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2014-12-01 Home Front: Politix

Occidental students confront a reality of political campaigns: defeat

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Posted by Fred 2014-12-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Let me guess; even though they all lost the eletion they each received an A in their election semester class.

I would be interested to know whether they were required to write an analytical assessment on why their candidate lost?

Posted by Airandee 2014-12-01 06:22|| 2014-12-01 06:22|| Front Page Top

#2 they were required write an analytical assessment on why their candidate lost?

Here, let me assist:

"Long live Ho Chi Minh
The guiding light of the proletariat!
Long live Stalin
Peace grows in his shadow!
Kill, kill again, let your hands never stop
Lt fields and paddyfields produce rice in abundance
So that taxes can be paid at once
Let us march together with the same heart
So that the Party may last for ever
And build an eternal cult to Stalin."

Courtois, Werth, Panne, Paczrkowski, Bartosek, and Margolin, "Communism, Crimes, Terror, Repression" pp 571-572

Communism, it never lasts. It simply moves about finding new hosts with short memories.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-12-01 06:59|| 2014-12-01 06:59|| Front Page Top

#3 I don't think our representative government is broken, but I do think it's become less democratic ~~and it's difficult to get good people in office.~~ cause the people I wanted lost.

Truthered it for him.

Posted by AlanC 2014-12-01 08:09|| 2014-12-01 08:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Why people that by defintion know little should be allowed to vote let alone engage in political activism?

Note: An Arab blogger asked his son: When do you become a man?". After much twisiting and reddening the teeenager answered: "The day you f.. for the first time". "No, my son, the day you pay your first facture".

So these never-do-wells are tring to help people who will raise taxes while they (the never do-wells) pay none and haven't paid their first facture". In the name of what?

Posted by JFM 2014-12-01 09:10|| 2014-12-01 09:10|| Front Page Top

#5 "All of the students worked for Democratic candidates;"

funny, that.

When it was clear Hagan was going to lose, Tieman began "gross-sobbing and ugly-crying."

awwww...speshul snowflake haz sads

Posted by Frank G 2014-12-01 09:13|| 2014-12-01 09:13|| Front Page Top

#6 "said Joshua Wodka, a fifth-year senior" Bout says it all.
They should have taught them principles of integrity, national will, and principles of democracy instead of Chomsky and Marx. Then they would better understand democracy and what's at stake.

Posted by 49 Pan 2014-12-01 09:42|| 2014-12-01 09:42|| Front Page Top

#7 When it was clear Hagan was going to lose, Tieman began "gross-sobbing and ugly-crying."

And it is people like that who in addition to never having paid a facture let alone taxes, have the emotional maturity of a two years old, who think they are enabled to tell people what to vote?

Shouldn't they wait until they no longer need pampers and baby bottles?

Posted by JFM 2014-12-01 10:13|| 2014-12-01 10:13|| Front Page Top

#8 Can they still get an A and fail vote stuffing?

Posted by BrerRabbit 2014-12-01 11:25|| 2014-12-01 11:25|| Front Page Top

#9 This group sounds like the first batch of corrupt DNA that needs removed from the gene pool.

Posted by DarthVader 2014-12-01 12:35|| 2014-12-01 12:35|| Front Page Top

#10 In the past, undergraduates have worked for such candidates as Mitt Romney and Linda Lingle, a Republican who unsuccessfully ran for a Senate seat in Hawaii in 2012.

So maybe they just choose losers?

Posted by Bobby 2014-12-01 13:11|| 2014-12-01 13:11|| Front Page Top

#11 I don't know whether to laugh, or lose faith in humanity.

Posted by Charles 2014-12-01 13:57|| 2014-12-01 13:57|| Front Page Top

#12 Charles,
I pick all of the above.

Posted by DarthVader 2014-12-01 13:59|| 2014-12-01 13:59|| Front Page Top

#13 "I wanted to tell them, 'I'm here to be helpful,'" she said.

Ah, yes. I believe we've all heard that one...

Posted by tu3031 2014-12-01 16:21|| 2014-12-01 16:21|| Front Page Top

#14 Everyone wants to win. However, losing often builds character more than winning. Hope that is true with these Occidental students.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-12-01 17:19|| 2014-12-01 17:19|| Front Page Top

#15 From choom-gloom to Occidental tourist
To Harvard Law's demurest jurist;
From Chicago's poorest
To the land of the purest,
They all hail Columbia's obscurest!

Clunk.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2014-12-01 23:53|| 2014-12-01 23:53|| Front Page Top

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