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In reply to the discussion: Hmmm? I wonder why people chose to leave off this part of Michael's interview [View all]Jakes Progress
(11,122 posts)Over 200 hours of volunteer work. Precinct candidate. Lots of hours in living rooms promising people that this guy was our chance. Problem was that most of those I convinced were teachers. Turns out I was lying. This guy not only stuck with bush's horrible education policy, he doubled down on it. His choice to lead the Ed dept. was a basketball buddy that is currently doing his best to privatize all public schools by testing kids to death and by driving any decent teacher from the classroom. Either Obama has no fucking idea what his buddy is doing (which would make him a crap president) or (even worse) he agrees with arne's desire to bring about ronald reagan's dream for American school children.
How about you. Did you campaign for a continuation of the bush war on education, for a continuation of bush secret surveillance, for more wars to protect oil profits, for letting treasonous criminals like cheney go free, for putting in treasury leaders who protected their wall street firms from being hurt by the wreck they caused? You said you heard the secret messages from Obama that he was going to do these things. So. Is that what you hoped for.