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<blockquote data-quote="Lue C Fur" data-source="post: 823066" data-attributes="member: 25159"><p><span style="color: blue">You have to tell them lies and brainwash them while they are young...</span></p><p> </p><p><strong>Howard Dean gave a lecture at Carnegie Mellon University on March 24:</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="color: red">Claimed Republicans controlled the House and the Senate for six years while George W. Bush was President.</span></strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>I guess Dean forgot that while he was governor of Vermont, a Republican Senator from his state by the name of Jim Jeffords defected from the GOP on May 24, 2001, giving the Democrats back the Senate.</strong></p><p><strong>As such, Republicans controlled both chambers of Congress less than 4 1/2 years while Bush was in the White House.</strong></p><p><strong>But why should the holier-than-thou Dean know what happened in his very state right under his very nose?</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="color: red">He claimed that in 2008, more people under the age of 35 voted than over the age of 35.</span></strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>As you can see from the exit polls, 36 percent of voters that year were 39 and younger; 64 percent were 40 and older.</strong></p><p><strong>What Dean told these students wasn't even close to the truth.</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>Exit polls: </strong><a href="http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/polls/#USP00p1" target="_blank"><strong>http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/polls/#USP00p1</strong></a></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="color: blue">My favorite lie from Dean as he plays the typcial Liberal Race card:</span></strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>Dean said,</strong> <span style="color: red"><strong>"Charter schools were a creation of the Right. Charter schools were created originally to maintain segregation in the South to avoid the anti-discrimination stuff that was coming out of the courts, and then to attack the teachers unions." </strong></span></p><p> </p><p><strong>Really? Well, that's not the way Wikipedia records </strong><strong>the history of charter schools:</strong></p><p> </p><p><em>The charter school idea in the United States was originated by Ray Budde, a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and embraced by Albert Shanker, President of the American Federation of Teachers, in 1988 when he called for the reform of the public schools by establishing "charter schools" or "schools of choice". At the time, a few schools already existed that were not called charter schools but embodied some of their principles, such as H-B Woodlawn. As originally conceived, the ideal model of a charter school was as a legally and financially autonomous public school (without tuition, religious affiliation, or selective student admissions) that would operate much like a private business—free from many state laws and district regulations, and accountable more for student outcomes rather than for processes or inputs (such as Carnegie Units and teacher certification requirements).</em></p><p><em>Minnesota was the first state to pass a charter school law in 1991. California was second, in 1992. </em></p><p><em>So, the concept was created by a Massachusetts professor and not in the South for racist reasons. As for the intent to attack the teachers' unions, the president of the AFT was involved.</em></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: blue">Read more at the link below. Dean even spews the typical FOX news bashing he is well known for:</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Read more: </strong><a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/04/03/howard-dean-tells-college-students-fox-news-lies-then-lies-them-numer#ixzz1IZAy8UdR" target="_blank"><strong>http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/04/03/howard-dean-tells-college-students-fox-news-lies-then-lies-them-numer#ixzz1IZAy8UdR</strong></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lue C Fur, post: 823066, member: 25159"] [COLOR=blue]You have to tell them lies and brainwash them while they are young...[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR] [B]Howard Dean gave a lecture at Carnegie Mellon University on March 24:[/B] [B][COLOR=red]Claimed Republicans controlled the House and the Senate for six years while George W. Bush was President.[/COLOR][/B] [B]I guess Dean forgot that while he was governor of Vermont, a Republican Senator from his state by the name of Jim Jeffords defected from the GOP on May 24, 2001, giving the Democrats back the Senate.[/B] [B]As such, Republicans controlled both chambers of Congress less than 4 1/2 years while Bush was in the White House.[/B] [B]But why should the holier-than-thou Dean know what happened in his very state right under his very nose?[/B] [B][COLOR=red]He claimed that in 2008, more people under the age of 35 voted than over the age of 35.[/COLOR][/B] [B]As you can see from the exit polls, 36 percent of voters that year were 39 and younger; 64 percent were 40 and older.[/B] [B]What Dean told these students wasn't even close to the truth.[/B] [B]Exit polls: [/B][URL="http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/polls/#USP00p1"][B]http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/polls/#USP00p1[/B][/URL] [B][COLOR=blue]My favorite lie from Dean as he plays the typcial Liberal Race card:[/COLOR][/B] [B]Dean said,[/B] [COLOR=red][B]"Charter schools were a creation of the Right. Charter schools were created originally to maintain segregation in the South to avoid the anti-discrimination stuff that was coming out of the courts, and then to attack the teachers unions." [/B][/COLOR] [B][COLOR=#ff0000][/COLOR][/B] [B]Really? Well, that's not the way Wikipedia records [/B][B]the history of charter schools:[/B] [I]The charter school idea in the United States was originated by Ray Budde, a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and embraced by Albert Shanker, President of the American Federation of Teachers, in 1988 when he called for the reform of the public schools by establishing "charter schools" or "schools of choice". At the time, a few schools already existed that were not called charter schools but embodied some of their principles, such as H-B Woodlawn. As originally conceived, the ideal model of a charter school was as a legally and financially autonomous public school (without tuition, religious affiliation, or selective student admissions) that would operate much like a private business—free from many state laws and district regulations, and accountable more for student outcomes rather than for processes or inputs (such as Carnegie Units and teacher certification requirements).[/I] [I]Minnesota was the first state to pass a charter school law in 1991. California was second, in 1992. [/I] [I]So, the concept was created by a Massachusetts professor and not in the South for racist reasons. As for the intent to attack the teachers' unions, the president of the AFT was involved.[/I] [COLOR=blue]Read more at the link below. Dean even spews the typical FOX news bashing he is well known for:[/COLOR] [B]Read more: [/B][URL="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/04/03/howard-dean-tells-college-students-fox-news-lies-then-lies-them-numer#ixzz1IZAy8UdR"][B]http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/04/03/howard-dean-tells-college-students-fox-news-lies-then-lies-them-numer#ixzz1IZAy8UdR[/B][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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