Comments on: Did you “choose hope over fear”? If so, you’re not getting it.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:55:23 +0000

Used to be a saying out there, “Them what can, do. Them what can’t, teach.”

I’ve never seen a study that showed students in any education college of any university in this nation weren’t (on average) the lowest secondary GPA and SAT scores on campus, and few that showed they didn’t have the lowest average GPA scores in college.

And I’ve met few who had fundamental writing skills in English, and not a whole bunch who could put a coherent sentence together.

But, I’ve also found that, almost without exception, they knew how to put a condom on a cucumber!

They obviously know what the establishment’s priorities are.

By: Great White Rat

Great White Rat — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:26:58 +0000

I’m with Dave and Carlos on the effects of miserable education. I’d add that this is a problem that will NOT be fixed, because liberals want a population of dunces. Anyone with the slightest grasp of economics, for example, knows the socialism fails every time, and would not vote for Obama. A stupid population is the libs’ best hope for keeping power.

That fits in perfectly with the teachers’ unions, who want the status quo – low standards, no merit pay, no parental school choice. They’re willing to fork over multi-millions in campaign cash to leftists who mouth platitudes about reforming education, but will do nothing at all to solve the problem. That’s especially true in the urban centers where you find the worst schools.

You want to know what Obama will do for education? Look at what he did with $100 million of Annenberg Challenge money.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:26:22 +0000

Way back, the Soviet Premier Kruschev declared (during the Cold War) that they would not have to bury the United States – we would bury ourselves. Well, about the same time between that declaration and the fall of the Soviet Union has occurred since that fall, and Kruschev’s prescient declaration is coming true. Unfortunately it is due to racism that we now have a prez who leads us to that demise.

By: Linda F

Linda F — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:55:01 +0000

Oh, Sister, I know how you feel. It’s hard to keep some degree of optimism in the midst of such massively quick demolition of everything that makes America great.

But, I keep remembering those words of Tennyson, who wrote:

We must lose ourselves in action, lest we wither in despair.

We who are conservative have to use our best attributes – courage in the face of overwhelming odds and conviction that we fight for the right things – to overcome this, our darkest hours. We can do no less than the Valley Forge soldiers and other patriots who fought for their country (which really didn’t even exist at the time).

Have a few drinks tonight. Then, tomorrow, put on our big girl panties, and slog on.

By: Brontefan

Brontefan — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:51:16 +0000

I would have to say our entire educational system should receive the credit for the millions of people who raced down to the polls and voted for “hope and change” that they knew nothing about. Some interviewed did not seem to be aware that Obama’s running mate was not Sarah Palin. When a journalist went to NYC to interview people about Obama, he actually credited OB with the McCain platform; however, no one seemed to notice and everyone was still for Obama. This country has changed all right! I was planning for my retirement and things were looking fairly good; now I am unsure if I will be able to retire in five years. My only hope is that somehow sane Americans can stop this insanity before we are totally socialist. The problem with most liberals is that they don’t notice they’ve been duped until it is too late and the damages have been done. Where in the US Constitution does it say we give tax dollars to the Secretary of the Treasury to do as he wishes? I wonder if all those GM & Chrysler employees who are being sacked are finally understanding what it means to have a government take-over? OB lives like a king while he spends our tax dollars at an unconscionable rate and people still think something wonderful is going to happen and the jobs are just going to materialize right before our eyes? Don’t we need to hae new businesses or expanding businesses to create jobs? How many jobs will be created when we are taxed beyond our wildest dreams for all forms of energy? When people can’t afford gasoline to put into their cars in order to commute to work–will they really be more interested in the global warming fantasy than in basic survival? I was in secondary education and I complained that we were graduating students who could read “words” but had no comprehension skills whatsoever. I was shunned and criticized for introducing the concept of literature as a vehicle for reading comprehension and critical thinking skills. One high school junior insisted on writing a report of Clinton and wrote that he was impeached because of the partisan vote. When I pointed out that the vote was not along party lines–he was furious. He refused to remove that line from his paper, even though I showed him the Senate vote. You are right—liberals will believe the lie if it is more convenient. . It’s the truth that is INCONVIENENT!

By: jann

jann — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:34:22 +0000

We have a person who gives us hope over fear but our side is too hung up on protocol to get behind her. Yes behind her, you see she put herself in the lead now and people are scared to trust her because they have been lied to so much. But she wears her beliefs on her sleeve and her actions are in step with those beliefs. In a way she’s playing with peoples mind she’s so honest. I find it very hopeful to finally see someones soul for a change, for that matter that she has one.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:00:25 +0000

Fairly accurate, Dave. The public schools should be proud for bringing us at least two generations of nitwits who couldn’t understand history if it slapped them upside the head (but they sure know how to keep from getting preggers from a cucumber!).

Hope and change? Yeh, I’ve got it. I hope this country lasts long enough to change administrations, but that hope is fading.

By: Steve Skubinna

Steve Skubinna — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:33:51 +0000

Since much of Obama’s support was from timorous boobs afraid they’d be branded as racists otherwise, the “hope over fear” schtick is rich.

But what do you expect from the people who claimed to be above racism, while throwing the race card down at every opportunity?

By: Frank Kealty

Frank Kealty — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:40:27 +0000

The “Big Lie” technique of propaganda, which is based on the principle that a lie, if audacious enough and repeated enough times, will be believed by the masses seems to be the guiding mantra of the current administration. Josef Goebels would be proud.
Since we are all carbon based units isn’t cap and trade then a tax on the air we breathe? This is the path to slavery people-wake up before it is too late. Taxes=control.

By: DaveinPhoenix

DaveinPhoenix — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:32:57 +0000

Americans are a nation of adolescents who threw out of office the very people who gave them the balanced budgets of 1998-01: the Republican Congress. These same brainless sacks of crap then replaced the honorable adults who gave them this very nice economy with self-serving hypocritical lying hacks who have corrupted absolutely. With guns pointed at their heads, the millions of adolescent irresponsible Americans then decided to purchase homes which they absolutely knew they could not afford. After collapsing the economy with this effort, they then blamed Bush and elected a Socialist scumbag into the White House and even more self-serving hypocritical lying hacks who are so busy destroying jobs and taxpayers, that they don’t even have time to read the legislation which they pass.

I’ve lost all hope – not so much in politicians, but the root cause of the problem: a nation of adolescents who are entirely irresponsible, lazy, ignorant, and clueless about how to successfully lead a nation forward. Clueless about American history and how we became the greatest nation on Earth. And until America grows up, it’s truly hopeless.