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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 .
Actually I was not thinking of warrant officers. There are still enlisted men, non-commissioned officers who are promoted to the rank of second lieutenant....etc...and there are still battlefield commissions.

Battlefield promotions are limited to enlisted, and they are limited to a one-grade increase, not enlisted-to-officer.

:shrug: College is a requirement (by and large) to be an officer.

I do think that anyone planning to become an officer should seek a college education, however not having one does not mean there is no other way. Some of them are promoted merely based on technical skills.

Yes- but those are Warrants, who at best can become Limited Duty Officers.
 
Sorry, but commissioning enlisted men as officers has not completely gone way. It may be the few, however it still occurs.

Can you cite any recent instances of an enlisted man without college being commissioned as an officer?

Not that any of this matters. Officers simply do not spend time thinking about the commander in chief's college resume.

True enough.
 
Yes, the world is not the simple place it was 100 years ago.

Leader needs to be able to play chess, not checkers. Ability to understand and optimize policy recommendations from scores of advisors across economics, foreign policy, science, etc ...


Now to be fair, if he actually showed intellect off the charts and didn't finish college, that would be another story. But since he hasn't..
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I doubt that the USA has missed out on a Nobel prize because this guy didn't get his PhD.
 
no vote
Walker is far from the only one without a degree : this lack, does NOT make him a "bad" governor .. There are better , more meaningful criteria .
 
Like Bush, whom had all kinds of degrees from fancy colleges.



Bush has a lot of education and he's not a dumb guy but that didn't stop him from doing some dumb things.

Like that picture under the 'Mission Accomplished' banner for example.
 
I think those of highly educated persuasion will find it hard to take orders from him.
Also, college relationships last through careers and can help network of people to facilitate legislation and programs.
Lack of that makes you a clear outsider.
I know I wouldn't take orders from someone without a degree.

Ha, that is funny. I don't put any stock at all in a degree. All that shows is that you partied for 4 years, or more, because you didn't want to grow up and get a job.

A degree doesn't mean that person knows how to survive in the real world as we have seen lately of the many college graduates that can't make it in the world.
 
Ha, that is funny. I don't put any stock at all in a degree. All that shows is that you partied for 4 years, or more, because you didn't want to grow up and get a job.

A degree doesn't mean that person knows how to survive in the real world as we have seen lately of the many college graduates that can't make it in the world.


get brain surgery from someone without a degree.
 
never read the book, don't care whatever reference you're making



depends, I'm tired of academics, I may not like Walker's politics, but he's a self made man, I would probably vote for him over Hillary, certainly over Warren.

some day the democrats will get smart and start nominating people like Dingell or Howard Dean etc and stop nominating these urban academics

well I can dream anyway.

Funny you would mention Howard Dean because it was he that said Walker is not qualified for the Presidency because he didn't get his degree.
 
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

I understand you only want partisan hackery attacks against Walker and are incapable of any other discussion. Nor is the concept of comparing candidates qualifications within thought process ability. Rather, you watch MSNBC for what to think and that's all you can handle.

I brought up Jeb Bush's education and I brought of the secrecy about Obama's education.

Once again you are posting an outright lie claim Walker failed in college. In fact he has more hours of college than required for a 4 year degree. But you just keep posting your partisan hackery lies as no one buys them anyway.
 
get brain surgery from someone without a degree.

Try to stick tot he topic just a little please. This is about a proven executive that wasn't to run for president and whether he needs a degree in whatever first.

Nobody is talking about doctors, lawyers, or engineers.
 
get brain surgery from someone without a degree.

Have the head of national defense by someone who was never in the military and hates the military.

Obviously you voted for Mitt Romney since he was far more educated in terms of degrees than Obama.
 
oh ****.. that sucks...

I guess , like everything else, it's a roll of the dice...

If he was making over 100,000 per year why would he need to live in a basement when he lost his job?
 
Ha, that is funny. I don't put any stock at all in a degree. All that shows is that you partied for 4 years, or more, because you didn't want to grow up and get a job.

A degree doesn't mean that person knows how to survive in the real world as we have seen lately of the many college graduates that can't make it in the world.
Sorry you look down on higher education.
 
I would say he has a doctorate in "political science". Everyone has taken him on and he keeps on winning against huge odds. Obama won twice in Wisconsin, a liberal state, yet
Scott Walker cannot be defeated.



He might get beaten by a landslide the next time that he runs for office.

Who really knows?
 
Well, look at Palin.

It's pretty clear that quitters attract a significant portion of the GOP vote.

In the case of Obama a quitter attracted much more than that.
 
Negative?

It's a plus.

I went to a Midwest university and I learned almost nothing that has helped me in my chosen field (or just about anything else). Other then degrees for things that absolutely require mega-education (doctors, engineers, etc.), imo, post secondary education is INCREDIBLY overrated.

It amazes me how people will go into massive debt just to get a degree in underwater basket weaving or some other utterly useless skill.
Unless you are SURE what you want to do and it absolutely requires a degree...I say skip college and save your money. Too many people go to college for no other reason then they are either pressured to go and/or they don't know what else to do and have been taught that is the next step in life.


As for this guy (whoever the heck he is), the fact that he went to college, tried it and then dumped it is good for me. It tells me he tries new things but is not so weak as to stick with something even when he does not want/need to continue doing it.
Sometimes, it takes more guts to quit something then to continue to do it...sometimes.
 
Try to stick tot he topic just a little please. This is about a proven executive that wasn't to run for president and whether he needs a degree in whatever first.

Nobody is talking about doctors, lawyers, or engineers.

Or lions and tigers oh my. LOL
 
Sorry you look down on higher education.

The skill of taking and passing tests doesn't not translate to real life.

A college degree does not in any way mean somebody is smart or capable, if it did, a recent graduate from law school would walk right in to an established firm and get a high paying job.

Does that ever happen or does that person need experience to prove themselves first?
 
I would never ever ever ever vote for Scott Walker. But, frankly, I could give two hoots about what kind of degrees he does or doesn't have. Not even a factor for me. Politicians can ramble on about their graduation from Harvard and their PhD in underwater basketweaving, but I could care less. You can come out of college dumb as a damn rock. Conversely, you can never step foot on a college campus and still be a well-rounded, well-educated human being.
 
A college degree used to mean something in that a graduate was likely to have a broader understanding of societal evolution, governmental systems, economics, and the lessons of history - but the truth about those subjects isn't taught anymore.

Instead of informing students with facts and perspective, and giving them the tools to think critically upon that information - students today are indoctrinated in what to think and trained in how to behave and react to stimuli. Critical, independent thinking is not on the agenda; rather, ethos based groupthink has replaced true education.

Amerikan education has become a cesspool of collectivist, Skinnerian garbage designed to produce ignorant, easily controlled and manipulated serfs.
I have 2 young kids and one on the way... I have no intention of sending them to college. A waste of money, and a waste of time. They can learn everything they need to learn from home study, the library, and other alternative sources.



The USA is the richest, most powerful, nation on this planet.

Who made that happen? :roll:
 
Negative?

It's a plus.

I went to a Midwest university and I learned almost nothing that has helped me in my chosen field (or just about anything else). Other then degrees for things that absolutely require mega-education (doctors, engineers, etc.), imo, post secondary education is INCREDIBLY overrated.

It amazes me how people will go into massive debt just to get a degree in underwater basket weaving or some other utterly useless skill.
Unless you are SURE what you want to do and it absolutely requires a degree...I say skip college and save your money. Too many people go to college for no other reason then they are either pressured to go and/or they don't know what else to do and have been taught that is the next step in life.


As for this guy (whoever the heck he is), the fact that he went to college, tried it and then dumped it is good for me. It tells me he tries new things but is not so weak as to stick with something even when he does not want/need to continue doing it.
Sometimes, it takes more guts to quit something then to continue to do it...sometimes.
That's a lot of spin celebrating mediocrity and lack of dedication.
 
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