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A surprising number of presidents never graduated college
Washington Examiner ^ | 2/16/15 | Claire Daniel |

Posted on 02/16/2015 10:09:14 AM PST by blueyon

Media and potential opponents are scandalized that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is considering a run for president even though he didn’t graduate from college. But if Walker (who dropped out of Marquette University in his senior year) won in 2016, he would be joining an exalted group that includes the two presidents most frequently named as the favorites of the American people.

Eleven presidents — exactly 25 percent — were not college graduates. Most prominent on that list are George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, who make up half of Mt. Rushmore’s foursome and are in the top three or top five in virtually every popular survey of favorite presidents. (A 2007 Rasmussen poll put Honest Abe and the Father of Our Country at number two and number one, respectively.) The most recent president to forego the benefits of a sheepskin was Harry Truman, and the list includes other fondly remembered (and a few barely remembered) chief executives.

Meet the presidents who dropped out or didn’t make it to college at all:

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Government; History; Miscellaneous; Politics
KEYWORDS: 2016election; abrahamlincoln; agenda; corruption; degree; democrats; election2016; elitistjackoffs; georgewashington; gop; greatestpresident; harrytruman; mediabias; obama; president; scottwalker; thegeneral; therevolution; wisconsin
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See the list at article............Looks like this MediaBias attack on Scott Walker will be successfully stopped with facts. Next....
1 posted on 02/16/2015 10:09:14 AM PST by blueyon
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To: blueyon

the dems are going to create a backlash over this pretentious education firestorm.


2 posted on 02/16/2015 10:16:41 AM PST by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: blueyon
A better question would be how many POTUS still have their nads?

3 posted on 02/16/2015 10:16:43 AM PST by Paul46360 (..)
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To: blueyon

Yup, all the good ones never did graduate.

And given the utter worthlessness of most college degrees nowadays (especially the ones from you know where), one would think that a degree introduces strong suspicions about the intellect of the possessor. (STEM excluded, of course.)


4 posted on 02/16/2015 10:17:10 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: blueyon
I found it interesting that President Lincoln and others practiced law without having graduated from college or a law school. I don't suppose there were any formal educational requirements necessary to just hang out your shingle and start practicing.

Obviously, not having a formal higher education worked well for President Lincoln and the others. So why is it so important to Howard Dean and the rest of the media azzhats?

5 posted on 02/16/2015 10:19:01 AM PST by fatnotlazy
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To: JohnBrowdie

I’m waiting to hear it from Brian Williams, who didn’t graduate either


6 posted on 02/16/2015 10:20:24 AM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: fatnotlazy

I’m guessing most of our laws were much simpler in those days, not to mention the fact there were fewer of them.


7 posted on 02/16/2015 10:22:01 AM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: blueyon

Only surprising if you’re somehow unaware of how much more common—and watered down—college degrees are today than in the past.


8 posted on 02/16/2015 10:23:49 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: blueyon

Rush didn’t go to college. He seems to do pretty well. I didn’t and I’m very happy with my life. College wouldn’t have changed it. Except they would have tried to brainwash me into a liberal dolt. And at 19, it may have worked.


9 posted on 02/16/2015 10:25:14 AM PST by albie
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To: cripplecreek

Good points.


10 posted on 02/16/2015 10:25:47 AM PST by fatnotlazy
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To: bigbob

contrast walker to the multi-degreed and sandra fluke, who wanted everyone else to pay for her birth control pills.


11 posted on 02/16/2015 10:26:30 AM PST by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: cripplecreek
Wicki has a pretty good list of all schools and all presidents .. here
12 posted on 02/16/2015 10:28:13 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but, they're true)
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To: blueyon

I don’t care if Walker has a degree, many very successful people didn’t go or didn’t graduate from college.

I do care if he believes in the rule of law.
Without it, we become North Mexico.


13 posted on 02/16/2015 10:30:48 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace- No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: blueyon; All

When you go to college in this post-FDR era you just get intoctrinated with socialicistic perversions of the Constitution anyway. When was the last time that anybody ever heard of Congress’s constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers for example?


14 posted on 02/16/2015 10:31:14 AM PST by Amendment10
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To: blueyon

If a college degree was such a wonderful thing our country wouldn’t be in the sad shape that it’s in. To illustrate my point: most of our elected officials have college degrees. We’re a country governed by a bunch of educated idiots with college degree(s).


15 posted on 02/16/2015 10:34:38 AM PST by lakecumberlandvet (APPEASEMENT NEVER WORKS.)
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To: blueyon

The list of Presidents who were imbeciles is even longer.


16 posted on 02/16/2015 10:39:01 AM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA)
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To: bigbob

Matt Lauer is another one who dropped out of college. Would be nice to see him defend Walker on this: Don’t expect that to happen.


17 posted on 02/16/2015 10:41:46 AM PST by j. earl carter
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To: blueyon

Leftists want to ‘define’ him and paint him into a corner early, because Walker gained a lot of momentum from Iowa.

They don’t have much else, so they are grasping at straws — or a lack of a ‘sheepskin’.


18 posted on 02/16/2015 10:42:54 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: blueyon
CNN article from 2011 that lists several famous and successful people who never finished college:

Lessons from famous college dropouts
19 posted on 02/16/2015 10:57:08 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: fatnotlazy

I think there was still a Bar in Illinois.

I am not sure you have to have a JD to sit for the Bar nowadays. I could be wrong.


20 posted on 02/16/2015 10:57:14 AM PST by Vermont Lt (When you are inclined to to buy storage boxes, but contractor bags instead.)
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