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The Irrelevancy Of Mrs. Obama's College Thesis (Princeton puts Michelle Obama'a Thesis on Lockdown)
Captain's Quarters ^
| Feb. 22, 2008
| by Ed Morrissey
Posted on 02/22/2008 6:34:40 AM PST by jdm
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posted on
02/22/2008 6:34:43 AM PST
by
jdm
To: jdm
I doubt that it reflects her current state of mind.
I don't. Liberals are stuck in adolescences. No doubt she still believes every racists, Marxist word. Just like Hillary.
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posted on
02/22/2008 6:40:56 AM PST
by
socialismisinsidious
( The socialist income tax system turns US citizens into beggars or quitters!)
To: jdm
I’ll bet the New York Times isn’t interested in what she wrote - well unless it makes her look great. Not that they’re biased or anything...
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posted on
02/22/2008 6:41:30 AM PST
by
GOPJ
(When people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing-they believe in anything.Chesterton)
To: jdm
I doubt that it reflects her current state of mindLOL!!!!! Given her "this is the 1st time I've been proud of America" line, I'm sure her paper TOTALLY reflects her current state of mind.
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posted on
02/22/2008 6:42:43 AM PST
by
SengirV
To: jdm
What is the matter with Morrissey? The Obama’s go to a church that has given Luis Farakhan an award . . . nothing has been repudiated and if she wrote some racially hateful stuff . . . we should know it.
Need a freedom of information type lawsuit to get this thing opened up.
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posted on
02/22/2008 6:42:48 AM PST
by
Greg F
(Do you want a guy named Hussein to fix your soul? Michelle Obama thinks you do.)
To: jdm
Shades of Clintonian tactics.
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posted on
02/22/2008 6:43:36 AM PST
by
tennteacher
(Hunter Conservative)
To: jdm
Hmmm...I wonder is Michelle's thesis was anything like Hillary's senior
thesis?
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posted on
02/22/2008 6:45:45 AM PST
by
Virginia Ridgerunner
("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)
To: socialismisinsidious
I think we can figure out the gist of it.
To: jdm
Hillary digs up her opponents kindergarten writings, but keeps what she wrote in college under wraps. No one notices, or cares. Go figure.
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posted on
02/22/2008 6:46:52 AM PST
by
Steely Tom
(Steely's First Law of the Main Stream Media: if it doesn't advance the agenda, it's not news.)
To: socialismisinsidious
I would probably call the “self” that I was in college a “liberal” - narcissistic, hedonist, envious of the wealth of those that had already paid their dues in life.
I thought abortion was great because I wanted the “out” for responsibility for my behavioral choices.
However, as opposed to the liberals in our country, I grew up, matured, became less self centered, and became a hardcore conservative.
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posted on
02/22/2008 6:47:48 AM PST
by
MrB
(You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
To: jdm
This raises red flags. Where are you Sandy Berger now that we need you?
To: jdm
I am going to immediately contact my alma mater to ensure that my undergrad honors thesis is locked down. My views back then on the philosophy of science, if discovered today, would be absolutely earth shaking.
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posted on
02/22/2008 6:49:18 AM PST
by
dmz
To: MrB
I wouldn’t want to be judged on the philosophy papers I wrote in college.
Atleast they were neatly typed. ;)
To: Tijeras_Slim
Well, yeah, no doubt.
Being young and foolish, and thinking you have the solutions to all the world’s problems is part of the arrogance of youth.
Liberals are still arrogant adolescents.
Conservatives aren’t.
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posted on
02/22/2008 6:52:00 AM PST
by
MrB
(You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
To: jdm
Mrs. Obama didn't write her college thesis as an argument for her future husband's election. When people dissected Hillary Clinton's thesis, it at least had some limited relevancy because of her own candidacy -- and even then reflected the state of mind of a woman in her early 20s, and not the state of mind of the same woman over 30 years later. Fair enough, however both she and her husband should be allowed to either support and reject views and arguments she placed before the public all those years ago.
If she has grown beyond the narrow views of relative youth and the insular embrace of academia, then she should be allowed to demonstrate her present maturity. If not, then we deserve to know.
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posted on
02/22/2008 6:55:41 AM PST
by
Jeff F
To: jdm
I’d agree that the thesis itself doesn’t matter much — if there’s anything outlandish Michelle Obama can just disown it by saying she was a college student not yet in contact with the real world, and that’s not what she believes now.
What is a problem, though, is this attempt to suppress it. That says something about her and the Obama campaign right now. (Princeton will take the fall for it, but the Obamas could have it out in an instant if there wasn’t something in there they were scared of.)
It’s not a big issue, but it definitely stinks.
To: Steely Tom
Hillary digs up her opponents kindergarten writings, but keeps what she wrote in college under wraps.Her thesis got out. It was a stupid list of stuff about Saul Alinsky. But she wrote so poorly, it had no real point. So there's not much juicy stuff there.
To: jdm; Congressman Billybob; Doctor Raoul; dirtboy
Perhaps it brings up larger issues...such as college thesis papers being irrelevant to everything...or that colleges are promoting radicalism...or that colleges are ignoring overt, hostile racism in thesis's...or that colleges are ignoring overt plagiarism (for protected students, anyway).
That Princeton wants to hide the thesis may or may not be related to the current political 2008 campaign...Their reasoning may be to hide far larger sins of their own faculty/administration.
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posted on
02/22/2008 6:59:17 AM PST
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: socialismisinsidious
She’s a loose cannon. A walking stereotyped loud-mouthed Marxist black woman. There is NO WAY to shut her up. She will destroy her husband. Just let the skank talk.
To: socialismisinsidious
how ‘bout the “irrelevancy" of Mrs. Hussein Obama...
she’s just another example of what American colleges & universities have been producing through their ani-American, antiwar, anti-military Commie indoctrination over the past 40 years...garbage in, garbage out!
Semper Fi,
Kelly
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posted on
02/22/2008 7:02:31 AM PST
by
kellynla
(Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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