Would you vote for somebody who doesn't have a college degree? (speech, laws)

[scobby]

Originally Posted by knowledgeiskey

I don't think I will. Governor Walker may have trouble being elected president for not having a degree.

Scott Walker has no college degree. That’s normal for an American, but not a president. - The Washington Post

I think, it happened before , few US Presidents in the early history didn't have a degree !!
Is this a serious criteria ?

[scobby]

Originally Posted by wehotex

What type of work did you do? From my experience at companies, I saw plenty of incompetent managers who got their jobs based on "who they knew".

True !!

[jojajn]

Originally Posted by scobby

I think, it happened before , few US Presidents in the early history didn't have a degree !!
Is this a serious criteria ?

In the 21st century, yes.

[scobby]

Originally Posted by jojajn

In the 21st century, yes.

Ok, then, they can make an exception if the guy is good !!

[jojajn]

Originally Posted by scobby

Ok, then, they can make an exception if the guy is good !!

Ok, then, could one be president without a high school diploma if he is "good?"

[arjay57]

It wouldn't bother me to see more people run on their freedom from formal education. We've all known people with a string of degrees who had no walking around sense whatsoever.

[WestCobb]

To answer the original question, no, I wouldn't.

[Redraven]

Y'know, it occurs to me that given what the highly educated people (mostly lawyers) in elected office have done to this (and other) country(s), One must wonder why anybody would consider a college degree a worthwhile item when voting!
Perhaps it really IS time to give some real world working/trades people a chance at running things. Could they really make more of a mess than the highly educated have done?

[WestCobb]

Originally Posted by Redraven

Y'know, it occurs to me that given what the highly educated people (mostly lawyers) in elected office have done to this (and other) country(s), One must wonder why anybody would consider a college degree a worthwhile item when voting!
Perhaps it really IS time to give some real world working/trades people a chance at running things. Could they really make more of a mess than the highly educated have done?

I have a college degree, and I don't consider it some great demarcation of intelligence or competence. It does show a modicum of ambition however. I want to vote for a real work working person with a lot of common sense. I want that person to have had enough sense to have gotten a degree along the way.

[lionking]

I didn't know it was so important to to have a college degree to qualify for a position of BS artist.