College campus campaigning likely different from four years ago
Lewis DiuguidPresident Barack Obama on Tuesday campaigned at Colorado State University. But the commander in chief likely found that the college support he easily won four years ago will be different today.
The college students four years ago were fed up with President George W. Bush and Republican control. Many had protested the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
They had a clear idea of what they didn’t like and who was to blame. Things are a lot murkier now.
Obama got U.S. troops out of Iraq and oversaw Osama bin Laden’s death. But the war in Afghanistan drags on, in addition to possible nuclear capabilities threatening to pull U.S. military into Iran.
The economy is still bad, and young people are recession weary, looking at burgeoning student loans with no clear job prospects after graduating. Meanwhile, Republicans at their national convention in Tampa, Fla., are clearly saying Obama is to blame.
That GOP attack is making the president’s campaign message on college campuses today ring hollow. This race for both Obama and challenger Mitt Romney boils down to a punchline in an old Richard Pryor joke: “Who are you going to believe? Me, or your lying eyes?”
Zapata Antonio
8 months, 3 weeks agoWhat I don’t get is why do some people like yourself feel that because you are a black journalist you have a license to write anything you want, whiteout any obligation to back what you write be truthful. Whenever I feel like a little fiction, I read your column. Take this article, and I could take any article you have written and point out the parts you take artistic license, but on this one, college students were fed up w/ bush and republican control, but no way they could be fed up with emperor Obama, they are just confused. Then you basically state college students are to ignorant to notice how bad the economy is, and obamas failure to bring us out of a recession, no, they have just been brainwashed by the GOP. I really hate to say this but your skills as a writer are sub-par, it makes one wonder how you got this job, and how is it you that you manage to keep it. In an earlier article you wrote Obama has been the most insulted, had more cartoons drawn than any other president, Yet fail to back that with one example. You are one of those writers who know that people who agree with your political leanings won’t worry about verifying your so called facts, just take it for gospel because you wrote it. As a writer, your tactics disgust me, but one person will always know you are a hack, will know how lazy you are at what you do, and you will see that person everytime you look into a mirror.