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As Scott Walker mulls White House bid, questions linger over college exit
Washington Post ^ | 02/11/15 | david-a-fahrenthold

Posted on 02/11/2015 7:55:35 AM PST by SMCC1

MILWAUKEE — Scott Walker was gone. Dropped out. And in the spring of his senior year.

In 1990, that news stunned his friends at Marquette University. Walker, the campus’s suit-wearing, Reagan-loving politico — who enjoyed the place so much that he had run for student body president — had left without graduating.

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Stay tuned for a report on his middle school years. Meanwhile, 8 years on, we still don't have Obama's college records...fancy that.
1 posted on 02/11/2015 7:55:35 AM PST by SMCC1
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To: SMCC1

I hear he chewed bubble gum as a toddler, too.


2 posted on 02/11/2015 7:57:25 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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Funny how all of 0bama’s college years, along with his time there is just a ‘missing time’ incident......


3 posted on 02/11/2015 7:57:58 AM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: Cicero

Wash Post cowardly, bitchy, swishy book of style being cracked open again.

Questions linger, cloud of suspicion, critics say, doubts remain, etc.


4 posted on 02/11/2015 7:59:06 AM PST by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
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To: SMCC1

And so it begins.


5 posted on 02/11/2015 7:59:06 AM PST by opus86
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If this is the best they can do, he has a shot. Lots of people leave college for a million and one reasons. Remember all the grief they gave Sarah Palin over attending several schools? And she graduated! Wonder when they’ll start ramping up the “Ted Cruz is Canadian” nonsense?


6 posted on 02/11/2015 7:59:44 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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It worked out OK for both Gate$ and Rush, among others....


7 posted on 02/11/2015 8:00:13 AM PST by Paladin2
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Wow, is that the best they can do?

Libs are such hypocrites... asking about Obama's school records is racist but whether or not someone in Scott Walker's campaign team for college student body president hid copies of the student newspaper is a huge deal.


8 posted on 02/11/2015 8:01:00 AM PST by caligatrux (Rage, rage against the dying of the light.)
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Oh...the horror....he got a job and followed his passion....and didn’t bow down to the “college degree master”


9 posted on 02/11/2015 8:02:43 AM PST by goodnesswins (I think we've reached PEAK TYRANNY now.....)
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Funny how with the left and most of the establishment RINO’s, questions never ‘linger’ about Obama, or his policies.


10 posted on 02/11/2015 8:02:52 AM PST by corlorde (Oath Keeper)
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I think it realy is the best they can do. That’s about all they come up with after three election victories. Oh, and he fell short of his goal of 250,000 new jobs. That was the whole campaign last fall. Mary Burke was not token opposition either, she’s a bike company heiress who was able to fund herself in a big way. Guys like Feingold weren’t willing to go against Walker only to go down in flames.


11 posted on 02/11/2015 8:02:59 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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Onoz!! Without his competed certificate of Marxist indoctrination, how could he ever be a good President? Oh wait........


12 posted on 02/11/2015 8:03:42 AM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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But it says right in the US Constitution that the president must be at least 35 years old, a natural born citizen, and a college graduate. Oh, wait....


13 posted on 02/11/2015 8:03:52 AM PST by Bob (Violence in islam? That's not a bug; it's a feature.)
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I don't mind that he dropped out of college. I don't insist that my President be an Ivy Leaguer. There are a million plausible explanations that could actually resonate with plenty of voters.

However, there are about a third of the population that might raise their eyebrows a bit (those with college degrees), so Walker needs a reasonable explanation for not having one. Not some long, contrived sob story, but a reasonable explanation. This needs to be done early. And then he needs to move on to bigger and better issues.

14 posted on 02/11/2015 8:05:12 AM PST by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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I think it realy is the best they can do. That’s about all they come up with after three election victories. Oh, and he fell short of his goal of 250,000 new jobs. That was the whole campaign last fall. Mary Burke was not token opposition either, she’s a bike company heiress who was able to fund herself in a big way. Guys like Feingold weren’t willing to go against Walker only to go down in flames.


15 posted on 02/11/2015 8:05:18 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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This is absurd. They are going to criticize Walker for not finishing college???? Really????

And this somehow disqualifies him from running for president, is that the implication???

He has a record of getting some major things done in Wisconsin in an executive position. He won three elections in four years. But, none of this matters, if he didn’t finish his college degree, we need to eliminate him from consideration. Is that what the liberals at the Post are saying????


16 posted on 02/11/2015 8:06:29 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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Still waiting for Obama’s school records and Clinton’s medical history.


17 posted on 02/11/2015 8:08:31 AM PST by headstamp 2
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Look for the left to start some ugly rumor as to why he left college.


18 posted on 02/11/2015 8:10:01 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (True followers of Christ emulate Christ. True followers of Mohammed emulate Mohammed.)
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So...whyt if his reason was...he was 22 and sick of the garbage he was paying for...hhmmmm...how will that go over?


19 posted on 02/11/2015 8:11:04 AM PST by goodnesswins (I think we've reached PEAK TYRANNY now.....)
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No degree? It worked for Rush Limbaugh and many of my parent’s (the greatest)generation.


20 posted on 02/11/2015 8:11:36 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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