Why Obama is Causing a Liberal Freakout

An Example - By Al Sharpton, no less

On education policy, President-elect Obama would do well to listen to Republicans and reform-minded Democrats who want to actually close the education gap. Too much of our education system in America, at all levels from elementary school through grad school in some cases, has become merely a "holding place" for kids. Public education in much of America is failing our students and needs to be subjected to competition by allowing for more merit pay for teachers, reward high quality teachers but stop pandering to the Unions, elimination of "tenure" based on time in service, and allow for choice for families by adding charter and private schools to the mix of options. The following article was written by Joel Klein and Al Sharpton, no less!

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123172121959472377.html

Joe C. of VA @ Jan 12, 2009 08:02:59 AM

Obama appears to be data-driven, I hope

We've all spent perhaps six of Bush's eight years under the running of the Bush Administration by militant foreign policy idealists who rushed to invade Iraq on bad data - and did not even have a realistic plan for the country after Saddam was removed. The earliest renditions of the "Bush Doctrine" were grounded in idealism and theory and only with scrutiny by voters, other experts, Congress, and shifts in administration officials was it able to be brought to reality. President-elect Obama needs to be careful that his administration is not dominated by ideological "progressives" whose plans would bankrupt our treasury, refuse to rein in entitlement spending and create even more of it, take extreme measures on the environment and labor regulation that would destroy small businesses, engages in protectionism, and practice an equally unrealistic foreign policy that diminishes America's military power.

Obama needs to learn early on that extreme measures that bankrupt our children with interest payments on the future public debt [which is projected to be dangerous levels in 10 years and especially beyond that -- and it has nothing to do with Iraq War spending; it's future entitlements] will not be tolerated. Nor will dangerous policy measures that lessen the presence of the US military in the world. Changing from many of Bush's unwise policies would be a positive step, but disarmament without nations like China, Russia, Pakistan, and India doing the same is a recipe for a dangerous balance of power struggle.

Joe C. of VA @ Jan 12, 2009 07:46:00 AM

phony

obama can't run the country without the clintons that why he picked the clintons adminstration to do it four him so much for change.

sam giordano of NY @ Jan 12, 2009 05:43:26 AM

It's all fake anyway

One learns to become a cynic - my hope has been dashed by the entrenched liars in Washington and their com munications armn in the media and Hollywood. This force is the dierect result of a failed system called denocracy where most voters appear to reward anyone who will look good as they lie to them. Voters are people who wish to be lied to or worse people who would use the power of government for their own ends at the expense of other who see fruitfulnelss in success and hard work -not envy. The issues facing America today are moral issues -unrecognized by most as the real basis for our economic distruction.

Don L of CT @ Jan 12, 2009 05:16:19 AM

Are you kidding?

Obama is no Reagan, but even more vapidly left than Carter.

His spending proposals will completely turn the USA into a socialist failure.

Regretfully, Mr. Obama's idea of "change", is clearly a return to the disastrous Clinton Era of Corruption that enabled - inspired so many of the problems we see today:

1. Hillary Rodham Clinton, (perhaps the most dishonest Celebrity we have in Washington today - who recently lied about 'dodging sniper fire') is to become the next SEC of STATE? * This was the CO-President of an Administration that appeased the killer named Arafat, placated the Despotic endeavors of the tyrannical rule in North Korea, and made it their policy to lie about the Genocide in Rwanda.

2. Leon Panetta who spent most of his days as the Clinton White House Chief of Staff spinning the various Clinton Lies about Filegate, Travelgate , Billing-gate, Whitewater, etc., as the new CIA CHIEF?

3. Robert Reich (top economic Obama Adviser - slated for something big) who helped provide massive Federal Loan Guarantees to Enron during the 1990's?

4. Attorney General nominee Eric H. Holder Jr., who was Deputy AG under the Clintons, who helped produce the pardon for MARC RICH and clemency for the FLAN Terrorists?

5. Rahm Emanuel chosen to be the new White House Chief of Staff, who is heavily connected to the massive Illinois corruption, which includes the corrupt Gov. Rod Blagojevich?

Of course, the selection of Joe Biden, a Beltway Insider for Decades who seems to lie as often as any Clinton Crony, was a vivid sign of a contradiction of the Obama sales pitch. Biden even voted to authorize the use of force in Iraq, a clear contradiction to the negative Obama Campaign pitch about the Liberation of Millions of formerly oppressed Iraqis.

It is so laughable, it begins to get sad.

While the MSM is only focused on the Obama Children's first days at a new school, the stage is being set for more disastrous failure.

"Change" seems to be nothing more than the return of the unethical, incompetent, greedy, deceitful, who obsessively spend taxpayer money while dreaming of new ways to raise taxation. These are the same tired Washington Insiders, who have a history of producing the most divisive Partisan diatribe, while they personally profiteer in the guise of public service.

The former Clinton Administration Officials are the same failures, who ignored the rise of Radical Islamic Terrorism, and enabled the danger posed by Al Qaeda throughout the 1990's, even after the first attack on the WTC in 1993.

Brooklyn of NY @ Jan 12, 2009 02:08:37 AM