In the weeks before the election, I noticed a growing number of my fellow citizens wearing Obama’s face on their t-shirts, usually in the spirit of socialist realism art. There’s not a politician alive who I admire enough to the point of worshipful adoration that I’d sport his likeness on my clothing or plaster it all over the wordsmobile (I do, however, wear my FA t-shirts with pride and enthusiastically tell people it’s a right-wing website when asked).
Teacher Diantha Harris browbeats McCain supporting student, Kathy,in Ashville N.Carolina grade school. The poor girl is obviously distressed over the teacher’s line of questiong and belittling her choice of candidate in front of her school mates.
Note the use of vague promises of “change”, and abusing the “100 more years of Iraq war” to McCain when addressing the military daughter/student. Also, that the war was “senseless”.
Moral of the story? Keep a close eye on what they are teaching your children in school….
Today, my 6yr old little girl Katy got off the school bus ashamed and in tears. I ran out to see what was wrong, and she finally looked up at me, “Daddy, I got some bad news.”
“What’s wrong? What happened? Are you hurt?”
“No. The kids on bus #9 (pre-teen kids) said that if we vote for McCain they’re gonna drop bombs on our house and our cars and kill us tonight.”
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Send an e-mail of protest to St. Olaf’s president, David Anderson, Ph.D. at anderson@stolaf.edu
Load up his Inbox now!
Why, you ask? Because one of St. Olaf’s visiting professors, Phil Busse, is a criminal jackass.
I have said to Mr. McCain that I admire all he has done. I have some concerns about the direction that the party has taken in recent years. It has moved more to the right than I would like to see it, but that’s a choice the party makes.- Colin Powell, Former Secretary of State under the Bush Administration, on Meet the Press, Sunday October 19, 2008
What did Colin Powell have in mind, exactly, in stating his belief that the Republican Party has moved further starboard? Expansion of government and uncontrolled spending? Dramatic Increases in entitlement programs, such as social security, food stamps, and medicare drug benefit? Dramatic increase in education spendings (“I believe that education is the new civil right.”- President Bush) under the current president? Faith-based intitiatives aimed at benefiting the poor? A soft “compassionate conservative” approach by the Administration in dealing with illegal immigration and immigration reform? More financial relief to fight AIDS in Africa as well as helping local farmers in Africa, doing more to help people living in Africa than any other previous U.S. president?
President Bush has behaved rather liberally on not just spending, but on supporting programs that have been beneficial to minority groups.
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The Harry Reid quote could today read:
“I believe…that this election is lost”
- Kathleen Parker, David Brooks, Bill Kristol, George Will, Peggy Noonan
Such pessimism. It’s not like our Party hasn’t found itself in this predicament before. Remember: “My friends, we’ve got them just where we want them.”
Of course, McCain needs an election surge strategy, buttressed by an Ohio State Awakening. He needs to start fighting for American votes like it’s a war. (“I’d rather win an election, than lose a war.”). He needs to win the hearts and minds of those American voters who have not gone so far off the deep end that they are willing to hand the steering wheel to this country’s future over to Obama, Nancy, and Reid.
The Chicago Annenberg Challenge was supposed to be all about educational reform. The original funds from Annenberg were $50-60 mil. With ensuing fundraising efforts, that tally ended at approx $160 mil. However over $100 mil of that went to political purposes via community organizing and campaigns for LSC friendly candidates that Ayers/Obama supported for educational reform in Chicago schools.
Since Ayers and Obama teamed up for educational reform, just what kind of “reform” (which ended in failure) was Obama helping Ayers attempt to achieve?
For that we dig back to a 2006 interview between William Ayers, and Venezuelan socialist Luis Bonilla-Molina, founder of the Centro Internacional Miranda (CIM). HotAir’s Ed Morrissey posted one of the 12 Ayers videos included in this collection back in August of this year. He also noted the interview took place with the Che portrait hanging in the background… oddly appropriate.
In Ed’s piece, he chose the one where Ayers discussed how the Weather Underground was a “great teaching moment”. You can read Ed’s thoughts at the link above.
I, however, found the last two videos of Ayers’ interview far more revealing about Ayers’ vision of the future for US public schools. Since Ayers and Obama share a common vision, and Obama minces his words about his educational reform to cater to a nation who doesn’t cotton to outright socialist/Marxist ideals, perhaps Ayers can verbalize what Obama dances around.
Below, Part 11’s video
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