Not that there's anything wrong with an AA degree.. but interesting about Mark Meadows

[Laura PourMeADrink]

[DURHAM D]

1. So he has just a two year degree.

Liar LIar

[Laura PourMeADrink]

3. Kinda reminds me of very early on, when I heard that Melania

had a degree in Architecture and we were like " that explains the connection ( with FG). "

Even remember pulling up her website ( since deleted) and seeing it. Wish I had known about screenshots then)

[MontanaMama]

2. Is anyone surprised by this?

Only the best people…

And no, there’s nothing wrong with an AA degree. There is something wrong with misrepresentation of one’s education and professional background because lying is bad and being a liar shouldn’t be rewarded.

[Hekate]

9. Exactly

AA is where I started and like Dr Biden, I love community colleges. My husband ended up teaching Computer Information Systems at the local CC, and his students are successfully employed all over.

It’s the lying — which is just so typical of all things Trump.

[onetexan]

5. Not all engineers but most of us can.

[WarGamer]

7. +1000 nt

[Yavin4]

6. In America, mediocre White men can achieve great things like become WH Chief of Staff

Meanwhile, a Black man can be editor of the Harvard Law Review and people will still question his qualifications.

[Hekate]

10. Yes indeedy

[yonder]

12. +1. You sure hit that on the nail.

[ecstatic]

14. +1000. nt

[yardwork]

22. Not just his qualifications but even whether he's really American!

[bottomofthehill]

8. There have been 30 White House Chiefs of Staff in the past 75 or so years

Since the position was established, I think there has been 1 person with out a college degree to hold it. Any guesses on the best and brightest........

[Laura PourMeADrink]

11. James Baker?

[bottomofthehill]

18. Nope, Baker is a Princeton Grad and has an advanced degree from Texas.

[ecstatic]

15. On a side note, many of those were probably fake as well

It looks like very little vetting was done prior to 2008.

[bottomofthehill]

19. I don't think so. Additionally, many held advanced degrees.

[TheBeam19]

25. Interesting question.

I just skimmed through the list of Chiefs of Staff on Wikipedia and it looks like they’ve all had college degrees.

Granted, I was skimming through the short bios and just realized maybe Wikipedia lists colleges attended even if the person didn’t graduate.

In any case, I’m interested to know who it is. Good trivia.

[MyMission]

13. Here in western NC the majority are easily fooled

The last 2 congressmen elected here were uneducated, ignorant liars. There's nothing wrong with being uneducated, but ignorance and lying about academic accomplishments is or should be a red flag.

I remember when this came out about Meadows. His office and PR never corrected the profile for over 30 years. He attended from 77-78, but got somehow got his AA in 1980. I bet he worked a deal to get the AA after dropping out. There were no online studies back then.

And his elected replacement, cawthorn, flunked out of college and tried to imply he'd graduated at some point but got caught in that lie; and he also claimed that he'd been accepted to the naval academy, which was debunked. He was rejected by them.

The GOPQ candidate this year, who will likely win because of the political makeup, attended the local community college for 10 years, business curriculum, but doesn't claim an AA degree. He proudly graduated from a local high school and middle school. But he is a successful businessman, owning McDonald's franchise among other businesses, and is a hometown guy. I don't support him, won't vote for him, but he's at least a better candidate than the last 2 inasmuch as he didn't lie about his lack of education. He seems proud of it.

Meadows has been lying for his entire professional career. Perfect match for tfg. He also lied about his legal residence here for the last election.

[wishstar]

16. I'll never forgive the mainstream Asheville Citizen-Times for endorsing Meadows

who actually hurt our local economy based on tourism because of his successful efforts to shut down the federal government which closed the facilities of the national parks in the area..

[Thtwudbeme]

17. Agreed- we are in the Piedmont region- here on this side

We have Virginia Fox, who DOES have a PhD but goes around the poorest areas near Boone and tells them that they don't even need public education or "government handouts."

And...they vote for her.

[bottomofthehill]

20. Former University President too

That sly Dr Foxx

[yardwork]

23. Virginia Foxx is one of the meanest people in the world.

[Thtwudbeme]

24. Yep. I always had the feeling that she went into politics specifically to

be mean to as many people as possible. She despises impovershed people- particularly the ones in the Appalachians that are having squirrel for dinner tonight (there is nothing wrong with that- I am just using it as an example)

[yardwork]

21. This kind of lying on resumes gets most people fired.

It's shocking to me how much highly placed Republicans get a pass on things that everybody else is punished for.