“…A University of Virginia spokeswoman says President Barack Obama will not be at the university when he comes to Charlottesville on Wednesday. In a statement released Friday, it was confirmed that the university declined the president’s request to speak at UVA….”
As reported in a press release from UVA just beneath the above article:
“…the University met with five members of the Obama Presidential Campaign on Wednesday. The campaign requested the use of one of two outdoor University venues — the Amphitheater or the Harrison-Small Library plaza. After reviewing the campaign’s request for either of these two sites and the impact on the University, the University declined the request for the following reasons:
- As you know, Aug. 29 is the second day of classes overall and the first day of classes on the Monday/Wednesday/Friday academic schedule….
- The cancellation of 186 classes would occur if the site is the Amphitheater or closing of the libraries and Newcomb dining if the site is the Harrison-Small plaza. This would result in an extraordinary disruption of the second day of the new semester.
- In addition to the disruption to classes, the University would have to bear the full cost of security — a substantial and open-ended expenditure of staff time and money.
- By University policy, we would also have to offer the same accommodations and bear the same costs for other candidates. Both our federal and state tax-exempt status requires that we not favor any candidate….”
A commendable decision by the UVA to deny Obama use of its institution, staff and students as tools for his campaign of propaganda. Besides, it is about time that reality sets in and the fawning over Obama cease.
Americans are tired of picking up the tab for Obama’s expenses, as the anointed one prefers campaigning and espousing Marxist propaganda throughout the nation to planting his arse at his desk in Washington, D.C.
Most importantly, Progressives have done more than enough damage to our younger generation. Hence, this despot must be kept as far away as possible from America’s youth.
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Wise decision indeed. Obama is now going to hold the event on the downtown pedistrian mall in Charlottesville–which means the city will still be picking up security costs but at least UVA won’t have any additional expenses. With tuition at an all-time high and states cutting back $ to state-supported schools, taxpayers do not look kindly upon unneccesary expenses, which this campaing stop is. Some day, someone needs to address the costs associated with campaigning. Those costs should be borne by the campaign–sitting president or no–not the localities or the taxpayers. It grates me that every president running for re-election uses Air Force One on the taxpayer’s dime to campaign.
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Not only Air Force 1 Freedom, a C-17 transport for his cars, and an additional C-17 for a helicopter if he needs it.
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Go Virginia!!!!!
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Well,well,well,…maybe common sense IS beginning to kick in.
The propaganda effort to influence the children has been
I commend this decision by the University of Virginia.
Two thumbs up !!!
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The propaganda effort to influence the children has been detected.
My edit.
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These arguments create a false impression of comfort among the elderly in order to blame one part of the working class for the problems faced by another part of the same class. The not-so-hidden agenda here is more austerity—as if money cut from Social Security would end youth unemployment. The reality is that older workers are also suffering severe deprivations in the crisis. The few public benefits that still exist need to be maintained and expanded, not ended. If Coy is looking for something “impossibly rich” to tax in order to help young workers, he could start at Wall Street and work his way toward the Pentagon. This barely concealed propaganda campaign cannot explain how it is that French high school students are willing to engage in mass protest to resist the raising of the retirement age. What French students understand—and the New York Times does not—is that working-class students eventually become working-class retirees, and that the latter are the parents and grandparents of the former.
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