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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / A point by point analysis of why Obama...
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Obama says liberal college students should not be ‘coddled.’ Are we really surprised?
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By Janell Ross September 15 at 5:13 PM
North High School student body president Russhaun Johnson hugs President Obama as he introduces him at a town hall with high school juniors, seniors and their parents at the school in Des Moines on Monday. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Speaking at an education town hall in Des Moines on Monday, President Obama said something that some people apparently find surprising.
In response to an audience question about GOP presidential contender Ben Carson's call for the Department of Education to withhold federal funding from colleges that exhibit "extreme political bias," Obama told the crowd he wasn't sure what the candidate meant. But then Obama said some things about political correctness and about inviting non-liberal and even offensive viewpoints on to campus.
[Everything is political these days, even commencement speeches]
This is the heart of what Obama said:
"I’ve heard of some college campuses where they don’t want to have a guest speaker who is too conservative, or they don’t want to read a book if it had language that is offensive to African Americans or somehow sends a demeaning signal towards women,” Obama said Monday while speaking at a town hall meeting at North High School in Des Moines. “I’ve got to tell you, I don’t agree with that either -- that you when you become students at colleges, you have to be coddled and protected from different points of view. Anybody who comes to speak to you and you disagree with, you should have an argument with them, but you shouldn’t silence them by saying you can’t come because I’m too sensitive to hear what you have to say.