College credit-for-Obama students scheme killed
This weekend, I noted aggressive attempts by Team Obama to sign up college students and exploit lax residency rules in battleground Virginia. And last week, I blogged the latest ACORN attempts to infiltrate campuses.
The quest to capture the youth vote continues — by an overzealous college official who attempted to offer academic credits to students who canvass for Obama:
University of Massachusetts officials on Monday quashed efforts by an Amherst campus chaplain to offer two college credits to any student willing to campaign in New Hampshire this fall for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Chaplain Kent Higgins told students in a Sept. 18 e-mail, “If you’re scared about the prospects for this election, you’re not alone. The most important way to make a difference in the outcome is to activate yourself. It would be just fine with (Republican candidate John) McCain if Obama supporters just think about helping, then sleep in and stay home between now and Election Day.”
Higgins added that an unnamed “sponsor” in the university’s history department would offer a two-credit independent study for students willing to canvass—identify supporters—or volunteer on behalf of the Democratic nominee.
University officials disavowed the effort after inquiries Monday by The Associated Press. They said it could run afoul of state ethics laws banning on-the-job political activity, as well as university policy.
“We do not engage in or sponsor partisan political activity,” said Audrey Alstadt, chairwoman of the history department. “We certainly do not give academic credit for participation in partisan politics.”
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Just a minor bump in the road for Obama’s new and improved version of Hitler’s SA.
Get out all the psycho meds; the moonbat fatigue is setting in. Pretty soon they’re going to break a serious law. It’s just a matter of time.
ot–My brother came back from Iraq today.
.. and smoke another joint and roll over and go back to sleep.
Chaplain Higgins has been talking to the wrong God, methinks.
The left simply leaves me speechless with their audacity. I guess cheating is okay as long as it is for “their side”.
They cause me to need blood pressure medicine. Or maybe an anger management course would help.
Just as long as nobody catches us. Then we will act like we have no idea of which you are speaking.
Jose~
Bid your brother “Welcome Home”, and a “Thank you for your service” from me, and I’m sure many others…
I can’t wait to hear who this mystery sponsor really is.
Not to worry - they’ll get credit for their efforts in the re-education camps….
Thank God! Please pass along our heart felt gratitude for his service.
I’m delighted that it’s becoming more of the rule than the expection that pastors, “men of God” and other “spiritual advisors” are committing balsphemy by negelecting the savings of souls in favor of political ambition. Who needs me now anyway?
The end is near.
xoxoxox
Lucifer
jose’s bro tip one on me and enjoy Monday Night Football!!
and Obama can kiss my a__.
But, the universities are not indoctrinating kids, and they don’t lean extreme left, and these highly intellectual elites would never, never use their positions of authority over young impressionable minds to coerce them into supporting one candidate over another. Yeah, right.
Jose, Praise the Lord your brother is home safely. On behalf of me and mine, give him thanks and a hearty welcome home!
This announcement from the University needs a laugh track. What utter rubbish. “Partisan” has only one meaning in Lib U speak — Republican. So this junk is easy to fix.
“We do engage in and sponsor only Democrat Party political activity,” said Audrey Alstadt, chairwoman of the history department. “Duh, our Faculty certainly does give academic credit for participation in Democrat Party politics. As soon as the media heat is off, of course . . .”
Really? You’ve been doing it all along. Why stop now?
Just take a good, long, hard look at your faculty.
The only reason they said anything, I think, was because it was so blatant. If there was no light shone on this, it might have been business as usual.
What I thought was interesting was that this was a chaplain. Granted, I don’t know to which faith Kent Higgins is clergy (or if he is), but I would wonder about his sense of ethics in offering the credits for what is clearly not collegiate work.
I think I’m going to sponsor a kegger at my campus on the night of 3 November, to run through mid-day 4 November. I’ll just take everybody’s keys so that they don’t drink and drive, and maybe this will do some small part to keep indoctrinated dipsticks from cancelling out my well-informed vote. The plan may even be legal, since I’m a student, too…
Jose — God’s Blessings to you and your brother, and many thanks from a fellow vet.
I am convinced that if Obama wins this election it will be because he stole it by voter fraud and suppressing overseas military ballots.
Al Gore almost won in 2000 by using the same methods….
McCain/Palin ‘08!!!!
I often sit and cogitate how America can purge these left wing idiots out of the university system. Russia did it by putting a rifle in their hand and forcing them to the front lines.
Laugh of the day.
BTW Chairwoman, it’s your department that has the mystery sponsor…
Maybe you don’t, but that professor in Colorado sure does! But of course, that’s only if you tear apart Palin first!
It almost makes you want to see the messiah get in so these people can cry when he screws up everything up and they wish he never was voted in. Then I will sit back and Laugh in their faces. You see I don’t need government to provide for me like they do. I might struggle more, but I will make it through the storm.
My Father used to say ” If you can use your hands, you will never starve”. Hopefully these knuckleheads that support “O” will wake up. One can only hope.
I think we will ask both my Senators one R and D to look into this matter….I don’t appreciate cheating in my fine state of VA and I will ask them if they find it appropriate and would they please find the time to look into this little matter on behalf of their constituents…..
Anyone else from VA please do the same and don’t forget to express your NO on the bailout at the sametime….this is AMENSTY on steriods….LET GIT R DONE!
My mistake I read VA and missed the MA duhh but that’s ok because I will mention the ACORN people while on the phone…I AM STILL CALLING MY SENATORS TOMORROW….they haven’t heard from me to recently…..it is time!
CCS - I suggested that very strategy at the CO rally a few weeks ago. Free beer for TWO days before the election…Voila! No Obama supporting kids at the polls on Nov 4.
Echoing what others have said - thank God! Please extend our gratitude to your brother for his service, and a hearty welcome home.
I guess that’s how you get your BA in BS.
Jose, add another welcome home from me. I know how tough that year can be, I had my only son over there, thankfully he too came back in one piece, at least physically.
I really think if Obama is pinning his hopes on the youth vote he is betting on the wrong horse, of course the youth vote is about all he has left after somehow or another insulting every other voting block there is.
http://www.americanarmed.blogspot.com
I worked at UMASS Amherst for several years, and the whole Five Colleges (UMASS, Amherst, Hamshire, Smith and Mt. Holyoke colleges) area is a liberal utopia (translation: rat’s nest). It is the biggest reeducation camp in Massachusetts. And that is saying a lot.
This is the (former) home of Rene Gonzalez, the grad student who wrote in the UMass-Amherst Daily Collegian that NFL player and Army Ranger Pat Tillman was “a `GI Joe’ guy who got what was coming to him.” Gonzalez’s column condemned the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and portrayed Tillman as a dupe, “probably acting out his nationalist-patriotic fantasies forged in years of exposure to Clint Eastwood and Rambo movies.” In his own neighborhood in Puerto Rico, according to Gonzalez, Tillman would not have been considered a hero, but a “pendejo,” or idiot.
(I had the experience of having long email conversations with Gonzalez before he became infamous, and he was as brainwashed and unrepentant as any liberal college student could be. Our conversations were polite though.
It is also home to one physics Professor Jennie Traschen, who had the incredibly bad timing and taste to be condemning the public display of American flags in Amherst on Sept 10, 2001. She stated at a public meeting on the display of flags “”What the flag is, is a symbol of terrorism and death and fear and destruction and oppression.”
Just to give you an idea of the liberal mindset in what I call “Berkeley East,” some residents in this liberal community did not like the flags because it made the Town “look too American.”
I witnessed meetings for socialists and communists on campus, while talks by Ann Coulter and others were widely protested.
I couldn’t wait to wipe the dirt of that place off my feet.
I don’t know whether to be scared?… or terrified! by Obama and his BLT extreme marxist plans with his ‘friends’.
Did they just sell America to our government as a new socialist country?
I’m no conspiracy theorist, but the dems since Carter have pretty much laid this out for us. Greed from others made it easier.
Who controls the money and the insurance?
We can NOT allow Obama to destroy whats left, and he would do just that.
Jose, please tell your son thanks for keeping my family safe.
I received one of my degrees from Marist College and I was actually allowed to decide for my self what was right. I read “Capital” (most of it) and did a thesis on the book as well as economists with opposing views from the Austrian school of economic thought. Marxism is bogus economic theory based on the labor theory of value and it’s not provable that the capitalist absorbs surplus value from the proletariat. What Obama will do is destroy what is America’s sovereignty and he’s doing it quite nicely with his neo-Hegelian “dialectal materialism.”
I’m not as up to date on my election laws as I should be, but as long as you do not discriminate or take a poll tax, you should be in the clear.
However, you might not want to follow Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle on the synergistic use of alcohol and electioneering to the letter though.
Actually in the 80’s, Clint Eastwood had little to do with it. It was Rambo, TopGun, Full Metal Jacket and Platoon that sucked us jack-booted non-thinking patriot wannabe’s in! Pat Tilman was just a little kid in those days.
There is a reason that when the Revolutions and the Purges come, those in power and/or the intellectuals are weeded out first.
Of course it’s an unnamed sponsor. Cheaters are always anonymous.
Well, drivingjack, no one ever said liberals had any guts.
They never do.
Jose,
Many thanks to your brother for his service. I am glad he is home.
Jose,
Many thanks to your brother for his service. I am glad he is home.
On topic: this is all too familiar, and all too depressing. I remember how active the Marxists were in campus politics back in the day.
Brokaw is moderating the Townhall format Presidential Debate. I wrote in a question asking about voter fraud and what the President-elect would do to instill integrity back into the process.
Sigh. I don’t think it will be a “selected” question, though.
This is something they teach at “community organizer school 101:” conscript your minions using other people’s money.
Jose, please add to the list of thanks for your brother my sincerest thanks to him for protecting my family and my pleasure at his safe return! His efforts and sacrifices and those of all of his family are deeply appreciated!!!
Jose, my nephew just returned from his 3rd trip. He was in Qatar then Baghdad and just returned from Turkey. Thank God they are home. Thank your brother and God bless them all.
Is this America?
Sorry, this is a bit OT (or maybe not) but I just HAD to bring it to your guy’s attention.
My teenager wanted to go to the bookstore today in order to get something new to read. I am always up for a trip like that and was needing to pick up some new reading material myself, so we headed to Barnes and Noble (ended up with Steve Martin’s Auto-Bio and the new “Get Fuzzy” collection) when I saw something that made me damn near puke all over the table full of books.
It was a Barack Obama CHILDREN’S BOOK!! Not only that, but apparently they had sold a few, as there was only one left on the table. It was the table carrying all the Current Politics books. (Obama books had McCain/Palin books beat 3-1 in number)
I was both outraged and close to hysterical laughter at the same time. The insides had him portrayed as some Christ-like saviour, complete with rainbows and sunbeams surrounding him and a “glow” around his visage.
This is where they are starting this myth about him.
This is bringing the whole argument that I was making concerning the SA/Hitlerization of him full circle. Start the indoctrination with the children, and it will be so much easier when they become voting age.
Take a look
And here is the synopsis so you can see that I am NOT exaggerating:
Wait a minute…. that sounded familiar. Isnt that the same Synopsis from
‘The Story of Little Not Exactly European-American but not non-Euro-American enough to be African-American Sambo‘?
Kent Higgins is a busy man building meditational mazes and creating alternative spring break projects.
They even have a pagan student group, it is listed along side Catholic, Jewish etc groups..lawdyy wonder how many schools have that darling group!
Anyway, his other alt springbreak projects also got 2 credits from history dept so would not read anything
into “unnamed” thing.
Here is his email incase you would like to contact:KH@som.umass.edu
University officials disavowed the effort after inquiries Monday by The Associated Press.
And had there not been inquiries?
I’ve been watching a documentary about the rise of national socialism in Germany in the 30’s. It was stuff like this that brought the country into the fold’s of the fringe Nazi party.
RetFireman #44 - this is exactly how extremist muslims operate - brainwashing children. You need look no further than the Palestinian efforts such as their version of Mickey Mouse lecturing kids about the evil Joos and A-merry-cans.
Obama is evil.
While I’m on the subject, subscribers might want to think twice about venturing into Ikea stores.. check this out: the disappearance of Israel from maps sold in one of Ikea’s stores in the United Arab Emirates ‘is reflective of the reality on the ground in the Arab world of most nations refusing to recognize the existence of the Jewish state.
This religious nut must really like abortions…
Didn’t he smoke it, snort it, and sell it?
This reminds me of when schools were giving kids credit for attending pro-illegal immigration rallies, but were punishing them for attending the anti-illegal rallies.
Hey nyc123me, read the story. It wasn’t IKEA’s bad. The maps were vandalized. When IKEA became aware of it, they pulled the maps and launched an investigation.
Last September 15, professors were giving credits to students who attended the D.C. “die in.” In the crowd, we spotted a few professors or trolling middle-aged lib Congressional staffers. /s
Being an honest participant in the electorate isn’t enough for these Dems. They’ve gotta BRIBE people to vote for Obummer. That doesn’t smell like confidence to me.
HOLY !*#%#?&$@#%!!! Is this the kind of soppy brainwashing I have to protect my daughter from now? I thought it was bad enough with the AGW brainwashing curriculum and television cartoons.
Now this.
This is not to far off your other observations in other threads: Øbama is using the tried and true techniques of most fascist/communist dictatorships familiar to anyone with the slightest grasp of history.
This cannot be allowed to pass. It is time for concerned parents to “get in the face” of Øbamaroids and their flying monkeys in the press and academia and get this crap out of our schools before it is too late, if it isn’t already, judging by what I see on campus on a far too regular basis.
I am going to be my school district’s worst nightmare!
Story time: I was a freshman at Smith in 2004-2005, and when Bush won the election, my film professor came into class and said, “Can I assume we all feel the same way about this?”
“No,” I said.
She looked right at me and then proceeded to spend the whole rest of the class - over an hour - talking about how the country was going to get so much worse now that Bush had a second term. She made the whole class listen to some speech Kerry was giving on the radio. On that day in class we were supposed to be discussing some movie we’d watched previously, and seeing as we did nothing class-related that day, we never got around to watching one of the movies we were supposed to have watched.
Prior to that I’d thought I might minor in film, but she was pretty much the film professor, and I knew I could never make myself suffer through another course with her. It was okay, as I ended up double-majoring in English and history instead, but I wish I could have taken another film class with someone else.
Things to chew on with regard to the socialism in academia:
How the rest of the world’s socialists do it:
http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/brainwashing.html
Chew on this for a while:
http://www.radicalteacher.org/
(first saw this at, you guessed it, UMASS)
Jose, thank your brother for me as well.
Another apology on behalf of the 42 people in Massachusetts that aren’t liberal wackjobs.
This doesn’t surprise me at all, as I know the area well. Most of the stop signs have Bush or war spraypainted after the word stop. I had a rear window cracked right over my Bush/Cheney04 sticker while out visiting a friend. The rusted out Volvos and Subarus with Gore/Edwards stickers are everywhere. And the smell of patchouli is heavy in the air.
Damn shame too, because it’s a beautiful area, especially this time of year.
And let me echo the others here Jose, with a big thank you and a hearty welcome home to your bro!
Rob,
as best I can tell he is unitarian so yes pro abort as well as pro gay.
NYC,
yes they have a Muslim student group along with the pagan student group…
it is what it is
Let’s get to the REAL reason why UMass quashed this effort:
The UMass administrators knew that a good number of McCain supporters are among their wealthy alumni contributors. They didn’t want their endowment funds to dry up.
afrocentric “christians” like obama and oprah and cherry pickers like pelosi,kerry,biden aint Christian at all.
Note: to those of you in rio linda eyupp I am judging them as that is what I am called to do as a Christian
dust off your Bible if you got one.
Dan,
could be, that or some insects scurry when the Light is shone upon them.
student pagan group? I still can’t get over that bad enuff muslim groups are allowed what the hell is wrong with these people?
it is creepy!
A children’s book? Are you kidding me? Obummer is so shrouded in mystery that nobody really knows his true story. I guess they need children’s authors to pen books to caste this guy as some mythic figure instead of the overly flawed, corrupt human being he actually is.
Obummer really is the Oprah of politics. She’s an overrated talk show host and he’s a typical politician. Americans just suck up this tripe like it’s gold dust. It really makes you question the mentality of voters in the electorate that they could so easily fall for it. I can understand why deluded young people fall for it, and the vested self-interest of the black community, but a majority of adults just know better.
Does anybody really KNOW Obmmer? Or do they think they know? I wonder what their reaction will be when this guy finally plummets to earth and falls off his pedestal. I can’t wait for that day.
emjem,
Here’s hoping that day is November 4, 2008.
Me too, navywife. Me too.
Once again… had this been the McCain campaign, or McCain supporters doing this, it would have been made into a segment on 60 Minutes decrying the sneaky bribes they were giving to students. Essentially buying their support and votes.
But since it involves voting for the “Good Candidate” in their eyes… it’s A-Ok.
Not to mention the voter fraud on VA campuses… the ends justify the means ya know.
by my count that is 3 children’s books.
his autobio’s are pure fantasy why not add some cartoons and pooh bears
navy lock and load woman it wont be pretty and that is okay in my book.
if I wanted to live in a dem cesspool like nawlins I would but I prefer America and hell if they are going to take us all down.
great NRA ad if you haven’t seen it guy talks about obama calling us Americans bitter and clingers he says
no I am Blessed!! woo hooo NRA bullseye with that ad! oh and psst shariacreep wont be in OUR America they can have the pagans too.. all the steaming piles
in one Gorebull warming spot!
emjem,
They just opened a McCain/Palin headquarters down the street from me. When I finish having my truck worked on, I think I may stop by and volunteer my services. Anything I can do to make BO go away in November.
BTW, my youngest daughter(who’s in Middle school) told me about a girl who wore a shirt last Friday that said: Imagine having B.O. for four years! (The O was a mask) NOBAMA.
She was wearing the shirt at the end of the day, so I don’t think she was sent home or disciplined(to my knowledge). There is hope afterall.
obambi has already fallen off his steaming pile of stool…
sorry to be so vulgar
navy,
how refreshing!! you live in CA? did you see McCain opened 50 offices there yesterday?
Oh.my.god They really are making out to be a savior. He better be carful, God is a jealous God and does not share authority.
Jose, thank your brother for me as well. I appreciate men like him who serve.
AMEN
I’m not surprised. In fact, has anyone checked the NBC Saturday morning cartoons for an Obamessiah super-hero/savior cartoon? I’m sure it’s on their to-do list.
PSSST Stanley Kurtz over at WSJ has filed report on Ayers/Obambi
Soap hugsss
They already figured it out in Ohio.
hm was stanley’s life threatened?
that was nothing new en toto
hm perhaps am being too critical as it would be new to some, sorry Stan but all that huffing and that is best you can do?
please correct me if wrong I just don’t see anything new.. what the hell am I missing?
what happened to the I know more but can’t say now crap? lawdyy I got no time
for that sort of thing. hey Stan go get aa job with E or some other teaser type qquasi journalism….
FYI: I raised an issue with Stan putting out the teaser he had more to say but couldn’t at the time when he said it, told him flat out ( thru a post ) spill the beans don’t play games.
I don’t know why this would surprise anyone. We’ve supported this behavior by doing nothing about it for years.
Marauder
Sorry to hear about your experience.
Misscheryl
I don’t think it was as widely known or believed. Just as with the media, now that we know, we can try to combat it.
In the words of Rocky, the Flying Squirrel, “Holy-oke Massachusetts!”
The Øbamaroids say “by any means necessary.”
I say “”All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” (Edmund Burke)
It is time to do something.
I am fairly certian that receiving college credit for one-sided political activism (read: propaganda) is completely illegal.
There is a reason that the Democratic Party’s slogan became, “Take Back America!” - because they certainly cannot earn it back
Jose, please thank your brother for his military service! Glad to hear he’s back safely.
Obamology course offered, lol.
College credit for doing your civic duty - as long as you do it by campaigning for the candidate I like!
Such a deal!
Not.
This has no business in any college. Let them support/campaign for whichever candidate they choose on their own time - and let it NOT affect their credits/grades.
Can a major in Obama Studies be far away? You know, where kids study Obama’s life and writings, kinda like they do in North Korea for Our Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung? Hung in every classroom would be the mantra: What Would Obama Do? Visualize a hundred students scribbling away on term papers in Critical Obama Studies 301.