USCA class delves into the
election
11/8/2008 1:30 AM
By
ROB NOVIT
Senior writer
Barack Obama's "brilliant campaign" was a key
factor in his historic win to become the first African- American president,
Kevin Loman said Thursday. Most of his USC Aiken
classmates agreed with him.
In their first class following the election Tuesday,
students of political science professor Dr.
"After eight miserable years of the Bush reign of
terror," he said, "Obama is very intelligent, well-spoken and has
addressed what the problems are. This is the guy we need to get the country on
track."
As he has noted earlier, Botsch said this is the first
time since he established the elections class in 1980 that a majority of the
students supported the Democratic candidates. Christie Hightower said Obama had
a surprising ability to excite young people and get them to the polls.
Hightower and her classmates did exit polls at selected
precincts Tuesday. Those results will be released by the end of the month.
"I was in
Logan Sharpe has long Republican ties and late last month
had switched to Obama. Then he wavered again before finally voting for Obama
after all.
"I don't think McCain is another Bush," Sharpe
said, "but McCain should have fired his campaign manager, because the
campaign was really awkward. This is going to be a wake-up call for
Republicans."
McCain got too negative in the campaign at the expense of
the crucial economic issues, said Sylvia Boston and Botsch agreed.
"McCain looked like he was trying to sleep with
porcupines," Botsch said. "He was more comfortable during his
concession speech and where was that guy during the campaign. That guy could
have won."
Ralph Nader could have won against McCain this year,
Patrick Long said jokingly. Everything was stacked up against the Republicans -
the Bush reign, the economy and a divided party.
"But the Republicans are not in as much disarray as
the Democrats were in 2000 and 2004," Long said. "I'm OK with Obama.
I have not heard a specific plan for his 'change.' What will be the first thing
on his agenda?"
Botsch hopes that with an Obama presidency, careers in
the public sector can become popular again, the way they were during the
Kennedy administration. When Kennedy established the Peace Corps, thousands of
people applied, far more than expected.
"Does that mean it's OK to be a community organizer
and a lobbyist?" one student asked.
Contact Rob Novit at rnovit@aikenstandard.com.
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Comments
3 comment(s) found!
Posted by: American-American On: 11/8/2008
Comment Title:
If it acts like a botsch it is a botsch
Posted by: Read the article! On: 11/8/2008
Comment Title: read the article carefully before posting!
To the person who just left the rude comment about Dr. Botsch--he isn't the one
who made the comment about Bush and his "reign of terror". The
article states: "Loman made his own feelings
clear..." those were the comments from the student, not from the
professor. You owe him an apology.
Posted by: American-American On: 11/8/2008
Comment Title:
bob botsch is about as far from a real American as a
person can get. It is hard to believe that any university would allow garbage
like him to teach.He is all for his ideals and none
other. I am not sure what terror Bush was involved in, other than to help free
some nations.Perhaps botsch
should look at the real world for a while and the coming reign of terror as he
calls any president that he disagrees with.Some
people know that if we do not fight over there it will be fought in our country.I am sure he has nothing to fear as far as taxes on
his lack of a high income but some of us do. We are not ready to
"share" our hard earned money with his lazy democrats that will not work.Maybe he would enjoy the