College Daze
Picture this: video is discovered of Mitt Romney addressing a crowd of student activists during his days at Harvard Law School. In the video, Romney is seen asking for support for a controversial professor. Perhaps the professor has stated that admission to Harvard should be based solely on merit and not consider the race of the applicant. DOES ANYONE THINK FOR EVEN ONE SECOND THAT THIS WOULD NOT BE THE LEAD STORY IN EVERY NEWSPAPER AND ON EVERY PRIME TIME BROADCAST? Well of course it would be.
And yet, video is uncovered of Barack Obama speaking to Harvard Law students in 1991 in support of a professor with extreme racial views.
Non-event.
To paraphrase the climate change crowd: media bias is settled science.
Dream On
Advocates for the so-called Dream Act have the backing of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who said at a recent budget hearing that maintaining a system in which illegal immigrants cannot gain access to scholarship aid “is just asking us to continually have a group of people who can’t share in the American dream.” (NYT, 3/7/2012)
Well, yes, unfortunately the American dream may not be available to people who are not American and have violated the law.
Big Money
Big donors considering whether to work the phones raising money for President Obama’s reelection campaign might consider the fate of his 2008 bundlers. Many of them, it turns out, won plum jobs in his administration.
Obama campaigned on what he called “the most sweeping ethics reform in history” and has frequently criticized the role of money in politics. That hasn’t stopped him from offering government jobs to some of his biggest bundlers, volunteer fundraisers who gather political contributions from other rich donors.
More than half of Obama’s 47 biggest fundraisers, those who collected at least $500,000 for his campaign, have been given administration jobs. Nine more have been appointed to presidential boards and committees. (Washington Post, 3/7/2012)
Kudos to the WaPo for sharing this!
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