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What About the (D.C.) Children?

By Doug Bandow on 3.2.09 @ 1:53PM

So often the Democrats give the impression that they love humanity but hate people, especially the most vulnerable and disadvantaged. What else could explain the campaign to eliminate the scholarships now provided to allow a few children to escape the horrid D.C. public schools? President Barack Obama doesn't send his kids to these schools. Sen. Ted Kennedy sure never sent his kids to them. Even some public school teachers don't send their kids to them. Obviously, the support of teachers' unions matters more to most Democrats than the interests of children.

But the children are now speaking out. Watch this video, in which scholarship kids read letters to President Obama asking him to save their scholarships. Let's hope the president who says he is so dedicated to listening actually listens to those who most need real change.

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stan redmond| 3.2.09 @ 3:03PM

Get use to it kiddies. Obama doesn't care about you, never has, never will, and will make sure to destroy your futures to gather votes to keep him and the dems (that control that mess of a city by the way) in power. But don't worry. If you just vote for them one last time, they'll fix it for sure...

Chris Long| 3.2.09 @ 3:29PM

Obama's epitome of elitism and condescension toward those children in D.C. who still have hope, in spite of their own government's determination to stamp it out.

It really IS all about the NEA union and its still unflagging support for Liberal causes in general and, specifically, every crackpot education fad that ever came along.

Let's face it: schools are where the Liberals implement Phase One of their social engineering schema, the ability to reach your children at will, without your ability to 'interfere', with any message they see fit to hammer home.

Everything in public schools , from the racial and ethnic mix, to the gay-themed morality tales, to the carefully crafted political message is scripted.

Indeed, to see the Politically Correct, minority-themed handouts children bring home these days as 'homework', to be pored over in the intimacy of their own homes clearly show the war is lost. Printed from a few websites the NEA endorses, the PC handouts delve into matters from the Indian princess who allegedly founded the state of Georgia to the time-honored theme of blacks victimized at the hands of evil white men. The assertion that most minorities are victims in perpetuity and somehow wards of the government is a continual theme.

In my view, keeping children in those types of schools is the height of parental irresponsibility...

Real American| 3.2.09 @ 4:01PM

Liberals don't love the little people and disadvantaged. They simply use those people as political props as a means of acquiring more power. they love controlling people.

And the poor and disadvantaged are much easier to control, that's also why the libs claim to love them so much. That's why liberal policies don't raise people out of poverty, but rather keep them there where they can be controlled. That's why liberals hate capitalism - they can't control it or the people in it.

Pete| 3.2.09 @ 4:40PM

Well said, Real American, and Liberals don't cotton to them Home-Schoolers, Vouchers or Charter Schools either. Who would have the impertinence to offer any meaningful alternative to these failed public (actually government) schools.

jr| 3.2.09 @ 4:45PM

If they grow up outside the government schools, they may have learned to read, calculate, and may have even read the Constitution.

ruth| 3.2.09 @ 5:06PM

Liberalism would die if people knew how to think analytically, instead of FEEL their way through life.

Alan Brooks| 3.2.09 @ 7:30PM

social 'progress' is finished.

game over.

Alan Brooks| 3.2.09 @ 10:42PM

education can't go anywhere until segregation in schools is returned-- segregating the smart from the dumb.

and how likely do you think that is?

Crusader| 3.2.09 @ 10:54PM

Alan, education is done. If you are smart and black, you get accused of "acting white." Meanwhile white kids are all wearing their hats cockeyed and pants that are too big and listening to gangsta rap. Sure sign the civilization is on the steep decline is when the superior culture embraces aspects of the inferior culture.

Now pass da blunt and de 40 while I hike my drawers up so' mo'!