Comments on: A Failing Grade: Obama’s Record with College Students

By: Michael Harrington

Michael Harrington — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:36:02 +0000

They have few hopes of a good job right now, and they know it.

Obama handed me a good tool to use there to gain votes. I just hope my party (nationally) does not screw it up. Do you hear me Boehner the limp?

By: texashistorian

texashistorian — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:04:07 +0000

in 2008 as well. Now, not so much. I teach from a conservative perspective (If I could I would assign Paul Johnson’s ‘History of the American People’ as the main text) and like you I find students a lot more receptive three years on from the Barackalypse. Not so much about Republicans, as you note, but conservative ideas.

This tells me two things. One, Obama is going to struggle to grab the same voters he did last time around, and Two, the GOP has its head up its collective can, and has for some time. That we can have an utter trainwreck in the oval office, and yet have the Republican “brand” be almost as poorly thought of as Obama is a sorry state of affairs.

The GOP, and this includes you Mr. Priebus, need to wake up and smell the coffee here. People WANT to hear the right message, and they WANT a reason to trust and vote for the GOP, but right now most of you are not delivering. There is a massive college age demographic that vote, and are feeling the pinch of liberal policies. What are you going to do about it?

By: Common_Cents

Common_Cents — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:23:11 +0000

Costs up 25%? Student loans are nearly a trillion now? Extremely high non performance rates. But good enough for a Baraka govt gig.

I hope the Baraka hope and change fantasy was a good teachable moment for all the college students who embraced a fauxtopia campaign, our country will be better off for the lesson in the long run and hopefully in Nov.

By: funwithknives

funwithknives — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:03:05 +0000

{Special Billionaires Issue,3/26/2012} and examine Louis Woodhill’s monograph in the *Thought Leaders* column. (pg.#44)
Mr. Woodhill is a member of the leadership council for The Club for Growth,and condenses this topic, almost too perfectly.

By: APA Guy

APA Guy — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:41:32 +0000

…and my students just roll their eyes when we speak of him, his policies, and his presidency. They don’t even laugh anymore because they no longer see the humor when they pay $4.05/gallon for 87 gas.

By: renny

renny — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:25:24 +0000

I live in a cons. county (relatively, as I live in NJ), but my college students have for a couple years now just laughed if the pres’ name is mentioned, and it isn’t “funny” in-good-fun laughter,

My students are community college enrollees so they are not the obamabots of the ivies, but they were pretty gung-ho in 2008. Now, however, there are no bumper stickers, even faculty have taken the posters off their doors, and students are interested in hearing about conservatism, if not exactly enthralled with “Republicans.”