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The Spectacle Blog
With regard to Joe Lawler’s post about the Obama Administration’s opposition to Speaker John Boehner’s efforts to restore funding to the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) why is it that the Obamas can send their daughters to the school of their choice but would deny the same opportunity to their neighbors in the District of Columbia?
If the Obamas truly believed in public education they would send their daughters to a public school. But when it comes right down to it President Obama doesn’t really believe in the efficacy of public education. His support for public education begins and ends with the teachers’ unions. In the grand scheme of things, it is a classic case of public education for thee but not for me.
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LiveFreeOrDie| 3.30.11 @ 12:34PM
What else is new?
David W| 3.30.11 @ 12:47PM
"In the grand scheme of things, it is a classic case of public education for thee but not for me."
Come on, I don't read the American Spectator for such obvious closing comments. Since when has any democrat or RINO ever not been a hypocrit (don't do what I do, do what I say)?
FastJohnny| 3.30.11 @ 12:50PM
Never so blatently and arrogantly as the One.
FastJohnny| 3.30.11 @ 12:49PM
It has nothing to do with his support or lack thereof for school choice. He just thinks that the rest of us plebians are not qualified to make the same decisions as the Lecturer and Chief. He is President Professor, the One who stands above the unwashed, uneducated masses, the annointed one who is above the people. He tells and we must heed. My god, think of what it must have been like to be a student in this pompous a## class.
JFGalt| 3.30.11 @ 1:11PM
"My god, think of what it must have been like to be a student in this pompous a## class."
Excellent observation!
Why haven't there been tons of interviews all over the news with these people? You would think news organizations would be all over this seeking out these people who benefited from the insights and teaching of Fearless Leader. I haven't seen a single one. Maybe they saw the truth of it then and when the media heard the interviews they saw that it didn't fit their agenda. Oops!
All American American| 3.30.11 @ 12:52PM
I dunno about anyone else but its get tiring to read all of these "why is it that....." and then the punchline is something like this. Look, we can play the "why is it that" game all day. We KNOW why it is that. It is that because some pigs are more equal. Until a majority of Americans can actually, you know, feed, clothe, and shelter themselves without help from Nanny State Gubmint, it will continue to be like that.
Look, here's some more:
Why is it that---
- Barbara Boxer can have guns, but she wants to take them away from everyone else?
- that dem senator can owe $237,000 in personal property taxes on a plane and not go to jail, but if I fail to pay my yearly $100 "personal property tax" on my truck, the sheriff will come to arrest me at around 4 am?
- Why is it that GE made untold billions last year but paid no income taxes?
- Why is it that wanting to kill your unborn baby is "choice," but wanting to send your child to a private school is considered "anti-American?"
See, we can do this all day long. And nothing will change.
FastJohnny| 3.30.11 @ 2:36PM
Yes, the "Animal Farm" analogy is very fitting. However, to All American, I would submit that even though the repetive nature of the comments and blog posts may be spinning our wheels, it is good to know that it isn't just ourselves that are thinking this. It is nice to know that we have some people in our corner.
Sheila| 3.30.11 @ 12:55PM
Another excellent comment, All American American, and a worthy rebuttal to another of Goldstein's pathetic columns.
Jonah| 3.30.11 @ 1:05PM
It's not just Goldstein; most of the writers at AmSpec are squisy squishes.
Floyd Looney | 3.30.11 @ 2:18PM
Egalitarianism for all.
Some are more egalitarian than others I guess.
PattyMor| 3.30.11 @ 3:08PM
No scholarships for these. Stay on the Democrat plantantion and shut up.
Its a known fact that most of the public school teachers in Chicago send their kids to private schools.
Oldefarte| 3.30.11 @ 4:02PM
Amen to that, Aaron! Even Jimmy-from-Plains Carter sent his children to DC public schools, as I recall. CHOSEN is a typical HYPOCRITICAL LIBERAL DEMOCRAT, as you describe!!!!!