[KayEyeDoubleDee]

She chose Barack Obama because one of her closest friends had begged her to give him a chance. “It was a very hard decision,” she says. “I’m somewhat terrified of what the Democrats are going to do on education.”

Is this some kind of a joke?

Can you say, "Sidwell Friends"?

These people can't really be this naive, can they?

[nmh]

“I’m somewhat terrified of what the Democrats are going to do on education.”

Then WHY did you VOTE FOR THEM?

IDIOT!

YOU are part of the problem.

[realdifferent1]

She chose Barack Obama because one of her closest friends had begged her to give him a chance.

God help us.

[dragonblustar]

She chose Barack Obama because one of her closest friends had begged her to give him a chance. “It was a very hard decision,” she says.

Typical. She voted for Doofus because her friend begged her.

No reason other than being begged into doing something. That's real freaking leadership there. /sarc

[WayneS]

How can one be “somewhat” terrified?

I thought “terrified” was one of states of being which one either IS or one ISN’T (sort of like “pregnant”).

I did not know until today that there were varying degrees of “terrified”.

Oh well, you learn something new every day...

[kidd]

“The idea that Obama was wholeheartedly behind school reform might have been the triumph of hope over evidence,” says Mike Petrilli

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[kidd]

“The idea that Obama was wholeheartedly behind school reform might have been the triumph of hope over evidence,” says Mike Petrilli

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[OneWingedShark]

...the “logic” here is stunning.

[70th Division]

Chancellor Michelle Rhee

Michelle honey let me help you out here. If the NEA is for Obama he is NOT going to support you. And to think she is making decisions for most of the children in D.C. Amazing

[RinaseaofDs]

Obama learned well. Just sell ‘Hope’. All you gotta do. The implication was that McCain was ‘hopeless’. More of the same.

2009 is going to make 2008 look like a banner year.

[polymuser]

Parents will soon have to schedule visits in school buildings; no more informal visits. Curricular materials and special events will be ‘opt-out’, with weak parental notification. Watch for a new, Annenberg-style pledge of allegiance. And students’ records and personal data will be widely accessible, with limits only for parents. Wait and see...

[Lancey Howard]

It’s all about the money. It’s always about the money with those cretins.

The teachers unions hand over the campaign cash (dues taken from taxpayer-paid teachers) and the Democrats advance the unions’ agenda (more taxpayer money for the teachers). It’s a money-laundering operation the mafia would be proud of, and it works the same way as any other money-laundering operation, from the abortion industry to the trial lawyers. It’s no more complicated than that.

Children don’t even rate as an afterthought.

[Tzimisce]

>So far it appears that Rhee may have chosen poorly:<

A lot of people are going to be saying this over the next 24 months....

[vpintheak]

Good thing she let her friend tell her what to do. I mean, who wants to make a good informed decision these days anyway?