What doesn’t make sense to me: Cut taxes for working families that make below $200,000...fine, that’s helping low-income families. People put money away for retirement, their hard worked money, and then only get half or a portion upon retirement. People who make more than $200,000 will be taxed. Is Obama’s plan then to take hard earned money from people classified as high-income? People that invest the same effort into their jobs. Earning their wages and pensions. I know I want to keep what I make. Whatever that may be. I want my family to keep what they have already genuinely made.
This entire speech Mr. Obama talks about money. Apparently Mr. Obama can raise funds, as seen in his campaign, but where will he find the money to help America’s poor? The same place he receives funds now, from people with money, from America’s rich.
He wants to follow a company called McKinstry’s business plan, “Founded in 1960, McKinstry's industry experience, outstanding reputation and consistently strong backlog continue to provide stability for our employees. McKinstry is on the leading edge of the industry maintaining our reputation of being a single-source solution provider "For the Life of Your Building."
What will early education do if children are suffering mid education now?
He is great at addressing his audience. I wonder what speech he pitches to the rich people who fund his campaign. $1 million for each news network, money that should be given to all the people Mr. Obama wishes to help. I wonder where extra money goes, money left over after campaigns are complete? What makes Americans so against donating money to our poor. People fund Obama because it is a cause they believe in, in a figure--person--they believe can do something worthwhile with their money. What if people gave their money to poor without promise in the middle man?
If these people support a man with claims to change so much, financially, do they ever stop to think that a direct contribution would benefit their concerns more. Instead of giving money to the man with the promise, give the money to the institution in need of improvement. Is it people we trust to handle our money properly?
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Barack Obama Vouchers
"Sen. Barack Obama does not mention the word “vouchers” in his educational plan. In the 15 pages he devotes to his “pre-K to grade 12” education plan, he mentions the word “school choice” only once -- in a subhead called “School-family contracts.” (Jones)
I watched the final debate. Obama states, "Where we disagree is on the idea that we can somehow give out vouchers -- give vouchers as a way of securing the problems in our education system. Vouchers do not solve the problem." (LA Times)
My understanding is that he does not approve or support the voucher system. I am taken aback because an overwhelmingly positive, productive and supportive school operates entirely on vouchers. The school is in Tampa, Florida, my city. The school is Academy Prep.
These students want to be there. Academy Prep is the most wonderful school I have ever visited. To say he does not support vouchers means that he does not support this school, ultimately taking it away. I would be devastated.
My entire semester project portrays advantageous aspects of vouchers. When I see light in a child’s eyes, the last thing I want is to take that away. I examined the school from a neutral standpoint and found myself in approval. I wish he would reevaluate his position on vouchers, or enlighten me on his negative views related.
I see the effort people put in to maintain the progressive spirit. Academy Prep students and staff are striving to make a positive difference, to the best of their abilities, every day.
Mr. Obama supports charter schools. I want to research charter schools in my area. I spoke with a girl that attends a Tampa charter school and she said she enjoys her classes, but the drive is too far. She attends because an art program is offered, her specialty.
I do not see the problem in having combination: public, private, charter, voucher, home. If the children are benefitting, no need to yank the school. The focus is needed on unsuccessful schools, not schools already striving. Let them strive. Help others strive too.
Sources:
Jones, Susan. "Palin: I Do Not Support the Voucher System." 1 Sept 2008. http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=34928
Los Angeles Times. "Top of the Ticket." 22 Oct 2008. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/10/debate-transcri.html
I watched the final debate. Obama states, "Where we disagree is on the idea that we can somehow give out vouchers -- give vouchers as a way of securing the problems in our education system. Vouchers do not solve the problem." (LA Times)
My understanding is that he does not approve or support the voucher system. I am taken aback because an overwhelmingly positive, productive and supportive school operates entirely on vouchers. The school is in Tampa, Florida, my city. The school is Academy Prep.
These students want to be there. Academy Prep is the most wonderful school I have ever visited. To say he does not support vouchers means that he does not support this school, ultimately taking it away. I would be devastated.
My entire semester project portrays advantageous aspects of vouchers. When I see light in a child’s eyes, the last thing I want is to take that away. I examined the school from a neutral standpoint and found myself in approval. I wish he would reevaluate his position on vouchers, or enlighten me on his negative views related.
I see the effort people put in to maintain the progressive spirit. Academy Prep students and staff are striving to make a positive difference, to the best of their abilities, every day.
Mr. Obama supports charter schools. I want to research charter schools in my area. I spoke with a girl that attends a Tampa charter school and she said she enjoys her classes, but the drive is too far. She attends because an art program is offered, her specialty.
I do not see the problem in having combination: public, private, charter, voucher, home. If the children are benefitting, no need to yank the school. The focus is needed on unsuccessful schools, not schools already striving. Let them strive. Help others strive too.
Sources:
Jones, Susan. "Palin: I Do Not Support the Voucher System." 1 Sept 2008. http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=34928
Los Angeles Times. "Top of the Ticket." 22 Oct 2008. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/10/debate-transcri.html
Hillary Clinton Vouchers
"Hillary Clinton believes that private school vouchers only add to the problem with today's public school system. Providing children with private school vouchers simply "sweeps the problem under the rug," so to speak. Hillary Clinton has maintained that we need to reform our current schools, rather than using vital resources for private school vouchers. If the public schools are improved, parents wouldn't feel that private schools are as necessary for their children."
I DO NOT AGREE BECAUSE CHILDREN AT VOUCHER SCHOOLS WANT TO BE THERE AND EXCEL, IT IS NOT A WASTE OF TIME OR SWEEP UNDER A RUG. A POSITIVE ENVIRONMENT IS SUSTAINED AT VOUCHER RUN SCHOOLS. BAD APPLES DO NOT EXIST TO POISON A THRIVING EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT. FOR THAT, VOUCHERS ARE WONDERFUL. HELP CHILDREN THAT WANT TO BE HELPED AND SUCCEED. VOUCHERS SHOULD NOT BE PROVIDED TO PRIVATE SCHOOLS RECEIVING TUITION. SCHOOLS LIKE ACADEMY PREP EPITOMIZE PUBLIC SCHOOLING SYSTEMS, SORT OF LIKE, WITH THE PROPER FUNDING, THIS IS WHAT YOU COULD BE. VOUCHER SCHOOL SYSTEMS ARE FILLED TO CAPACITY WITH PUBLIC SCHOOL CHILDREN, THEY ARE GETTING A CHANCE TO LEARN MORE, PARTICIPATE, CREATE, AND EXCEL. THEY ARE GIVEN OPPORTUNITIES THAT ARE NOT OFFERED AT PUBLIC SCHOOLS. THEIR FAMILIES ARE POOR, BUT THE COMMUNITY SUPPORTS THE BETTERMENT OF THESE INDIVIDUALS. THE BETTERMENT OF CHILDREN, OUR FUTURE.
THERE IS NO RICH KID POOR KID STEREOTYPE AT THIS SCHOOL. NO SEPARATION LIKE I HAVE EXPERIENCED DURING MY SCHOOLING. CHILDREN ARE NOT CATEGORIZED INTO CLIQUES BASED ON INCOME BECAUSE THEY ARE IN THE SAME BOAT. THEY ARE ALL WISHING TO SUCCEED IN SCHOOL, GAIN ULTIMATE EDUCATIONS AND EXCEL IN LIFE. THEY WANT TO CONTRIBUTE POSITIVELY TO SCHOOL. GRADUATES COME BACK TO SUPPORT ACADEMY PREP, LIKE A CIRCLE OF PERFORMANCE.
WHO SAID WE HAVE TO PICK ONE OR THE OTHER? WE CAN HAVE BOTH. PEOPLE HAVE DIFFERENT INTERESTS. ONE MAY ENJOY SUPPORTING A VOUCHER SCHOOL LIKE ACADEMY PREP AND ANOTHER MAY ENJOY SUPPORTING PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
IF THE OPTIONS ARE PRESENT, WE HAVE A GREATER GIFT.
CHILDREN ARE LEARNING, I AM HAPPY.
Source:
Senghas, Sarah. "Hillary Clinton on Education." 5 June, 2008. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/265088/hillary_clinton_on_education.html?cat=4
I DO NOT AGREE BECAUSE CHILDREN AT VOUCHER SCHOOLS WANT TO BE THERE AND EXCEL, IT IS NOT A WASTE OF TIME OR SWEEP UNDER A RUG. A POSITIVE ENVIRONMENT IS SUSTAINED AT VOUCHER RUN SCHOOLS. BAD APPLES DO NOT EXIST TO POISON A THRIVING EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT. FOR THAT, VOUCHERS ARE WONDERFUL. HELP CHILDREN THAT WANT TO BE HELPED AND SUCCEED. VOUCHERS SHOULD NOT BE PROVIDED TO PRIVATE SCHOOLS RECEIVING TUITION. SCHOOLS LIKE ACADEMY PREP EPITOMIZE PUBLIC SCHOOLING SYSTEMS, SORT OF LIKE, WITH THE PROPER FUNDING, THIS IS WHAT YOU COULD BE. VOUCHER SCHOOL SYSTEMS ARE FILLED TO CAPACITY WITH PUBLIC SCHOOL CHILDREN, THEY ARE GETTING A CHANCE TO LEARN MORE, PARTICIPATE, CREATE, AND EXCEL. THEY ARE GIVEN OPPORTUNITIES THAT ARE NOT OFFERED AT PUBLIC SCHOOLS. THEIR FAMILIES ARE POOR, BUT THE COMMUNITY SUPPORTS THE BETTERMENT OF THESE INDIVIDUALS. THE BETTERMENT OF CHILDREN, OUR FUTURE.
THERE IS NO RICH KID POOR KID STEREOTYPE AT THIS SCHOOL. NO SEPARATION LIKE I HAVE EXPERIENCED DURING MY SCHOOLING. CHILDREN ARE NOT CATEGORIZED INTO CLIQUES BASED ON INCOME BECAUSE THEY ARE IN THE SAME BOAT. THEY ARE ALL WISHING TO SUCCEED IN SCHOOL, GAIN ULTIMATE EDUCATIONS AND EXCEL IN LIFE. THEY WANT TO CONTRIBUTE POSITIVELY TO SCHOOL. GRADUATES COME BACK TO SUPPORT ACADEMY PREP, LIKE A CIRCLE OF PERFORMANCE.
WHO SAID WE HAVE TO PICK ONE OR THE OTHER? WE CAN HAVE BOTH. PEOPLE HAVE DIFFERENT INTERESTS. ONE MAY ENJOY SUPPORTING A VOUCHER SCHOOL LIKE ACADEMY PREP AND ANOTHER MAY ENJOY SUPPORTING PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
IF THE OPTIONS ARE PRESENT, WE HAVE A GREATER GIFT.
CHILDREN ARE LEARNING, I AM HAPPY.
Source:
Senghas, Sarah. "Hillary Clinton on Education." 5 June, 2008. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/265088/hillary_clinton_on_education.html?cat=4
Saturday, October 11, 2008
United States, Disability
Inequality usually based on gender, race and ethnicity. Disability justifies inequality for disabled people, women and minority groups included.
Normality: measuring, categorizing and managing populations.
Diseases of blacks commonly contributed to inferior organisms and constitutional weakness. The most pronounced race characteristic of American negro.
Higher intelligence of mullatos compared to pure blacks is evidence for superiority of whites.
Drapetomania, caused slaves to run away, disease of the mind.
Only disability might lower white person to a person marked a race.
Rhetorical tactics of suffrage opponents was to point to physical, intellectual and psychological flaws of women.
Women’s social problem was treated as a medical problem in need of special care.
Ethnicity has been defined as a disability.
Constitutional psychopathic inferiority. p.98 Idiots, feeble minded...
Once laws limiting entry of disabled people were in place, started limiting entry to undesirable ethnic groups.
Women work to remove themselves from negatively marked categories. To disassociate themselves from people who are really disabled.
In history writing, disability was ignored.
It is time to bring disability out of the margins and into the center of historical inquiry.
Rothenberg, Paula S., Race, Class, and Gender In The United States. New York: Worth, 2007
Normality: measuring, categorizing and managing populations.
Diseases of blacks commonly contributed to inferior organisms and constitutional weakness. The most pronounced race characteristic of American negro.
Higher intelligence of mullatos compared to pure blacks is evidence for superiority of whites.
Drapetomania, caused slaves to run away, disease of the mind.
Only disability might lower white person to a person marked a race.
Rhetorical tactics of suffrage opponents was to point to physical, intellectual and psychological flaws of women.
Women’s social problem was treated as a medical problem in need of special care.
Ethnicity has been defined as a disability.
Constitutional psychopathic inferiority. p.98 Idiots, feeble minded...
Once laws limiting entry of disabled people were in place, started limiting entry to undesirable ethnic groups.
Women work to remove themselves from negatively marked categories. To disassociate themselves from people who are really disabled.
In history writing, disability was ignored.
It is time to bring disability out of the margins and into the center of historical inquiry.
Rothenberg, Paula S., Race, Class, and Gender In The United States. New York: Worth, 2007
You Can't Boil an Egg and Uncook It
There are not equal outcomes in this country.
It's equal opportunity.
You take opportunity and make it work for you. Strive every day. Be rewarded according to merit, not need.
Latch-key kids are getting into trouble after school. School ends at 3:00 and parents don't get home until 6 or 7:00 p.m. Children need somewhere constructive to go; they need something positive to do.
Barack Obama's plan will shut down school's like Academy Prep because he plans to take away vouchers from Alternative Schools. Schools doing more positive thing than I could ever do by myself.
Public schools need heat under the seat to improve. Competition straight down the line. If you succeed, we feed. If you fail, we shut you down. "Prepare like the Normandy Invasion. Public Schools worship at the altar of the FCAT." This may seem exagerrated, but after hearing many personal testimonies, it stands true. My high school taught material on the FCAT, and I passed with flying colors.
This leads mt thinking to, "take from the rich and give to the poor" in an attempt to evenly distribute cash, to achieve a fairer, more egalitarian society.
In Marxist theory, socialism is a transitional social state between the overthrow of capitalism and the realization of communism....yikes.
America is the land of the free, and here, in my country, we work for what we want...never one in which money earned, is then taken away, and dealt out...not in my country.
At Academy Prep, volunteer service is exchanged for tuition.
(Tamayo, Lincoln J. Personal Interview. 7 Oct. 2008)
It's equal opportunity.
You take opportunity and make it work for you. Strive every day. Be rewarded according to merit, not need.
Latch-key kids are getting into trouble after school. School ends at 3:00 and parents don't get home until 6 or 7:00 p.m. Children need somewhere constructive to go; they need something positive to do.
Barack Obama's plan will shut down school's like Academy Prep because he plans to take away vouchers from Alternative Schools. Schools doing more positive thing than I could ever do by myself.
Public schools need heat under the seat to improve. Competition straight down the line. If you succeed, we feed. If you fail, we shut you down. "Prepare like the Normandy Invasion. Public Schools worship at the altar of the FCAT." This may seem exagerrated, but after hearing many personal testimonies, it stands true. My high school taught material on the FCAT, and I passed with flying colors.
This leads mt thinking to, "take from the rich and give to the poor" in an attempt to evenly distribute cash, to achieve a fairer, more egalitarian society.
In Marxist theory, socialism is a transitional social state between the overthrow of capitalism and the realization of communism....yikes.
America is the land of the free, and here, in my country, we work for what we want...never one in which money earned, is then taken away, and dealt out...not in my country.
At Academy Prep, volunteer service is exchanged for tuition.
(Tamayo, Lincoln J. Personal Interview. 7 Oct. 2008)
Obamination
February 21, 2007
How many Americans would vote for a presidential candidate who was the member of a church that professed the following credo?
And those holding the branding irons would be 100% right.
Yet, in the "About" section of the U.S. Senate website for Barack Obama, Democratic senator from Illinois and contender for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States, it states that Obama and his family "live on Chicago's South Side where they attend Trinity United Church of Christ."
So...?
Well, to say that the Trinity United Church of Christ (http://www.tucc.org) is afrocentric in the extreme would be a gross understatement. It's not simply afrocentric, it's African-centric. In fact, one could argue that this organization worships things African to a far greater degree than they do Christ, and gives the impression of being a separatist "church" in the same vein as do certain supremacist "white brethren" churches — or even Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam.
Shocking? An overstatement? An overreaction?
One can see for oneself on the Trinity United Church website, which is replete with confirmation of what I present here. What follows is an excerpt from their Mission Statement:
"We are a congregation which is Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian... Our roots in the Black religious experience and tradition are deep, lasting and permanent. We are an African people, and remain "true to our native land," the mother continent, the cradle of civilization. God has superintended our pilgrimage through the days of slavery, the days of segregation, and the long night of racism. It is God who gives us the strength and courage to continuously address injustice as a people, and as a congregation. We constantly affirm our trust in God through cultural expression of a Black worship service and ministries which address the Black Community.
"Trinity United Church of Christ adopted the Black Value System written by the Manford Byrd Recognition Committee chaired by Vallmer Jordan in 1981. We believe in the following 12 precepts and covenantal statements. These Black Ethics must be taught and exemplified in homes, churches, nurseries and schools, wherever Blacks are gathered. They must reflect on the following concepts:
Trinity United Church of Christ's congregation also claims to hold to a "10-point Vision" which is similarly afrocentric, or if you will, separatist. Again, like the Nation of Islam, a white separatist church or the Branch Davidians, Trinity United more resembles a cult than a church. Only this one has as one of its most prominent members a serious contender for the White House.
And George W. Bush's born-again Christian status scares people?
These revelations, of course shed all the light we need on Obama's inscrutability; since before he announced his candidacy, both the Right and Left have commented on the lack of information vis-à-vis just who Barack Obama is and what he's about.
From The Chicago Tribune, February 06, 2007, Column: Against Middleclassness? by Rich Lowry. "Vallmer Jordan, a church member who helped draft the precepts, said they were designed to empower the black community and counter a value system imposed by whites. 'The big question mark was racism,' he said. 'Black disempowerment was an integral part of that historical value system. It became increasingly apparent to me that we black people had not developed our own value system . . . to help us overcome all we knew we had to battle.'"
"A value system imposed by whites..." Is Jordan speaking of the value system that kept families together and promoted morality, industry and integrity, or the one imposed by liberal dependency pimps since the Civil Rights Movement?
True enough that many blacks did abandon values; again, this was due to the corruption of the black clergy by white socialists and their black foremen. Trinity United seems to have thrown out the baby with the bathwater. Gravitation toward an Africanized "year-round Kwanzaa"-based pseudo-Christianity seems less of a solution than returning to the moral and social conservatism Blacks held prior to the aforementioned socialists gaining their stranglehold in the black community.
So is Obama seeking to be our first black president, or our first stealth black nationalist president? You see, were he a run-of-the-mill insincere Christian of convenience like Bill Clinton, Obama might belong to a run-of-the-mill, lukewarm, large nondescript church. But he doesn't. He belongs to a church which is (as I indicated before) blatantly afrocentric and even suggests the supremacy of Africa's descendants in America.
Granted that the Left will have no qualms about this highly questionable affiliation, but what about all of the American swing voters to whom Obama has built broad appeal by presenting himself as sort of a generic, open-minded moderate Democrat (as Bill Clinton also did, by the way)? Are they going to go for a candidate whose heart is actually closer to that of a refined Black Panther?
Trinity United clearly embraces things African above things American. The content of their website makes this undeniably clear. Aside from this tack being divisive, separatist and calls into question its adherents' identification as Americans, if they're looking for values, they — and Obama — would be better served by looking to modern political conservatives and traditional Christianity than retrograde African precepts and the Democrat Party.
Obama's affiliation with this church, if I must call it that, should be as alarming to the American voter as a Republican candidate for president belonging to the Aryan Brethren Church of Christ. Any argument against this assertion is politically-correct delusion, reverse discrimination and a hypocrisy — a very dangerous one.
© Erik Rush
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/rush/070221
Obamination
By Erik Rush
How many Americans would vote for a presidential candidate who was the member of a church that professed the following credo?
- Commitment to God
- Commitment to the White Community
- Commitment to the White Family
- Dedication to the Pursuit of Education
- Dedication to the Pursuit of Excellence
- Adherence to the White Work Ethic
- Commitment to Self-Discipline and Self-Respect
- Disavowal of the Pursuit of "Middleclassness"
- Pledge to make the fruits of all developing and acquired skills available to the White Community
- Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources for Strengthening and Supporting White Institutions
- Pledge allegiance to all White leadership who espouse and embrace the White Value System
- Personal commitment to embracement of the White Value System.
And those holding the branding irons would be 100% right.
Yet, in the "About" section of the U.S. Senate website for Barack Obama, Democratic senator from Illinois and contender for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States, it states that Obama and his family "live on Chicago's South Side where they attend Trinity United Church of Christ."
So...?
Well, to say that the Trinity United Church of Christ (http://www.tucc.org) is afrocentric in the extreme would be a gross understatement. It's not simply afrocentric, it's African-centric. In fact, one could argue that this organization worships things African to a far greater degree than they do Christ, and gives the impression of being a separatist "church" in the same vein as do certain supremacist "white brethren" churches — or even Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam.
Shocking? An overstatement? An overreaction?
One can see for oneself on the Trinity United Church website, which is replete with confirmation of what I present here. What follows is an excerpt from their Mission Statement:
"We are a congregation which is Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian... Our roots in the Black religious experience and tradition are deep, lasting and permanent. We are an African people, and remain "true to our native land," the mother continent, the cradle of civilization. God has superintended our pilgrimage through the days of slavery, the days of segregation, and the long night of racism. It is God who gives us the strength and courage to continuously address injustice as a people, and as a congregation. We constantly affirm our trust in God through cultural expression of a Black worship service and ministries which address the Black Community.
"Trinity United Church of Christ adopted the Black Value System written by the Manford Byrd Recognition Committee chaired by Vallmer Jordan in 1981. We believe in the following 12 precepts and covenantal statements. These Black Ethics must be taught and exemplified in homes, churches, nurseries and schools, wherever Blacks are gathered. They must reflect on the following concepts:
- Commitment to God
- Commitment to the Black Community
- Commitment to the Black Family
- Dedication to the Pursuit of Education
- Dedication to the Pursuit of Excellence
- Adherence to the Black Work Ethic
- Commitment to Self-Discipline and Self-Respect
- Disavowal of the Pursuit of "Middleclassness"
- Pledge to make the fruits of all developing and acquired skills available to the Black Community
- Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources for Strengthening and Supporting Black Institutions
- Pledge allegiance to all Black leadership who espouse and embrace the Black Value System
- Personal commitment to embracement of the Black Value System."
Trinity United Church of Christ's congregation also claims to hold to a "10-point Vision" which is similarly afrocentric, or if you will, separatist. Again, like the Nation of Islam, a white separatist church or the Branch Davidians, Trinity United more resembles a cult than a church. Only this one has as one of its most prominent members a serious contender for the White House.
And George W. Bush's born-again Christian status scares people?
These revelations, of course shed all the light we need on Obama's inscrutability; since before he announced his candidacy, both the Right and Left have commented on the lack of information vis-à-vis just who Barack Obama is and what he's about.
From The Chicago Tribune, February 06, 2007, Column: Against Middleclassness? by Rich Lowry. "Vallmer Jordan, a church member who helped draft the precepts, said they were designed to empower the black community and counter a value system imposed by whites. 'The big question mark was racism,' he said. 'Black disempowerment was an integral part of that historical value system. It became increasingly apparent to me that we black people had not developed our own value system . . . to help us overcome all we knew we had to battle.'"
"A value system imposed by whites..." Is Jordan speaking of the value system that kept families together and promoted morality, industry and integrity, or the one imposed by liberal dependency pimps since the Civil Rights Movement?
True enough that many blacks did abandon values; again, this was due to the corruption of the black clergy by white socialists and their black foremen. Trinity United seems to have thrown out the baby with the bathwater. Gravitation toward an Africanized "year-round Kwanzaa"-based pseudo-Christianity seems less of a solution than returning to the moral and social conservatism Blacks held prior to the aforementioned socialists gaining their stranglehold in the black community.
So is Obama seeking to be our first black president, or our first stealth black nationalist president? You see, were he a run-of-the-mill insincere Christian of convenience like Bill Clinton, Obama might belong to a run-of-the-mill, lukewarm, large nondescript church. But he doesn't. He belongs to a church which is (as I indicated before) blatantly afrocentric and even suggests the supremacy of Africa's descendants in America.
Granted that the Left will have no qualms about this highly questionable affiliation, but what about all of the American swing voters to whom Obama has built broad appeal by presenting himself as sort of a generic, open-minded moderate Democrat (as Bill Clinton also did, by the way)? Are they going to go for a candidate whose heart is actually closer to that of a refined Black Panther?
Trinity United clearly embraces things African above things American. The content of their website makes this undeniably clear. Aside from this tack being divisive, separatist and calls into question its adherents' identification as Americans, if they're looking for values, they — and Obama — would be better served by looking to modern political conservatives and traditional Christianity than retrograde African precepts and the Democrat Party.
Obama's affiliation with this church, if I must call it that, should be as alarming to the American voter as a Republican candidate for president belonging to the Aryan Brethren Church of Christ. Any argument against this assertion is politically-correct delusion, reverse discrimination and a hypocrisy — a very dangerous one.
© Erik Rush
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/rush/070221
So What If Obama Was Muslim? -Newsweek
Between March and July, the percentage of people who believed Barack Obama is Muslim increased 10 to 12 percent. We live in a country that separates church and state, I'm just not sure how deviated I would like the oval office to be, from my Roman Catholic denomination.
Ellis Cose wrote the article and speaks highly of Obama...does not believe the "race card" should be pulled relating religion to the September 11th attacks; they are so close in appearance, Cose could be his brother.
Wikipedia.org states:
Several of the original Thirteen Colonies were established by English settlers who wished to practice their own religion without discrimination: Pennsylvania was established by Quakers, Maryland by Roman Catholics and the Massachusetts Bay Colony by Puritans. Nine of the thirteen colonies had official public religions. Yet by the time of the Philadelphia Convention of 1787, the United States became one of the first countries in the world to enact freedom of religion by way of a separation of church and state.
Adherents.com outline:
2008, Pew Research Council, Top 3 Religious Affiliations, United States :
Christian
Jewish
Muslim
(Adherent)
Currently, there are 4.1 million Muslims in the U.s.
Barack Obama wants to be, "The change we need."
Muslim was not a religion this country was founded on. I am not prepared to change our principles, if, in fact...Mr. Obama practices Muslim.
I believe in the fundamentals of this great American society: prayer in school, pledge of allegiance, reciting the Preamble in history class.
What is the need to change something that our country has existed on for so many years?
I understand that we're a melting pot, but that does not mean that we have to deviate from our cherished founding fathers. America is a place where people from all over the world can come together and practice their own beliefs. Melt and glue together in a common peace, without imposing their beliefs on others.
(Adherents.com 7 Dec. 2005 http://www.adherents.com/rel_USA.html#Pew_branches)
Wikipedia.org. "Religion in the United States." 10 Oct. 2008
Ellis Cose wrote the article and speaks highly of Obama...does not believe the "race card" should be pulled relating religion to the September 11th attacks; they are so close in appearance, Cose could be his brother.
Wikipedia.org states:
Several of the original Thirteen Colonies were established by English settlers who wished to practice their own religion without discrimination: Pennsylvania was established by Quakers, Maryland by Roman Catholics and the Massachusetts Bay Colony by Puritans. Nine of the thirteen colonies had official public religions. Yet by the time of the Philadelphia Convention of 1787, the United States became one of the first countries in the world to enact freedom of religion by way of a separation of church and state.
Adherents.com outline:
| Religious Affiliation of U.S. Founding Fathers | # of Founding Fathers | % of Founding Fathers |
|---|---|---|
| Episcopalian/Anglican | 88 | 54.7% |
| Presbyterian | 30 | 18.6% |
| Congregationalist | 27 | 16.8% |
| Quaker | 7 | 4.3% |
| Dutch Reformed/German Reformed | 6 | 3.7% |
| Lutheran | 5 | 3.1% |
| Catholic | 3 | 1.9% |
| Huguenot | 3 | 1.9% |
| Unitarian | 3 | 1.9% |
| Methodist | 2 | 1.2% |
| Calvinist | 1 | 0.6% |
| TOTAL | 204 |
2008, Pew Research Council, Top 3 Religious Affiliations, United States :
Christian
Jewish
Muslim
(Adherent)
Currently, there are 4.1 million Muslims in the U.s.
Barack Obama wants to be, "The change we need."
Muslim was not a religion this country was founded on. I am not prepared to change our principles, if, in fact...Mr. Obama practices Muslim.
I believe in the fundamentals of this great American society: prayer in school, pledge of allegiance, reciting the Preamble in history class.
What is the need to change something that our country has existed on for so many years?
I understand that we're a melting pot, but that does not mean that we have to deviate from our cherished founding fathers. America is a place where people from all over the world can come together and practice their own beliefs. Melt and glue together in a common peace, without imposing their beliefs on others.
(Adherents.com 7 Dec. 2005 http://www.adherents.com/rel_USA.html#Pew_branches)
Wikipedia.org. "Religion in the United States." 10 Oct. 2008
Friday, October 10, 2008
McCain's Mrs. Right
For events, thousands wait as long as 90 minutes to get a glimpse of her. “She has lifted McCain in the polls, has put Obama into confusion and is living out a Cinderella story unlike any other in political history, though the ending is still a slipper of uncertainty.” White women have swung away from Obama by as much as 20 points. She has a grip on most white women. A young woman held up a sign at a rally that read Sarah Palin UR my role model. Charlotte Schworer says she felt truly energized for the first time in regards to Palin’s speech at the Republican National Convention. Palin never banned library books, though she did raise the idea with a librarian. She did not sell her jet on Ebay, though she sold the jet to Brett Favre. Democrats have not been able to curve the Republican forward motion. Sarah Palin is Northern Exposure meets the Wizard of Oz. The “yes we can” excitement of Democrats is getting a run for its money. Palin’s acceptance of VP raised Republican donations by $4.4 million and Democrats by $10 million. Currently, Obama leads in two swing states, Michigan & New Hampshire, while McCain leads in the other two, Missouri & Virginia. Obama has been established in the narratives as the media’s darling. Sarah Palin majored in Journalism & she has stated that she does not seek the media’s approval; she will not do an interview unless they treat her with some level of respect. I must fall into the category of white woman supporting Sarah Palin because I support Sarah Palin. I like what she says and what she plans to do for our country. I like that she sold her jet to a football player. I like that she says, “Wow,” in response to yelling fans; she is humble through the adversities of the campaign. I like that she is married with five children and I like the excitement she brings to the election. Either way, this election will be marked in history & I am happy to follow it and remember it for years to come.
Thomas, Evan and Karen Breslau. "McCain's Mrs. Right." Newsweek 8 Sept. 2008 29-34
Thomas, Evan and Karen Breslau. "McCain's Mrs. Right." Newsweek 8 Sept. 2008 29-34
Friday, October 3, 2008
John McCain Coins
Education, John McCain coins three words: excellence, choice, competition. He wants involved and empowered parents combined with excellent teachers. American education must be worthy of promise we make to our children and ourselves. He is committed to equal opportunity and believes there is no equal opportunity without equal access to excellent education. He believes in the ability of all students to access schools of demonstrated excellence, including home. We cannot eliminate options if we wish to keep up with the industrialized world. If school is not changing, students change schools: parents choice. (McCain)
I like McCain’s choice of words. Excellence is the quality of being outstanding or extremely good. Choice the ability to make a selection or decision. Competition is the action of competing, opposing. I like his choice of competition because I believe that is what giving parent’s a choice will do between schools. The choice that creates competition will lead to school excellence. Empowering parents is to give them authority, there’s a role changer. Teachers, principals and the government usually hold the power. Involved parents wish to select a proper school for their children. Uninvolved parents take no interest. Involved parents certainly need to hold the power. Excellent teachers will flock to excellent schools. Excellent schools will provide resources. Excellent teachers will use beneficial resources in the classroom. All the excellence put forth in the school will account for its excellent students. McCain’s equal opportunity creed is seen in his equal access belief and in the fact of him choosing a female vice president nominee. I am a female. I like the empowerment. I believe in effective, constructive, and encouraging home schooling. I like that McCain recognizes home schooling by saying home schooling has the ability of establishing excellence. I agree that America must leave schooling options open for all children. A child must feel comfortable at school. Families should never have to relocate their homes based on school districts and zoning. Parents will determine educational road to drive on, to and from school. McCain and I believe parents have the right to choose. Failing schools will be forced to improve. Polish or funds cut. Better or fire teacher. Update or report to parents. A reign of education excellence. Schools are encouraged to alter.
John McCain Campain Website. Education. 3 Oct. 2008
I like McCain’s choice of words. Excellence is the quality of being outstanding or extremely good. Choice the ability to make a selection or decision. Competition is the action of competing, opposing. I like his choice of competition because I believe that is what giving parent’s a choice will do between schools. The choice that creates competition will lead to school excellence. Empowering parents is to give them authority, there’s a role changer. Teachers, principals and the government usually hold the power. Involved parents wish to select a proper school for their children. Uninvolved parents take no interest. Involved parents certainly need to hold the power. Excellent teachers will flock to excellent schools. Excellent schools will provide resources. Excellent teachers will use beneficial resources in the classroom. All the excellence put forth in the school will account for its excellent students. McCain’s equal opportunity creed is seen in his equal access belief and in the fact of him choosing a female vice president nominee. I am a female. I like the empowerment. I believe in effective, constructive, and encouraging home schooling. I like that McCain recognizes home schooling by saying home schooling has the ability of establishing excellence. I agree that America must leave schooling options open for all children. A child must feel comfortable at school. Families should never have to relocate their homes based on school districts and zoning. Parents will determine educational road to drive on, to and from school. McCain and I believe parents have the right to choose. Failing schools will be forced to improve. Polish or funds cut. Better or fire teacher. Update or report to parents. A reign of education excellence. Schools are encouraged to alter.
John McCain Campain Website. Education. 3 Oct. 2008
Obama Full Education2
“Older generations always had a music and art teacher. Not that music is always exciting. I was born into Stevie Wonder. We have done scientific research to show that children who learn music do better in math. Kids whose imaginations are sparked by the arts are more engaged in school. Kids who have physical education are more able to pay attention in the classroom. These things aren’t just extras, they are part of a well rounded education.” (Obama)
I love that Obama recognizes my great concern: the importance of electives in school. A well-rounded, balanced, advantageous, beneficial, finest, crucial, and stable education involves mathematics, science, English, geography, social studies, art, physical education, technology, music, language arts, and history. Children must express their core selves and not strictly memorize material and throw it up on a test. National standards for equal curricula are set. How about basing these standards on more demonstrative terms. Give children a chance to excel in more than math, science and reading comprehension. Creme de la creme must mean more than a perfect standardized test score. We cannot forget about the sculptor, painter, athlete, musician, actor, singer, drawer, or artist. Children will vary in likable school subjects and interests; they need vast options in school to divert resentment. If a child is presented with material he or she enjoys, he or she can run with each new found passion. Children’s desires must be tapped and enhanced for our world to see brighter tomorrow’s. Obama is accurate in stating that art, music and physical education are not just extras. Art is emotionally revealing. Music is satisfyingly harmonious. Physical education is healthy involvement. Incorporation is key; key to children, American students, creme de la creme.
“Obama is campaigning for our kids, our future.”
Obama Campaign Website. Education. 3 Oct. 2008
I love that Obama recognizes my great concern: the importance of electives in school. A well-rounded, balanced, advantageous, beneficial, finest, crucial, and stable education involves mathematics, science, English, geography, social studies, art, physical education, technology, music, language arts, and history. Children must express their core selves and not strictly memorize material and throw it up on a test. National standards for equal curricula are set. How about basing these standards on more demonstrative terms. Give children a chance to excel in more than math, science and reading comprehension. Creme de la creme must mean more than a perfect standardized test score. We cannot forget about the sculptor, painter, athlete, musician, actor, singer, drawer, or artist. Children will vary in likable school subjects and interests; they need vast options in school to divert resentment. If a child is presented with material he or she enjoys, he or she can run with each new found passion. Children’s desires must be tapped and enhanced for our world to see brighter tomorrow’s. Obama is accurate in stating that art, music and physical education are not just extras. Art is emotionally revealing. Music is satisfyingly harmonious. Physical education is healthy involvement. Incorporation is key; key to children, American students, creme de la creme.
“Obama is campaigning for our kids, our future.”
Obama Campaign Website. Education. 3 Oct. 2008
Obama Full Education
“Art education teaches people to see each other through each other’s eyes. It teaches us to respect and understand people who are not like us. That makes us better citizens and makes our democracy stronger.” (Obama)
Art may instill a path to greater understanding between people. Art may never reach full understanding. Everyone reflects opposing experiences. A work of art may resemble significance to few and disarray to many. On the other hand, a work of art may draw ideas into perspective. Art will not be interpreted equally, ever. There are times even the artist cannot explain his or her or work. People have difficulty altering states of mind to view something in a fresh array. Some people never stop searching for meaning; some people do not care to start. I fancy Obama’s belief in respect, but art has the tendency to create respect or deliver no respect at all. Art is capable of spreading understanding if the work is an utter representation of a solid and prevailing fact. If art captures opinion, the singular view of the artist, understanding is stunted. We need ways of mass displaying art and artist focus. A community to capture the necessity of art. A place to write about art’s meanings and motivations. If one picture holds one thousand words, imagine how many pictures stir within the mind. Fostering each picture leads to the higher understanding level. Democracy equals unlocked expression, self-governance. Art in itself--time, effort, materials, voice--deserves respect. Art is judged. Art is reviewed. Art is liked or disliked. Art is never fully understood and only makes us better citizens because art makes us better, as individuals. The attempt to create or interpret art generates community. Exercising the first amendment definitely enhances citizenship. The Freedom on Expression, not in the U.S. Constitution,
“It is often said that one of the rights protected by the 1st Amendment is the freedom of expression. This site, in fact, uses that term in its quick description of the amendment: "Freedom of Religion, Press, Expression." But "expression" is not used in the amendment at all. This term has come to be used as a shorthand, a term of art, for three of the freedoms that are explicitly protected: speech, petition, and assembly. While the use of "freedom of expression" is ubiquitous in this area of 1st Amendment study, it is important to note exactly what "freedom of expression" refers to - let this be such a note." (Constitution.net)
Obama Campaign Website. Education. 3 Oct. 2008
U.S. Constitution Online. Things That Are Not In The U.S. Constitution. 3 Oct. 2008
Art may instill a path to greater understanding between people. Art may never reach full understanding. Everyone reflects opposing experiences. A work of art may resemble significance to few and disarray to many. On the other hand, a work of art may draw ideas into perspective. Art will not be interpreted equally, ever. There are times even the artist cannot explain his or her or work. People have difficulty altering states of mind to view something in a fresh array. Some people never stop searching for meaning; some people do not care to start. I fancy Obama’s belief in respect, but art has the tendency to create respect or deliver no respect at all. Art is capable of spreading understanding if the work is an utter representation of a solid and prevailing fact. If art captures opinion, the singular view of the artist, understanding is stunted. We need ways of mass displaying art and artist focus. A community to capture the necessity of art. A place to write about art’s meanings and motivations. If one picture holds one thousand words, imagine how many pictures stir within the mind. Fostering each picture leads to the higher understanding level. Democracy equals unlocked expression, self-governance. Art in itself--time, effort, materials, voice--deserves respect. Art is judged. Art is reviewed. Art is liked or disliked. Art is never fully understood and only makes us better citizens because art makes us better, as individuals. The attempt to create or interpret art generates community. Exercising the first amendment definitely enhances citizenship. The Freedom on Expression, not in the U.S. Constitution,
“It is often said that one of the rights protected by the 1st Amendment is the freedom of expression. This site, in fact, uses that term in its quick description of the amendment: "Freedom of Religion, Press, Expression." But "expression" is not used in the amendment at all. This term has come to be used as a shorthand, a term of art, for three of the freedoms that are explicitly protected: speech, petition, and assembly. While the use of "freedom of expression" is ubiquitous in this area of 1st Amendment study, it is important to note exactly what "freedom of expression" refers to - let this be such a note." (Constitution.net)
Obama Campaign Website. Education. 3 Oct. 2008
U.S. Constitution Online. Things That Are Not In The U.S. Constitution. 3 Oct. 2008
Presidential Debate. 26 Sept. 2008
I watched this at home.
The issues: Afganistan, energy, taxes, health care, Iraq, Iran, Immigration
My issue of education was briefly mentioned by Obama when he stated that he plans to enforce the No Child Left Behind Act, focusing on early childhood education. Obama can definitely help our children like he helped Chicago residents. I can even help Obama work toward better education and schooling for children of America.
John McCain appears more intelligent. He speaks to the middle man and Obama looks at the camera, like an actor playing a part. McCain is experienced and proves this through and through, leaving Obama scrounging for News facts and recent headlines is his dust. Obama can't seem to get over mentioning "The Bush Administration" regarding John McCain. Has Obama run out of puns to throw at McCain? McCain stands with dignity and enormously smiles at Obama's attempts, like listen young-ins, I learned how to handle bullies on the playground when I was beat up and tortured in Vietnam. Veterans were brought to light in this debate and John McCain is the man to ensure Veteran well-being, he is one, Obama can't touch facts. Obama talks only about "the middle class" and rising up and curing poverty. Obama, good luck. McCain focuses on wealth as a whole country, not categorizing people into classes, and how we can all repair and strive together. McCain uses his marker, probably Sharpie, to jot notes that he openly flips for America to see, like he has nothing to hide. He is not worried so much about placement and hitting his mark as he is about positively influencing America. What I see on stage is the common American battle between adolescence and older people. McCain is more experienced. McCain should get the job. McCain is more wise. McCain has seen more, met more people, traveled more, made his mark in history. I don't care if he's old, old is intelligent. McCain's intelligence is in America. I do like Obama and commend him for his great accomplishments and note worthy endeavors, but in this running I support history and involvement. I am too young to know a fraction of what McCain knows. In itself that is commendable. Obama learns through studying what McCain has experienced.
The issues: Afganistan, energy, taxes, health care, Iraq, Iran, Immigration
My issue of education was briefly mentioned by Obama when he stated that he plans to enforce the No Child Left Behind Act, focusing on early childhood education. Obama can definitely help our children like he helped Chicago residents. I can even help Obama work toward better education and schooling for children of America.
John McCain appears more intelligent. He speaks to the middle man and Obama looks at the camera, like an actor playing a part. McCain is experienced and proves this through and through, leaving Obama scrounging for News facts and recent headlines is his dust. Obama can't seem to get over mentioning "The Bush Administration" regarding John McCain. Has Obama run out of puns to throw at McCain? McCain stands with dignity and enormously smiles at Obama's attempts, like listen young-ins, I learned how to handle bullies on the playground when I was beat up and tortured in Vietnam. Veterans were brought to light in this debate and John McCain is the man to ensure Veteran well-being, he is one, Obama can't touch facts. Obama talks only about "the middle class" and rising up and curing poverty. Obama, good luck. McCain focuses on wealth as a whole country, not categorizing people into classes, and how we can all repair and strive together. McCain uses his marker, probably Sharpie, to jot notes that he openly flips for America to see, like he has nothing to hide. He is not worried so much about placement and hitting his mark as he is about positively influencing America. What I see on stage is the common American battle between adolescence and older people. McCain is more experienced. McCain should get the job. McCain is more wise. McCain has seen more, met more people, traveled more, made his mark in history. I don't care if he's old, old is intelligent. McCain's intelligence is in America. I do like Obama and commend him for his great accomplishments and note worthy endeavors, but in this running I support history and involvement. I am too young to know a fraction of what McCain knows. In itself that is commendable. Obama learns through studying what McCain has experienced.
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