In Case You Missed This... Whoa !!! - 'Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Is STILL Unfit for Office'
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Is STILL Unfit for OfficePersonal Essay by Dr. Glen Barry - Wisconsin Citizens Media Co-op
May 22, 2012
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The year was 1988 – current Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is running for Marquette University student body President. Hoping to shake off the embarrassing loss to a write-in candidate for resident hall President the year before, Walker is pulling out all the charm and hard-nosed political tactics at his disposal. Things are going well until the student newspaper retracts its endorsement, calling candidate Walker “unfit for office,” but I am getting ahead of myself.
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I had the misfortune of being a college classmate of Scott Walker. Walker attended Marquette from 1986 to 1990, two years younger than I. He was a laughable dork – dumb, full of himself, and authoritarian. Being deeply imperfect myself, nonetheless, I have to speak up on how going to college with Walker showed him to be a piece of work. And that his bad conduct, which began there, and led to a harsh and unjust start to his political life, which remains ugly and dangerous to this day, do in fact indicate Walker remains unfit for office.
Fresh from Badger Boys State leadership conference, freshly shorn of his mullet, and in ill-fitting suits; Scott rolled onto campus in 1986 at 18 already running for office. He was constantly speaking in sound bites, with a false sugary sweetness, about taxes and abortion – the only issues which Scott Walker truly cared about other than his personal quest for power.
To put it politely, Walker was not the sharpest tool in the shed, actually amongst the least sharp. With a C average (if that) and never graduating, I am not surprised to see him making up his own math on jobs when the real numbers don’t suit him. This reflects the utter disdain with which he holds truth, knowledge, education, and anything else that clashes with his absolutist worldview of religious and corporate based rule. As a classmate, he displayed a shocking lack of curiosity, original thought, or interest in topics other than his political ascendency.
Walker’s debut in Marquette student politics as a freshman began by stirring up the campus with a McCarthyite investigation into misspending by the Homecoming committee. Despite the President and Vice-President of student government having already resigned over personal expenditures by a larger group of student leaders from student funds – including myself and others unknowingly – no criminal charges of any kind, and no hard evidence of wrong-doing by anyone, Walker grandstands and leads a student government trial of myself and others, that could have been avoided if he so chose.
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of Lee Harvey Oswald and Ronald Wilson Reagan. And that's why conservatives love him! They want to kill Obama, and it's coming out in weird ways.
Come to think of it, both of those were subjects of JG Ballard short stories: "The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race" and "Why I Want to F*ck Ronald Reagan". (The former starts with the unforgettable "Oswald was the starter"
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Maybe someone should write a story about Walker in the same style, only then there's a risk he would become president someday, as Ballard predicted about Reagan back in the 60s, based on how his handlers had changed his hair to make it look more like a mound of pubic hair and to make his face look more penile.
(short version: I really really hate Scott Walker)
(and I should add, Walker is a bit reminiscent of Joe McCarthy, too, as was his predecessor Tommy Thompson -- to which one must ask, how republican is it)
Any guesses on which way it's going???
