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  • Posted by jabuttrick 9 years, 2 months ago
    I suppose a candidate's level of formal education might be relevant if it were seriously being asserted that he/she lacked the mental capacity or training to carry out the duties of the particular office. That is not the case with Walker so this issue is trivial unless he was tossed out of college for cheating or some other behavior which might tell us something about his character. Again, that is not the case with Walker. On the other hand, I don't understand the veiled anti-intellectualism inherent in the attacks on people with Ivy degrees. Some such graduates are severely misguided and others are not. Why attack them all with a broad brush? If you don't care for Obama, for instance, (and I do not) why attack him for his degrees from Columbia and Harvard? Instead, try engaging on the wrong headedness of his ideas, principles and policies. To take the "I hate pointy headed Ivy graduates" approach undercuts the seriousness of your argument and makes it appear as if you oppose education. [Disclosure: I have an Ivy degree]
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    • Posted by Mamaemma 9 years, 2 months ago
      They are not attacks on people with Ivy degrees. They are attacks on the idea that people with Ivy degrees should be our masters. [Disclosure:none]
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      • Posted by jabuttrick 9 years, 2 months ago
        Someone has said that? Who (besides Plato)? Certainly not Obama who almost never mentions his degrees. In fact, on this thread his been characterized as "not proud" of his degrees.
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        • Posted by LetsShrug 9 years, 2 months ago
          Where is the proof that he has any? Aren't they sealed up in his foreign student aide file somewhere? I can't wait until Geraldo opens THAT vault.
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          • Posted by jabuttrick 9 years, 2 months ago
            That he has any what? Degrees? Are you kidding? Harvard says he graduated, there are pictures of him with the law review staffers, his name is listed as editor in chief of the law review in contemporaneously printed reviews. Go to a law library and look it up if you don't believe me. You think his attendance is all part of some elaborate conspiracy hatched some thirty or more years ago between Obama, his hidden masters, Columbia, and Harvard? Really? I think you have the burden of proof on this one.
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            • Posted by LetsShrug 9 years, 2 months ago
              Then show who paid for it.
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              • Posted by jabuttrick 9 years, 2 months ago
                You won't accept that he graduated unless you can be shown who paid his tuition bills, is that it? Is that because you think he shortchanged Harvard or because you think the Kremlin paid the tuition?
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                • Posted by LetsShrug 9 years, 2 months ago
                  Hey... he's hiding something...or else he'd be transparent. I'd like to know know if WE paid for it, or who else paid for it. And what his records say about his birth place.
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                  • Posted by jabuttrick 9 years, 2 months ago
                    Unless "WE" means the Harvard endowment, we didn't pay for it. Aaah, the birth place. Now, I see what you are after. You think he lied about his birthplace on his application to Harvard Law School in order to gain more financial aid. But I already explained how that aid is calculated and it has nothing to do with birthplace. It is based on need which means financial need.
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                    • Posted by LetsShrug 9 years, 2 months ago
                      No... I think he was born in a foreign land.. and milked our corrupt financial system... OR some Marxists paid his way... or both.
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                      • Posted by ewv 9 years, 2 months ago
                        The real question is not what country he was born in but what planet he is from, as the rhetorical question typically puts it. But there is no doubt that after graduating from the prestigious private Punahou School in Hawaii he attended Occidental, transferred to Columbia where he graduated, was recruited into political organizing in Chicago, and then attended and graduated from Harvard Law -- and that he sought out and was further influenced by leftist faculty while in school. His family was Marxist and to the extent they paid for him, then that, at the least, means he was financed by Marxists, with the rest of the funding undivulged.
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            • Posted by freedomforall 9 years, 2 months ago
              Bush graduated from Yale, too.
              I don't see how either one gave us a worthy president.
              Bush "It's just a gd piece of paper."
              Obama: His 'concern' for the constitution has been glaringly obvious.
              Put em both on AF1 with Arab terrorists at the wheel.
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            • Posted by khalling 9 years, 2 months ago
              His records are sealed. If you are an A is A kindof guy you 'd be asking questions not promoting a narrative of which you cannot prove
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              • Posted by ewv 9 years, 2 months ago
                There is no doubt that Obama graduated from Columbia and Harvard, and how he paid for it doesn't make much difference to what he is. It would be of secondary interest if it could be proved that he had outside funding for neo-Marxist political reasons just as he was recruited from New York City as a Chicago organizer not long after he graduated from Columbia. The kind of leftist education he sought out and was subjected to is much more relevant to what he is because it is intellectually a big part of how he got to be what he is.

                It would be a big mistake to dismiss Obama as not being very bright, with or without faked degrees. He was and is no great scholar but he is far from dumb. An intelligent evil is much more dangerous.
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    • Posted by sumitch 9 years, 2 months ago
      We know Walker's value by what he has done, not by what school he went to or what degree(s) he holds. Are the elites saying you have no value unless you have a degree? There are many millionaires in congress. I wonder how many were before the entered the club?
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      • Posted by jabuttrick 9 years, 2 months ago
        I agree with you regarding how to evaluate Walker. Also, listen to what he says and what principles he espouses. However, I've never heard anyone say "you have no value unless you have a degree." Have you? As to congressional millionaires, there sure are an awful lot of them. I'm betting most were already millionaires before before being elected.
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