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-shirtswith 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.” Read the rest of this entry »
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. Read the rest of this entry »
“I’d rather lose an election than lose a war.”- John McCain
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.
MataHarley From Cary: Perhaps what you’re really saying that that what should be “good enough for them” isn’t good enough for you. I hope you’re not, because that would...
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WWJDFAKB Been going down since before the election, fwiw. Nice to see you have so many buckets for your cherries.
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Red73 Dave Noble “Obama’s election is destroying the stock market. A classic logic error: “The post hoc ergo propter hoc (after this therefore because of this) fallacy is based...
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MataHarley CTN, I understand the frustration with the entire nation’s laissez faire attitude towards Obama’s birth. Then again, I also have seen that the right tend to be...
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Hard Right That would hurt them and slow their progress down a bunch. No money, no nukes. Not sure if it would be permanent though. The left is so incapable of facing the fact that...
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MataHarley Ah yes… when Bush followed Clinton into office, it was replacing one “Great Satan” with another. Now we have the “Great Satan” replaced with...
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Cary Oh, and sorry about 53 and 54 - I went back and edited the first, and thought it didn’t go through, so I typed it in as a separate comment - they both ended up in spam, I...
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bbartlog @mlajoie2: Thanks for the kind words. I was pleased to see someone putting JS Mill in the crosshairs (so to speak) since I had always thought the utilitarians were wrong and...
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Hard Right “Reality dawns before you.” He’ll never see it or even admit it exists because it doesn’t mesh with what he wants it to be.
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Cary Mata, I mean repetitive by the fact that you bring up arguments that I have already responded to and all you need do is scroll up to find them. Given that you find this all...