Posted on 01/13/2015 6:15:09 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
In 1990, Scott Walker left Marquette University before graduation. He is reportedly hoping to complete his degree now, but if he doesn't, he could become the first president since Harry S Truman to enter the White House without a college degree.
Some think his lack of degree could cost him his chances to get there, but we tend to think otherwise. Considering the current state of most colleges (and of their graduates) this could be a point in his favor. It might even make his career.
As institutions, colleges have been going downhill since the late 1960’s, but in recent years they have seemed like asylums run by the inmates, with their passion for courses in race and gender studies, free speech suppression, and the Duke LaCrosse scandal, the Penn State pedophilia disaster, the Rolling-Stone-gang-rape fiasco at the University of Virginia, and the performance art staged by a Columbia student who drags a mattress around with her on campus to protest an alleged act of rape. In fact, college seems the place to avoid if you value your checkbook or your sanity, and the academic definitions of intellect don’t seem to go far in real life.
The two greatest presidents in American history (Lincoln and Washington) did not get through grade school, and the only other one to have seen the country through a genuine life-and-death crisis was called a “third rate intellect” by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., and “Feather Duster” by his Roosevelt relatives, for his unbearable lightness of mind. But he was weighty enough to sense early on that Hitler meant business, to keep Britain afloat by his ‘Lend Lease’ provision, and to authorize the Manhattan Project that ended the Pacific War months sooner than otherwise possible.
Truman the dropout set in place the policies by which the Cold War would be won later on by Ronald Reagan, a graduate of a very small school no one had heard of who was described later in life as a dunce.
Dunces and drop-outs have done fairly well by the country, while intellectuals tend to fare poorly. The better presidents have been practical souls who understand human nature, and have learned a few lessons from life.
Reagan’s successor, George Bush, was the last president to have a degree from only one college, which marked the proximate moment the problems set in. Bill and Hillary Clinton had four degrees together, he from Georgetown, she from Wellesley, and one each from Yale Law school, where they first met. As a result, she lost Congress in their very first midterm with her plan to ‘fix’ health care, and he was impeached four years later.
Possibly it was George W. Bush’s degrees from Harvard and Yale that led him to stage his flyover in 2005 over sodden New Orleans, and to not change his war plans till chaos ensued. But Bubba and Dubya pale before Barack Obama, son of not one but two academics and a college professor himself. Another double-dip Ivy League graduate, he was called by one historian the most intelligent man to ever be president. Perhaps it was this that led him to make two of the worst unforced errors in history — the decision to push health care against public opinion (which some in his party admit was an error) and to pull all of our troops from Iraq.
Our best-known academics today are Obama, Jonathan Gruber, and Hillary — who as Hillary Rodham made Life magazine as her class valedictorian, and who had been told by her teachers that SHE should be president, long before Bill had arrived on the scene. With this in mind, Walker should wear his state proudly. He could win by acclaim as as the un-academic. Run, Scotty, run!
Yea, look what college gets you ... Obama.
I could vote for Scott Walker.
Just saying.
Scott Walker did the work and didn't get a degree and is a proven leader.
Who would I hire for an important leadership position in a heartbeat?
The Ivy League Presidents have been dismal failures. All of them.
Abe Lincoln.
What a terrible President.
He didn’t have a college degree.
Me also.
RINOmney or Jeb?
Not an effin’ chance.
I long for the day when Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Michigan, Wisconsin, UCLA and the rest of the atheistic, commie indoctrination centers go belly up. The facilities could become branch campuses of pro-God, Patriotic institutions like Hillsdale College, Grove City College, Liberty University and Bob Jones University. Sure, it’s just a dream but Bible-based education is the path to true wisdom.
The Bush Katrina flyover thing was a needless slap, though.
He was a terrible President. The worst of all.
Lincoln worse than hussein?
Amen. No argument from me. ;-)
Nobody has more blood on his hands then the Illinois Butcher™. Mr Lincoln’s war destroyed the republic.
State of the State tonight Gov Walker said no to common core in Wisconsin
But his influence kept the DemonRATs out of power for two decades.
Well, little Jeemy Madison was pretty good, he a Princeton grad and all with an extra year under John Witherspoon, who also taught another thirty-some members of the Constitutional Convention and whose area of specialty as a Presbyterian Divine and President of what is now Princeton, was the Hebrew Republic. After him it goes a bit downhill.
Two thousand random people from Boston will be liberal weenies just like the Harvahd faculty members. Try somewhere in America and it would probably work.
If we’re making wishes, I want a mansion and the new BMW i8.
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