Posted on 02/22/2008 6:34:40 AM PST by jdm
I have received a lot of e-mail regarding Princeton's apparent decision to embargo Michelle Obama's college thesis. A few purported quotes have begun floating through the ether, which seems surprising if the Obamas have conspired to keep the paper buried at Princeton. The messages all seem to believe that the thesis contains something explosive, especially in terms of racial politics.
Maybe it does, and maybe it doesn't. Why would anyone be surprised if it did? To paraphrase one of the great lines from South Park, there's a time and a place for radical thought, and it's called college. Mrs. Obama wrote the paper 20 years ago, while living in the cocoon of academia. I doubt that it reflects her current state of mind.
It's not quite as bad as going back to Barack's kindergarten essays, but it's just about as irrelevant. Most importantly, Michelle Obama isn't the candidate. Her speeches on behalf of her husband now are relevant and fair game for criticism, but 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.
So far, Michelle Obama has given critics plenty of source material in the present campaign. Better to focus on that than to go on a silly spelunking tour of the college papers of someone who isn't running for office.
What I’d like to read is Obama’s college thesis. I’ve done a search and am unable to locate one..
Saul Alinsky... Hillary and Obamas mentor
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a39a1bb090251.htm
Antonio Gramsci... Hillarys mentor
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a4c610569be.htm
Frank Marshall Davis... Obamas mentor
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?D=2008-02-20&ID=228129
The guy was probably too drugged out to write one. NOTHING has changed.
these clowns aren’t “dumb” they’re just “educated fools.”
college students have been indoctrinated in commie propaganda for decades!
“useful idiots!”
It would appear that her husband’s intellect and world view has not matured since his Harvard days. Why would we expect his wife to have advanced her thought process past the idealistic views of a college campuses?
This is a clinton. What makes you sure what got out was really her thesis?
The real thesis could be far, far more damning.
Come on, Hillary operatives, dig that one out by any means necessary!
Please try to stay focused. We're talking about Michelle's thesis.
Pay no attention to the man in front of the curtain...
Well, if she for example advocated a violent ressurection by minorities and doesn’t currently hold those beliefs (as I would expect) just let her say so. She’ll pay more for the secrecy..........
When did Mrs. Obama declare her candidacy? Are we now running against the opposition’s entire family?
They forget that people who advocate violence... will DIE by violence. Do these idiots ever learn? I remember black chicks in college always threatening violence, at the drop of a hat. However, when you took themup on it, they backed off. While everybody laughed at them.
Yeah? I bet this a$$hole would not be saying that if it was a republican white man, who was a member of the KKK in college. I bet the univeristy would not lock his thesis either.
She won’t shut up. She has made herself an open target.
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