Attention Birthers: What about those newspaper birth announcements?

1 comment July 24th, 2009

One question I have for the “birthers,” who are  stoked by black helicopter websites into believing passionately that Barack Obama cannot be president because they say he wasn’t born in the U.S. :

When Obama was born in 1961, his birth announcement was published in two, Honolulu newspapers. I have never read one of these “birthers” deal with the birth announcements.

But I know what they’ll say: How can you trust anything you read  the mainstream, government controlled, liberal, socialist media?

There are plenty of legitimate reasons to criticize Obama’s presidency.  I think his energy and health care policies would have a punishing effect on American business at a time when we need to re-energize manufacturing.

Obsessing over where the man was born — he was born in the U.S.A. — is a pointless exercise in paranoia based, I believe strongly, on some Americans’ inability to accept that fact that the people elected a black man to the highest office in the land.

Concentrate on the policy debate, not insane paranoid theories stoked for money on the World Wide Weird.

Obama to public schools: Reform or U.S. will withhold funds

1 comment July 24th, 2009

Be forewarned, Rockford School Board: The president of the United States is making a serious push for education reform, and that includes charter schools. When I say “serious push,” I mean the threat of withholding federal funds if districts don’t embrace the president’s idea of reform embodied by Sec. of Education Arne Duncan, who is Chicago’s former schools CEO and a  big proponent of charter schools.

The president spoke to The Washington Post.