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Yes. It shows how too much book smarts can sometimes cause loss of common sense.
this is by far the dumbest talking point when it comes to Obama. community organizer was one of several things he did prior to becoming a prominent politician. he also worked as a civil rights attorney and taught constitutional law for 12 years. then he became a senator. why his three years as a community organizer from 1985-1988 is even relevant is beyond me, since it's not even a bad thing. stop reading chain emails please.
Maybe, but if you think some Republicans are going to defect, then you should look at the way they treated her. To me, they didn't treat her like somebody they weren't going to confirm.
I think the how grizzly bear thing is wildly overblown. She was simply illustrating the fact that a one-size fits all policy imposed by the federal government doesn't make sense when schools are dealing with really diverse issues. The whole bear thing came from a real life example of a school where they had so many problems with grizzlies that they had to build a fence to keep them out. One problem bear had to be shot, and its hide is up on the wall inside the school: http://www.denverpost.com/2005/09/12/lessons-in-bear-country/. So, as usual, Democrats are misrepresenting things.
Um, the liberals are the ones that spout "From a lowly community organizer to President is such a great achievement!" Nice try, thanks for playing, though.
no, it's not. there are plenty of older people, including those in my immediate family, who make a very comfortable income and still choose to vote democrat. older generations on the whole vote more conservative predominantly because of social issues, not because you gain any significant wisdom or better understanding of "how government works" as you grow older.
you sound like a really cool guy who likely uses the phrases libtard and lamestream media in your everyday life
It completely baffles me how any grown man can be a liberal...i just don't get it.
lol so you're just moving the goalposts on the original question you asked. you questioned how obama being a "community organizer" made him qualified to be president. I then pointed out to you that community organizer was merely one job he held as part of a fairly robust resume, including him working as a civil rights attorney and as a US Senator. So did you just have no knowledge of those credentials or were you being intentionally obtuse?
it complete baffles me how anyone could be as awful a poster as yourself on every subject but here we are.
I'm as conservative as anyone, but no clue why it's a bad idea to have national standards. You really want Joe Blow from Starr-Iva deciding what these kids should know in 5th grade?
I think one reason SC public schools have sucked for so long is because every year they change their minds on their "standards". They have the PACT test, then PASS test, then ACT or whatever, now SCPASS. Bunch of freaking idiots in Columbia - I've stayed at the same hotel in Myrtle Beach during their "Leadership Conference" at the Embassy Suites. You should see these people.
Just have a national set of guidelines, a national test, and everyone is on the same page. You can always send your kid to the local private Montessori school where there are no standards and your kid can screw around with stuff all day "learning at his own pace."
I think one reason SC public schools have sucked for so long is because every year they change their minds on their "standards". They have the PACT test, then PASS test, then ACT or whatever, now SCPASS. Bunch of freaking idiots in Columbia - I've stayed at the same hotel in Myrtle Beach during their "Leadership Conference" at the Embassy Suites. You should see these people.
Just have a national set of guidelines, a national test, and everyone is on the same page. You can always send your kid to the local private Montessori school where there are no standards and your kid can screw around with stuff all day "learning at his own pace."
Actually no. I refuse to resort to name calling because it serves no purpose other than to denigrate someone for having a different point of view. This is something many on the left don't understand, and, quite frankly, its one of the reasons why they lost this election. And they still don't get it. If someone instantly starts calling me derogatory names, the conversation is over. You clearly don't respect me enough to call me by my name, so I'm not going to respect your point of view. Simple as that.
And for the record, I'm not a Trump fan. I hate the Clinton's and all they stand for. She is one of the most corrupt people to ever serve in public life.
And no, I don't listen to Rush, I think he's got an enormous ego and likes to hear himself talk.
Does that cover all the bases for you?
**Edit - I now see this wasn't directed at me, but my point still stand.
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Thats true, and I do understand what you are saying.
But there is a much higher percentage of young people who are clueless. You look at the large majority of Bernie supports, the BLM protesters, the occupy wall street protesters, and all the same space BS. Most all of those people are young people, that don't understand how free college, free health care, forgive all student loans, etc.
Now I also will say, on the Republican side, that clueless block are the older people who believe Obama is a muslim and michelle Obama's mother will get a 180k pension from the federal government and don't understand that their medicare, ss, and farm subsidies are entitlements...the same entitlements they rally against and blame "the blacks" for.
dude the only thing you need to work on is your message board acumen because that post wasn't even in response to yours. I made fun of that guy specifically because he posted a really lame Facebook meme. I feel like my responses to your posts, while maybe a tad colorful, have contained mostly substantive points.
so calling me "boy" doesnt constitute "name calling", thats just a word of endearment that you use often in your life.
yikes yeah what if iceheart08 was black. then you'd have opened a whole can of worms.
I think you're generalizing a bit but I agree in substance with a lot of what you said here so fair enough. i just find it pretty ridiculous for you and jimbob to not see any merits with a "grown man" voting liberal. I find it appalling that anyone could vote for Trump for a myriad of reasons, a lot of which don't even deal with politics, but in general I can at least understand the republican/conservative viewpoint.
I wasn't aware that referring to your gender was racist, guess I've learned something new!
Typical liberal response, though, resorting to the racism card. I'd expect nothing less.
Never heard lamestream but I'll have to incorporate that into my Tweets when I'm posting anti-Hilary memes while driving 10 under the speed limit in the left lane. #Merica
Good point but if he had nothing to hide he would have released his tax returns like most all other prez candidates did. Who goes to DC?? Generally speaking, rich folk. Who makes the tax laws?? People in DC. So the rich folk aren't going to make laws that ultimately screw themselves out of money.
I never said anything about a grown man voting liberal. I just said a lot of young people, particularly college students vote liberal.
And for the record, I did not vote for Trump in the primaries. Of the 22 that ran (17R and 5D), I didnt like any of them.
Hillary, O'Mally, Chaffee, Perry, Christie, Jindal, Walker, Santorum were all terrible.
We don't need another Bush.
Bernie, while I actually respect the guy, is way too far left for this country and he would not have accomplished anything.
The only people I really liked were Webb, Paul and Kasich...none of which I was excited about.
Point being...22 candidates, and they all sucked.
Around here the liberal card is the card of choice. What's In your Wallet???
You are 100% correct. Same reason they vote against term limits, and opted themselves out of Obamacare....yet we keep electing career politicians.
With politicians, it is do as I say, not as I do.
mine was mostly a joke. but "boy" is certainly condescending. also, do you plan to respond to my post about Obama's resume or just letting that one go?
The fact that President Obama represented 0.0% of your views shows that you were a very closed minded individual. Some of the views and policies proposals that President Obama had in the beginning of his presidency were conservative ideas because he was trying to govern from the middle. For all the people on the left that hate everything Trump, they will have to acknowledge that all of Trump's ideas and policies are not conservative.
Anyone that wishes death on another person because of their political views is an extremist but so is a conservative that states that President Obama had 0.0% views that were aligned with their thinking. You wasn't paying attention the last 8 years.
Here were the reactions of Republicans to DeVos's nomination. They're all pretty effusive, including from the Committee Chair and George HW Bush's Education Secretary, Lamar Alexander: http://www.thecollegefix.com/bullet...s-nomination-betsy-devos-education-secretary/
Far from "opting themselves out of Obamacare," they (Republicans who thought of the amendment as a poison pill) actually opted themselves into it when they had no need to because they were covered by the same kind of employer-sponsored health insurance many others have. I'm all for calling out venality and corruption when it's real, but there's way too much fact-free scapegoating of politicians, as if they were anything other than our representatives.
jesus, you are literally a walking talking chain email. I didnt say it was racist, i implied that it was obvious "name calling", that you so strongly decry in another post.
I'm sure you could do the same with pretty much any person on earth, yourself and me included.
Not even a drop in the bucket saved compared to what it's costing to protect the First Lady and family in NYC. Who needs the White House when you have Trump Tower, AMIRITE?
Part of the job...just like Barry and Michelle flying all over the world and Barry's daily golf game.
The national review claiming a non-flattering article about a republican is fake news; that is expected. What can't be disputed is that Rick Perry advocated for the dismantle of the Department of Energy because it was Federal overeach by the government. Today during his confirmation hearing he states that he regrets advocating for the dismantle of DOE when he was running for president. Is it because he now actually knows what is the true function of the Department of Energy? The DOE was overseeing the country's nuclear stockpile when he couldn't remember the name of the department and saying the department wasn't needed.
Over 20% of our spending is on defense. We spend way more today than we did during the Cold War (adjusted for inflation). These stories give me hope, thanks!
