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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 .
So you would work for some uneducated idiot?

Being an uneducated idiot is a separate deal from not having a college degree
 
I know a guy with a similar story. He left college and became a software programmer. He was making upward of 100,000 a year until the economy blew up. Then his company left town, and he is on unemployment, living in his sister-in-law's basement and going to college for computer programming.

supposedly he got a job...I don't know where or doing what, though.


I have a good friend in the IT industry... he enrolled , declared a major ( computer science), and didn't even attend a single class before he was approached for a job... that was 20 years ago, and he's still with the same firm making very good money....he never went back to school for even 1 day.

walkers choice doesn't seem so silly when we look at where he is today... i mean, it doesn't seem to have hurt him whatsoever.
 
Many of those people are more accomplished than Walker and have way more impressive resumes than him.

William Jefferson has a law degree from Harvard. He currently doing 13 years for corruption.
 
so you would actively work against a proven leader who's successful with many accomplishments because you expect a fancy piece of paper with a cursive title?

talk about shallow.

I certainly wouldn't, but his academic performance certainly doesn't indicate that he was a top notch student. He spent a full four years in college, I can't imagine why he would quit when he had to be very close to completing his degree.

Scott Walker (politician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In 1986, Walker worked as a volunteer for Tommy Thompson's gubernatorial campaign,[8] and in the fall of that year, enrolled at Marquette University.[9] In 1988, he ran for student government president, losing 1,245 to 927,[8] following an alleged infringement of campaign guidelines.[3] Walker discontinued his studies at Marquette in the spring of 1990, leaving in good standing with a 2.59/4.0 grade point average, but without obtaining a degree.[8
 
I certainly wouldn't, but his academic performance certainly doesn't indicate that he was a top notch student. He spent a full four years in college, I can't imagine why he would quit when he had to be very close to completing his degree.

So talk about his problems, but slamming a candidate for mere lack of a degree is shallow and a low blow. Got a substantive argument I'm all ears. I'm not even a republican, anymore at least, but I do think college is overrated, too many people judge others based on the college litmus
 
He's from Georgia, so what do you expect?



Were any of those people president?

Most of them wouldn't take the pay cut.
 
Many of those people are more accomplished than Walker and have way more impressive resumes than him.
Misses the point.
 
Is it an issue for you. I like him, but that is a sticking point.

Why couldn't you just make the poll Yes, No, or I don't know? Push polls are irritating. To answer your question no I don't think his lack of a college degree disqualifies him.
 
I know a guy with a similar story. He left college and became a software programmer. He was making upward of 100,000 a year until the economy blew up. Then his company left town, and he is on unemployment, living in his sister-in-law's basement and going to college for computer programming.

oh ****.. that sucks...

I guess , like everything else, it's a roll of the dice...
 
Don't assume all college drop outs are the same... :lol:

And I haven't assumed that all college drop outs aren't capable of excellence.
 
Don't assume all college drop outs are the same... :lol:

I'm not quite sure why 'County Commissioner' , Governor and career politician is regarded as such stellar accomplishments- certainly not on par with Gates and Jobs.
 
Like Bush, whom had all kinds of degrees from fancy colleges.

I was think more such as Wilson and Obama. A law degree seems more a handicap to being a good president or politician.
 
I'm not quite sure why 'County Commissioner' , Governor and career politician is regarded as such stellar accomplishments- certainly not on par with Gates and Jobs.

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
 
I know a guy with a similar story. He left college and became a software programmer. He was making upward of 100,000 a year until the economy blew up. Then his company left town, and he is on unemployment, living in his sister-in-law's basement and going to college for computer programming.

That sheepskin means alot.
 
academic supremacists make me giggle.

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

Good point. Accurate too. Yes, he has a college education. No, he does not have a college degree.
 
Walker is not one semester shy of graduating. He is at least a year short of having enough credits to graduate.
 
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