Posted on 02/10/2015 4:51:11 AM PST by Enlightened1
In this age where Affirmative Action and Political Correctness trump ability, intelligence, judgement and work ethic,
a college degree is not a reliable or likely indicator of an individuals qualifications, intelligence or competence.
People like Barack and Michelle Obama, Sheila Jackson-Lee and Lizzie Warren are a few glaring examples of that truth.
Did Harry Truman go to college?
this current quota boy was passed along cause he is a half breed.
Least Walker isn’t a freaken poser.
The question is not if Walker can “BE” president.
The question is “Can he do the job?”
The man now in the White proved that he could “BE” president.
But he has also shown that he cannot do a proper job of it.
I have a friend who just retired from being CIO of a VERY large retail company (Household name) for about ten years. He was darned good at what he did. He had two years of community college and kept his grade to at least a C average because that was what was required to keep getting the SS checks (Hid dad was killed in Vietnam).
College is WAY over rated for anything that is not a hard skill, e.g. brain surgery.
I dropped out of college so I could travel the world for the IT company that hired me, and to educate myself. I never learned a damned thing in college, except that the “professors” were total liberal douchebags that didn’t actually do any teaching, and only preached about liberal belligerent agendas.
For all we know our current office holder did not even attend classes to earn a degree...it seems they were awarded to him for who he was. At least Walker knows how to govern and is doing a damned good job of it.
College does not increase natural intelligence - it simply provides the masses with group instruction and information.
The most creative and innovative people are independent thinkers.
We have a lot of those on FR;)
Agree! An Ivy league degree is more a display of inherited wealth than intelligence. Lots of examples on continual display.
Anybody think the moonbats on the left would be wringing
their hands over an accomplished governor with a D after
his/her/its’ name that had no college degree? Of course
their MO would have been to dummy-up a diploma way before
now.
The answer to that question should be another question:
“How well have all those MBA and law degree holders done since Truman, what with $18 trillion in debt, a crumbling social order and overall national decline?”
After seeing the disaster of this president’s gaggle of university smart azzes, the country should welcome someone who knows how to solve problems in the real world.
I spent thirty years in the UW system and starting about twenty years ago as far as I could detect, a degree from a four year college, unless it was in math, the sciences, or business is worth squat.
The dims are starting to get worried. So far they have been unable to get the “dumb” little people to go for the RINO’s they know will lose to Hitlerary. Jeb, Christie and Romney have only caught on in the GOPe.
Walker is Making their heads explode. What a bad example he is. He has done what he promised to do. Not permitted by the ruling class.
I hope he can stand up against the lies that will be thrown at him. I like him. When I voted for him in his first governor's race I felt something I hadn't felt since voting for RR. I went into the voting place and voted for someone I wanted to vote for, not against someone that was the lesser of two evils.
He needs to turn this into a positive —
“Perhaps the real problem is not that I don’t have a college degree, but rather, that too many chief executives and the people who surround them, regardless of political viewpoint, have been raised in the same ivory tower where they think alike and talk alike and where their primary qualification for leadership is their family name and their membership in the old boys network, as opposed to street smarts and common ssense.”
He should then point out that some of the world’s greatest innovators and business leaders are college dropouts or never went to college at all, like Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Mark Zuckerberg, Mark Cuban, Richard Branson, and even the beloved Peter Jennings...
Unfortunately I agree with you. The first realistic post in this thread.
As irrational as this problem is I have to believe it is a real threat to Walker's chance of becoming President. He is a good man. I think he would make a great President. He is second on my list behind Ted Cruz. But his lack of a college degree is a risk and there is really no denying it.
It's going to be an interesting next two years.
Yes.
Perhaps a Walker candidacy will put an end to the believe that has been sold to Americans that without a college degree one is a failure.
When I look around at our modern conveniences, I realize that the designers likely had college degrees and the implementers did not (both those groups tend to be serfs) whereas the inventers of the products and technologies likely did not (and those are the aristocrats in our economy.)
Just point to Harry Truman.
I’d rather elect someone without a college degree who is a conservative than a liberal with an MBA.
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