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Diogenes wrote:The part that got my attention...

Education is the civil rights issue of this century. Equal access to public education has been gained. But what is the value of access to a failing school? We need to shake up failed school bureaucracies with competition, empower parents with choice, remove barriers to qualified instructors, attract and reward good teachers and help bad teachers find another line of work.

Moving Sale wrote:

Diogenes wrote:The part that got my attention...

Education is the civil rights issue of this century. Equal access to public education has been gained. But what is the value of access to a failing school? We need to shake up failed school bureaucracies with competition, empower parents with choice, remove barriers to qualified instructors, attract and reward good teachers and help bad teachers find another line of work.

No. We need to scrap Federal* Public funding of K-12.

Mikey wrote:
Don't forget that he's a Mavrick too.

Diogenes wrote: That would be terrific.

Moving Sale wrote:

Diogenes wrote: That would be terrific.

Then quit starting threads about how someone who just said the opposite of that did "far better than ... expected.

mvscal wrote:

Moving Sale wrote:

Diogenes wrote: That would be terrific.

Then quit starting threads about how someone who just said the opposite of that did "far better than ... expected."

Fucking tard.

Not only far better than expected, but Excelent even.

Diogenes wrote: Reform ... is preferable to the status quo.

BSmack wrote:I can't believe I watched the whole thing. I should at least get a Bronze Star for enduring that kind of torture.

Moving Sale wrote:

Diogenes wrote: Reform ... is preferable to the status quo.

Way to sell out.

Sudden Sam wrote: Didn't see any of McCain's speech. Saw a little of the video bio.

Mikey wrote:

Sudden Sam wrote: Didn't see any of McCain's speech. Saw a little of the video bio.

Yeah, I missed it too. Last night I was out doing "community service" which, apparently, the Republicans are all in favor of on Tuesdays, but sneer at on Wednesdays.

Diogenes wrote:

Mikey wrote:

Sudden Sam wrote: Didn't see any of McCain's speech. Saw a little of the video bio.

Yeah, I missed it too. Last night I was out doing "community service" which, apparently, the Republicans are all in favor of on Tuesdays, but sneer at on Wednesdays.

Actually we're in favor of it. It just isn't a qualification to be CinC.

Diogenes wrote: Trying to see that lower income families can send their kids to decent schools is 'selling out'?

BSmack wrote:
Neither is getting shot down. But that doesn't stop McCain from using 10 minutes of his acceptance speech describing his stay in Hanoi.

Tom In VA wrote:Very intriguing stuff on this website.

http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com/

Moving Sale wrote:

Diogenes wrote: Trying to see that lower income families can send their kids to decent schools is 'selling out'?

So you DO believe in Federal funding for K-12.

Former Congressmen Warn Troops: As Senator He Abandoned American POWs Trapped in Indochina; as President He'll Abandon You

Special to the U.S. Veteran Dispatch
By former U.S. Congressmen Bill Hendon (R-NC)
and John LeBoutillier (R-NY)
August 16, 2008

"He [McCain] has told me several times over the years that the myth of live POWs was a cruel hoax on the families. He chaired hearings into the issue in the 1990s and found nothing. 'The committee … pored over thousands of records and every claim of a sighting, no matter how outlandish,' says Salter. 'It was all untrue.'" Jonathan Alter, When Ross Perot Calls..., Newsweek.com January 16, 2008

Senator John McCain's heroic and inspiring wartime service in Vietnam notwithstanding, we know from personal experience he is not fit to serve as Commander-in-Chief of America's armed forces. Here is how we know this:

In mid-summer 1991, the U.S. Senate created the Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs and charged it with conducting a no-holds-barred investigation into the long-festering matter of American POWs reportedly still held captive by the Communist North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao. On the day the legislation creating the Select Committee was passed, August 2, a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll conducted nationwide showed that 69% of Americans surveyed believed that Americans were still held captive in Southeast Asia and 75% believed the U.S. government wasn't doing enough to get them home.

Following months of negotiations between the committee and a very reluctant George H. W. Bush administration, committee intelligence investigators were finally able to obtain the postwar intelligence files relating to live POWs. Committee investigators spent some 2,700 man hours vetting, analyzing and crosschecking the postwar intelligence. They found it a textbook blend of human intelligence (HUMINT); intercepts of secret enemy radio traffic (SIGINT), and images taken by unmanned reconnaissance drones and U.S. spy satellites (IMINT). The committee's intelligence investigators told the senators that collectively the intelligence indicated the North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao had held back hundreds of POWs at Operation Homecoming in 1973 and that many were still alive in captivity during the late 1980's and early 1990's.

By the time committee investigators finally began briefing the senators in secret sessions in early spring, 1992, the issue of live POWs had become, as McCain later described it, "white hot;" this not only because of intense public interest in the plight of the POWs, but also because Texas businessman and longtime POW advocate H. Ross Perot had entered the presidential race, and had done so amid press accounts that he thought President Bush was not doing enough to bring the POWs home. By late May Perot was in first place in the national polls, ahead of President Bush, who was in second place, and the presumptive Democratic nominee, Governor Bill Clinton, who was in third. What would the committee find? Might a ruling that 69% of the American people were right and that, in fact, there were live POWs still held half a world away throw the election to Perot? How could it not?

Mikey wrote:

Tom In VA wrote:Very intriguing stuff on this website.

http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com/

Why do you hate America?

Diogenes wrote: Why do you hate poor people and kids?

Moving Sale wrote:

Diogenes wrote: Why do you hate poor people and kids?

Keep stroking Mcloon's liberal cock.

What's next? I bet he is for Social Security. And how about his stand on art1sec8? I bet he thinks it applies to wheat grown and sold intrastate because it is "[regulating] Commerce ... among the several States."

Diogenes wrote:The fact that the 21st century is beyond your comprehension is your problem, loser.

mvscal wrote:

LTS TRN 2 wrote:this bitch is basically Cheney with tits.

Sure hate it for Plugs then. He's going to get worked like heavy bag.

Moving Sale wrote:

Terry in Crapchester wrote:

mvscal wrote:

LTS TRN 2 wrote:this bitch is basically Cheney with tits.

Sure hate it for Plugs then. He's going to get worked like heavy bag.

The Republicans don't want a televised vice-presidential debate. If that happens, Biden will dice her up, without even losing his smile, and without Palin even knowing what happened.

Diogenes wrote:

Moving Sale wrote:

Thanks for alleviating my insomnia, you tedious twat.

Diego in Seattle wrote:

Diogenes wrote:

Moving Sale wrote:

Thanks for alleviating my insomnia, you tedious twat.

"Irony for $1 Billion, Alex."

Diogenes wrote: Palin is going to rip him to shreads.

Nishlord wrote:

Diogenes wrote: Palin is going to rip him to shreads.

Seriously - did you actually see her speech...

LTS TRN 2 wrote:Because of her galling lack of experinece and knowledge of any actual national issues, she will NOT BE TAKING ANY QUESTIONS from any members of the press before the election.

LTS TRN 2 wrote:

Diogenes wrote:Put up or shut up, nutcase.

Nishlord wrote:Oh, fuck it;

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008 ... APHIC.html