Posted on 02/15/2015 9:33:16 AM PST by John Semmens
Unsuccessful presidential candidate and former Governor Howard Dean (D-Vt) assailed Wisconsin’s Republican Governor Scott Walker’s lack of a college degree as “disqualifying. Given the complex world we live in, America needs to be led by only the most highly educated men and women. The fate of the nation can’t be entrusted to a guy who couldn’t hack it and dropped out.”
“Look, college in the 1980s, when Walker was a student, wasn’t that hard,” Dean argued. “Even the minimally competent could get a degree. A person would’ve had to be incredibly dumb or unmotivated not to have been able to finish. Why should voters want such a guy?”
As “proof of his dumbness,” Dean cited Walker’s unwillingness to comment on evolution. “Do we really want a president who dodges such an important issue?” Dean asked. Dean characterized Walker’s stance that the topic of evolution was not within the bounds of the legitimate authority of any government position, as “a smoke screen. The nation’s president is a moral as well as a political leader. The people have a right to know whether he accepts the common core of beliefs agreed upon by our best and brightest minds.”
Friends say Dean’s rancor toward Walker shows he is still bitter about 2004, “when the best educated person to ever seek the presidency was edged out of the Democratic nomination by a pompous ass who then turned around and lost to an ignorant Texas yokel—a sequence of events that forever shamed America.”
In related news, veteran Democratic strategist Pat Caddell castigated his Party as “dictator to the common man. They must be using Orwell’s Big Brother as their role model.”
http://theconservativecitizen.com/2015/02/14/semi-newssemi-satire-6/
Did Lincoln’s self-schooling disqualify him from practicing law? Did Steve Jobs dropping out of college, or Bill Gates dropping out of Harvard, disqualify either of them as CEOs?
I’ve yet to see any proof that the Kenyan has a college diploma. Hanging around various college campuses being a community agitator while pretending to be a brilliant black guy from Africa isn’t really what I’d call getting a college education.
Walker should refuse to discuss or disclose his college record until we FINALLY SEE OBOZOS COLLEGE RECORDS.
Why do Walkers records matter, when OBOZOS don’t?
is it because the reporters EXPECT a WHITE MAN to graduate college and NOT a BLACK MAN?
Scott Walker was a Political Science major.
He finished 3.5 years of college at Marquette
The main course work he was lacking were Poly Sci classes.
Not sure this lack of taking a handful of Poly Sci 25 years ago makes any difference in Walkers education since Walker has been re writing the Poly Sci books for the last decade and he has been schooling his Poly Sci opponents in academia for the last 5 years.
College degrees don’t mean squat. Look at all these Ivy Leaguers in government who’ve turned our nation into a pile of crap.
Well, close. The reporters expect a [conservative] white man to have to *earn* a college degree, but not a [liberal] black man. Liberal black men are allowed to sail on through (or in Obama's case, toke on through).
Corollary: Liberal white men (see: Al Gore) are excused from this requirement. Conservative black men (see: Herman Cain), are exempt from any excuses.
He needs to publish his own “autobiography’ or two, stat.
/that ought to fix the problem
Dean needs to look at Obama he has a college degree and how it turned out biggest fool ever to hold office.
I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Buckley was an Ivy League grad so he knew what he was talking about and I agree with him 100%.
I ran into an HR type who claimed that my degree was not valid because I got my engineering degree in six years, not 4. Never mind that I have been in the business for 35 years, and I finished my degree at night while working as a technician during the day (real world experience).
I friend of mine (ex fighter pilot) grew up in the electronic age with IBM. He did not have a degree in engineering. He was a project leader for many of IBM’s research programs over the years. I asked him how does he get along with all those engineers that work for him? His answer was, “no problem as long as they do what I tell them.”
When he reached the mandatory retirement age with IBM, they hired him back as a consultant because they valued his skills.
I have found the same with some ex Navy nukes. Those are people who can think on their feet.
Jimmy Carter was NOT a Navy nuke. That is a myth.
I have found the same with some ex Navy nukes. Those are people who can think on their feet.
Jimmy Carter was NOT a Navy nuke. That is a myth.
All Ted has to do is hire out an auditorium and parade about a dozen former classmates who actually remember him, and have them say whatever they want about Ted ... and close the meeting (after his speech, of course) with the challenge to obola ... hell ... challenge the journalists (spit) present to do the same thing.
(I got Ted Cruz on my brain this mornin')
+1
Again, John, satire should in some way differ from reality...you know that in private, this is what Scream thinks and says!
Walker NEEDS to say repeatedly “NEXT QUESTION” ignore them completely!!!!!! They TOTALLY ignored Obammies qualifications, they ALL deserve NO answers about his education!!!!!!
Didn't they teach John Dean any history in whatever Ivy League school it was that formed his great intellect?
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