Posted on 12/13/2011 11:37:59 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Has any former student ever evaluated the course Obama taught when he was a lecturer at the University of Chicago?
Oops, last sentence got inadvertedly cut of, here it is:
“It’s part of the reason I respect the man.”
“America is a great country with good people.” But “from 1965 to 1994 . . . America went off on the wrong track.”
Gee....doesn’t sound like something a liberal or a progressive would say...especially on the record...and to think, he wanted to help further conservative ideas in academia...the bastard....he had a lot of nerve, trying to unwash those college brains.
Wonder if any of the GDS’ers will comment on this?
I don’t know about an evaluations but I do know that in Tucker Max’s book “Assholes Finish First” he specifically states that he remembers Obama as “the really nice Professor that I played basketball with every afternoon”.
But, it is Tucker Max *shrug*
In the late 90s, one of the cable “University of the Air” channels ran this lecture series - on Sunday afternoons during NFL season... And, yes, I did forego football for 2 hours every Sunday morning to watch it...
The lasting impression I got from it is that he truly believes that there’s a high-tech Government Solution to every one of society’s ills - I spent a lot of time arguing with the TV.. ;)
In the last 5 or 6 years since Obama has been in the national media, has ANYONE, even an arden supporter, ever said this about him?
“Come to think of it...
Has any former student ever evaluated the course Obama taught when he was a lecturer at the University of Chicago”
Exactly my thoughts while reading the article.
Still waiting to hear what Obama said in his "community organizer" meetings. Bet we never hear. Just like everything else, we know nothing. We can certainly guess what was discussed. Let's see, Alinsky, Marx, Cloward-Piven, class warfare, street agitation, corporate shakedowns, anti-capitalist rhetoric. Did I miss anything?
Our Founders thought long and hard to develop a country based on the Constitution. Many people have died protecting and defending the Constitution. I can't help wonder what they would all think of Washington D.C. today. . .
What about Reagan?
“What about Reagan?”
What about him? Did he reverse the cumulative changes? Or do you think that there was NOT much change in that period? I assume Newt was aware of the Reagan efforts...he made some pretty large contributions. I think there’s a good chance he was talking about the massive lurch we’ve taken to the left, don’t you?
Shhhh you are not allowed to ask the Newt Cult tough questions like that.
My other thought was we can dig up students from a class that Gingrich taught 15 years ago but nary a word from any of Øbama students from 15 years ago.
In the last 5 or 6 years since Obama has been in the national media, has ANYONE, even an ardent supporter, ever said this about him?
Reminds me of what Savage once said, "Can anyone name an Obama appointment or organization that he’s affiliated himself with that is Pro-American?"
I mean Anita Dunn saying,"I turn to Communist Mao Tse-Tung as my Political Philosopher" just doesn't cut it.
The primaries haven’t even begun and already you’re a sore loser. Grow up.
Not much change under Reagan? He did plenty to change things. That is why I am confused by the obvious omission from the original statement.
“Not much change under Reagan?”
“from 1965 to 1994”
He was referencing the entire time. Poor comprehension skills?
Explain to me what was so much worse from 1981 to 1989 that made 1964 back so much better. In this statement, Newt is arguing that Kennedy was better than Reagan. He goes out of his way to exclude one from criticism and include the other in his point on making America better in the future. That future being 1994 on. How else is that supposed to be "comprehended"?
His purpose was to determine why, in the past, “America worked” and how, in the future, it could work again.
This statement says that prior to those dates America was great and that he is hoping after those dates that America will return to greatness.
I can’t keep up with what’s been going down
I think my heart must just be slowing down
Among the human beings in their designer jeans
Am I the only one who hears the screams
And the strangled cries of RINO’s in love
Explain to me what was so much worse from 1981 to 1989 that made 1964 back so much better.”
He is referring to the total difference in the leftward shift that occurred in the thirty years from 1964.
You are either stupid or trying to argue. Either way, I don’t care Go away.
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