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: ) I totally agree with everything you've said. *nodsnodsnods* I'm  
not saying it's great. I'm saying, I'm thrilled it's a *start*. I have  
no idea what should come next and I'll tell you, if my kid was given  
only one candidate's information to discuss, I'd be pissed and say so.  
But you have to start the fire someplace. Maybe this is it. I just  
know it's more than I've seen other 14 yos say. It's the very first  
step in the process, that's all. Yes, yes, yes, to everything else  
you've said.


On Mar 31, 2008, at 11:55 AM, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

> > He used the man to engage
> > them because sure, he's a lot closer to their demographic, so I don't
> > blame them. But they are excited about fairness and justice for all.
>
> But what people have pointed out here and elsewhere is that this same
> paragraph above could be applied to Hitler or Mao or Sadr.  Just  
> getting people
> excited is not only not enough, without the knowledge and experience  
> that shoud go
> with it, it is dangerous.
>
> A teacher engaging in legitimate education (and using 'education' and
> 'teacher' in the same sentence is a stretch for me) would present  
> the two or more
> sides of a political debate and let the children decide for  
> themselves.  This is
> a partisan teacher engaging in indoctrination.
>
> To give you an example of what I mean, the charater Neal Boortz co- 
> wrote a
> book on the 'Fair Tax', the proposal for a direct consumption tax to  
> replace all
> payroll deductions and eliminating the IRS.  A student of one of these
> (typical) leftist teachers assigned a writing task of defending one  
> side of a
> controversial subject of the student's choice.  When a student chose  
> the Fair Tax as
> the theme, the teacher said "Fine but you can't use Neal Boortz nor  
> his book
> as a reference."  She would only allow a list of the most voracious  
> critics of
> the Fair Tax as references,
>
> Such is not enthusiasm nor motivation.  It's indoctrination.  And  
> it's both
> evil and dangerous.   </HTML>