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Comment on All Campus Sing 2013 is April 17 by llyles1

llyles1 — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 22:50:45 +0000

I’m really glad it will be streamed online, but where can people to watch that stream?

Comment on James Carville and Mary Matalin to speak at Presidential Lecture by egarnett

egarnett — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:05:18 +0000

The Presidential Lecture of James Carville and Mary Madeline was very interesting but different than I expected. They were opposites but seemed to be a very compatible pair nonetheless. The lecture started with an introduction and then Mary Madeline, the conservative of the two, talked about the hope of Generation Y. Something I took from her portion of the speech was that debate in politics would be a lot more effective if the candidates would stop with the inflated blabber and give the viewers a well played debate. Something that I took from the lecture as a whole is that the message wins; America knows what is going on in the US today and frankly we are very uneasy. We want a president that levels with us and uses the facts to plan effectively for the future. After Mary Spoke, James Carville made jokes about republicans and the candidates in the upcoming elections. A tip he gave to all of the social media savvy is to watch out what you post because it is very easy to permanently post something that you’ll regret.

Comment on James Carville and Mary Matalin to speak at Presidential Lecture by hnoh

hnoh — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:29:46 +0000

Presidential lecture was quite difficult for me to understand clearly since my English is not good enough to catch everything they said and I did not know where I should focus. However, I confirmed that people who have different thoughts can have a positive effect on each other. I used to think that if people who have different opinions and strongly believe in their own opinion get together, it must be hard to coordinate and make peace. After meeting James Carville and Mary Matalin, however, I changed my mind. Even though James Carville and Mary Matalin have totally different opinions of the politics, they could love and grow up together rather than keeping fighting. We cannot be sure there was no fierce fighting about their political opinions between them; they might have argued for their perspectives. They used it in a positive way and through this constructive way, they grew up and developed ideas on their own.
Frankly speaking, I saw the politician fighting on the TV in my country, South Korea. They just keep arguing so much in a bad way. In my opinion, they are just fighting because they are not good at coordinating with other people who think differently. We should be mature when dealing with other opinions because we can see that there is a happy couple which is participating in different parties. We can have synergy when we work with diverse opinions.

Comment on James Carville and Mary Matalin to speak at Presidential Lecture by wshemwell@murraystate.edu

wshemwell@murraystate.edu — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:25:28 +0000

After attending the Presidential Lecture one thing comes to mind “Only in America”. Although the term “Only in America” has been used frequently throughout history, James Carville and Mary Matalin bring to the table a new meaning. While James is democratic political contributor, his wife Mary is a republican political contributor. Although their political views differ from one another, they have found a way to look past their career differences and be happily married. Although there differences are obvious to the listener, one thing they both agree on is how politicians are now being influenced by the youth of America are increasing numbers at the polls last presidential election.
Mitt Romney was the center of attention at moments because Carville believes no other candidate will receive the republican nomination. Matalin is concerned with how conservative Romney is. Since it is presidential election year, this lecture had even more importance.