Campaign for Obama, get college credit

by snipe Posted 2012/09/01 03:34:34

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A public university in Colorado may have violated state law by offering students course credit if they volunteered with President Obama’s re-election campaign. A blog post on the Adams State University website billed the opportunity as a “12 week long organizing internship for the Obama Campaign.”

Both the blog post and the course are now gone. The course was
canceled due to lack of interest, according to the university. The blog
post was taken down earlier this week after a conservative student
blog, Campus Reform, reported on it.

But Peter Wood, president of the National Association of Scholars
and a chronicler of political bias in academia, said universities have
no business awarding class credit for political activity at all.

“The principle here is that this sort of stuff does not belong in
the classroom, and that also it is not something for which students
should be receiving academic credit,” said Wood in an interview with
TheDC News Foundation. “The public funding that goes into a university
is not there to advance political campaigns.”

For Wood, incidents like the ones at ASU and OSU fit an extensive
pattern of improper cooperation between the Obama campaign and
university officials.

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sglmom 2012/09/01 03:39:12

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What the?
Glad to see the Course is CANCELLED ..
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Aqua Surf 2012/09/03 02:44:25 (edited)

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Cancelled due to lack of interest? LMAO, even the youth of liberal Colorado are turning against Maobama!

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teigan 2012/09/02 18:42:31

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The Obama team is getting really desperate these days. Love that is died because of lack of interest. Who's interested in that empty suit anymore?

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Ericka 2012/09/02 06:44:06

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This is why some people, mistakenly, believe college educations are part of a caste system. This may or may not be illegal, but it is definitely a conflict of interests and unethical.

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snipe to Ericka 2012/09/02 13:46:02

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It's illegal and since this story broke it's been revealed that the obama Campaign has done similar things at 415 Colleges and Universities across the Country.

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Ericka to snipe 2012/09/03 07:33:49

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Yikes. And this is the guy some people still want in office? SMH.

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snipe to Ericka 2012/09/03 14:11:55

Not hearing much about it, though, are we?

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redhorse29 2012/09/02 00:48:14

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This is pure liberal progressive elitist political egoism. If a GOP or conservative professor did this there would be immediate media character assassination and termination of employment.

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GoodEncounter 2012/09/01 23:33:34

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What? That's just wrong!!!!! Are they going to give people college degrees for campaigning for him too?

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George Romney 2012/09/01 23:30:25

If the College offered the credit opportunity for students who volunteered for either President Obama OR Governor Romney, then it would be OK. You learn way more on the campaign trail, interacting with the cogs of democracy than you can in the classroom. But forcing you to only learn one faction of it is wrong, and unacceptable.

Many colleges offer credit hours for internships at various positions of power including on congressional staffs, so the idea isn't outrageous, so long as it is an equal opportunity for both Republicans and Democrats.

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Deep007 2012/09/01 22:03:27

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The democRATic party is like Will E Coyote
always scheming

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Kat 2012/09/01 21:56:13

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Cancelled due to lack of interest... LOL

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seadog6608PWCM 2012/09/01 20:44:44
Aqua Surf to seadog6... 2012/09/03 02:46:53

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That tactic goes back to the times of FDR. Crooked as hell.

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seadog6... to Aqua Surf 2012/09/03 02:49:05
Aqua Surf to seadog6... 2012/09/03 03:05:55

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Yes, I remember now about Tammany Hall. They were a tough bunch who weren't above using tough methods. I believe they "got rid of" Judge Crater in the 1920's.

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seadog6... to Aqua Surf 2012/09/03 03:23:08
Aqua Surf to seadog6... 2012/09/03 03:30:12 (edited)

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Just checked, we're both wrong. Crater disappeared in August of 1930. The press dubbed him the most missing man in America until Hoffa. Bet at 60, I'm older than you and I can't remember as much as I used to either!

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seadog6... to Aqua Surf 2012/09/03 03:33:35
Aqua Surf to seadog6... 2012/09/03 04:08:00

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LOL!

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Yo'Adrienne..AFCL 2012/09/01 19:33:45

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"THE CLASS WAS CANCELLED DUE TO "LACK OF INTEREST"? THAT SHOULD TELL YOU.....................SOMET... ENCOURAGING...BUT THE BRAIN-WASHING CONTINUES ANYWAY!

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Temlakos~POTL~PWCM~JLA~☆ 2012/09/01 19:29:23

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Need more proof that the academy is biased toward the left?

When you're an academician, and you're not a liberal, you have no heart.

But when you get out into the real world, if you do not at the same time turn conservative, you have no brain.

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Nancy~P... to Temlako... 2012/09/02 22:54:55

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easy to convince people in the academic world but yet the real world, they somehow change their thinking when and only when it effects their own wallets and can distiguish their own long term futers.

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Aqua Surf to Temlako... 2012/09/03 02:48:47

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I wish they'd do away with tenure; then we could get some of those Marxist/Communist professors out of our childrens' hair at college.

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WhereIsAmerica? ~PWCM~JLA 2012/09/01 18:17:26

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WTH?

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Always Right 2012/09/01 17:44:47

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From kindergarten to college the liberal indoctrination continues! They should be playing pin the tail on the jackass, I mean donkey! That might boost enthusiasm among the children!

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Texas Gal 2012/09/01 17:43:03

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It's just amazing at what some people attempt and think they can slip under the radar.

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Aqua Surf to Texas Gal 2012/09/03 02:52:16

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It's going to get worse as we near November. I've never seen so many dirty tricks pulled during a presidential campaign in all my 60 years.

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Texas Gal to Aqua Surf 2012/09/03 13:55:00

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I totally agree.

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Seonag 2012/09/01 16:26:13

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Whose bright idea was that? Talk about 'indoctrination!' But "The course was
canceled due to lack of interest, according to the university" says a lot about the young adults political standing today. Four years ago it might have had a waiting list for the course!

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Marty9957 2012/09/01 14:50:51

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College kids are still impressionable and Obama likes robbing the cradle of politics.

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memebev1 2012/09/01 14:38:51

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Maybe there were some 'rewards' offered to the universities for this Obama promotion.

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natwebb 2012/09/01 14:05:58

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They realized their funding and jobs were at risk.
Public funding.
AND
I bet the wealthy alumni doners had a lot to do wit it too.

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Franklin 2012/09/01 13:43:20

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this is rather common place - UCF in central Florida gave free space to over a dozen democratic organization in 08 but they refused to provide the space contracted and paid for by the Young Republicans

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Drummerboy to Franklin 2012/09/01 17:17:43
seadog6... to Franklin 2012/09/01 20:48:18
Mike 2012/09/01 13:35:45

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This is absolute desperation

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Wahvlvke 2012/09/01 12:43:15

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Awwww .... it's only payback for academic welfare. How else are we going to study alcoholism among chinese whores. That's important you know.

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Andrew 2012/09/01 12:12:48

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I would support such a class if the credit would be given for the prescribed political activity were unbiased toward a specific political party. What is funny is the fact that the class was cancelled due to lack of interest! What college student would want to work for a campaign that can't offer them a job in their chosen field when they graduate?!

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Walt 2012/09/01 11:44:18

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"...The course was canceled due to lack of interest, according to the university...

HAHAHAHA! Hilarious!

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ed 2012/09/01 10:52:49

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is obama getting desperate or what?

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