Posted on 06/18/2008 5:38:18 AM PDT by shrinkermd
When Bill Clinton ran for president in 1992, he notably dissented from liberal orthodoxy on welfare and the death penalty. Many observers have been wondering if Barack Obama will follow Clinton's example. They frequently raise school choice as a cause Obama could take up to show his independence from Democratic interest groups.
It doesn't look as if that's going to happen, as ABC News's Jake Tapper reports:
On the same day that he was extolling the need to shake up the "status quo" in education, Obama also defended his opposition to school vouchers.
"We don't have enough slots for every child to go into a parochial school or a private school. And what you would see is a huge drain of resources out of the public schools," Obama said.
[John] McCain advocates giving every parent a voucher to essentially choose which school they'd like to send their child. Obama, whose two daughters attend private school, said that idea would crush the public school system entirely.
"But what I don't want to do is to see a diminished commitment to the public schools to the point where all we have are the hardest-to-teach kids with the least involved parents with the most disabilities in the public schools," he said. "That's going to make things worse, and we're going to lose the commitment to public schools that I think have been so important to building this country."
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Gee, Mr. Obama, that doesn’t sound like *change* to me.
Of course he has choice on where to send his kids to school but he wants to deny that same choice to other Chicago parents and across the country.
And they say he’s not an elitist?
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Obie soundy likey control freak to me........
“... we’re going to lose the commitment to public schools that I think have been so important to building this country.”
Obeyme’s only interest is to keep the proletariat indoctrination camps running full throttle. They are the well spring for turning out future Marxist golems.
Dear UNION Teachers: Don’t worry...You’ll get your big fat pensions and I might even shorten the school year. Just teach what I tell you and everything will be fine if you vote for me. Love Ya all...Big Bump...Obama
So it’s ok for his kids to go to a private school, but an inner city parent can’t be allowed to have the same for their kids ? I thought he was for making everyone’s life an utopia ? Or is that just for the members of the politburo ?
He’s an elistist.
Why? Why would there be such a drain of reources out of the public schools? Is it because everybody knows they suck?
And what happens if resources do drain out? Lots of resources become available, families start looking for slots in parochial or private schools, then what happens? Oh, yeah, the resources are used to create slots in parochial or private schools.
Does this guy understand nothing?
Pandering to the NEA.....and offering NO new ideas and NO real change.
His best chance was against Hitlery; another "pragmatist". Against Obama he looks like a doddering fool.
There are two america’s. One for him and one for us.
Not only does he get private school for his kids, he gets reduced tuition because his wife has a job at UofC and they run the school. A job that is political patronage and pays 300k. Plus..he gets a discount on realestate from Mr. Fixit of IL.
This is not change..except that he has moved the DNC from DC to S.Chicago. I hope they like the change. Now the DNC will be run Chicago curruption style..worse than DC.
Obama checked with the NEA and they told him he was against vouchers.
It’s time to concentrate on the really awful agenda of Obama. He could do some REAL harm in many areas, particularly with his plans for defense capabilities.
LOL!
I thought hypocrisy was a word, not an entire sentence...
You know...I’d love to know just WHO Obama’s core advisors are? It’s obvious he doesn’t have much expertise on a multitude of issues.
You can say that again.
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