The First Obama Term

[GORDON]

Typically the agent gets that sort of info from the author. Yet, we have a picture of a birth certificate from Hawaii. Both can not be correct.

I said after the Bush Nat'l Guard memo that the next leftie photoshop would be flawless.

[thibodeaux]

I have heard people say (on the internet, so it must be true) that the birth certificate is a 'shop job.

[TheCatt]

The article you linked pretty much says: Obama was born in Hawaii, but probably bent the story this way to make himself seem more dramatic or something. Then accuses him of constantly bending the truth, etc.

[thibodeaux]

The article you linked pretty much says: Obama was born in Hawaii, but probably bent the story this way to make himself seem more dramatic or something. Then accuses him of constantly bending the truth, etc.

In all seriousness, that seems like an extremely likely explanation. Sort of like how this blond-haired-blue-eyed Elizabeth Warren person is a Cherokee Indian.

[thibodeaux]

Of course, there's this. And this.



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[TheCatt]

According to a Boston-area genealogist's report, Warren is 1/32nd Cherokee.

LOL. I'm 1/64th.

[GORDON]

Teacher yells at a student for asking if Obama had ever been a bully.

Relevant question at 1:00. Screaming starts about 1:30. Stopped listening about 2:30.

Granted, the classroom seems pretty unruly.

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Teacher sounded German.



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[thibodeaux]

That one kid was pretty back-talky. I wouldn't want my kid to act like this.

On the other hand, I wouldn't want my kid to be in a class "taught" by this moron.

I wonder how much she defended Bush from "disrespect."

[GORDON]

Teacher suspended with pay..... for the next 10 minutes before everyone forgets.

http://www.foxnews.com/politic....r-obama

[Leisher]

I wish I could get suspended with pay.

[GORDON]

You need a better union.

[thibodeaux]

O. M. GAWD.

[GORDON]

Haaaaaaaaaa ha ha ha.

[thibodeaux]

Personally, I don't allow anybody to disrespect the President of the United States in my presence.

[Leisher]

My favorite news story of the day.

Why?

Because yesterday on Yahoo or possibly even MSN they ran a story about how Romney had a 6 point lead in Florida.

It always amazes me how NBC run polls seem to show Obama doing good, yet all the other polls have him losing or in a virtual dead heat.

Who does NBC poll, only Democrats?

[GORDON]

Personally, I don't allow anybody to disrespect the President of the United States in my presence.

I heard it was illegal.

[GORDON]

My favorite news story of the day.

Why?

Because yesterday on Yahoo or possibly even MSN they ran a story about how Romney had a 6 point lead in Florida.

It always amazes me how NBC run polls seem to show Obama doing good, yet all the other polls have him losing or in a virtual dead heat.

Who does NBC poll, only Democrats?

Did I hear that MSNBC had a permanent office in the White House, or was that a joke?

[thibodeaux]

I almost miss this guy

[TheCatt]

Truth

First it attacks the "Obama didn't increase spending" bullshit... then there's this part

Cutter also hammers Romney on classroom size, saying, “Mitt Romney made some more ridiculous claims and assertions this week, this time on education policy. He even had the nerve to tell a group of educators that: ‘It’s not the classroom size that’s driving the success of those school systems.’”

The problem is that Obama’s education secretary, Arne Duncan, has also suggested classroom size isn’t as important as some necessarily think.

“We spent billions of dollars to reduce class size. As a parent, we all love small class size,” Duncan told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell. “But the best thing you can do is get children in front of an extraordinary teacher. So other countries have higher class sizes but extraordinary talent in those rooms.”

Leonie Haimson, the executive director of Class Size Matters, recently wrote an open letter to President Obama that appeared in the Washington Post, saying, “If you disagree with what Romney said, you should rein in your own education secretary and ask him to take back his erroneous statements on the subject.”

Here's a bit from Superfreakonomics about the impact of women entering the workforce, and not just being teachers.

As a consequence, the schoolteacher corps began to experience a brain drain. In 1960, about 40 percent of female teachers scored in the top quintile of IQ and other aptitude tests, with only 8 percent in the bottom. Twenty years later, fewer than half as many were in the top quintile, more than twice as many in the bottom. It hardly helped that teachers' wages were falling significantly in relation to those of other jobs. "The quality of teachers has been declining for decades," the chancellor of New York City's public schools declared in 2000, "and no one wants to talk about it."

[thibodeaux]

You know what nobody really wants to talk about? The quality of the students. The fact is, 50% of students are below average...AND ALWAYS WILL BE. It doesn't matter how much money we shovel into the rathole of "education."