Showing posts with label super delegates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label super delegates. Show all posts

Thursday, May 01, 2008

Northwestern to Reverend Wright: On Second Thought...

Northwestern University was all poised to give the Revrund Jeremiah Wrong an honorary Doctorate of Sacred Theology. Well after careful consideration they have rescinded the offer.
But vice president for university relations Alan Cubbage now says the offer has been rescinded because of the controversy surrounding Wright. He also says the school wants "to ensure that the celebratory character of commencement not be affected."
And in other college news remember the story a while back about the governor of West Virginia whose daughter received a masters degree that it looks like she didn't earn? Well there is more fallout.
Six months after his inauguration, President Mike Garrison is struggling to hold his administration together - and keep his job - amid a scandal that erupted after the school granted Gov. Joe Manchin's daughter a master's degree she didn't earn.

Two top university officials resigned last weekend over their part in the episode. Major donors have canceled plans to donate millions. Members of the Faculty Senate are planning a no-confidence vote on Garrison next week. And critics inside and outside the university have demanded the president resign over what appears to be an instance in which political pull influenced the awarding of a degree.
But wait a minute. Buried way down in the story is some more information on those 2 "university officials" who "resigned".
The resignations of Provost Gerald Lang and R. Stephen Sears, dean of the business school, have not satisfied the most vocal of the critics, particularly since Lang and Sears will remain as tenured professors, with Lang earning nearly $200,000 a year and Sears almost $160,000. Lang presided over the meeting last October during which Sears made the final decision to grant the governor's daughter a degree.
So who is yanking whose chain here? Oh yeah the governor being the good Democrat that he is is also a super delegate.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Your DNC Superdelegate Profile of the Day


Today's spotlighted super delegate is Gov Joe Manchin (D-WV).

And of course what good is it to be a DNC super delegate if you don't have a scandal to boost your credentials?

The governor has a daughter. His daughter went to college. His daughter got a Masters degree. Well sort of.
Chastised for showing "seriously flawed" judgment in awarding the governor's
daughter a master's degree she didn't earn, West Virginia University is weighing
what must be done to recover from the scandal.

President Mike Garrison said late Wednesday it's unclear whether disciplinary action should be taken against the high-ranking academic officers who ordered a change in the academic records of Heather Bresch, daughter of Gov. Joe Manchin.

How long will it be before the Dems finally shut up with their whole moral superiority mantra? Is it in the by laws of the DNC that you must have some sort of scandal to get one of those highly coveted super delegates slots? Given the track record of so many of these folks are the Dems even sure that this group of people is who they want selecting their eventual presidential candidate?

How about the rest of America? The DNC must have "Gypsy, Tramps, and Thieves" as a theme song for their convention.

Oh and the governors daughter? No need to worry she is doing just fine working for one of those evil pharmaceutical companies.
Bresch's academic record will revert to its original state. A master's degree is
not required for her job as chief operating officer of Mylan Inc., a generic
pharmaceutical company based in Pittsburgh.
Another one of those businesses and corporations the liberals rail against on a daily basis. Ain't that right, Michelle Obama?