Posted on 02/12/2015 11:39:56 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Were he to become president,” Howard Dean jeered this morning on MSNBC,Wisconsin’s Scott Walker “would be the first president in many generations that did not have a college degree.” This, Dean concluded was a disgrace. “He’s never finished,”he spluttered,and “the issue here is not just an issue of dancing around the question of evolution for political reasons,the issue is how well educated is this guy? And that’s a problem.”
Thus was one of the most successful politicians of recent years condemned for lack of a certificate......
......Sorry, Mr. Walker,you have the wrong colored dot on your forehead to run for higher office....
....This being a democratic republic,it is dangerous in and of itself for our elites to condemn as unsuitable for office those they consider to be “less educated” than themselves. But it is downright repugnant to watch certain members of the journalistic class meditating on the question of whether a man who has been infinitely more successful than themselves should be deemed ineligible for want of their preferred credentials. It is difficult,too,not to divine a touch of caste-system snobbery in the initial inquiry. As higher education becomes increasingly fetishized,those who do not possess the right letters after their names will be increasingly in danger of marginalization-even, it should be said, when they are successful and happy and full of self-assurance. If Scott Walker is the nominee,there is no doubt his detractors will play as subtly but as brutally as they can on his being a “dropout,” nor that the professional class that determines the shape of the debates will mutter in irritation that he is not one of them. If he has any sense about him,he will refuse to entertain the premise. “Sure I didn’t finish college,” he will say. “But look where I am now. This is America, goddamnit.”
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Yale AND Harvard. But you're right, they still called him stupid.
I'd like to appear on Jeopardy with super brain Howard Dean. I bet I would kick is preppy ass.
Ditto that. It is exactly why I went out and got one and those very things you cited paid off for me in my career. Without that degree, I would have never been given the opportunity. But I can't truthfully say that I could not have done the same without that degree. The 'Sheepskin' just gave me the opportunity to do it.
Some of the smartest, most accomplished people I have ever known never took a college course.
. . . Bill Gates never finished college, either.
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Thank you for the PERFECT one-line comeback to the liberal “well educated” imbeciles who will try to make much of Walker’s not finishing his degree. I will use this far and wide, and encourage others to do so as well! (Though I prefer Cruz. But Walker is too good to let the media waste him!)
Good grief. He isn't planning any such thing. You sound like a opposition operative.
If slimy Dr Dean is so smart, then why is he not richer than Steve Jobs and Bill Gates?
The late William F. Buckley...
the infowarrior
I read in his bio that he worked part time while attending college. I don’t recall students doing that unless they had to and were trying to pay their own way through school.
Sometimes you have to “overstate” something to get your point across.
Pretty much. East coast libs don’t think anything counts that is west of where they are.
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