Thursday Daily Delawhere [4.11.13]

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1. Rusty Dils says:

   April 11, 2013 at 10:15 am

   I watched Rand Paul’s speech yesterday at Howard University. He had a lot of great things to say, and his knowledge of black history was impressive. It is the best speech I have seen from him, and really showed he has a deep understanding of where we are as a country, and what we need to do going forward. About 10 or 15 students and faculty were allowed to ask questions after the speech. Rand Paul did a good job responding to the questions honestly. Unfortunately, all, or almost all of the speakers were in strong disagreement with Rand Paul’s speech and answers to their questions. I am only hoping that a lot of people in the crowd were not so blind to what he is trying to say, and just decided not to ask questions, but I don’t know. I was amazed by a couple of things, a number of the students asking questions were reading lengthy statements and questions from their smart phones, and it struck me that when they go in for their first job interview after graduating, are they going to use their smart phones to help them answers the interviewers questions. Obviously they won’t get the job if they do. These particular students were obviously being used by someone who was to lazy to attend, because you could tell the questions were far more comprehensive than the students themselves would have asked. I just felt kind of sorry for these particular students. They don’t have a clue how far they are away from knowing the right stuff to get a good job after they graduate. Anyway, It was a very enlightening speech, and worth a look even if you are not a Rand Paul fan.

2. puck says:

   April 11, 2013 at 10:18 am

   I’m not opposed to listening to what Rand Paul has to say. Sometimes it makes an odd sort of sense and can be superficially appealing. But the man and his ideology are deeply cracked inside.

3. jason330 says:

   April 11, 2013 at 10:22 am

   Every now and then Rand Paul says something that makes sense:

   “I think that it is important that when we talk about war that I think part of Republicans’ problems and frankly, to tell you the truth, some in the Evangelical Christian movement I think have appeared too eager for war,” Paul told CBN’s David Brody. “When people come to me and they’re lobbying for ratcheting up some sort of bellicose policy towards one country, even if it’s a bad country, I tell them, you know, when I read the New Testament and when I read about Jesus, I don’t see them being involved, he wasn’t really involved with the war of his days.”

4. Tom McKenney says:

   April 11, 2013 at 10:22 am

   It seems like you are saying the students at Howard are just a bunch of stupid black kids.

5. liberalgeek says:

   April 11, 2013 at 10:26 am

   being used by someone who was to lazy to attend, because you could tell the questions were far more comprehensive than the students themselves would have asked.

   Please allow me to summarize… The students that you allege sent the questions were “lazy” and you know this because the questions sounded like they came from people smarter than the students asking them. Do I have that right, Rusty?

   I don’t know how these students use their phone, but I know I use mine to make sure that I get all of my points in for some types of presentations. I also use it to take notes on what someone is saying if I am going to challenge their points when they are done. In the old days, people would take notes on paper, but those days are waning. But since you are a Republican, that is just one more modern amenity that I don’t expect you to understand (along with civil rights, apparently).

6. V says:

   April 11, 2013 at 10:30 am

   so a student who takes the time to pre-compose a question on their phone to make sure they get all of their points stated in a clear/concise manner is lazy and that kind of preparation will do them no good inthe real world once they graduate.

   and they probably were just being used by someone else because clearly these questions were out of their depth as college students. Not like Howard has a political science major where they could be studying these sort of complex issues full time.

   Got it.

7. geezer says:

   April 11, 2013 at 10:32 am

   “his knowledge of black history was impressive”

   Not to those of us who know black history. The tired old bromide about Democrats being the party of the KKK has no relevance to the US today, and the students called him out on it.

   Just for your own edification, Rusty, look up the Lily White Movement of the 1880s, when state Republican parties throughout the south pledged to keep blacks off the ticket. That’s why you saw blacks in Congress in the 1870s, only to see them all disappear in the 1880s, and it’s why the GOP never enjoyed widespread support from blacks thereafter.

   I’ll bet you dollars to donuts Rand Paul — who at Howard called Edward Brooke “Edwin Brooks” — has never heard of it.

   “These particular students were obviously being used by someone who was to lazy to attend, because you could tell the questions were far more comprehensive than the students themselves would have asked.”

   Could you be a little more condescending, please? Just a tad more and you’ll be as condescending as Rand Paul was yesterday.

8. cassandra m says:

   April 11, 2013 at 10:32 am

   Oh look, a demonstration on how the rules for black kids are different. Thanks Rusty.

9. liberalgeek says:

   April 11, 2013 at 10:33 am

   V – don’t forget that Rand Paul is very smart on Black history. This is a good thing, becuase I’m sur ethe students at Howard haven’t been exposed to that sort of thing.

10. puck says:

    April 11, 2013 at 10:33 am

    Never mind that Rand Paul read his “impressive” speech from teleprompters. In Republican-land, only white people are allowed to use teleprompters.

11. geezer says:

    April 11, 2013 at 10:53 am

    Well, that was a pretty impressive DL pile-on. Good work, all.

12. pandora says:

    April 11, 2013 at 11:01 am

    And I’m late to the game! Rusty, Rand Paul was condescending. He assumed his audience was dumb and that he was there to educate them. Keep up the good work with that Republican outreach. How’s that working for ya?