This is a public college. Correct me if I’m wrong, but is this not against the law? Or did “God” tell him to do it?
University of Massachusetts officials yesterday quashed efforts by an Amherst campus chaplain to offer two college credits to any student willing to campaign in New Hampshire this fall for Democrat Barack Obama.
Chaplain Ken 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 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 or volunteer on behalf of the Democratic nominee.
“It is relatively (easy) to do late add-ons,” Higgins wrote.
But university officials disavowed themselves of the effort after inquiries yesterday 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.
“There is no independent study for credit in the History Department that involves partisan political work, and no such activity has ever been approved,” said a statement issued by UMass-Amherst spokesman Ed Blaguszewski.
Higgins refused to identify the History Department sponsor and referred all further questions to university officials.
Blaguszewski said Higgins is one of about a dozen chaplains from different faiths working in Amherst, the flagship campus among the university’s five schools.
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"This is not culture. This is not custom. This is criminal."
What are these “men of God” and other “spiritual advisors” doing? Is this something you learn at TUCC? Perhaps a teaching module from the CAC?
I am madder than hell and I also posted on this utter BS.
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Uppity -
Are you trying to depress me today, or just to get me pissed off? You succeeded at both! I am so frustrated I could spit blood. Where is the outrage at this? Where are the Feds? Why aren’t they investigating? Why aren’t people being fired? Arrrrgh!
This is getting so deeply ensconced in every level of our society that the ONLY thing I can relate it to is the rise of Hitler and the Social Democrats in Germany. (Hitler Youth, anyone?) We are headed for a very dangerous and very slippery slope, and if we slide there will be no getting back.
Uppity, I’m here on the seacoast in NH and I can tell you that every weekend the streets are full of these kids from the Boston area colleges knocking on doors. They were here before the primaries, too. This is an incredible story that just confirms what we already know about the tactics being used by Barry Soetero to win this election. I have lost so many friends…and unprovoked. I’ve been keeping my head down but every day I get emails or calls from my “friends” who just assume I flipped from Hillary to Barry. They are so angry when I tell them I can’t and won’t support BO and that I’m supporting McCain/Palin. I leave it at that because I know they’ve been drinking the Kool-Aid. I don’t tell them that I’m working against BO at every opportunity.
My daughter is a freshman at UMass Amherst and this infuriates me. Think I’ll send a message to the Chancellor’s office. Thanks for the alert.
Good for you, Citizen!
OK, can you imagine the left going out of their minds if some Baptist pastor at Falwell’s Liberty University offering college credit for students to campaign for Reagan? Bush?
What the hell is going on in America with this campaign?
Somebody told me ACORN is demonstrating against financial lenders. Amazing. They forced mortgages to people who didn’t have a pot to piss in and now they have the audacity to pretend they aren’t part of this.
Going on in America, period. I have lost friends over this, too…a chill in the air.
No way UW…ACORN, complaining about mortgages that they forced. What a laugh! Who do they think they are kidding? Not everyone has a poor memory.
Uppity if you have a couple mins HAHAHAHA! check out “We are being lied to”
at http://deadenders.wordpress.com/
OT sorry, but I don’t know how else to make an alert.
September 10th, Nancy Pelosi, when asked about the bailout stated, “”This is very, very important. It’s an important industry in our country.It’s about jobs. Jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs.” But without hearings, debate, any demand of an industry recovery plan and no oversight, this bill is more likely about: Votes, Votes and more votes in Michigan.
October 1st, the Auto Industry will receive a $25 billion bailout without hearings; without executive pay scrutiny; without hearings; without assurances that the money will help; without any plan for recovery by the auto industry; without oversight; without taxpayer protection; and without any media coverage.
http://politicallydrunk.blogspot.com/2008/09/democrats-set-to-approve-25-billion.html
I think it’s all been said above….imagine if the right wingers pulled this bs of giving college credits to volunteers for Bush, they would be up in arms! But as always, the Obamabots think that the ends justify the means, just like they did when Sarah Palin’s e-mail account was hacked into by an Obamabot. The so-called “progressives” who all screamed about Bush spying on Americans via telecoms, not only forgive Obama for giving those same telecom companies amnesty, but are emulating everything they say they hate. They’re nothing but a bunch of fascist pigs led by a fascist pig.
My husband had someone get “in his face” about Obama yesterday in NYC. They are wasting their time with our family. Even the under 30’s–you know, Barky’s main peeps–are voting for McCain. Better still, two of them are in PA.
Please let these end up on the garbage heap with the faux seal and the styrofoam columns. You gotta give these bozos high grades for egotistical consistency.
http://tinyurl.com/3uxq3b
Some dopey poll now has Junior up by 9. I hope he puts people to sleep Fri–but when they wake up, they might still want to vote for him, hands stretched in front, Night of the Living Bots. I have half a mind to leave these yappy youngsters with the bazillon-buck debt and move to Costa Rica.
Breaking: John McCain gives a shit about this country.
“John McCain asked the Presidential Debate Commission on Wednesday to postpone Friday’s scheduled debate with Barack Obama so that he can work on the financial crisis bailout plan now on Capitol Hill.
The Arizona Republican senator said he will suspend his presidential campaign on Thursday to return to Washington to help with bailout negotiations. He urged Obama to do the same”
WTF? We do still live in America don’t we? What is this world coming to, when you can schlep for Obama and get college credit? Where is the fairness and objectivity in the world? Why aren’t we outraged by the goings on in the Obama camp? Why isn’t he being prosecuted by our own government for violating the Logan Act? Where is the GD justice?
Why isn’t the DNC being torn apart by the corruption this year? Why is nobody calling them to task over all the cheating and simply acting as if it never took place?
I am so pissed at the MSM, I want the fu**ing news, not hearing McCain torn apart and Obama put upon a pedestal. I want news about Ayers, Obama’s bc, Obama’s college records and thesis, I want them to dig and dig deep, there is real news there, but for some reason they are hiding it from the American public.
Will they start reporting it when our country is in the midst of a racial war? Will they report what a corrupt person Obama is then? After all is said and done, I hope we as educated Americans can defeat this monster and protect our country.
This Dem is voting republican.
Uppity, that is disgusting. Apparently, though something similar happened at Marquette Univ — professor during class implored students to pray that Obama wins election.
Typewriter — not only does McCain give a shit. Wonder if it has to do with the bailout of auto industry? Another coup de grace?
But Obama so far has said the debate is still on. Apparently, he feels that stopping this financial crisis (although I contend somewhat manufactured) is not important enough for him to show up to do his frickin job as a senator.
Here is what else BO said:
Obama –- who is huddling with his advisors in Tampa for three days of debate preparation — said that he will only come back to Washington to vote for the bill if it’s a close vote.
“Well look, if we get a consensus and everybody is popping champagne –- then I will probably be going back to campaign with folks who are having a tough time in places like Ohio, and Michigan and Pennsylvania. If this ends up being a close vote or a vote where the outcome is an open question then obviously this is a top priority,” he said.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/09/obama-to-suppor.html
Wow.
Uppity,
I say this reporter should get extra credit for figuring out Biden pays his female employees even less then Obama.
Biden Bucks His Equity Talk
For every dollar that he paid his average male staffer, his female equivalent made only 73 cents.
National Review http://preview.tinyurl.com/3f2j9p
gagirl, Obama, running away from responsibility again. No Show. His senatorial rendition of voting “present” on controverial issues. This way he can see he didn’t vote for it if things go wrong. He can say he supported it if things go well. The man is raw slime.
This IS illegal. Amherst is part of the MA state university system, but I’ve got to wonder who the unnamed sponsor was. Deval Patrick? Kerry?
The Kennedys?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122212856075765367.html
Maybe you saw this WSJ story yesterday about Obama and Ayers pushing radicalism on schools back in 1995, when Bozo was appointed co-chairman of the board of the CAC (Chicago Annenburg Challenge) with Bill Ayers the founder. Holy crap.
No one questioned why Obama, fresh out of law school, went to the very top of CAC, but obviously, it was because he and Ayers shared the same radical philosophy. No CAC chairman could be named without Ayer’s approval.
” In works like “City Kids, City Teachers” and “Teaching the Personal and the Political,” Mr. Ayers wrote that teachers should be community organizers dedicated to provoking resistance to American racism and oppression.
His preferred alternative? “I’m a radical, Leftist, small ‘c’ communist,” Mr. Ayers said in an interview in Ron Chepesiuk’s, “Sixties Radicals,” at about the same time Mr. Ayers was forming CAC.”
Bullshit. Ayers is a large C Commie. Ccould you
imagine the likes of this unrepentent bomber anywhere near our education system?
Sobering story. McCain has to win this time
around.
It’s going to be really funny when he does the same thing in 24 hours. During his press conference he basically tried to claim that the bailout was adopted by McCain after Barky. THen he tried to claim credit for some pointless “joint statement”
How was your milkshake, Barky? Oh, I guess McCain drank it up.
OK. I just listened to lying scumbag sack of SH*T! giving a news conference trying to make McCain look like an idiot who can’t multi-task.
McCain is suspending the debate and his political campaign so that he can fly to Washington and work out the details of the financial bailout. A*hole is saying that a President should be able to do more than one thing at a time and that the debate should move forward.
This guy is the biggest piece of crap on the planet. I hope to hell the Republican Party is going to finally start bringing out the big guns on this jerk. He is a total bastard……
yes gang, we are seeing the biggest attempted take down of America since, since, well…since I don’t know when. NOTHING compares. From the faux cowboy in the White House whose middle name SHOULD have been “bail out” because of his repeated and repeated failures in even the smallest businesses to the Communist Party hacks and Middle Eastern Terrorists supporting someone who already presumes he is the President, we are in DEEP SHIT.
Obama is the most DISGUSTING ARROGANT PIG we have EVER seen come this close to the levers of power and he must not be allowed to gain control. There is a deep sinking feeling that though, once again, the fix is in (just like in the Primaries and the Convention) and that they will stop at NOTHING to take over our government.
That Barky does not have the BALLS to VOTE on this bandaid legislation, all the while issuing pontifications about how superior he is, alone DISQUALIFIES HIM for the Presidency. He has NO HONOR, no integrity AND is a lying sack of shit. He cares NOTHING for this country and he IS ANOTHER BUSH. Although, this time he is BOUGHT AND PAID FOR BY PEOPLE WHO HATE US, HATE AMERICA and HATE THE CONSTITUTION. He is “above the law” and the weak-assed Justice Department (the ONLY Agency besides the Treasury’s SS Division I used to respect) does NOTHING.
Alarm bells are sounding all over the nation and WE MUST GET TO THE POLLS and stop this coup. Obama will do NOTHING for minorities, NOTHING for women, NOTHING for anyone but his buddies at Goldman-Sachs and the Middle Eastern bastards who follow him like flies on shit.
Pauleson, Berneke and others NEED TO BE FIRED ON THE SPOT and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid impeached for mismanagement and high-crimes. Barry needs to go to jail for election fraud and Bush run out on a rail.
OMG help us all. It’s time HRC stood up and said “ENOUGH!”
Where ARE the leaders? Right now, it seems the only one IS McCain, and that give him MY vote.
Obama’s smug remark will come back to bite him in the ass when the bailout is resolved and McCain can take credit for being on the front lines when it happens. Obama will try to swoop in and say that he’s the one who did the hard work, but that’s not going to fly.
This is brilliant on McCain’s part because he’s saving money on ads, getting lots of attention from the media (even if it’s negative, everytime they repeat the story that McCain dropped everything to do his job in Washington, it’s going to be a plus from McCain).
The MSM, especially MSNBC will try to spin this Obama’s way, but in the end, they are only making the Bot’s happy. Wait until Lou Dobbs rips Obama a new one on this issue. He called for them to come back to WAshington on yesterday’s show.
Obama lies and breaks laws and the MSM refuses to call him on any of them.
I think it is time to take real action. Look thru say, the NY Times. Write down how advertises with them. Bomabard the advertisers with calls and emails demanding they stop advertising with them until the stop reporting propaganda as though it is factual news, and return to factual reporting.
As for McCain suspending his campaign:
A Cause Greater Than Self…McCain is a man of his word.
Yeah, Junior is on MSNBO (whoever on this list came up with that, I thank you), saying he can chew gum and walk or something really original. Chris is all over this–due to McCain’s big drop in the polls (1%), even Chucky said the 9 pt one was BS (better work on your resume, Mr Todd). Honestly, I am going to listen to a book on tape…I cannot stomach that channel anymore! The Debate Commish (whoever they are) say the debate goes on. Chris says will McCain leave an empty chair? Yeah, Chris, sure, all he said was let’s discuss not having it until this is settled. What tools these MSNBO people are!
Let Bambi debate himself. It will be a disaster for him.
UW, thanks for everything. I used to feel alone, but not anymore. There are so many more people out there that feel like I do.
Where’s Uppity??? Most likely writing up a big story about McCain putting “:A Cause Greater Than Self ” as his priority while Obama does nothing but Whine about how the debate can’t wait for that and lie about who called who when.
In the meantime, read this little gem:
http://www.hillaryclintonforum.net/discussion/showthread.php?t=31768
Of, and Sarah was great with Katie. So honest. No lies. Just honesty.
I just happened to be in Amherst today. The entire town looks like it was spray-painted with kool-aid. Way beyond lawn signs and bumper sticks, houses and cars and PEOPLE are decorated with Barky Oblahblah propaganda. Obots are insane. I saw one slogan: “Comfort the disturbed. Distrub the comfortable. Obama 08″ What the heck kinda slogan is that? Rally call for mentally ill radicals?
Indoctrination of the incapable-to-think-on-own crowd. They should go home and clean their house, oops, rooms.
Thank goodness my daughter got an earful about Obama from me before she left for UMass. After being in Amherst for two months, she might need to be de-programmed before the election!