Posted on 02/18/2015 4:19:29 AM PST by cotton1706
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) declared the country needs “a fighter, not just an Ivy Leaguer” while expressing that he wasn’t afraid of any of the other GOP candidates and dismissed criticism of his lack of a college degree as an “elitist, government knows best, top-down approach” while arguing “we’ve had [an] Ivy League-trained lawyer in the White House for the last six years…[who has] done a pretty lousy job leading this country” and on Tuesday’s “Kelly File” on the Fox News Channel.
After seeing a clip of former Vermont Governor Howard Dean (D) criticizing Walker’s lack of a degree, Walker stated “that’s kind of the elitist, government knows best, top-down approach from Washington we’ve heard for years. And I don’t know about you, Megyn, but we’ve had [an] Ivy League-trained lawyer in the White House for the last six years who was pretty good at reading off the teleprompter, but done a pretty lousy job leading this country.”
He continued “I think there’s a lot of Americans out there that scratch their head and say, we have people who’ve help found Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, plenty of other successful businesses, enterprises across this country who did exactly the same sort of thing I did, was have an opportunity to start a career, an opportunity to start a business, senior year of college, went out and did it.”
Later, in a portion of the interview released exclusively on Kelly’s Facebook page, Walker said he was not afraid of anybody in the GOP field and would focus on Hillary Clinton. When Kelly joked that Hillary went to Yale, Walker responded “all the more reason to put someone in who’s a fighter, not just an Ivy Leaguer. Someone who’s a fighter.”
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By the end of the last non-degree holding President’s (Truman) administration in Jan. 1953, the national debt was $266 billion (2014 $ = $2.32 trillion). The degree holders in the White House since have seen that debt balloon to $18 trillion — $8 trillion of that from the Harvard boy king in the past six years alone.
What again is the purported value of a “college education?”
Here are a couple. Not exactly happy reading.
I have long been a grateful supporter of Scott Walker and was elated at his hard-fought victories over the Leftists in Wisconsin.
I want to support him in his run for the Presidency and hope he will understand that accomodation on the national level will do him no more good that it would have in his home state.
Governor Scott Walker is not now and can never be a member of the governing establishment’s elite club. I like that about him.
You are right he MIGHT be. But he has a record. A damn fine record. Others only have speeches.
And these words will make great campaign speeches = he has a great record, others have great speeches.
Unfortunately, Walker is a member of the elite government establishment club. He is tightly associated with GOPe Priebus, Ryan, and Rove.
Walker is the GOPe’s fallback anti-TEA, anti-Ted candidate in the event Jeb Bush can’t do it.
Indeed. Given the idiocy coming out of these elite colleges, I feel having an Ivy League degree ought to be very nearly a disqualification.
Our history is full of examples of some A-1 Bonehead class idiots from these colleges really screwing things up in this country.
As George Orwell said: “There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.”
I've noticed that throughout history, the President's that screw things up the most are always considered "Geniuses" and it is the ordinary Presidents that seem to run things better.
I dare say we could not possibly have done worse than this "Harvard educated" fool we have now.
As do I. The establishment and their efforts to remain in power, is more or less the root of most of our problems in this nation.
And it was Walker who walked right into his trap. Not very smart.
Even IF “O” completed his ‘education’ (I personally doubt he ever DID), the phrase “Harvard educated” has certainly come to mean less and less.
By now it’s a joke! When those guys talk, it is the most illogical babble I ever heard.
Unfortunately, Walker is a member of the elite government establishment club.
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Can’t be. No way. He ain’t go no college degree.
...we've had [an] Ivy League-trained lawyer in the White House for the last six years who was pretty good at reading off the teleprompter, but done a pretty lousy job leading this country.Wow, I smell bacon cooking.
Mike Rowe Tells America (and Howard Dean) What Matters More Than Having A College Degree
Feb 18, 2015 — 3:30pm
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