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We Finally Have a Document from Obama’s College Years — Sort Of
There are many who thought this day might never come: we finally have a document from Obama’s college years. Well, sort of. Let me explain before you look.
The website Buzzfeed has unearthed a copy of a syllabus from a class Obama used to teach at, presumably, the University of Chicago. So while it’s not what many have been hoping for (transcripts from when Obama was taking classes), it is technically a document from his college years — the years he was teaching.
The syllabus is for a class called “Voting Rights” from the winter of 2002. And guess what was required reading? The Supreme Court case Bush v. Gore about the 2001 election.
You can read the syllabus below, which also includes the quite plain email address for Obama: bobama@aol.com. But don’t try and email the president at that address — I’ve already tried and it doesn’t work:
Now for those college transcripts…
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love the kids
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 12:14pmHow about the 180,000 registered voters that are not citizens???
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Individualism
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 1:16pmits not a big deal when the average voters is uninformed and listens to something on tcv or radio telling them who to vote for.
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gbfreak
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 2:18pmIndividualism – typical anarchist troll – yawn…..
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PATTY HENRY
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 3:14pmObama is a communist/marxist/socialist/anarchist/anti-American TRAITOR. He was raised or as Farrakhan said “SELECTED” . There is way too much proof to even begin to say he’s not.
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Thevoice
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 3:23pmYea ..He’s the community “professor”…For “Black Disenfranchisement” ….Now that’s funny ..I also wonder if he worked in the science lab and has a answer for me on what a ..”sakia”..is…
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jzs
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 3:42pmPATTY HENRY says, “Obama is a communist/marxist/socialist/anarchist/anti-American TRAITOR.”
PATTY, I see you’ve committed several different forms of government to memory. Good for you. But you must realize, for example, that you can’t be both a socialist and anarchist at the same time. Those are mutually exclusive.
Good work throwing the kitchen sink on insults. But on making sense? Not so much.
jzs
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 3:48pmThe article said, “And guess what was required reading? The Supreme Court case Bush v. Gore about the 2001 election.”
Gee that’s weird, studying a contemporary Supreme Court decision in a law class. I thought they’d study the law of gravity or the law of diminishing returns or Murphy’s law or something. So, is this right, when they say Obama taught “law” they mean like Supreme Court decisions?
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shirtsbyeric
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 3:55pmRead a little further he made it all about race.
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Thevoice
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 4:12pmI finally found out what a “Sakia” is …It’s Arabic for a animal driven water wheel…How interesting a kid that got locked in a washing machine ..name ..means water wheel…When is that DNA test going to be ready on the missing link ape ..Things are finally starting to fall into place…Now a commie like Obama …Yes and you can’t deny…It why else would the Communist party of America support him ..Teaching reapportionment revolution ..law…Makes perfect sense..In other words ..How can you legally steal money for what you believe someone or a group did wrong to you..Obama the perfect liberal commie progressive to teach that…Now what else has to be figured out today…
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republic2011
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 4:13pmMaybe we need another 3/5th’s clause to deal with illegal aliens
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VanceUppercut
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 4:26pm@PATTY HENRY
He’s a communist, marxist, socialist, and an anarchist? I have a feeling you don’t know what these terms mean. Sort of off topic, but I’ve always felt that Karl Marx got a bad rap. Blaming Marx for the atrocities that have been done in his name is like blaming Jesus for the atrocities that have been done in his. I don’t agree with everything Karl Marx espoused, but I must admit I got a chill down my spine (in a good way) when I first read this: “Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries unite!”
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ericsez
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 5:35pmhey lady, how about the dead people…don’t they count!
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We are Americans
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 6:09pmI thought Obama wasn’t a real professor. That’s
what Rush says, it’s what Glenn says, I’m confused
It says professor Obama, is the Blaze contradicting
these pillars of truth? I’m surprised the class wasnt about
forcing a company(let’s say Facebook) to go public,
make billions, call it a failure, then have the government
takeover and control our lives 4ever
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edmundburk
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 8:37pm@VANCE UPPERCUT-is your chill running down your spine the same as the thrill running down chris
mattews leg?
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dumboldcontractor
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 9:28pmI’ll bet he never taught them which party (democrat) created Gerrymandering, black disinfranchizing, Jim Crowe, Lynching etc. etc.etc.
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jzs
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 9:45pmVanceUppercut, not sure if you’re be sarcastic or not, but yeah, he’s misunderstood. His failure was his belief that humans posses more Christian values, such as humility and empathy than they actually do. He thought that he could create the Christian conception of Heaven here on Earth: everyone is equal, people aren’t motivated to take from others because of greed and that humans simply live happily without the richest spending their every effort to take from others. Like Christians say Heaven is like. His philosophy was to create the Christian veiw of Heaven here on Earth. He thought humans were more motivated by love than by hatred and greed.
But he was simply wrong about human nature. Most human beings, although not all, are not motivated by altruism, or by the desire to help each other, at least not outside the family unit. For better or worse human beings are a product of evolution, and the values Christ taught are, at best, laid on top of a nature that is “red in tooth and claw.”
And of course his rep is further devaluated by his assocition with so called “communist” countries, ones that actually aren’t communist at all. They are simply oppresive dicatorships. quite the opposite of the kind of government Marx imagined.
But yeah, Marx got a bad rap because their was a huge flaw in is reasoning. He thought that on average people were motivated by values Christ taught, such as caring for your fellow human being as much as yourself. But he wa
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Ask Uncle JZS
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 10:00pmJZS says, Blah, blah, blah.
U were a lot smarter when you used BOTH eyes to see. And that’s not saying much.
JZS… the one eyed monster from the **** clan. HaHaHaHaHaHaHa
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Ask Uncle JZS
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 10:07pmIndividualism
I like you. Your my new friend. I’m gonna read everything you post. Ron Paul RULES! Can you believe what all those Repuublicans are saying?
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AxelPhantom
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 10:47pmFor all of his “altruism” Marx couldn’t find it in his heart to take care of his own family, leaving his wife and children to nearly starve to death in Germany while ensuring his own comfort mooching off of the Engles family wealth. At least he practiced what he preached.
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toto
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 11:39pmOr dead.
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Voice_ofFreedom
Posted on May 26, 2012 at 12:54am@WE ARE AMERICANS
If you call “voting rights” a real class then I guess you can call him a real professor but forgive me if I don’t curtsy when he walks by. This class appears to be a further way of indoctrinating college kids (big shock right?). If you take this class seriously then you probably think that our current college system is in some way good or useful, none of those things is true for those of us living in the real world. College has been a mess in the US for a while and even since the days when Obama was professing, hard though it may be to believe, it has gotten worse.
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Atilla
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 11:55amThe biggest hoax ever pulled off on the electorate. A communist ws elected and 50% of the elctorate are to ignorant to know it.
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Bum thrower
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 1:31pmEducation system has been working hard for the last 50 years!!
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Individualism
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 3:25pmand now another communist is trying to replace the communist instead hes from Massachusetts instead of Illinois.
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We are Americans
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 6:37pmTheir all communists. Everybodies a commie.
It’s 1950 n McCarthyism is alive n well.
This go around it’s called Beckism
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Voice_ofFreedom
Posted on May 26, 2012 at 1:01amActually if you take Obama’s ideology he’s closest to a socialist view of the world. He wants everyone in the world to be equally miserable and give him and his friends all the power in the world to live how he sees fit and to shape the world in his image. He’s a megalomaniac at heart really.
As far as Communism goes I don’t think most people understand it at all, neither Obama or Romney is into the Communism scene even though the definition does seem to change often. Communism is most closely associate with the hippies who want everyone to just get along and share everything. The problem with this system is that it doesn’t take into account that given no incentive to work too many people sit on their duffs and do nothing.
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copatriots
Posted on May 26, 2012 at 10:41amYou got that right, THROWER. A Blazer posted this interview from 1984 (eerily enough) from a ex-high level KGB explaining the stages to subvert a nation. I know it’s no great surprise but part of Step 1 is to indoctrinate the youth.
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copatriots
Posted on May 26, 2012 at 10:44amOops….here’s the link.
http://larryh.newsvine.com/_news/2009/07/05/2998127-four-stages-in-subverting-a-nation-demoralization-destabilization-crisis-normalization-his-thesis-leftists-are-the-useful-idiots-of-socialism
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BellaMia7
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 11:51amUPDATE: Andrew Breitbart, James O’Keefe, and Hannah Giles, have exposed ACORN as a criminal enterprise – and it has been defunded by Congress. All hail BREITBART.com. Don’t forget to go over there and check out the one year anniversary of Andrew’s Infamous Wiener Rpast Press Conference.
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PATTY HENRY
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 3:15pmBreitbart was a true AMERICAN. Help his family- buy his book.
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MaxMagician
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 11:45amDoes this class cover what happens when two black panthers wielding nightsticks block a voting place, are found guilty, and then ignored by the attorney general?
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DissenterKnight
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 12:11pmNo, but there were three days devoted to minority rights…
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 2:01pmNot to mention money & politics, he and his administration seem to be experts at raising money. Mostly, by handing out bogus loans, then when the expected bankruptcy happens, the money gets rebundled back to the Obama campaign. He probably learned that trick from his mother.
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trappedinwv
Posted on May 26, 2012 at 1:40amImagine that, In my America Minorities have the same voting rights as everyone else. At least I thought everyone had the same rights and opportunities. I am so glad we have a president who sees works for groups of people instead of all Americans.
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MLCinCC
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 11:38amHe was so important to the school that he used a personal “aol” email address? Seriously?
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MLCinCC
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 11:37amWhy not just ask him (Obama) to supply a certified copy of his diploma’s from college? I have mine and I attach a copy to my resume. If he graduated with honors, there will be a designation on the diploma. We already know the answer, of course. Just another suggestion.
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bleuze
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 2:41pmMy guess is that he did not graducate with honors. Heck, he lied on his bar application and thus they were going to revoke his law license before he gave it up. However, he did teach Constutional Law with having a law license. Of course, it was Chicago!
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Cymry
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 11:36amWATCH OUT BLAZE!
you head down this path and you’ll be sliding down the slippery slope of “birtherism”. you will be mocked for asking for simple questions concerning barry. you will be asked to bend over by the establishment republicans and threatened outright by the psycho democrats. just go back to sleep on this “non-story” and everything will be o.k. but if you have a conscience and are called to be a journalist…….well, i’m sure there’s a pharmacological remedy to stuff the shame.
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Joe1123
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 11:36amThis radical clown MUST be voted out. Step up on Nov. 6.
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Sirfoldallot
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 11:35amNo surprise here.
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HKS
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 11:45amAbout what I would expect, a whole lot of garbage from what would be a professional student.
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Best_Patriot
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 12:16pm@Sirfoldallot, you do realize that “alot” only has one “l” in it, right? Right.
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Laken
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 1:08pmThis is a BLOG!!!
If you want to grade papers i’m sure there is a summer school teacher who would just love your help. Go find out….
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 2:28pmHERR BEST_PATRIOT, so, the Typo Gestapo exposes it’s horse’s ass again!
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Best_Patriot
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 2:59pm@RJJinGadsden, the possessive of “it” is “its.” There is no apostrophe. What you wrote is a conjunction for “it is.”
Freakin’ tea bags and their 3rd grade grammar. And you want the key to the country? This is why you have no power!
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TexasHunter
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 3:43pmBEST PATRIOT You of all people should not be talking about Grammar. You should be focusing on your multiple personalities. Your multiple log in names depict a slight, correction a major psycho personality disorder. Is that clear enough for you to comprehend? Now go log in as ENCINOM, We enjoy reading his stupidity slightly more.
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Laken
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 4:04pmAnd….yet…you gave THIS guy the key to the country. I’m sure he is still looking at a map to find those
OTHER states that he needs to campaign in……..WHAT a genius….NOT
http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/barackobama/a/obama-isms.htm
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cyclejerk
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 4:11pm@Best_Parrot,
Please yell up the stairs and apologize to your Mother.
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 26, 2012 at 4:03amBEST_PATRIOT, Am I right, or am I right…about you as the Typo Gestapo?
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Inlightofthings
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 11:30amThe Syllabus is self explanatory to what the class was about…in case there is any misunderstanding:
Alternative voting systems
“The first of those topics is actually an alternative to redistricting entirely: a way for local jurisdictions to promote minority voting opportunities and to comply with the requirements of the Voting Rights Act, without drawing district lines…”
http://www.brennancenter.org/content/resource/justin_levitt_speaks_on_alternative_voting_systems_and_redistricting_conseq/
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copatriots
Posted on May 26, 2012 at 9:30amI especially like the 3 weeks being spent on “Minority Vote Dilution” cuz, yeah, that was the biggest problem occurring in the election that year. 0′s class seems more like instructional material for how to activate his students to rig elections.
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Utah Trish
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 11:29amKeep digging America. We need more proof. Quickly.
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LibertyGoddess
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 11:28amGotta love the class “Alternative Voting Structures”….that explains it all.
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hauschild
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 11:22amThe thing to keep in mind about Obama is that half the country doesn’t care if he was a flunky, or is not a citizen, or is a Marxist. Why? Because he represents their warped view of what this country is to become, and the ends justify the means. That’s how leftists roll. If 10 million people had to be murdered in order to achieve their sadistic goals, oh well, it is what it is.
It’s all so sick.
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RedDirtTexas
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 11:59amWell said! We MUST end this charade in November! Conservatives in the swing states need to put the call to vote out to all who cherish liberty. The schools to the nursing homes! We’ve got to get this “dude” out of office and his cohorts out of the house and senate otherwise we fall!
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HappyHaloHousewife
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 4:48pmIt’s what I’ve felt all along. There could be a massive expose of all sorts, and the people who revere this crazy man will still vote for him. Trying not to feel hopeless…
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RGFROMTEXAS
Posted on May 26, 2012 at 6:41amLooks like a forgery to me !!!
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batteredtaxpayer
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 11:21am! went to the class…I was “present”.
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 2:31pmLol!
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drattastic
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 11:19amI’m never disappointed . Blacks only care about an issue when it involves their race.
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PATTY HENRY
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 3:11pmI THINK YOU NEED TO AMEND THIS saying instead: SOME Blacks…NOT all BLACKS feel this way. There are plenty of GOOD people of all races out there. Please don’t paint them all with this brush. We must encourage the decent Patriots ! Remember there are 75% of us against 21% of them. They have the MSM and dopes like Barbra Streissand (however you spell it) and John Kerry’s wife and of course the DEVIL himself: SOROS…. Thanks for not continuing to brush them all with the same brush!
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drattastic
Posted on May 26, 2012 at 12:07pmWhen I see these elusive blacks your talking about step up I’ll amend my statement.
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rfycom
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 11:14amDoes any of this really matter? We went from dumb on George to slick willy Obama. Left gotta be right and the right gotta be right and no one wants to meet in the middle. Now that is pure intelligence at work. I think I just hit the nail on the head. Whoever you are you are not right about everything. Compromise and lets get going again.
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hauschild
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 11:23amCompromise with Marxists? Are you nuts???
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contkmi
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 11:23amCompromise got us the trouble we’re in. Sorry, I’m not going to compromise anymore when it comes to the Constitution.
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OhioRifleman
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 11:34amCompromise is what built the nightmare we stand in today.
Quit being a wishy-washy sheeple and STAND FOR SOMETHING! Your choice damns us all to more decades of the same bullsj1t we have been suffering since the 70s.
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AZ_Dennis
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 11:39amYou cannot compromise what you know to be right, for what you know to be wrong. That isn’t compromise, it’s ignorance.
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littlefish
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 12:50pmcompromise :
We want to cut off an arm above the elbow and a leg above the knee . . .
Ok we’ll C O M P R O M I S E . . . . .we’ll let you keep the elbow . .and the knee . . .
FAIR . . .? You just don’t want to give an inch do you ?
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getourcountryback
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 1:39pmNot a huge fan of Bush but I would surmise he could run intelligent circles around you RFYCOM. BTW, does that stand for Real FN Yutz Commie? Do you have a bad taste in your mouth after you regurgitate used material or is that just commonplace for you?
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Blackhawk1
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 3:07pmRFYCOM
Liberals would love for us to compromise our morals, principals, common sense, and any decency we have. Then we could all be liberals…..NO THANKS!
Winners don’t compromise. You’ll know what I mean after 5 Jun in Wisconsin and Nov 2012. Let the whining begin.
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infortheride
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 3:12pmThe ONLY time the dems say the word compromise is when they are not in charge.
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Individualism
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 3:29pmhell no don’t compromise with the enemies of the constitution destroy them. well soon get our chance when the financial and economic collapse happens soon.
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BoyScout_Mom
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 11:14am“Meeting Young Obama,” fellow marxist classmate
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/02/meeting_young_obama.html
“What would you do if you knew the top Democrat running for president was lying about his past?”
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/09/even_republicans_rejected_info_about_obamas_past.html
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SCARY313568
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 11:43amI have read those articles and yes they should be screaming across the headline news agencies. However,news facts have taken a back seat to political correctness and theprogressive cause. Nobody cares that Obummer is an AMerican hating Marxist with a world view government where the people are at the mercy of the government. He’s the first black man elected POTUS and the opposed are labeled racist bigots.
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LibsAndCopKillersALoveStory
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 11:14amCan we get one single student who remembers Obama, you know, the professor who became president? Just one?
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lukerw
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 11:22amInteresting… is it not? The “Kenyan Kandidate” was invisible!
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BoyScout_Mom
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 11:35amSee above, the young Marxist “revolutionary.”
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gperky
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 1:58pmThey are all afraid to speak up! You know what Holder does to enemies of the state?
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lukerw
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 11:13amAh, yes… he was a Great Defender of Voting Rights… supporting that No Voter nor Vote could be Challenged… even upon the grounds of Muliple Ballots, being an Alien, or being Dead!
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rickg62
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 11:12amI’m sure that that first class on the 2000 election was a fair and straight-forward look at what happened without even a hint of racial or political bias. Hahahahahahhaha. Next class, a study on how Chicago is a historic model for voting accuracy.
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Lloyd Drako
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 11:11amI thought he was a lecturer, not technically a professor. Ha! Got him dead to rights.
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MrButcher
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 11:07am“Direct Democracy” on March 2.
Would have loved to hear that lecture. Any notes?
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 11:28amDirect Democracy — Look to the radicals of Occupy and the Unions of Thugs Inc, along with the DOJ under No Prosecute NBPP (intimidations, etc) and you can see what Direct Democracy truly is in the eyes of Obama.
Officially it is defined as where people directly vote on legislative matters – say via a social media site soon to be dominated by the Fed’s and for Propaganda usages…this is in place of a Represenative Democracy.
In short – Dispose of the Republic and impose a perception of freedom (i.e. direct democracy) while a shadow government/tyranny under Obama runs the show.
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FreedomWitness
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 11:06amWouldn’t his email address been tied to the school? You know something .edu etc?
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tharpdevenport
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 4:03pmNot always. Some teachers, professors, whether full time or part time, use their own e-mail.
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yanki161
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 11:05amI wonder if he taught,”You only have the voting rights that the Black Panthers allow you to have.”
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Patriot1999
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 11:08amOf course but you forgot Erik Holder also.
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VanceUppercut
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 4:48pm@yanki161
Yes, I’m sure he did just that. Well, that’s enough intelligent conversation for today.
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Publius Duo
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 11:03amDid Mr. Obama vote “present” for his class as well?
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