Posted on 02/02/2015 8:34:43 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Link only, due to copyright issues:
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-02-01/does-the-u-s-president-need-a-college-degree-
So what?
Mittens has more degrees than a Fahrenheit thermometer, but he's still a big loser. After all, Romney who had degrees from both Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School lost to a community organizer with only a degree from Harvard Law School.
On the other hand, the founders of Apple and Microsoft both dropped out of college.
No, but in this day and age, he should at least have a birth certificate.
I believe you also intend a ‘valid and public’ birth certificate as opposed to some computer layered smokescreen document.
What exactly is a County judge?
I’m not familiar with the term.
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The real requirement should be a “working brain” and common sense.
no
This, and he tried cases.
County Judge
Description of Office
The Texas Constitution vests broad judicial and administrative powers in the position of county judge, who presides over a five-member commissioners court, which has budgetary and administrative authority over county government operations.
The county judge handles such widely varying matters as hearings for beer and wine license applications, hearing on admittance to state hospitals for the mentally ill and mentally retarded, juvenile work permits and temporary guardianships for special purposes. The judge is also responsible for calling elections, posting election notices and for receiving and canvassing the election returns. The county judge may perform marriages.
A county judge in Texas may have judicial responsibility for certain criminal, civil and probate matters - responsibility for these functions vary from county to county. In those counties in which the judge has judicial responsibilities, the judge has appellate jurisdiction over matters arising from the justice courts. The county judge is also head of civil defense and disaster relief, county welfare and in counties under 225,000 population, the judge prepares the county budget along with the county auditor or county clerk.
Not only that, but he's married to a very cute investment banker (she works for Goldman Sachs, a name that should bring 'em out of the woodwork!).
Back then a 5th grade education was the equivalent of a BS degree today.
The Father of our nation had the equivalent of a grade school education.
Wow-—quite a few responsibilities come with that job.
I’m in MA therefore unfamiliar with County judges.
Thanks.
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He was an impressive man.
Ironic, he was a prior National Guard Captain, but he fired Douglas MacArthur. He had no Identity crisis like the current sewer trout in the white hut that bows to Saudi sand fleas.
Personally, I want to know their grounding in the Bible, which is the foundation of all true education, and of our free republic.
“The rights of the colonists as Christians … may be best understood by reading and carefully studying the institutes of the Great Law Giver and Head of the Christian Church, which are to be found clearly written and promulgated in the New Testament.”
- Samuel Adams
“The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity.”
“The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.”
- John Adams
“There is a book [the Bible] worth all the other books ever printed.”
- Patrick Henry
“The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next. Continue therefore to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts.”
- John Jay
“The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.”
“Let the children…be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.”
- Benjamin Rush
“Education is useless without the Bible.”
- Daniel Webster
“In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed … No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.”
- Noah Webster
“In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man’s welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.”
“I am busily engaged in study of the Bible.”
- Abraham Lincoln
There you go!
“To educate the mind and not the morals is to educate a menace to society’’.— Teddy Roosevelt.
“Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulties.”
- Abraham Lincoln, President, March 4, 1861 inaugural address
The important thing for US president to know is the roughly 30 pages of Constitution and its amendments, also key Supreme Court interpretations of Constitution by justices who respected state sovereignty. Likewise for constitutional lawmakers who respected 10th Amendment-protected state powers. Also include key excerpts from writings of founders like Madison and Jefferson who respected state sovereignty.
As a side note concerning the need for a president who knows how to run a thriving business, historical profiles indicate that self-made millionaires like Cornelius Vanderbilt and John D. Rockerfeller never had a formal college education, Vanderbilt quitting school and age 11 and Rockerfeller spending several months in a formal bookkeeping course after high school.
But also note that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate intrastate commerce. So maybe all that a president needs to lead Congress with respect to treaties and trade negotiations is uncommon common sense.
Otherwise, military issues aside, basicall the only domestic issue that a president is constitutionally authorised to sign bills for is US Mail Service policy (1.8.7). And that arguably doesn’t require a college degree.
“Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ.”
- James Madison, the father of the U.S. Constitution
Ike didn't have a birth certificate until October 1952. The only reason he got one even then was that it came to the attention of officials of Grayson County, Texas, where he was born, that he lacked a birth certificate. So, they took the opportunity to get some positive press by providing him with one, not that it was necessary.
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