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Wednesday, March 05, 2008

The Obamas: The Audacity of Despair

These folks are selling hope, they are selling despair and victimhood. This is pure fable. The money quote is blaming the magnet and charter schools for the failure of the American education system when it was the left that destroyed a once great American public school system.
From The New Yorker (hat tip Ed Lasky)

Obama begins with a broad assessment of life in America in 2008, and life is not good: we’re a divided country, we’re a country that is “just downright mean,” we are “guided by fear,” we’re a nation of cynics, sloths, and complacents. “We have become a nation of struggling folks who are barely making it every day,” she said, as heads bobbed in the pews. “Folks are just jammed up, and it’s gotten worse over my lifetime. And, doggone it, I’m young. Forty-four!”

From these bleak generalities, Obama moves into specific complaints. Used to be, she will say, that you could count on a decent education in the neighborhood. But now there are all these charter schools and magnet schools that you have to “finagle” to get into. (Obama herself attended a magnet school, but never mind.)

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