Delaware Senate Candidate Christine O'Donnell Just Received Her College Degree This Week

WASHINGTON — Twenty-one years after she began her undergraduate work, Republican Christine O'Donnell can accurately call herself a college graduate.

A spokesman for Fairleigh Dickinson University says the tea party-backed Senate candidate earned her bachelor's degree in English literature on Wednesday. Spokesman Scott Giglio says he cannot provide more information.

O'Donnell has been dogged by questions over her claims she graduated from the New Jersey school; she later conceded that while she attended graduation day in 1993, she did not collect a diploma.

Republicans have questioned O'Donnell's credibility as they try to stop her candidacy. She is in a bitter primary against Rep. Mike Castle, who has the backing of the political establishment.

The graduation was first reported online by Politico.

Comments

[vetxcl]

02:20 AM on 10/03/2010

oh, english lit. i see. certainly has some creative writers working for her.

[Superb1]

11:24 AM on 09/29/2010

Here is my prediction: Citing a need to help the United States without being in the confines of congress, odonnell will withdraw her candidacy to become a pseudo-journalist at the pseudo TV station faux new. She will join wasilly sara as the star of the new nightly news show "Frick & Frack" and give speaking engagements for a fee.

[TurnToTheLeft]

01:47 PM on 09/29/2010

Possibly true. But, Mama Grizzly does not like to share the limelight; she would throw a shriekfest if FOX even considered the thought. Mama Grizzly looks out for Mama Grizzly - everyone else is an extra in her Reality Show life.

[nowme]

06:48 PM on 09/20/2010

She says she never lies--it must be true that she had her degree in 1993. Maybe this is a second degree--that would explain it. She wouldn't lie about lying.

[dcjdjay]

09:03 PM on 09/09/2010

Wow! She makes Sister Sarah look like a genius with her degree in 6 years gig.

[tomterif]

10:57 AM on 09/07/2010

Not to mention Harry S Truman, who only made it through high school, and Abraham Lincoln, who only made it halfway through ELEMENTARY school. [Lincoln very much wanted to continue his formal education, at the one room schoolhouse, that was a major distance away, but his young presence was too badly needed on his little family homestead, "to help with the chores". He was an avid reader, though, and with the help of his beloved Mom, became magnificently well educated.]

Jerk !

And by the way, Sarah Palin received her undergraduate Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism, from the University of Idaho, in 1987.

But with "progressive" snooty faux elitists, like yourself, who'll frenetically cling to anything you can think of, to try to maintain your entirely bogus impression you're somehow inherently superior, to anyone associated with the Republican party, conservatism, the Tea Parties, etc., you're just going to pretty much continue with believing what you find "makes you feel good" to believe, anyway, so wasting too much time arguing with people such as yourself, over relatively small details, strikes me as probably not a really great way of budgeting one's time. [Continued]

[tomterif]

11:47 AM on 09/07/2010

If anyone's left wondering, here, what my above comment was specifically in REPLY to, I'd intended to post it as a reply to someone else's comment, a little further down on this board.

I was able to have immediately corrected that technical slip up, however, by successfully re-posting it [and the continuation post that completed it] in the correct spot on the board, below.

Thank you.

[drdubski]

09:36 AM on 09/10/2010

but did those guys claim to have graduated when they didn't? yeah, didn't think so.

[rikster]

08:12 PM on 09/06/2010

wouldn't that make her too smart to be a Senator..?

[grf67]

07:38 PM on 09/06/2010

Well, she did finish. That puts her way ahead of the AZ governor and the Alaska ex half governor.

[tomterif]

11:08 AM on 09/07/2010

That's fine with me, though, as I know that, starting less than 60 days from now, we're going to go at least a very major way of the way to voting people, currently representing your variously skewed mindset[s] in the United States Congress, Governorships, and various state and local offices, out of political power in this country, which is a job which we'll then have the opportunity to successfully complete in the year 2012, when the Presidency will also of course be up for election..

That's more than enough to make me happy !, so please :

You and your colleagues just go ahead and be my guest, in feeling yourselves inherently superior. "intellectually" [Haha : )], philosophically, spiritually [Oh please !], and in any other way you wish, to political Republicans, conservatives, Tea Party people, etc., as the opportunity will be afforded you to do so while being completely outside of the major halls of political power in this country, which ["outside of"] locale you've all EMINENTLY earned for yourselves, in this great nation of the United States.of America.

[whirledgonecrazy]

05:14 PM on 09/15/2010

you know, no one is really listening or reading your clap trap....fyi.
signed,
snooty faux elitist

[AwShucks]

12:43 PM on 09/29/2010

I'm taking it that you also did not get much schooling ?

[laxwaxer]

07:25 PM on 09/06/2010

Ahhhh, She has grown up so fast. Just last week she learning to write with crayons.
Anything is possible at Glen Beck University.

[KeyInfo]

07:21 PM on 09/06/2010

She's also a virgin. This job would eat her alive. Plus she is so inexperienced about life it's a joke. She needs to join a nunnery.

[BlueFloyd]

07:28 AM on 09/10/2010

she needs to be eaten

[lynnda37]

01:02 AM on 09/19/2010

no virgin!!! she had a real great time in college with alcohol and sex then she found Jesus

[intolleft]

06:38 PM on 09/06/2010

At least we know she has one.

[blueman00009]

06:26 PM on 09/06/2010

Why do all these teabaggers have this weird vacant look in their eyes? Every last one of them. It is like the stepford politicians. Very frightening.

[TheBlondeRaven]

10:16 PM on 09/06/2010

That's a spot on observation.

[HKB]

04:01 PM on 09/06/2010

Attended graduation but didn't pick up the diploma ? A fake and fraud - what's the deal with this ? If people claim to have and degree then don't it usually means they would be terminated from their job ............. so why would any voter give her job when they know she is a liar and deceiver ? Because they can only vote the party path?

[teshkie]

02:20 PM on 09/06/2010

if she had just come clean about never graduating, she could have turned it into good publicity - never brainwashed by the system, different from the current money-hungry politicians - but instead she had to lie. she pretty much screwed herself on this one.

[KarateKid]

01:06 PM on 09/06/2010

The article says nothing about how she obtained her degree. She probably blew someone at FDU.

[rmonroe]

12:57 PM on 09/06/2010

How much did this cost the Tea Party I wonder. She all of a sudden comes up with a degree. Lame.