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Actually, Scott Walker's not finishing college isn't really the big deal it is. What is the bigger deal is his fiscal policies gutting the University of Wisconsin budget and the K-12 schools in WI - which may affect many of his constituents' ability to complete their education.
Yes, as I've said time and again, it's not his lack of a college degree that bothers many of us...it's his contempt for those that do have one.
Actually, Scott Walker's not finishing college isn't really the big deal it is. What is the bigger deal is his fiscal policies gutting the University of Wisconsin budget and the K-12 schools in WI - which may affect many of his constituents' ability to complete their education.
Walker has done terrific damage to the UW system, which was one of the best university systems in the country. Interesting that Walker also tried to change the UW 100 year old mission statement by paring it down to basically a technical college mission statement.
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You might think that changing the mission of a flagship public university would be an issue put up for public discussion. Not in Wisconsin.
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker submitted a budget proposal that included language that would have changed the century-old mission of the University of Wisconsin system — known as the Wisconsin Idea and embedded in the state code — by removing words that commanded the university to “search for truth” and “improve the human condition” and replacing them with “meet the state’s workforce needs.”
If they have nominated a woman who had to attend seven (7) colleges to graduate college as VP, a high school graduate as a Presidential nominee is not such a giant step.
Walker is uneducated and, as such, is a one trick pony ("busted public unions"/which he never campaigned on). His lack of education is especially evident by his ignorance about foreign affairs (Sarah Palin the second).
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Walker has never worked in the federal government or the military. He would be a rare serious candidate in modern presidential politics who has not completed college, and would be the first president since Harry Truman without a college degree were he to win.
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His London speech drew headlines for his refusal to answer a question about whether he believed in evolution. But inside the room, many were baffled that he refused to address questions about foreign affairs that many before him had answered. Walker cited a belief that he should not comment on American policy while on foreign soil.
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“It was like a car crash,” said James D. Boys, a scholar in the audience and author of “Clinton’s Grand Strategy,” whose own question went unanswered. “You don’t come to Chatham House to talk about Wisconsin and Milwaukee dairy products.”
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all the candidates will eventually need to articulate a foreign policy vision “beyond criticism of Obama’s failures,”
Yeah NO COLLEGE DEGREE REALLY HURT BILL GATES & THE OTHER MICROSOFT FOUNDER!!
We did not elect Bill Gates to be the founder of Microsoft. He accomplished that himself. Walker wants us to elect him without knowing what we get.
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The latest measures of his popularity came in April, when Wisconsinites gave their governor a 41 percent approval rating in a pair of polls with 55 or 58 percent disapproving, depending upon which poll you looked at. (Adding insult to injury, one poll had Walker losing to likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton by double digits while the other had 60 percent of Badger State residents saying that he would make a "not so good" or "poor" president.)
You know he is not at the top of my list as a choice for President but his educations or lack of same has absolutely nothing to do with his qualifications or shouldn't. Only an arrogant education snob would be bothered by his not completing college.
For crying out loud! Someone who holds an elected office should, at minimum, understand our history and form of government.
You remind me of what my Philosophy 101 professor said during class in college. He was very into politics and one day he told us that all of our elected officials should have History degrees, not Political Science or business or whatever. I never forgot it and later on in my studies, I totally agree with it.
College is merely 4 more years of exposure to communist propaganda (and nothing new btw; they were already heavy into it in 1970). For Walker it's a plus.
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