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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: puborectalis who wrote (32839)	7/3/2008 12:31:15 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 224750

BO would never discontinue the racist AA policy. The black congressional caucus would not allow it.

To: puborectalis who wrote (32839)	7/3/2008 1:06:16 PM
From: Geoff Altman	Respond to of 224750

white kids who have been disadvantaged and have grown up in poverty and shown themselves to have what it takes to succeed." I'd put it to you that this has everything to do with culture and nothing to do with one class of people having an advantage over another. It in no way proves bias. Diversity, in my view, is very much in the national interest. I disagree completely, what is in our best national interest is always selecting the best. That way the best his held as the ideal with ALL RACES striving for that ideal. Minority students are disproportionately disadvantaged by having to attend substandard primary and secondary schools. Again, this has little to nothing to do with race and everything to do with our school systems. Because of the unions and the rigid system they've set up to monopolize our educational system and because of this system no amount of money that we dump into education will make one iotas worth of difference. As for Obama's assessment of his daughters' privileged status, that's just a statement of the obvious. With such type-A, high- wattage parents, those girls probably will have the grades and test scores to get into any college. And if they don't, they will benefit from a different affirmative action program -- one that for many generations has ushered the academically undistinguished scions of prominent families into the nation's most selective colleges and universities. This just goes to show how hypocritical the liberals are. They'll ruin our educational system by supporting the unions yet won't actually SEND their own children to public schools. You can twist all day long but those are the facts.