Scott Walker suggests being an Eagle Scout has prepared him to be commander in chief

[riversedge]

Source: The Capitol Times



Scott Walker suggests being an Eagle Scout has prepared him to be commander in chief

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.....According to the video, the final question Hewitt asked Walker was, "Does the prospect of being commander in chief daunt you? Because the world that you describe when you're talking about safety is going to require a commitment to American men and women abroad, obviously at some point. How do you think about that?"

Walker first acknowledged, "That's an appropriate question."

"As a kid, I was in Scouts. And one of the things I’m proudest of when I was in Scouts is I earned the rank of Eagle," Walker said. "Being an Eagle Scout is one of the few things you get as a kid that, you are not the past, it’s something you are."

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He then drew from his Eagle Scout experience discussing his military philosophy.

"America is an exceptional country," Walker said. "And I think, unfortunately, sometimes there are many in Washington who think those of us who believe we are exceptional means we are superior, that we're better than others in the world.

"And to me, much like my thought process of being an Eagle Scout is, no, being an exceptional country means we have a higher responsibility ... not just to care for ourselves and our own interests, but to lead in the world, to ensure that all freedom-loving people have the capacity, who yearn for that freedom, to have that freedom."

Speaking to his military strategy, Walker said the U.S. needs to engage in military action when appropriate, but that it must be done with "a plan and a charge that ultimately leads to victory."


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It was a softball interview by a RW radio host.

[guillaumeb]

1. do the scouts give out merit badges

for lying,
for union busting,
for being a Koch whore
or all the other things Walker is good at?

[Thor_MN]

22. I think there might have been a badge for walking away from a college degree in your senior year...

Or was that just a Sarah Palin Derp Talk?

[BeyondGeography]

2. Plus he can wear this cool shirt whenever he meets the joint chiefs

[markbark]

3. If you stay true to your Eagle oath

There's no way in hell you can get to be president in this day and age.

Take into consideration the following

The Eagle Pledge:

I affirm my allegiance to the three promises of the Scout Oath.

I thoughtfully recognize and take upon myself the obligations and responsibilities of an Eagle Scout. On my honor, I will do my best to make my training an example and my status and my influence count strongly for better Scouting and for better citizenship in my troop, in my community, and in my contacts with other people.

To this I pledge my sacred honor.

The Scout Oath:

On my honor I will do my best
To do my duty to God and my country
and to obey the Scout Law;
To help other people at all times;
To keep myself physically strong,
mentally awake, and morally straight.

The Scout Law:

A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent.

Nothing in the above sounds in any way remotely connected to Scott Walker.

(BTW, the last Eagle to be POTUS was Gerry Ford!)

[lutefisk]

8. The oath would need to be heavily edited to fit Walker

The (Scott Walker) Scout Oath:

I will help myself.

[olddad56]

4. well, maybe that qualifies hin to be scout leader, but that is about it.

It doesn't make him any less of an asshole.

[samsingh]

5. weren't these the morons that were ridiculing Obama's community service?

[mulsh]

6. Every time he opens his mouth he proves he is not presidential material.

n/t

[Marie Marie]

7. I once stayed at a Holiday Inn.

Guess I'm qualified.

[lutefisk]

9. The video really shows his immaturity and phoniness

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He played the Eagle Scout card on the 7 year old boy who outwitted him at CPAC, too. Didn't work then, and it doesn't work now.

Walker has a complete lack of "real world" experiences to draw on or to give him a frame of reference. He's been campaigning since he was a teenager, and that's all he's been doing for over 25 years, leaving him nothing more than an uneducated, smooth talking salesman reciting meaningless talking points. Keep using the Eagle Scout stories- I hope to see them in the debates.

[appalachiablue]

10. Walker makes the B-School Boys of the 1980s look like intellectuals & statesmen. Has the US

really fallen this low I wonder.

[riversedge]

48. Walker has repeated this talking pt so often (eagle scout) that it

is engrained in his plastic brain. I actually hope he continues as it will make him look foolish more often

[LiberalElite]

11. Walker has such a fine tuned sense of irony-

this is irony, isnt' it? or self-effacing wit? He can't possibly be serious!!! But more importantly, how many people out there DO think he's qualified because he was an Eagle Scout?

[packman]

12. While admiring anyone who becomes an Eagle Scout

had a friend whose father bought him the rank. Small town, big businessman wanted his son to become an Eagle Scout and gifts were exchanged. The kid didn't even go to meetings and skipped over many of the stages of advancement. When I asked him about all the badges on that sash, he couldn't even name a few of them.

[lutefisk]

13. Other famous Eagle Scouts include a serial killer and the Texas tower sniper

The Eagle Scout stuff is getting old. Here's a brief commentary on Walker overusing the Eagle Scout stories from 2012:

There have been very prominent Eagle Scouts that have committed atrocious crimes and the media fully knows this - Arthur Gary Bishop, a serial killer; Mark William Hoffman, a forger and murderer: and Charles Whitman, the Texas tower sniper, are three national news stories that come to mind. . .

This is propaganda, misinformation that is disseminated via mass media for a purpose - in this case, allowing folks like Wisconsin's Deceiver-in-Chief, Scott Walker, to hide behind a Boys Scout badge. His claims are fully-irrational, but highly emotional to those that hold the belief and attitude that the Boy Scouts beyond approach. This is how propaganda works - its all based on emotions, though some skewed rational is often present so that people can justify their emotional responses.

LINK Eagle Scout Arthur Gary Bishop (child molester and serial killer)

LINK Eagle Scout Charles Whitman (Texas Tower sniper)

LINK Eagle Scout Mark Hofmann ( counterfeiter, forger and convicted murderer)

LINK Eagle Scout Scott Walker (career politician)

[anotojefiremnesuka]

14. While in Scouts I learned how to drink, smoke cigs and weed, saw porn for the first time too

well not really porn Playboy and Penthouse oh yeah some camping and shit too

I too am over 35 but was not an eagle scout but was in the military so I am even MORE Qualified to be president.

Elect me an I shall make it my objective to have universal HC, legalize weed, cut DoD Budget, go after ALL domestic terrorists and arrest Bush and Cheney and turn them over to the Hague for war Crimes and a whole bunch of other cool shit like banksters hanging by their entrails or at least perp walked and sent to really shitty prisons.

My inauguration would feature George Clinton and free weed on the mall for all!

Any way can I have your vote?

[wordpix]

35. you have mine and a brilliant future career as a comedy writer

if you're not one already. I'm serious, SNL and the Academy Awards show need you since Tina Fey moved on.

"but was in the military so I am even MORE Qualified to be president."

[realFedUp]

15. It can lead to being a pedophile...

Or closeted gay.

[AndreaCG]

16. So we're supposed to be impressed that he was an Eagle Scout

But ignore that he never finished college. Yeah right.

[lutefisk]

19. "I earned the rank of Eagle"

Does that mean he's eligible for veterans benefits?

And looking into the future, we see President Walker meeting with his cabinet in February, 2017, to discuss new strategies for the wars with Iran, Switzerland, New Zealand, and Antarctica.

[DRoseDARs]

17. Did he stay in a Holiday Inn last night too?

Fucking maroon.

[RKP5637]

29. I once climbed the Washington Monument all the way to the top. I think that qualifies me too! n/t

[riversedge]

18. Racheal Maddow just did a funny mocking report on this cap times article...

It was hilarious


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[winter is coming]

20. I wouldn't be surprised to learn he was never an Eagle Scout. n/t

[jtuck004]

21. I was hiring folks for some tech support stuff years ago, and one of them

was an Eagle Scout. When I kinda dissed that as being relevant, my boss piped up "Well, I was an Eagle Scout". So we hired the guy.

The tech was fired after downloading our customer list to give to a salesperson that was moving to another company.

Guess he was prepared.

[alcibiades_mystery]

23. The only preparation one needs to be Commander-in-Chief is the votes of the Electoral College

As much as Scott Walker is a living and walking douchenozzle, we have to stand firm on the notion that one needs ZERO military preparation to be Commander-in-Chief. We are not a war state, but a Republic.

[eppur_se_muova]

24. Um, does The Onion belong in LBN ?

Oh, wait ... never mind.

[leftyladyfrommo]

25. It's a new boyscout badge: Getting prepared to be president.

The insanity never ends.

[Faux pas]

26. He has the brains of a rock.

To me, that just means the people who vote for him are even dumber.

[wordpix]

34. yes but he has a silver tongue & combined with KochBro resources,

he will be a front runner. His hands are deep in Koch pockets and if Walker becomes pres., that is it for America. KochBros will rule us.

[Faux pas]

44. IMHO

He doesn't have a silver tongue, not if anybody is really listening. He talks the boosh, ryan, bachmann, palin double-talk-nonsense- speak.

[CanonRay]

27. I cannot believe the blithering idiots that are GOP "front-runners"

[RKP5637]

28. Apparently he received a different Eagle Scout rank than the rest of us. He is antithetical to

what we learned and accomplished.

[FSogol]

43. Agreed. There is zero in Scouting about military strategy.

He must have missed all the environmental and civics lessons.

[lutefisk]

30. What if Sarah Palin had said this?

Walker moving from pandering to Palinesque self-parody

If Sarah Palin had ever suggested she could step in as Commander-in-Chief because she'd been a Girl Scout, she'd have been laughed off the stage even faster, but some reason, Walker can step just as deeply into full Onion mode without instantaneous disqualification...

Link to source

I think this is an interesting observation by James Rowen. If a woman made any one of a number of naive or convoluted or manipulative or simply dishonest statements Walker has made during his campaign, she would be dismissed as not being up to the job- "Let a man take over, honey. He'll get a free pass on that stuff."

[wordpix]

33. if she said it, she'd be skewered so will Walker be - they're not the brightest bulbs

in the box, as they say. But since they're just puppets of people like the Koch Bros., not a problem to be a dummy, just do what the boss says.

[Thinkingabout]

31. You can clean them up, smell them up, shine them up, dress them up and line them up

But it does not create necessary training for the Commander-in-chief.

[wordpix]

32. "not just to care for ourselves and our interests" but the Koch Bros' interests

Scott, tell us like it is, you puppet bought and paid for.

Just watched "Citizen Koch." I hate these people

[Monk06]

36. Can't wait to see these clowns 'debate' each other while singing from the same songsheet.

I can here it now, executive amnesty, obamacare yada yada.

Then they'll try to scrape a few non white, non bat shit crazy votes to win. Or keep it close enough to cheat.

[Monk06]

37. Can't wait to see these clowns 'debate' each other while singing from the same songsheet.

I can here it now, executive amnesty, obamacare yada yada.

Then they'll try to scrape a few non white, non bat shit crazy votes to win. Or keep it close enough to cheat.

[Vinca]

38. I knew it, I knew it, I knew it.

My history of selling (and eating) Girl Scout cookies has prepared me to be CEO of Apple. I did (and do) excel at it.

[truthisfreedom]

39. Eagle clown. Such a resume.

[riversedge]

40. Toon and photo of the Eagle Scout

John Nichols ?@NicholsUprising 3h3 hours ago

Eagle Scout and... Scott Walker went to Badger Boys State. That should settle it.
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[riversedge]

41. Toon---Walker says this badge is for john doe dismissal....

Nope -Doe is still on although it is in the WI supreme court (run by rabid Right wingers)


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[mac56]

42. So let's recap.

So far he's said he's qualified to face off with ISIS because he dealt with the Wisconsin teachers union... and that he's qualified to command the US military because he was once an Eagle Scout. I believe he's also qualified to tackle health care because he once watched an episode of "General Hospital."

[IcyPeas]

45. Boy Scout Leaders Destroy 200 Million-Year-Old Rock Formation And Laugh About it

Remember this?

[riversedge]

47. yes, it was horrible example to set to the kids and for all

[yurbud]

46. this cries out for a PHOTOSHOP CONTEST