tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post2021915920537598276..comments2024-03-29T04:34:05.185-04:00Comments on CURMUDGUCATION: My Election Position : The Trump Clinton Yardstick.Peter Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511193640285760299noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-48921254195167933662016-07-08T16:31:47.012-04:002016-07-08T16:31:47.012-04:00Seconded 100%. The message to children used to be...Seconded 100%. The message to children used to be "you can be anything you want to be." Now the predominant message is "you are worthless except as a tool for powerful people to exploit to make themselves more wealthy and powerful" (see the testing industry, charter schools, student loans, and on and on). We see daily examples of the how the powerful are not willing to restrain their greed even if it means the end of life on Earth. It is hard raising a hopeful, happy child in this environment. Ray T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16816148521231487437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-3328608717998962942016-07-08T11:54:38.574-04:002016-07-08T11:54:38.574-04:00The D's got their asses handed to them in 2010...The D's got their asses handed to them in 2010 because they are profoundly stupid. Not that your reasoning is not accurate, but the coup de gras was delivered by aggressive gerrymandering by the Republican Party. They will own the House for a generation because the Dems responded with crickets.Clemsyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17758044105393970926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-76488348784006512542016-07-08T11:51:56.367-04:002016-07-08T11:51:56.367-04:00Last year Hillary had some harsh words for charter...Last year Hillary had some harsh words for charter schools. Eli Broad threatened to cut her funding. Guess what she did. lolClemsyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17758044105393970926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-52098023146961843262016-07-08T10:09:59.702-04:002016-07-08T10:09:59.702-04:00The main way I see Clinton as worse than Obama is ...The main way I see Clinton as worse than Obama is foreign policy. According to emails, Clinton convinced Obama to intervene in Libya over his reluctance. She has advocated for covert or overt regime change in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Honduras, and Ukraine. She wanted to create a no-fly zone in Syria when the generals said that was crazy because the Russians controlled the airspace. Recently she's even talked about putting boots on the ground in Syria. She didn't seem to like the Iran accord and is BFF's with Netanyahu. Her foreign policy scares me to death. Rebecca deCocahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13168718846105012814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-57330918466461385332016-07-08T08:07:05.100-04:002016-07-08T08:07:05.100-04:00Hillary will be a bad president precisely because ...Hillary will be a bad president precisely because her policies will follow Obama's. Obama has been terrible for a lot of people in this country. Bailing out banks while ordinary Americans go homeless. Cutting heating oil subsidies in the middle of one of the coldest winters. His invasion of Libya and his droning and special ops in at least half a dozen other Muslim countries. His education policies. His anti-unionism. His favoring of the TPP (which will likely pass in the lame duck session, and if not then, then Hillary will take care of it). While promising hope and change, Obama has slowly delivered this country to the big banks and the military-industrial complex (and the education-industrial complex, and the prison-industrial complex, and....). Hillary will be more of the same and worse. Hillary doesn't even bother promising hope and change. Obama: Yes we can! (but we won't). Hillary: No we can't! Trump: Yes we Klan!Diennehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04570040547158789834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-86677902227326717342016-07-07T18:05:25.615-04:002016-07-07T18:05:25.615-04:00Not everyone fell for the Obama bait and switch ei...Not everyone fell for the Obama bait and switch either…<br /><br />I voted for the Honorable Dr. Cynthia McKinney in 2008, Dr. Jill Stein in 2012, and will vote for Dr. Stein again in this upcoming election. I support feminism, not imperialism and neoliberalism.Robert D. Skeels * rdsathenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07920561332154131328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-80403940618897009102016-07-07T17:23:44.079-04:002016-07-07T17:23:44.079-04:00Meanwhile, children are growing up and learning fr...Meanwhile, children are growing up and learning from the adults in their lives, including public figures. We are all old enough to go on with life, heart sick and devastated, but what about young people? Where do they go from here? Where do they place their trust? Should they trust anyone? Put that in the context of the testing culture of school, what do they have to believe in? My heart breaks for all the young people. They have been abused and left in the dust. <br />Kobishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16778054056084383752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-43536060772667833382016-07-07T17:20:08.446-04:002016-07-07T17:20:08.446-04:00I'm a bit puzzled by the judgment that Hillary...I'm a bit puzzled by the judgment that Hillary Clinton will be a really horrible president because of her policy positions. How are they significantly different than those of Barack Obama? They aren't different on education. His education policies and personnel were horrible. They aren't different when it comes to banks and having Wall Street insiders as policy makers. They don't seem much different on foreign policy. Which policy positions make Obama OK but Clinton unacceptable? Or are they both bad?<br /><br />I voted for Bernie Sanders in the primary, and I voted for Mr. Obama in the primaries and general election. I think that Mr. Obama's presidency has been disappointing in many ways, but I would vote for him over Mr. Trump immediately. I see a Hillary Clinton presidency as largely a continuation of Mr. Obama's policies.<br /><br /> Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07228908566250306699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-33700397540004132802016-07-07T15:56:36.710-04:002016-07-07T15:56:36.710-04:00Andrew, look at her contributors. Learn about her ...Andrew, look at her contributors. Learn about her long (decades) association with Eli Broad.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03544213160574214282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-6552756677110222042016-07-07T02:07:07.849-04:002016-07-07T02:07:07.849-04:00I hear ya. I hear ya. Maestradeespañolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12564778592841088552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-8208138614468374772016-07-06T19:14:13.226-04:002016-07-06T19:14:13.226-04:00"A Clinton victory will mean the end of the D..."A Clinton victory will mean the end of the Democratic Party. It will be read as "proof" that they should go all in on neo-liberalism, that the only party constituents who matter are the ones who can write big fat checks."<br /><br />I think that's going to happen either way. The Ds got their behinds handed to them in 2010 because so many lefties were so upset with Obama's continuation of Bush's policies. The lesson the Ds seem to have learned from that election was that they should have gone further right. If Hillary loses to Trump it will be "evidence" (to the Ds anyway) that the nation wants to go further right. If she wins, it will be "evidence" that going right was the right thing to do.Diennehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04570040547158789834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-78260029531328334832016-07-06T19:02:47.295-04:002016-07-06T19:02:47.295-04:00I've lived 59 years and you know what? Despite...I've lived 59 years and you know what? Despite the quadrennial rampage of Chicken Little, the sky has not yet fallen. I will vote my conscience. Trump or Clinton? No way. I'm not throwing away my vote. I am answering to my conscience. When all is said and done, and November 9 arrives, what do I say to the person in the mirror? Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03544213160574214282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-70629988694576592132016-07-06T18:51:42.208-04:002016-07-06T18:51:42.208-04:00Obviously I can understand having serious problems...Obviously I can understand having serious problems with HRC viz. education policy, but where the hell is "bought and paid for by Big Money" coming from? Because of the Wall Street speeches? I realize that hard facts are anathema in this election, but why don't we look at her actual voting record? The US Chamber of Commerce, the largest business interest there is, gave her a final cumulative score of <a href="https://www.uschamber.com/how-they-voted-2008-senate" rel="nofollow">%46</a>, which is hardly a ringing endorsement. Or why not page through <a href="http://votesmart.org/candidate/evaluations/55463/hillary-clinton#.V32ImPkrKt8" rel="nofollow">this very long list of Clinton ratings</a>. Does this look like the voting pattern of a thrall to corporate America?<br /><br />The "Shillary" thing is the emotional argument of a group of people who are profoundly ignorant of American politics. You want to go after HRC for education bullshit? Go for it. But don't latch on to a bunch of mindless ad hominem memes. It doesn't suit you.Andrew Johnstonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05780648896926049012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-36331217224805128752016-07-06T16:32:15.164-04:002016-07-06T16:32:15.164-04:00Could not agree more with Robert - done with the l...Could not agree more with Robert - done with the lesser of "two weasels!" I'm going Green this time (and last election, too). Zinn Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09236067512618741611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-84988159610814096492016-07-06T14:07:57.708-04:002016-07-06T14:07:57.708-04:00Thank you for this. It's the most honest asses...Thank you for this. It's the most honest assessment I've read on this election in the context of education advocacy. I've been on the #nevertrump / #neverclinton wagon since the beginning. Neither would ever deserve my vote, whatever that's worth. I hope people consider Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. At the very least a vote for her leaves a clean conscience.Robert D. Skeels * rdsathenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07920561332154131328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-43789279701961413422016-07-06T13:08:58.116-04:002016-07-06T13:08:58.116-04:00I thought it couldn't get any lower than the B...I thought it couldn't get any lower than the Bush/Kerry contest. This year....well the Lesser Of Two Evils is still incredibly evil. So I will no longer Hold My Nose. If you no longer r are willing to just Lay Back And Enjoy It, then know there is a real alternative.<br /><br />http://youtu.be/LGD8gJt7weUMichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06452330026472110482noreply@blogger.com