20

Scott Walker Says: Obama's Harvard Degree Is Proof I Don't Need One

Posted by $ allosaur 10 years, 2 months ago to Politics
171 comments | Share | Flag

At least Walker is "transparent" about his education.


All Comments


Previous comments...   You are currently on page 4.
  • Posted by jabuttrick 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    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.
    Reply | Permalink  
  • Posted by jabuttrick 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I'm not offended. I just think it's irrelevant to any significant issue and distracts from the real problems with obama. Plus it smacks of Birther nonsense which leads to undermining the legitimate and important criticisms of Obama.
    Reply | Permalink  
  • Posted by Bennudo 10 years, 2 months ago
    The conversation was getting interesting when there was discussion about the merits of today's college education. In many fields, a degree is a requirement to even be considered. I find that hard to stomach after meeting some of these folks that have degrees from well known colleges and are seemingly unable to breathe without assistance. I am certainly not anti-intellectual, having 3 degrees and always in search of new knowledge, but I tend to agree that many colleges have become soapboxes for the faculty rather than institutions of learning. my personal view is that if the goal of college was to validate a certain level of knowledge or abilities, they would allow you to take a comprehensive examination to validate the knowledge without needing to take their classes. As we all know, this is not the case so it must simply be another business model to reap a profit. The book "One Second After" has some good illustration of the true value of education when you read it - in the book, a certain educated professional is trying to be allowed entrance into the safety of a community, after an interview they determine that regardless of the high powered job and education the individual is worthless to the community. After the collapse of society in the book, only those with skills enabling survival and basic needs are considered worthy of entry. This was a bit of a long note and included a tangent, but that's my 2 cents on the topic.
    Reply | Permalink  
  • Posted by $ 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I tried to watch it again and a little circle was going around and around.
    Went to Youtube and several Joe Biden touchy feelies were also just showing little dottd circles going round and round.
    Saw something on the sidebar about the Red Baron and here came a triplane going rat-tat-tat.
    I went back to Biden and the little circles stopped.
    So good luck . . .

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzMjFDfo....

    Reply | Permalink  
  • Posted by LetsShrug 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    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.
    Reply | Permalink  
  • Posted by LetsShrug 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I think he got foreign student aid. For being a student from another country. Thats what I think.
    Reply | Permalink  
  • Posted by jabuttrick 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    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?
    Reply | Permalink  
  • Posted by jabuttrick 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That's better. Attack them on the ground that they are lousy presidents, not because of where they graduated.
    Reply | Permalink  
  • Posted by freedomforall 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    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.
    Reply | Permalink  
  • Posted by jabuttrick 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes, I'm sure. Your tuition and fees are paid one of four ways (or a combination thereof): (1) direct payments by the student or parents; (2) payments made while working while in school; (3) scholarships; (4) loans. Obama was not rich enough to pay everything by (1), the amounts achievable by (2) are not enough to make a significant dent, Columbia and Harvard are both generous with (3) based on need only, and the difference is made up by low interest loans (4). As to why people don't like to make that kind of financial disclosure public, I'm sure it varies. But why does it matter? Does someone here actually think he never attended these schools or is it that someone thinks he received money from some disreputable source? Any evidence to support either conjecture?
    Reply | Permalink  
  • Posted by Owlsrayne 10 years, 2 months ago
    BHO went to Harvard but he doesn't understand "We the People.....", maybe Walker does.
    Reply | Permalink  
  • Posted by jabuttrick 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    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.
    Reply | Permalink  
  • Posted by LetsShrug 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    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.
    Reply | Permalink  

  • Comment hidden. Undo