Posted on 10/08/2008 8:35:02 AM PDT by Bertram3
A recent Republican campaign ad sarcastically described as Barack Obama's "one accomplishment" his supporting a bill to promote sex education in kindergarten.
During an interview of a Republican spokesman, Tom Brokaw of NBC News replayed that ad and asked if that was something serious to be discussed in a presidential election campaign.
It was a variation on an old theme about getting back to "the real issues," just as Brokaw's question was a variation on an increasingly widespread tendency among journalists to become a squad of Obama avengers, instead of reporters.
Does it matter if Barack Obama is for sex education in kindergarten? It matters more than most things that are called "the real issues."
Seemingly unrelated things can give important insights into someone's outlook and character. For example, after the Cold War was over, it came out that one of the things that caught the attention of Soviet leaders early on was President Ronald Reagan's breaking of the air traffic controllers' strike.
Why were the Soviets concerned about a purely domestic American issue like an air traffic controllers' strike? Why was their attention not confined to "the real issues" between the United States and the Soviet Union?
Because one of the biggest and realest of all issues is the outlook and character of the President of the United States.
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Social policy is a real issue and Obama like most liberals supports aggressive sex education and brainwashing. I’ll never send my kids to public school to have them indoctrinated with gay/liberal propaganda.
The goal of the left is to break down the underpinnings of our society which is the family. Every dictatorial governmnt in history has attempted to distance the children from their parents and turn them (the children) into wards of the state willing to denounce their own family for real or percieved offenses against Big Brother.
Sowell in his magnificent command of our language once again nails it.
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