So the new talking point aimed at preventing a Scott Walker candidacy in 2016 is that he doesn’t have a college degree. And of course the WaPo is twattering about it.
Lincoln, of course, didn’t have any college at all. He was just smart enough to educate himself out of books and later by reading the law with an established lawyer.
Wilson, by comparison, was probably the most statist/fascist president we’ve ever had, short of whatever Commander Zero cooks up in the next two years, and he had a Ph.D.
It’s enough to make a good Jacksonian think that the more eddicated a man is, the less prepared he is for the Presidency. And there’s something to that way of thinking; if you spend too much time in the ivory tower, you don’t typically have much of a grasp on the workings of the real world. Certainly Wilson didn’t.
Right now, given the past few presidents we’ve had, I’d be perfectly happy to see a blue-collar type with common sense and some real-world smarts in the Oval Office. Sure as hell all the college boys we’ve had in the past 70 years or so haven’t done us much good.