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one_voice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-11 09:33 PM
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Newt just lost the college...
blaming the students...claiming they don't get out of school fast enough. He's under the impression that a part time job will pay for college...

He straight up blamed the students.
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Evergreen Emerald Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-11 09:34 PM
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1. I just saw that...and the audience cheered--who the hell are they?
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one_voice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-11 09:35 PM
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4. My son is in college...
and watching with me. He was pissed that he blamed the students. Though...it's not like my son would EVER vote for him.
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lob1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-11 09:38 PM
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8. Similar to a school of fish, or a gaggle of geese, or
a murder of ravens...the audience was an anus of assholes.
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erinlough Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-11 10:43 PM
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28. This is a truly great literary response! LOL
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ChazInAz Donating Member (119 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-11 10:58 PM
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31. May I further suggest
a Rectum of Republicans?
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Evergreen Emerald Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-10-11 12:18 AM
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32. oh you guys are funny!
A rectum of republicans....an anus of assholes...hahahaha
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Enthusiast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-10-11 08:58 AM
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34. Now that is award winning!
"Rectum of Republicans"
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Enthusiast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-10-11 08:57 AM
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33. Pfffttt!
"anus of assholes"
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-11 09:44 PM
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13. This is tonight's debate at Oakland (MI) University?
Edited on Wed Nov-09-11 09:48 PM by Fire Walk With Me
I went there in 85/86. There were on-campus conservative groups there, full-time with offices in the student assembly. We at the radio station played Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel and other colorful acts to piss them off, among other things (the music went onto all ceiling speakers in the student assembly building).

OU has its share of conservative shitheads, likely to this day.
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Topazmoon11 Donating Member (17 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-11 09:49 PM
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22. "Like"
Where's the like button! I just told someone else that the school was full of tools, no doubt.
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-11 09:54 PM
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23. The semester after I left, they tried to ban sex on campus.
Edited on Wed Nov-09-11 09:55 PM by Fire Walk With Me
No shit. I only went there to be with a girlfriend :shrug:

I forget the name of the conservative group that had an office across from the radio station, but one of my friends called them the John Birch society...they apparently hated most of all, the Uncle Bonsai song "Penis Envy" :rofl:

And welcome to DU! :toast::hi:
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Topazmoon11 Donating Member (17 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-11 09:47 PM
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17. Those young republican students
Think that they know but they Have no idea of the HELL that awaits them when they get in the real world and fall behind on a student loan.
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-11 09:34 PM
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2. No better than Ron Paul and his "They can pay for it like they do their cell phones".....
:wtf:
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one_voice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-11 09:36 PM
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6. Yup him too...
they got theirs...fuck everyone else.
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Bjorn Against Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-11 09:45 PM
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15. Holy crap did he actually say that?
I guess I shouldn't be too surprised, but it just shows how out of touch these people are if they think that college tuition costs no more than a cell phone bill.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-11 09:47 PM
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18. Ron Paul is an Idiot....
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JohnnyLib2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-11 09:35 PM
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3. Jolly condescension ......

He would surely be that way as president, toward 'we the people.'
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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-11 09:35 PM
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5. He is an adulterer. He has no character. No morals.
nt
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Cali_Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-11 09:37 PM
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7. They're so out of touch
They have no idea how expensive it is. How is eliminating Federal student loan programs going to eliminate the problem? That will only create even more debt for students.
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SharonAnn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-11 10:03 PM
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25. Of course they don't. College was affordable when they went. Heavily subsidized
by the state and federal government. And, the minimum wage was higher in comparable dollars.

So, they had it much easier than today's students do. And, they think that after all they've done to fuck things up for college students, that today's students are on the gravy train that Newt and his ilk were on?

Sheesh!
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Gore1FL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-11 09:38 PM
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9. I doubt that really lost him any votes
I can't imagine students being inspired by him in the first place!
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one_voice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-11 09:40 PM
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11. Good point. n/t
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Peregrine Took Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-11 09:40 PM
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10. Two of my brohters worked their way through college - over 30 years ago.
You couldn't do it today unless you went the community college route and then transferred to a local commuter state university.
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one_voice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-11 09:42 PM
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12. My son's books this semester...
were $700, that was used. He'll sell them back and probably end up with $125.

They have no idea what what college costs now...or they just don't give a shit. If you're wealthy you get a college education, if not tough shit.
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Topazmoon11 Donating Member (17 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-11 09:59 PM
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24. student loans crisis is my issue BUT it was HEALTHCARE
where they absolutely had no clue, no concern for the millions who have no access! Perry mentioned medicaid once....
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one_voice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-11 10:05 PM
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26. Yes, they're all clueless...
about that too! They're a selfish bunch of turds!
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Topazmoon11 Donating Member (17 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-11 09:45 PM
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14. Newt Gingrich Ruined Student Loans in the mid 90's
And created the misery that student borrowers are experiencing today thanks to forcing the removal of bankruptcy protection and consumer relief and allowing private banks to charge whatever the hell interest they want on student loans. Forced this on Congress by attaching these provisions to the Armed Forces budget. Privatized Sallie Mae who was underwriting the whole deal. Sickening!
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one_voice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-11 09:49 PM
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20. Pell Grants...
Last year my son received a pell grant..he didn't this year.

The teapublicans say pell grants are the new welfare.

My son has an internship and he works with a lot of wingers...who repeat this stuff at work.

It's disgusting what they've done.
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-11 10:48 PM
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29. I was attending that very college when Reagan killed the Pell, and two friends had to leave.
They want to kill education except for the rich because the uneducated are easier to control X(
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-11 09:45 PM
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16. Any tomatoes?
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Liberal_Stalwart71 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-11 09:47 PM
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19. Did he ever have them?!?
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brooklynite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-11 09:49 PM
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21. Which colleges did he lose...the LIBERAL Arts Colleges?
Bet Liberty University is still in his corner.
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End Of The Road Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-11 10:13 PM
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27. How lucky I was
to go to college at a time when you were expected to explore and grow, not just graduate. Yeah, I worked two jobs and lived on a tight budget in a horrible cheap college apartment, but (at a state university) my parents could afford to give me the best opportunity of my life. It's tragic that so many kids today miss out on that.
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GoCubsGo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-11 10:52 PM
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30. I am glad this was recorded.
In the event that this lowlife gets the nomination, the Dems have a ready-made commercial for MTV and other outlets patronized by college-age folks. Ditto for Ron Paul's comments.
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