Really?
Um. I think I'll just sit here and yelp too.
This is from www.heartkeepercommonroom.blogspot.com.
I'm sure it was meant under the best of terms. Flattery will get you everywhere with the NEA. Hooray, I don't have carry a membership anymore... I proudly carry an HSLDA card, now.
Enjoy, or yelp, as you please:
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Yelp
That's pretty much what I did when I read this quote from Barack Obama in an address to the American Federation of Teachers:
Real change is finally giving our kids everything they need to have a fighting chance in today’s world. That begins with recognizing that the single most important factor in determining a child’s achievement is not the color of their skin or where they come from; it’s not who their parents are or how much money they have. It’s who their teacher is. It’s the paraprofessionals and support staff and all of you in this room.
Read here for more from Junk Male, who is able to be much more coherent than I at this point- I'm still in the yelping stage.
(No, I doubt very much Obama meant it. He pretty much says whatever flattering words he things will down easy to the audience at the time. But still. YELP!)
"He pretty much says whatever flattering words he things will down easy to the audience at the time."
ReplyDeleteI'm getting this impression, too. I really feel that Obama has gone through a huge message change from "radical left" to "centrist". Whereas McCain has been more centrist his entire life. That willingness to change message is . . uncomfortable.
Still not decided, but definitely leaning McCain. This is the point in making an important decision where I have enough of an opinion to argue against myself - time to start looking for reasons to hate McCain.
The thing that firmed my opinion up was reading interviews of both candidates by an environmentalist group. To my surprise, I was nodding more with McCain than Obama. I really felt like McCain had thought about the issue more. Obama should have been much stronger on the environment as a Democrat, but he came across as less educated and less informed. I loved that McCain was talking about increasing nuclear power, and mentioned our options for disposing of the waste products safely. Right now, I really need the Obama camp to prove to me that he really is more concerned about the environment and better informed than McCain, and I need to be convinced that he won't be busy "campaigning" for female voters in the next election by pushing so-called "women's rights" issues.
But I've barely scratched the surface . . . maybe the Obama campaign can convince me. And yes, you may roll your eyes. I'm just not going to commit until I can say I am 100% sure this is the right person to vote for, and that means looking for reasons why I could be wrong and coming up with responses to those reasons.
Thinking voters are a good thing. I'd love to vote for Ron Paul, but strangely enough, I felt he also was to eager to jump the gun without really thinking of all the ramifications of a sudden decision. I agreed with everything he said, really, it's just that I realize everyone else doesn't think like that, and he is supposed to lead Everbody, not just Me. :)
ReplyDeleteBut that would be nice.
I do find it interesting that you are able to find out so much about a person through environmental issues, which I largely ignore. You are right, there is a lot of interesting stuff, there!
Don't forget about the NFP Mass at OLPH on Sunday at 11:30 if you can come. I'm going to a LOT of Masses this weekend.