The Liquor Talking

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Lynnette

Monday evening, I watched the republican presidential candidate debate. I think it was like their 44th debate, but it was the first time I forced myself to watch one.

Mostly I watched to see if anything would come out to make me actually like a candidate.

Dunno why I expected something like that, especially in light of the fact that I, at best agree with the top candidates only 72% of the time.

I know I’ve only been paying attention to these yahoos for 17 days, but I’m pretty much ready for this election cycle to be over.

Elim

I think you and I are a lot alike politically. It think it’s pretty “pie in the sky” to hope for a candidate that I’d like everything about. I doubt that such a candidate would ever be elected though. So I’m stuck with picking the one I agree with most. If that means voting for someone I don’t like personally, it’s a pill I think I can swallow.

Frank

When viewed in terms of grades, 72% is a C.

My friend Lynette is one of the most liberal people I know and her book , Obama only gets a B.

I’ve heard the talking heads who claim the country has shifted this way or that politically. I don’t think there’s been a lot of shifting going on at all. I think we’ve become politically diluted and to keep new parties emerging, the democrats and republicans have become diluted as well.

But then, it’s all about getting elected in the first place, ain’t it?

Elim

Education.

I’m gonna have to go ahead and disagree with you there. If Wyoming kids graduate high school smarter than New York kids, then it’s New York’s problem, not Wyoming’s.

This is how we’re dumbing down the curriculum. The Feds think that since we can’t expect the same results from the dumb kids as we do the smart kids, we just expect less form all kids. With Santorum’s idea of pushing it back down to the states, each state can expect as much or as little from its kids as it wants. It’s a state’s rights thing. I suppose you think we need a federal overseer in each school. No Child Left behind tried that essentially and it’s an enormous failure.

It’s time to wrestle control of our schools away from DC.

Brandon

So you don’t think that a New York kid has the same right to a quality education as a Wyoming kid? I guess each state should have the right to determine literacy too.

NCLB was (and is) a good idea, but a poorly implemented one. I think we need national, standardized test. However instead of cutting funding for poor performance, we need to fire some people. Local control is fine and good, but if a principal runs a school that produces functional illiterates, then that’s a principal we don’t need.

Elim