Obama (Harvard) vs. Newt (West Ga College)

[NightWatcher]

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I love the new rw meme that Newt is some kind of American Genius because he has a history degree and taught some at West Georgia College. They are also pushing the hilarious idea that he's going to school Obama in the debates.

No knock against West Georgia College, but I'm putting my money on the editor of the Harvard Law Review and teacher of US Constitutional Law at Columbia Law School.

On edit: I know that Newt has degrees from other schools, but I'm commenting on the rw meme that Newt is somehow the better scholar and smarter candidate.


44. The # of states Obama carries in November.

[jwirr]

1. It occurs to me what we need is a split screen (three ways) with someone from fact.check on the

third.

[Liquorice]

2. LOL I went to West GA. It's the State University of West Georgia now, I'll have you know! It

actuallly is a a pretty good school, and I got a good education there, but of course it's no Harvard. Newt taught there decades before I attended when the school was still very small.

[KamaAina]

3. Not only that, Newt was run out of West Georgia College when he applied for tenure

this after he applied to be its president during his first year there! Got delusions of grandeur?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002206529

[former9thward]

4. I hope you are not part of Obama's re-election team.

The idea that you have to go to Harvard to be president will not go over with the 99%. BTW he never taught at Columbia. He lectured on a part time basis at the University of Chicago.

[Arkana]

7. That's not the point.

Hell, FDR and JFK both had middling grades at best in school. The problem here is the idea of Newt "schooling" Obama at debates because he can get angry and yell racist things.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

5. Newt also got a PhD from Tulane

in European History (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich ).

He IS a pompous dumbass, but let's be accurate.

[Arkana]

6. Newt would lose his cool in debates with Obama.

That red-faced, blustering, veiled racism shit won't work against the calm, cool, collected first African-American President. Obama's presence denies Newt all the arrows in his quiver.

[RZM]

8. 44?

If the Republican ticket were two randomly-chosen cast members from 'Jersey Shore,' they would still probably win more than six states (although not NJ). In 2012, against either Romney or Gingrich, there's no way Obama can win Big Sky or most plains states. I don't see him expanding the number of states he won in 2008 either. Thing is he can still lose some and be just fine.