Christine O'Donnell's Education
Fairleigh Dickinson University 1989 -- 1993
Claremont Graduate University
Constitutional Government
University of Oxford
"Post Modernism in the New Millennium"
Lies on that resume:
1. She never attended Claremont Graduate University in Constitutional Government, nor could she have as she did not graduate from Farleigh Dickinson. She attended a weeklong seminar at the Claremont Institute, an unaffiliated think tank in Claremont, California.
2. She never attended the University of Oxford in any capacity. She attended a weeklong seminar there in rented space. And the group that ran that seminar has openly stated that her claim of the Oxford title is "misleading."
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/09/another_christine_odonnell_emb.html
She took a course AT Oxford.
Now, show we go into the 45 years of Castle and see what he is guilty of?
Update: Apparently, O’Donnell’s Oxford “instructor” enjoyed having her in class. (Via TalkingPointsMemo):
[Bruce W.] Griffin, who once wrote O’Donnell a recommendation to an Ivy league grad school, wrote up a full endorsement that he considers the [The Phoenix Institute/Oxford-based] course equivalent to “any graduate school at any university.” From his posting:
The course we did that summer in Oxford is nearly a decade old, but the basic issues we addressed are eternal. Today, too many of the Republic’s leaders have abandoned the natural law tradition of the Declaration of Independence for a murky moral relativism—a relativism that is both destructive of democratic values and philosophically bankrupt. Christine O’Donnell would bring to the US Senate a deepened commitment to the philosophical convictions of the Founding Fathers at a time when the philosophical bankruptcy of too many leaders is mirrored in the economic bankruptcy of the federal government. She would surely add intellectual and philosophical depth to a Senate that at this point in its history badly needs both.
Then this explanation that further backs up O’Donnell...
Here’s how Griffin explains it:
Although we were never an Oxford University course, we drew heavily on the faculties of Oxford and Cambridge for our lectures. The organizers had put together a star-studded cast of lecturers, and partly as a result we drew students from Latin America, the US, and Europe.
In a followup interview, Griffin told TPM the Phoenix program was definitely not an Oxford course, but that it was more than just renting space at Oxford. “Our lecturers were drawn heavily from the Oxford faculty, and the opportunity to hear those lecturers was a critical reason for why our students came,” he said.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2600372/posts?page=3