attempt to get mileage off of that.

"Walker as a possible threat.."

Think about that...

Their 'shoe in" is a septegenarian with no platform whose greatest accomplishment is staying married to Bill.

Behind that is Joe Biden....

It isn't just Scott Walker they see as a threat....right now, in the shadow of eight years of Obama, Canada is a threat to them for the US presidency....
 
It'll hurt him in circles that matter in terms of money.


So yes it's a problem. A bachelors degree is the basic assessment of respect of the class system to which the vast majority of rich (who you need to become president) adhere to. The average person without a degree doesn't understand that having a degree has nothing to do with wealth or status or anything like that to class. It has to do with the fact that by having a degree you "Acknowledge and hence submit your respect to the class order and its realities that dictate the world". That's why it will hurt him if he doesn't have it. It basically tells people you aren't cognizant of how the world runs.
 
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"Walker as a possible threat.."

Think about that...

Their 'shoe in" is a septegenarian with no platform whose greatest accomplishment is staying married to Bill.

Behind that is Joe Biden....

It isn't just Scott Walker they see as a threat....right now, in the shadow of eight years of Obama, Canada is a threat to them for the US presidency....

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I am not a partisan. Yes, indeed you can find fortunate sons of every stripe having it made easy for them because of their family's wealth and power. I find the practice deplorable and most definitely undemocratic. I won't excuse one because it happened to another. Wrong is wrong. I don't believe for the most part that America or the world is a better place because people didn't have to work as hard due to the fact that they were given favors, exemptions or the like because of their parents social, political and financial status.

Agreed, but it is a fact of life. If you have a prominent family name, it helps you get past the admissions board.

In my opinion most elected officials are self serving chicken****s. Few served in the military and you know damned well their children will not. George W skated through life. His father either bailed him out or smoothed the way for damn near everything in W's life. We have no reason to believe that a fortunate son with an arrest record and low SAT scores didn't benefit from his father's wealth and position to enter Yale. Same again for Harvard. Everything else was given to W. including his military commission, his champaign assignment, his lost national guard years and his business "experiences".

Actually the only two presidents in my lifetime who have not served in the military are Clinton and Obama. Bush did not have missing national guard years. Too many people ignorant of how national guard service works have fallen for some pretty stupid rhetoric. And Dan Rather lost his job by pushing phony national guard documents suggesting that Bush was AWOL.

Another fortunate son, Al
Gore, grew up in a hotel in DC. Imagine having room service until you went away to college! At least Gore actually spent 6 months in-country during Vietnam. I will give him credit for that. He certainly had the power and ability available to him to avoid it.

If Gore had spent six months as a line soldier, I would agree. However his weapon was a typewriter. He went in as a reporter. And his daddy the senior senator al gore lined up an armed guard to protect him. The only reason the elder Gore did not use his connections to keep young Al out of Vietnam was because he thought it would look good on his political resume. And while the Bush name certainly helped him get one of the rare openings in the air national guard, his dad did not assist him in any way in getting that slot. And if Bush were attempting to get out of going to Vietnam, the air national guard would have been a silly way of attempting to avoid Nam as guard pilots were regularly rotated into Vietnam. And he did try to volunteer.

Having said that I don't support the system that permits either or anyone privileges he or she didn't earn in America

Neither do I, however privilege will always have it's advantages.
 
Agreed, but it is a fact of life. If you have a prominent family name, it helps you get past the admissions board.



Actually the only two presidents in my lifetime who have not served in the military are Clinton and Obama. Bush did not have missing national guard years. Too many people ignorant of how national guard service works have fallen for some pretty stupid rhetoric. And Dan Rather lost his job by pushing phony national guard documents suggesting that Bush was AWOL.

Another fortunate son, Al

If Gore had spent six months as a line soldier, I would agree. However his weapon was a typewriter. He went in as a reporter. And his daddy the senior senator al gore lined up an armed guard to protect him. The only reason the elder Gore did not use his connections to keep young Al out of Vietnam was because he thought it would look good on his political resume. And while the Bush name certainly helped him get one of the rare openings in the air national guard, his dad did not assist him in any way in getting that slot. And if Bush were attempting to get out of going to Vietnam, the air national guard would have been a silly way of attempting to avoid Nam as guard pilots were regularly rotated into Vietnam. And he did try to volunteer.



Neither do I, however privilege will always have it's advantages.



Interesting....Clinton and Obama...

Now lets look at the advancement of terrorism in those administrations
 
Agreed, but it is a fact of life. If you have a prominent family name, it helps you get past the admissions board.



Actually the only two presidents in my lifetime who have not served in the military are Clinton and Obama. Bush did not have missing national guard years. Too many people ignorant of how national guard service works have fallen for some pretty stupid rhetoric. And Dan Rather lost his job by pushing phony national guard documents suggesting that Bush was AWOL.

Another fortunate son, Al

If Gore had spent six months as a line soldier, I would agree. However his weapon was a typewriter. He went in as a reporter. And his daddy the senior senator al gore lined up an armed guard to protect him. The only reason the elder Gore did not use his connections to keep young Al out of Vietnam was because he thought it would look good on his political resume. And while the Bush name certainly helped him get one of the rare openings in the air national guard, his dad did not assist him in any way in getting that slot. And if Bush were attempting to get out of going to Vietnam, the air national guard would have been a silly way of attempting to avoid Nam as guard pilots were regularly rotated into Vietnam. And he did try to volunteer.



Neither do I, however privilege will always have it's advantages.

I strongly disagree regarding Bush and his military service and a little regarding Al Gore. This thread is not the place to discuss it.

I will say this, I still have copies of my volunteer requests (2) for Vietnam. I'm certain Bush still has his too, but we've never seen them. Actually he didn't have enough flight time to qualify AND he was flying the wrong aircraft.
 
"Walker as a possible threat.."

Think about that...

Their 'shoe in" is a septegenarian with no platform whose greatest accomplishment is staying married to Bill.

Behind that is Joe Biden....

It isn't just Scott Walker they see as a threat....right now, in the shadow of eight years of Obama, Canada is a threat to them for the US presidency....

Greetings, F&L. :2wave:

Don't you just love it? What would we do for drama if we didn't have elections once in a while? :lol: It's just Walker's turn this month - none of the candidates will be overlooked! I hope Christie says he's interested - [it doesn't actually matter what he's interested in, BTW] it'll be something to watch! Then mention Palin any time in the next 18 months, and sit back and watch the circus! :flame: Is it like this in Canada?
 
Greetings, F&L. :2wave:

Don't you just love it? What would we do for drama if we didn't have elections once in a while? :lol: It's just Walker's turn this month - none of the candidates will be overlooked! I hope Christie says he's interested - [it doesn't actually matter what he's interested in, BTW] it'll be something to watch! Then mention Palin any time in the next 18 months, and sit back and watch the circus! :flame: Is it like this in Canada?



No.

Way boring.

I would say as a nation we like our politics like we like summer....a necessary thing between hockey seasons.

Being a rural country and mostly timid we like to let sleeping wolves be. It takes a lot of cunning and talent to get wolves back to sleep again. Wake them and the next thing you know someone is interfering with our pastimes, hockey, beer drinking and being "not American".....and/or picking your pocket.

Speculation is guesswork for people with too much time on their hands and requires a certain degree of participation from the voter. Right now it is hockey season and the Stanley Cup run is shaping up...nothing else matters so long as beer truck drivers don't go on strike in which case we would have a "spontaneous demonstration" involving 36 million men, women and babies armed with hockey sticks...a tremendous feat since the population is only 35 million.

We also have un-scheduled elections about every four or five years...and the next one is sometime this fall or next spring.....too far away to get wound up or anything. That is when we don't have minority governments, in which case we have elections about every two years.....and in that case we yawn and bitch about nothing getting done...between hockey seasons

We did have a sort of controversy where the wife of Marc Emery the "king of Pot" who did six years in the US for mail crimes - shipping cannabis seeds through the mail, tried to become a Liberal Party Candidate. Jodie Emery is very beautiful and very dedicated to the complete legalization of Cannabis..

Jodie Emery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

So we had some gossip mentioning "Liberal Party, Justine Trudeau and Elections,. but it was more of a journalistic excuse to show pictures of her legs....


You need to know this: When the Stanley Cup Playoffs are on the entire country becomes 30% less productive...regardless whether Canada has a team involved.

So, no....no Sarah Palin bashing here...besides she's a heroine here, a goddess even chauvenists bow to....a hockey mom.

They rule
 
No.

Way boring.

I would say as a nation we like our politics like we like summer....a necessary thing between hockey seasons.

Being a rural country and mostly timid we like to let sleeping wolves be. It takes a lot of cunning and talent to get wolves back to sleep again. Wake them and the next thing you know someone is interfering with our pastimes, hockey, beer drinking and being "not American".....and/or picking your pocket.

Speculation is guesswork for people with too much time on their hands and requires a certain degree of participation from the voter. Right now it is hockey season and the Stanley Cup run is shaping up...nothing else matters so long as beer truck drivers don't go on strike in which case we would have a "spontaneous demonstration" involving 36 million men, women and babies armed with hockey sticks...a tremendous feat since the population is only 35 million.

We also have un-scheduled elections about every four or five years...and the next one is sometime this fall or next spring.....too far away to get wound up or anything. That is when we don't have minority governments, in which case we have elections about every two years.....and in that case we yawn and bitch about nothing getting done...between hockey seasons

We did have a sort of controversy where the wife of Marc Emery the "king of Pot" who did six years in the US for mail crimes - shipping cannabis seeds through the mail, tried to become a Liberal Party Candidate. Jodie Emery is very beautiful and very dedicated to the complete legalization of Cannabis..

Jodie Emery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

So we had some gossip mentioning "Liberal Party, Justine Trudeau and Elections,. but it was more of a journalistic excuse to show pictures of her legs....


You need to know this: When the Stanley Cup Playoffs are on the entire country becomes 30% less productive...regardless whether Canada has a team involved.

So, no....no Sarah Palin bashing here...besides she's a heroine here, a goddess even chauvenists bow to....a hockey mom.

They rule

It sounds like a great place to live! :thumbs: My parents took us kids to visit friends in Kitchener, Ontario many times over the years, and we always had fun. The trip I had planned last Fall to visit my sister in Northern California - that was cancelled because of the earthquake - included a several-day visit to British Columbia. She really likes it there, and she thought I might also enjoy it. :sigh: I'll try again later. I do want to visit Alaska, too. I have friends there, so if I can get away for a few weeks this year.... :thumbs:
 
Sure you can...just not a very good one.

I guess a 6 year old with a sharp enough knife can slice your head open and call himself a brain surgeon, but that wouldn't make him a brain surgeon. Probably hard to find anyone letting you do it either.;)
 
It sounds like a great place to live! :thumbs: My parents took us kids to visit friends in Kitchener, Ontario many times over the years, and we always had fun. The trip I had planned last Fall to visit my sister in Northern California - that was cancelled because of the earthquake - included a several-day visit to British Columbia. She really likes it there, and she thought I might also enjoy it. :sigh: I'll try again later. I do want to visit Alaska, too. I have friends there, so if I can get away for a few weeks this year.... :thumbs:


Really! Kitchener?

I was born there...actually in Elora a bit north and raised in Kitchener.

I have to ask and feel free not to answer publicly, but is there a connection to Amish there? The Kitchener Waterloo region was originally settled by North Eastern Pennsylvania Amish and there remains a significant connection..like names...Weber, Martin, Brubaker, Zimmerman, Waltzer and Strub....

If you make the trip make sure to book twice as much time and money......

I have seen too many hurt faces....once you get here and see 16,000 ft mountains overlooking a world class city, once the air returns to your lungs you will want to see all of it......

BC is larger than Texas and if the mountains were leveled like tin foil being smoothed it would be larger than the US mainland. It is foreign, and rugged....a place where leaving a world class symphony concert you may have to swerve to avoid a bear.

And expensive...BC means Bring Cash....the mean price of a home in Vancouver, attacked condo, no view, no elevator will start at about $900,000. This is Hong Kong east, as each new day dawns another sky scraper comes into being.

It is fun, where you can [I have] go sailing in the morning, scuba diving in the afternoon, skiing in the evening and take in a concert afterward.
 
I guess a 6 year old with a sharp enough knife can slice your head open and call himself a brain surgeon, but that wouldn't make him a brain surgeon. Probably hard to find anyone letting you do it either.;)

If you'd allow a 6 year old with a sharp knife to slice your head open you probably wouldn't benefit from brain surgery anyway.

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."
 
Is it an issue for you. I like him, but that is a sticking point.

Harry Truman didn't have a college degree, and he did a pretty good job. Jimmy Carter was a college graduate and a lousy President. This is only an issue for people who wouldn't vote for Walker anyway.
 
Harry Truman didn't have a college degree, and he did a pretty good job. Jimmy Carter was a college graduate and a lousy President. This is only an issue for people who wouldn't vote for Walker anyway.

What did Truman do? Other than drop the bomb? Really?
That said he was a very smart man that just happened to be in the right place at the right time.
 
What did Truman do? Other than drop the bomb? Really?
That said he was a very smart man that just happened to be in the right place at the right time.

Truman made a number of critical decisions (correctly, in my view) that set the terms of engagement for the Cold War. He also furthered the cause of African American equality. From Wikipedia:

While Germany surrendered a few weeks after Truman assumed the Presidency, the war with Japan was expected to last another year or more. Truman approved the use of atomic weapons against Japan, intending to force Japan's surrender and spare American lives in a planned invasion; the decision remains controversial. His presidency was a turning point in foreign affairs, as his government supported an internationalist foreign policy in conjunction with European allies. Working closely with Congress, Truman assisted in the founding of the United Nations, issued the Truman Doctrine to contain communism, and passed the $13 billion Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe, including the Axis Powers of both world wars, whereas the wartime allied Soviet Union became the peacetime enemy, and the Cold War began. He oversaw the Berlin Airlift of 1948 and the creation of NATO in 1949. When communist North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950, he immediately sent in U.S. troops and gained UN approval for the Korean War. After initial success, the UN forces were thrown back by Chinese intervention and the conflict was stalemated through the final years of Truman's presidency.
On domestic issues, bills endorsed by Truman often faced opposition from a conservative Congress dominated by the South, but his administration successfully guided the American economy through post-war economic challenges. He said civil rights was a moral priority and in 1948 submitted the first comprehensive legislation, issuing Executive Orders the same year to start racial integration in the military and federal agencies. Corruption in Truman's administration, which was linked to certain members in the cabinet and senior White House staff, was a central issue in the 1952 presidential campaign which Adlai Stevenson, Truman's successor as Democratic nominee, lost to Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower. Popular and scholarly assessments of his presidency were initially negative, but eventually became more positive after his retirement from politics. Truman's 1948 election upset to win a full term as president is routinely invoked by underdog candidates.
 
Truman made a number of critical decisions (correctly, in my view) that set the terms of engagement for the Cold War. He also furthered the cause of African American equality. From Wikipedia:

While Germany surrendered a few weeks after Truman assumed the Presidency, the war with Japan was expected to last another year or more. Truman approved the use of atomic weapons against Japan, intending to force Japan's surrender and spare American lives in a planned invasion; the decision remains controversial. His presidency was a turning point in foreign affairs, as his government supported an internationalist foreign policy in conjunction with European allies. Working closely with Congress, Truman assisted in the founding of the United Nations, issued the Truman Doctrine to contain communism, and passed the $13 billion Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe, including the Axis Powers of both world wars, whereas the wartime allied Soviet Union became the peacetime enemy, and the Cold War began. He oversaw the Berlin Airlift of 1948 and the creation of NATO in 1949. When communist North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950, he immediately sent in U.S. troops and gained UN approval for the Korean War. After initial success, the UN forces were thrown back by Chinese intervention and the conflict was stalemated through the final years of Truman's presidency.
On domestic issues, bills endorsed by Truman often faced opposition from a conservative Congress dominated by the South, but his administration successfully guided the American economy through post-war economic challenges. He said civil rights was a moral priority and in 1948 submitted the first comprehensive legislation, issuing Executive Orders the same year to start racial integration in the military and federal agencies. Corruption in Truman's administration, which was linked to certain members in the cabinet and senior White House staff, was a central issue in the 1952 presidential campaign which Adlai Stevenson, Truman's successor as Democratic nominee, lost to Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower. Popular and scholarly assessments of his presidency were initially negative, but eventually became more positive after his retirement from politics. Truman's 1948 election upset to win a full term as president is routinely invoked by underdog candidates.
Basically rode the coat tails of FDR. Yea, we know. Remember, he very narrowly beat Dewey for reelection.
 
Really! Kitchener?

I was born there...actually in Elora a bit north and raised in Kitchener.

I have to ask and feel free not to answer publicly, but is there a connection to Amish there? The Kitchener Waterloo region was originally settled by North Eastern Pennsylvania Amish and there remains a significant connection..like names...Weber, Martin, Brubaker, Zimmerman, Waltzer and Strub....

If you make the trip make sure to book twice as much time and money......

I have seen too many hurt faces....once you get here and see 16,000 ft mountains overlooking a world class city, once the air returns to your lungs you will want to see all of it......

BC is larger than Texas and if the mountains were leveled like tin foil being smoothed it would be larger than the US mainland. It is foreign, and rugged....a place where leaving a world class symphony concert you may have to swerve to avoid a bear.

And expensive...BC means Bring Cash....the mean price of a home in Vancouver, attacked condo, no view, no elevator will start at about $900,000. This is Hong Kong east, as each new day dawns another sky scraper comes into being.

It is fun, where you can [I have] go sailing in the morning, scuba diving in the afternoon, skiing in the evening and take in a concert afterward.

I didn't meet any Amish people there that I recall, but I did meet a group in Queensland, Australia, a few years ago, believe it or not! They are farmers there just like they are here, with large farms. I wish I was there now - it's their Summertime, and I just did a quick check and it's 81 degrees there! It's 14 degrees here, which is below average, even for us. And more bad weather on it's way, according to the forecast. :thumbdown:
 
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