Public or private school for Obamas?
...choice for me, not for thee
Posted by : Drew McKissick November 12, 2008 - 10:26am
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The country will have a great opportunity to see liberal hypocrisy on parade as the Obamas decide where to send their two kids to school in the coming weeks.
Of course, just like every other good liberal, Obama opposed school choice...especially vouchers. Pretty much any program that empowers parents who arent rich. And, just like pretty much every other liberal, he sends his kids to an elite private school that only a fraction of his supporters could afford.
So, as they make the transition to DC, the buzz is over where the kids will attend...and we'll get to watch his delicate dance of trying to quietly send them to an elite DC private school, while paying lip service to the public schools...no doubt probably saying that he really wanted them to go there, but it was a "security" issue (an understatement for most of the regular kids in the DC system).
The point is not that anyone should be criticized for wanting to send their kids to the place where they can get the best education, but rather that the politicians who tend to oppose making that option a reality for everyone else, usually take advantage of it themselves.
In other words, they're hypocrites.
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school choice for them, us?
Will the security threat be higher for them than for it has been for Bush or would have been for McCain? He as a citizen of the US should be able to choose where to send his kids, yet so should everybody else. In most States (including SC) school choice is not allowed. There was an interesting article on this issue:
http://thevoiceforschoolchoice.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/obama-has-school...
Evident at Press Conference
This situation was evident at the press conference, as soon as he passed it off to his wife (passed the buck).
I suspect the security threat for this first family will be extraordinarily high, but I also don't doubt that it will be a handy excuse for the liberal illuminati who don't wish to see hypocrisy embodied in their commander-in-chief, no matter how many holes he has in his shoes.
Yes, sort of like how the
Yes, sort of like how the success of an Obama candidacy was so crucial for the liberal cause that his history of pushing for public campaign financing and his adamant pledge to use such, was forgivably allowed to be pushed to the side in order for this important man, at this important time, to embark on his important role as United States president... Nauseating.