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Biden: "Children should be educated to the degree they are educable."
Youtube ^ | 7/12/12 | goprapidresponse

Posted on 07/12/2012 9:00:39 AM PDT by Nachum

Vice President Joe Biden at the NAACP conference says that "Children should be educated to the degree they are educable." (July 12, 2012)

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To: Mount Athos

Dictionary.com also defines it as:

of or pertaining to mildly retarded individuals who may achieve self-sufficiency.

Nice job, Joey. I guess if they weren’t smart enough to pick up on the condescension...


41 posted on 07/12/2012 9:57:06 AM PDT by filospinato
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To: Nachum
The question is who decides the educability of an individual. Is it the government?
42 posted on 07/12/2012 9:59:45 AM PDT by rightsmart
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To: Nachum

I guess Joe could have said that we shouldn’t be niggardly with the education of children. That would have been a big hit too. /s


43 posted on 07/12/2012 10:05:36 AM PDT by ken in texas (I was taught to respect my elders but it keeps getting harder to find any.)
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To: Mount Athos

Biden basically said “Your stupid kids don’t need to go to school”. That’s what people are ridiculing, not the use of educable.


44 posted on 07/12/2012 10:11:12 AM PDT by green iguana
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To: jayrunner

yeah. and soon it will be the government determining how much a person shoudl be educated to, and in what subject area...


45 posted on 07/12/2012 10:11:30 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: F15Eagle

LOL

We know they keep this clown around for a purpose.

The only thing I can come up with is Biden being
next in line for the presidency keeps 0 safe from harm.

Same with Pelousie, third in line.


46 posted on 07/12/2012 10:12:12 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's Welfare, Food Stamps, Division and Disability 'Legacy')
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To: Nachum

47 posted on 07/12/2012 10:23:13 AM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Mount Athos
"You didn't post this to make us look dumb right? Cause educable is a real word! educable [ˈɛdjʊkəbəl], educatable [ˈɛdjʊˌkeɪtəbəl] adj capable of being trained or educated; able to learn" NO, its just another idiotic statement. Biden is the poster child for the Peter Principle
48 posted on 07/12/2012 10:36:05 AM PDT by Bruinator ("For socialism is not merely the labour question, it is before all things an atheistic question")
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49 posted on 07/12/2012 10:36:40 AM PDT by PMAS
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To: Nachum

RAW, unedited JB text:

“Children should be educated to the degree they are edible.”


50 posted on 07/12/2012 10:37:49 AM PDT by mikrofon (Stand down, Joe!)
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To: quadrant

Children should be educated to the degree that they’re are willing to be educated. Which is the rub: far, far too many students don’t want to put forward the effort to be educated - and if they’re not willing to be educated, their capabilities are irrelevant.


And they have a lot of support in this state of mind. Too many Union teachers have a poor work ethic and are uneducated themselves. To some teachers, education means global Marxist political and social indoctrination. They see the students as their little brain washed revolutionaries.


51 posted on 07/12/2012 10:39:25 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Nachum
Plugs hasn't had an original thought in 30 years.

I'm sure he got a standing ovation from the two dozen in attendance.

52 posted on 07/12/2012 10:41:14 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (My dream ticket for 2012 is John Galt & Dagny Taggart!)
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To: lbryce
Vice Presidents should be kept silenced to the degree in which they are utterly nonsensical.

LOL!

53 posted on 07/12/2012 10:43:08 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (Pray for America. She is the world's last best hope for freedom. May it not be too late.)
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To: Nachum
What he's trying to say in Bidenspeak is that he, and other white liberals, don't really expect the same results from black people that they expect from white people.

It's the unspoken, but dominant, paternalistic view that most white liberals have towards black and hispanic people. And, inexplicably, they consider it racist when white people expect black people to be completely able to address their problems and meet their successes in life, just like they do.

George Bush called it "the soft racism of lowered expectations."

54 posted on 07/12/2012 10:51:35 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: usurper

No, what this means is that the government will decide who will continue on in school and who will be left behind. Are you really comfortable with that? Kids in good school districts will continue, kids in crappy school districts, well.. you know.


55 posted on 07/12/2012 10:59:54 AM PDT by BLOC77 (i was pro-life before pro-life was cool)
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To: Nachum

Looks like ol Joe believes in only outcome-based education for his friends at the NAACP. Someone needs to remind Joe that that second “A” stands for ADVANCEMENT!


56 posted on 07/12/2012 11:04:18 AM PDT by babyfreep
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To: camle

As one who has fought my local school district for several years, you are exactly right.


57 posted on 07/12/2012 11:05:59 AM PDT by BLOC77 (i was pro-life before pro-life was cool)
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To: Nachum

Uh oh, that is bigoted against slow learn chilluns in the inner city democrat ghetto plantations, maybe even wacist.


58 posted on 07/12/2012 11:06:31 AM PDT by Sea Parrot (Don't ever think that the reason I am peaceful is because I forgot how to be violent)
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To: BLOC77

when i was in high school, some schmuck predicted a shortage of guidance counselors. so everybody going into career counselign was counselled into being (you guessed it) a guidance counselor.
so the next thing you know, there’s a glut of guidance counselors, adn those people who let the school decide what they should be found themselves in trouble. too much competition for too few jobs...


59 posted on 07/12/2012 11:15:25 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: Nachum

Wow, now THAT’S a slippery slope, indeed!


60 posted on 07/12/2012 11:21:16 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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