UPDATE: New York Times:
“Despite all the challenges that we face in this new century, what they offered over those three days was an agenda that was better suited to the last century,” Mr. Obama told an estimated 13,000 people who filled a campus green on Sunday at the University of Colorado, Boulder, against a scenic backdrop of the Rocky Mountains.“It was a rerun – it could have been on ‘Nick at Night,’ ” Mr. Obama said. Viewers might as well have watched on a black-and-white TV with rabbit-ear antennas, he joked.
And for all the Republicans’ talk of the hard choices they would make to address the country’s problems, Mr. Obama said, “When Governor Romney finally had a chance to reveal the secret sauce, he did not offer a single new idea. It was just retreads of the same old policies we’ve been hearing for decades, the same policies that have been sticking it to the middle class for years.”
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13,000 reported on the Norlin Quad today.
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We’ll update with coverage throughout the day, FOX 31′s Eli Stokols kicks it off:
This weekend, Obama’s four-day road trip to the DNC began with a rally outside Des Moines that drew about 10,000 people; and, for the moment, the campaign is parked again in the Centennial State, with the campaign overnighting in Broomfield before a rally Sunday morning on the University of Colorado’s Boulder campus.It’s already the president’s eighth trip to Colorado this year, and it comes less than four weeks after a two-day swing that saw President Obama rally crowds in Denver, Grand Junction, Pueblo and Colorado Springs…
In Boulder Sunday morning, Obama is going to offer his take on the RNC, where, as the president said Saturday in Iowa, Republicans put forth “an agenda that was better suited for the last century.
“It was a re-run. We’ve seen it before,” Obama said. “You might as well have watched it on a black-and-white TV.”
President Barack Obama’s rally is scheduled to begin “between 11AM and 1PM.”
What I don’t understand is this second visit to Boulder in less then a few months and just a week after gracing the confines of CSU. I mean I get the ballot chase for the 18-22 year olds, all those truly in need of financial help to get through CU … especially those 65% of CU students from out of state folking over $40-80k of their parents hard earned wealth … they really need the help.
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Welcome, Carmen, to the real world. Sometimes it sucks. Sometimes you need to ditch the dog. Sometimes you have to settle for less. Don’t live in a college town.
Boulder has always been expensive. So why is this topical on a Sunday morning?
And chairs go in apartments… and… um… politicially speaking it’s… um… “No I will not shut up. It’s my turn to talk.”
so it’s too bad he can’t answer whether Barack Obama is a man of his words.
It must suck to be backing a candidate who didn’t mention the military or our men and women engage in this ongoing conflict to win the War on Terror once in his nomination speech. Must suck big time.
if we send troops to Iran/Syria if Romney gets elected: http://news.yahoo.com/biden-ro… Bush & Cheney made up some facts to justify invading Iraq, so I wouldn’t put it past another GOP President to do the same thing.
in less then a few months and just a week after gracing the confines of CSU.”
Gosh, do ya think it’s because he can draw a crowd of 13,000 there? People of all ages, and from not just Boulder but the region? And the photo of a sea of motivated people is impressive. I dunno, maybe that’s it . . .
who understands in detail the intricacies of national politics and the strategies of winning elections at the highest levels.
It does appear that Obama is campaigning hard to win Colorado? We should enjoy the attention. Winning Colorado all but kills Romney’s chances of getting to 270. This is winner take all campaigning. Obama is in great shape to push this pace until November. We’ll see if 70 year old Romney can keep up.
Born: 3/12/47.
Just sayin’.
My CU freshman son is in there somewhere.
You know. The one next to the person holding up the sign. Is that him? He looks like a nice kid.
She just turned 22 and had an electric tutu party. Lights and all.
And I was nettin’ @ Folsom Coffee when he moto’d by.
Obama brings out greater demographics that Mitt’s collection of deluded 1%er wannabes and TeaBaggin’ racists.
Doesn’t mean squat.
I was at UF and lesser institutions in the late 1960′s. There were no student Republicans except for maybe “weird” kids all chipper knowing the secret handshake.
And few professors.
Now, granted, maybe the lib/con ratio was very much tipped in those days, but it’s been really discouraging to see the inroads of not Republicans, as we once knew them, but ‘Bagger nutcase types.
My niece, senior at FSU, from a long line of active Dems, believes the shit that her professors tell her. She is very conflicted.
GOP’rs will tell you quite loudly and colorfully that public colleges are bastions of mind controlling extremo-lib profs. Hell, isn’t there a move outta the CU Chancellors Office to hire & promote more conservadumb profs? Is FSU just another Oral Roberts U?
Compared to the positions of the right wing, the infamous liberal media probably was, until maybe the 1990′s.
So even if it’s not so liberal now, they will continue to scream that it is just to show how unfair the world is and convince themselves that the media is liberal.
FSU is a very good state institution – even if her mother and two uncles, including me, went to arch-nemesis UF! – and I don’t think it’s unique in the number of righties on the staff.
professors a student encounters has a lot to do with their major field of study.
Also, let’s remember that conservatives these days tend to look down their noses at professions outside the world of business and finance. Conservatives consider people who want to teach instead of concentrating on breaking into the top .01% to be losers, then complain that not enough of those loser are conservative. They entirely miss the “duh” factor a in play here.
As a hardcore Democrat, and Native Floridian, don’t go dissin’ FSU!
If you have never been there, or don’t know anyone who attended FSU, then you have no basis to compare it to Oral Roberts.
Go ‘Noles!
…the Florida State College for Women?
The memories of that history were still strong when I was at UF in 1965.
Ancient history, FSU became Co-Ed after WWII. So be quiet or Bobby Bowden will hunt you down for the Gator that you are.
I do not care a whit about sports, and that’s certainly the framework for the mutual animosity between FSU and UF.
For reasons I remain ignorant of, the general division of land grant colleges (FSU, CSU of both Colorado and California stripes) have always been a second tier of respect. Not sure why that is, but it is. And it’s beyond sports.
One can get a great education at FSU or the CSU’s. The UF law school is the top one in the state.
My sister has a gator license plate. On one of her first visits to FSU where my niece is attending, someone “keyed” the side of her BMW. Sis got a “FSU Mom” license plate frame and hasn’t had another event.
Frankly, my dear, I find the whole thing rather tribal and childish.
Is called the “Michigan School of Animal Husbandry” or “Moo U” in Ann Arbor.
18-year-olds don’t know who the incumbent is.
Obama sez “throw the bums out,”
and runs against the failed presidency of Romney.
I like it.
I guess your age is catching up with you too.
We should throw out all of your anti-contraceptive buddies in the Republican House for starters so Obama can work with legislators who understand compromise is the basis for a functioning Democracy. They haven’t done shit to help the country the past two years. It’s anti-Obama all the time. You want to talk epic failure then look no farther than John (do nothing) Boehner. Throw the bums out and let’s find some people who want to work together for the good of the country.
It was the GOP doing all the dirty politics and obstructionism.
and FYI, my age caught up and passed me 10 years ago, leaving me in the dust.
But I like your thinking:
why compromise ?
Just demonize any opponents, throw them all out so that everyone remaining in Congress thinks exactly alike (as long as its exactly like me.)
that sounds liberal / progressive.
for so long there aren’t any left in office willing to compromise.
All this touchy feely stuff about how we should seek common ground would be fine if there were those on the right in congress willing to do so. And it’s not a plague on both your houses situation. There is no big block of radical lefty Dems as unwilling as Rs to give an inch. The overwhelming majority of Dems are centrists who have been offering concessions and getting none in return.
In fact the only time today’s right considers it acceptable to deviate in any way from their supposedly sacred principles is when Dems adopt something that the right has long advocated. At that point the right suddenly discovers it’s absolutely opposed to proposals lifted right out of their own think tanks.
When the only real principle your opponents have is to see you crushed no matter what you do, how many of their own ideas you adopt, how far you are willing to go to reach that common ground, you can’t continue to treat them as reasonable beings with whom compromises can be made.
It’s the GOP who chose the battle cry “No Compromise”. If this batch really means to stick with that than the only way to ever get back to the American, constitutionally mandated way of governing is to turn as many of them out as possible and hope that, over time, extremism in the GOP will wane as constituents go back to electing sensible GOP politicians more interested in making government work for America than they are in proving that it can’t.
I hear ya, brother.
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