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		<title>By: ChooseTheHero.com &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Getting Nasty</title>
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		<dc:creator>ChooseTheHero.com &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Getting Nasty</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Obama  funded racist education in Chicago. (Hat Tip:  Hot Air.) [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Ravalli County News &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Obama on education: Fund fringe ideas, neglect performance</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ravalli County News &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Obama on education: Fund fringe ideas, neglect performance</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] &#8220;Did Obama attempt to fund real reform through the CAC [the Chicago Annenberg Challenge which ... [...]</description>
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		<title>By: SansPretense &#187; Roland Martin projects fear and desperation on Republicans</title>
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		<dc:creator>SansPretense &#187; Roland Martin projects fear and desperation on Republicans</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] make stuff up about Obama for him to come across as scary. All a person has to do is dig into his background a little bit. The man is a on the fringe, for [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Obama&#8217;s idea of great education? Racist indoctrination apparently &#171; The Daley Gator</title>
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		<dc:creator>Obama&#8217;s idea of great education? Racist indoctrination apparently &#171; The Daley Gator</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] H/T Hot Air [...]</description>
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		<title>By: On the Right</title>
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		<dc:creator>On the Right</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;The 3 Rs: Redistributionism, Revisionism, and Radicalism...&lt;/strong&gt;

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		<title>By: PersonalLiberty</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Barack Obama may or may not be a radical, but clearly he has acted to fund and support radicals at the expense of everyone else.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

WARNING: Ed, you&#039;re starting to sound like McCain. Why are you bending over backward to give Obama the benefit of the doubt that he still might not be a radical? I mean, if you&#039;re funding radicals, isn&#039;t that pretty objective evidence? If not, &lt;strong&gt;what is&lt;/strong&gt;?!?! Exactly what else would one have to do to finally be labeled a radical?


I heard Giuliani on Hannity last night go right to edge of calling Obama a socialist, look over the edge, hint that going over the edge was okay, but wouldn&#039;t actually say that Obama was a socialist. If one espouses socialist ideas, isn&#039;t one, by definition, a socialist?


Put another way, does Obama himself have to stand up and say, &quot;I&#039;m a radical socialist,&quot; before we can start labeling him as such? For the sake of our intellectual honesty, I hope not, not to mention the sake of the country.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Barack Obama may or may not be a radical, but clearly he has acted to fund and support radicals at the expense of everyone else.</p></blockquote>
<p>WARNING: Ed, you&#8217;re starting to sound like McCain. Why are you bending over backward to give Obama the benefit of the doubt that he still might not be a radical? I mean, if you&#8217;re funding radicals, isn&#8217;t that pretty objective evidence? If not, <strong>what is</strong>?!?! Exactly what else would one have to do to finally be labeled a radical?</p>
<p>I heard Giuliani on Hannity last night go right to edge of calling Obama a socialist, look over the edge, hint that going over the edge was okay, but wouldn&#8217;t actually say that Obama was a socialist. If one espouses socialist ideas, isn&#8217;t one, by definition, a socialist?</p>
<p>Put another way, does Obama himself have to stand up and say, &#8220;I&#8217;m a radical socialist,&#8221; before we can start labeling him as such? For the sake of our intellectual honesty, I hope not, not to mention the sake of the country.</p>
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		<title>By: Mental Vomit &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Another Sign of Obama&#8217;s Radical Beliefs</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mental Vomit &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Another Sign of Obama&#8217;s Radical Beliefs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Obama on education: Fund fringe ideas, neglect performance via Hotair.com [...]</description>
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		<title>By: moxie_neanderthal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Tom_Shipley on October 22, 2008 at 12:13 PM&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Tom, I&#039;m not going to spend the afternoon spoon feeding information that is widely available to anyone who has the desire to educate themselves. I provided the link to the docs and it is simply a matter of public record. 

If you want to live in a parallel universe of sweetness and light, so be it but it is silly to argue that these are the only recipients when you have not taken the time to educate yourself. 

Read the minutes of the meetings Tom. 

The CAC failed to deliver the opportunities to those people they were entrusted to help and for that, everyone on the board bears responsibility. 

Does anyone really believe that starting an alternative school program that pushes peace studies is more important than enabling kids with after school math tutoring? Well the folks at the CAC apparently did. 

Tom, do yourself a favor and start googling the names of people listed as either program coordinators, grant recipients, and organization names. Things will start popping out like popcorn. For example, one recipient was a vocal protester/activist against military recruiters having access to high schools. 

As an Army vet, I and my wife and millions of others have benefited from the opportunities provided as a result of military service. This is a great choice for many kids. Do you actually think this &quot;social activist&quot; is a conservative?

Do a little reading Tom before you start staking out positions that are so obviously inconsistent with the facts.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Tom_Shipley on October 22, 2008 at 12:13 PM</p></blockquote>
<p>Tom, I&#8217;m not going to spend the afternoon spoon feeding information that is widely available to anyone who has the desire to educate themselves. I provided the link to the docs and it is simply a matter of public record. </p>
<p>If you want to live in a parallel universe of sweetness and light, so be it but it is silly to argue that these are the only recipients when you have not taken the time to educate yourself. </p>
<p>Read the minutes of the meetings Tom. </p>
<p>The CAC failed to deliver the opportunities to those people they were entrusted to help and for that, everyone on the board bears responsibility. </p>
<p>Does anyone really believe that starting an alternative school program that pushes peace studies is more important than enabling kids with after school math tutoring? Well the folks at the CAC apparently did. </p>
<p>Tom, do yourself a favor and start googling the names of people listed as either program coordinators, grant recipients, and organization names. Things will start popping out like popcorn. For example, one recipient was a vocal protester/activist against military recruiters having access to high schools. </p>
<p>As an Army vet, I and my wife and millions of others have benefited from the opportunities provided as a result of military service. This is a great choice for many kids. Do you actually think this &#8220;social activist&#8221; is a conservative?</p>
<p>Do a little reading Tom before you start staking out positions that are so obviously inconsistent with the facts.</p>
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		<title>By: Elephant Owners &#187; Blog Archive &#187; The Obama-Public School-Jeremiah Wright Connection</title>
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		<dc:creator>Elephant Owners &#187; Blog Archive &#187; The Obama-Public School-Jeremiah Wright Connection</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Obama claims that he never heard Jeremiah Wright&#8217;s radical views when he was at church. That is a dubious assertion at best. If we give him the benefit of the doubt (because it is hard to prove otherwise), how does he explain funneling money to school reforms that: rejects Western civilization, and America in particular, as “white supremacist” and seeks to “recover our disrupted ancestral culture. (LINK) [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Obama claims that he never heard Jeremiah Wright&#8217;s radical views when he was at church. That is a dubious assertion at best. If we give him the benefit of the doubt (because it is hard to prove otherwise), how does he explain funneling money to school reforms that: rejects Western civilization, and America in particular, as “white supremacist” and seeks to “recover our disrupted ancestral culture. (LINK) [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Franklyn</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sorry about the whole comment being a quote. It was not my intention.</description>
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		<title>By: Franklyn</title>
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		<dc:creator>Franklyn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;I would love to start a free school based on solid conservative principles to help build a future body of young conservatives that can run circles around their public school indoctrinated Liberal counterparts.

We already have that school system. It is called &quot;Home School&quot;. Home schooled children usually standout as better educated and prepared for college than their publically schooled peers.  

What I find interesting is that most parents that home school their children do not hold degrees in education, they are not considered super teachers. Yet they succeed where other degree holding teachers fail. What really attributes to this success is a moral based conservative curriculum. 

How many liberal based home school curriculum do you hear about, let alone successful ones.

I hold educational degrees in secondary social studies and 1-12 special education.  My public teaching was always based on the belief that a student will rise to the teacher’s expectations and their individual abilites. That is a conservative approach to education.  My students, whether elementary or high school level, were almost always successful, often far beyond their peers who had teachers that followed the more liberal approaches. 

Years ago before the liberal curriculums requirements were imposed, I created the high school level curriculums used in special education to teach grades 9 and 10 English and all the social studies courses. As the mandates became more liberal, those were discarded in favor of the more liberal based demands.

During my last year of teaching at the high school level I was put on probation and told I had to take classes and perform observation of other teachers to re-educate me in the proper way to teach, because I taught my special education students to recognized parts of speech, to write correct sentences, math that included long division, subtraction with borrowing and multiplication with carrying, and to use a computer with the same basic skills taught in the regular program. The problem was that the federal mandates imposed upon these children dictated a first grade level of education.  I met then exceeded those mandates.   I also taught World History to regular education students. I was not allowed to teach as I wanted with variety and interest. I had to teach to a test given to students as part of the “No Child Left Behind” mandates.  I was held accountable to how well my students did on that test.  Most of my students did very well, but that counted for nothing in the end.&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>I would love to start a free school based on solid conservative principles to help build a future body of young conservatives that can run circles around their public school indoctrinated Liberal counterparts.</p>
<p>We already have that school system. It is called &#8220;Home School&#8221;. Home schooled children usually standout as better educated and prepared for college than their publically schooled peers.  </p>
<p>What I find interesting is that most parents that home school their children do not hold degrees in education, they are not considered super teachers. Yet they succeed where other degree holding teachers fail. What really attributes to this success is a moral based conservative curriculum. </p>
<p>How many liberal based home school curriculum do you hear about, let alone successful ones.</p>
<p>I hold educational degrees in secondary social studies and 1-12 special education.  My public teaching was always based on the belief that a student will rise to the teacher’s expectations and their individual abilites. That is a conservative approach to education.  My students, whether elementary or high school level, were almost always successful, often far beyond their peers who had teachers that followed the more liberal approaches. </p>
<p>Years ago before the liberal curriculums requirements were imposed, I created the high school level curriculums used in special education to teach grades 9 and 10 English and all the social studies courses. As the mandates became more liberal, those were discarded in favor of the more liberal based demands.</p>
<p>During my last year of teaching at the high school level I was put on probation and told I had to take classes and perform observation of other teachers to re-educate me in the proper way to teach, because I taught my special education students to recognized parts of speech, to write correct sentences, math that included long division, subtraction with borrowing and multiplication with carrying, and to use a computer with the same basic skills taught in the regular program. The problem was that the federal mandates imposed upon these children dictated a first grade level of education.  I met then exceeded those mandates.   I also taught World History to regular education students. I was not allowed to teach as I wanted with variety and interest. I had to teach to a test given to students as part of the “No Child Left Behind” mandates.  I was held accountable to how well my students did on that test.  Most of my students did very well, but that counted for nothing in the end.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>By: Dr.Cwac.Cwac</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Moonbattery</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Obama on Education...&lt;/strong&gt;

What would a President Obama mean for the education of our children? His close and long-lasting association with William Ayers offers a clue. Ayers went from bombing public buildings to joining the education establishment, because he considers it a mor...</description>
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		<title>By: Fuquay Steve</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>4,5,6 Rs: Reproduction, Reparations, Recycle</description>
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		<title>By: Badger40</title>
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		<dc:creator>Badger40</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Please remain still. The PC enforcement division is on its way. Do not be afraid. You will be sent to a camp for re-education. Resistance is futile.

Laura in Maryland on October 22, 2008 at 11:49 AM&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Oops! Silly me! I gave my position away!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Please remain still. The PC enforcement division is on its way. Do not be afraid. You will be sent to a camp for re-education. Resistance is futile.</p>
<p>Laura in Maryland on October 22, 2008 at 11:49 AM</p></blockquote>
<p>Oops! Silly me! I gave my position away!</p>
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		<title>By: stenwin77</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>REPARATIONS TOO.</description>
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		<title>By: Noblesse Oblige &#187; Obama&#8217;s Budget is a Socialist Giveaway Grab Bag; You Don&#8217;t Know What Will Come Out of It</title>
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		<dc:creator>Noblesse Oblige &#187; Obama&#8217;s Budget is a Socialist Giveaway Grab Bag; You Don&#8217;t Know What Will Come Out of It</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] We&#8217;ve already seen how Barack manages large programs, under the Annenberg Challenge with Bill Ayers he gave away a total of 150 million to gaggle of community activist groups to improve schools. Some of those groups were radical, but putting that aside a moment you can see that the vague &#8220;feel good&#8221; instead of results-oriented direction under Obama just created monumental waste with zero results. The other cities given these grants saw improvement, Chicago stands alone with zero improvement. [more on this from Ed Morissey at Hot Air] [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] We&#8217;ve already seen how Barack manages large programs, under the Annenberg Challenge with Bill Ayers he gave away a total of 150 million to gaggle of community activist groups to improve schools. Some of those groups were radical, but putting that aside a moment you can see that the vague &#8220;feel good&#8221; instead of results-oriented direction under Obama just created monumental waste with zero results. The other cities given these grants saw improvement, Chicago stands alone with zero improvement. [more on this from Ed Morissey at Hot Air] [...]</p>
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		<title>By: AZCoyote</title>
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		<dc:creator>AZCoyote</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;His pattern of grants to schools at the CAC strongly suggest that Obama shared Wright’s strange views on Afrocentrism; he literally put CAC money where Wright’s mouth was, then and now.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Of course Obama shares Wright&#039;s views on Afrocentrism (and a lot of other things -- like America&#039;s inherent evil).  Obama joined a black radical &quot;church&quot; whose mission statement says that it pledges its allegiance to the &quot;motherland&quot; of Africa, and believes that God should side with blacks against whites and if He does not take the side of blacks, then God should be killed!  Obama remained a member of this &quot;church&quot; for more than 20 years, was married in the church, and had his children baptised there.  Obama left the church only a few months ago, after Wright embarrassed him by stating in front of t.v. cameras that Obama is a politician who will say anything to get elected.  (Ironically, it was one of the few 100% true things Wright has ever said.  The other was his recent statement that the term &quot;Christian&quot; has a very different meaning to members of his church than it does for most of mainstream Christian America).  

If Obama&#039;s 20-year+ membership in Wright&#039;s black militant &quot;church&quot; not become a political liability for Obama, does anyone doubt that he would still be a member today?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>His pattern of grants to schools at the CAC strongly suggest that Obama shared Wright’s strange views on Afrocentrism; he literally put CAC money where Wright’s mouth was, then and now.</p></blockquote>
<p>Of course Obama shares Wright&#8217;s views on Afrocentrism (and a lot of other things &#8212; like America&#8217;s inherent evil).  Obama joined a black radical &#8220;church&#8221; whose mission statement says that it pledges its allegiance to the &#8220;motherland&#8221; of Africa, and believes that God should side with blacks against whites and if He does not take the side of blacks, then God should be killed!  Obama remained a member of this &#8220;church&#8221; for more than 20 years, was married in the church, and had his children baptised there.  Obama left the church only a few months ago, after Wright embarrassed him by stating in front of t.v. cameras that Obama is a politician who will say anything to get elected.  (Ironically, it was one of the few 100% true things Wright has ever said.  The other was his recent statement that the term &#8220;Christian&#8221; has a very different meaning to members of his church than it does for most of mainstream Christian America).  </p>
<p>If Obama&#8217;s 20-year+ membership in Wright&#8217;s black militant &#8220;church&#8221; not become a political liability for Obama, does anyone doubt that he would still be a member today?</p>
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		<title>By: Tom_Shipley</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tom_Shipley</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>moxie_neanderthal on October 22, 2008 at 11:39 AM

You&#039;ve named ONE fellow traveler of Ayers that received money. And now I count a total number of 2 groups who people claim are radical that received money from the CAC (this is out of 50).

How do you know that the conservatives on the board didn&#039;t have a say in other groups that received funding?

You guys are using a small sample of the groups funded to paint the entire CAC as some radical entity, and that&#039;s not the case.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>moxie_neanderthal on October 22, 2008 at 11:39 AM</p>
<p>You&#8217;ve named ONE fellow traveler of Ayers that received money. And now I count a total number of 2 groups who people claim are radical that received money from the CAC (this is out of 50).</p>
<p>How do you know that the conservatives on the board didn&#8217;t have a say in other groups that received funding?</p>
<p>You guys are using a small sample of the groups funded to paint the entire CAC as some radical entity, and that&#8217;s not the case.</p>
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		<title>By: jp</title>
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		<dc:creator>jp</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;I am worried about Obama taking two days off. I know people here want to be sensitive to Obama’s grandmom but I can’t shake off a feeling of nervousness. I don’t think Obama cares enough about his typical white person granny to take two days off.

Is it the typical Obama overconfidence that he thinks he can lose 2 days in the final stretch?
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

unless she&#039;s on her deathbed, but waiting a few days before he flies out, you&#039;d think he would wait till after the election to go see her if there wasn&#039;t any alternative motives at play.

too fishy this close to election day</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>I am worried about Obama taking two days off. I know people here want to be sensitive to Obama’s grandmom but I can’t shake off a feeling of nervousness. I don’t think Obama cares enough about his typical white person granny to take two days off.</p>
<p>Is it the typical Obama overconfidence that he thinks he can lose 2 days in the final stretch?
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<p>unless she&#8217;s on her deathbed, but waiting a few days before he flies out, you&#8217;d think he would wait till after the election to go see her if there wasn&#8217;t any alternative motives at play.</p>
<p>too fishy this close to election day</p>
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		<title>By: Socratease</title>
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		<dc:creator>Socratease</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;It also certainly explains why schools chosen for the foundation’s largesse showed no gains in student performance.&lt;/blockquote&gt;Heck, the fact that they didn&#039;t tank shows just how bad Chicago schools were to begin with.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>It also certainly explains why schools chosen for the foundation’s largesse showed no gains in student performance.</p></blockquote>
<p>Heck, the fact that they didn&#8217;t tank shows just how bad Chicago schools were to begin with.</p>
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		<title>By: Laura in Maryland</title>
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		<dc:creator>Laura in Maryland</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Badger40 on October 22, 2008 at 11:46 AM&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Please remain still.  The PC enforcement division is on its way.  Do not be afraid.  You will be sent to a camp for re-education.  Resistance is futile.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Badger40 on October 22, 2008 at 11:46 AM</p></blockquote>
<p>Please remain still.  The PC enforcement division is on its way.  Do not be afraid.  You will be sent to a camp for re-education.  Resistance is futile.</p>
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		<title>By: Badger40</title>
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		<dc:creator>Badger40</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;

Annenberg funds FactCheck.org so, you know, whatever they say it’s gotta be true.

Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 22, 2008 at 10:31 AM
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Really? Well I&#039;m not surprised. This sucks. &#039;Cause I&#039;m sure it affects what they display on their site.

As a public screwl teacher GEE! I can hardly wait to see what new &#039;ideas&#039; we get to implement in the classroom.
We already waste enough $$ &amp; time on stupid crap, what else can we do? 
Well hopefully it won&#039;t come right away. I&#039;m in a small rural school &amp; it seems like the crap from the fan doesn&#039;t spray this far.
We still have Christmas programs with Jesus in them-the shock of it all!</description>
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<p>Annenberg funds FactCheck.org so, you know, whatever they say it’s gotta be true.</p>
<p>Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 22, 2008 at 10:31 AM
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<p>Really? Well I&#8217;m not surprised. This sucks. &#8216;Cause I&#8217;m sure it affects what they display on their site.</p>
<p>As a public screwl teacher GEE! I can hardly wait to see what new &#8216;ideas&#8217; we get to implement in the classroom.<br />
We already waste enough $$ &amp; time on stupid crap, what else can we do?<br />
Well hopefully it won&#8217;t come right away. I&#8217;m in a small rural school &amp; it seems like the crap from the fan doesn&#8217;t spray this far.<br />
We still have Christmas programs with Jesus in them-the shock of it all!</p>
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