[Sub-Driver]

go Rod..........

[Moose4]

Impolitic, but fairly accurate. Although maybe "terrorist" isn't the right word. "Subversive," "anti-American," "dangerous"...now those are accurate.

}:-)4

[bassmaner]

Bump for the truth! It's a shame that more that Bush Admin officials don't have Paige's cojones!

[Unam Sanctam]

What did actually say? The article doesn't give the context at all.

[leprechaun9]

I believe it is a Goebelite organization that is dedicated to the brain washing of elementary school students to hate the United States and to embrace the teachings of Socialism!

[Tanniker Smith]

'The NEA is a terrorist organization,'

Not a good thing to say. Not for a person in a position of authority. Nope, not good. I don't care if you think it's accurate. Think of the image it conjures -- or at least it may be trying to conjure -- men with AK-47s killing people, suicide bombers on buses, planes into the WTC? Nah, I don't think so. That kind of hyperbole is quite a bit over the top.

I wouldn't like it directed at me. You can't complain about libs with flamethrowers if we're shooting them back.

TS
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[Eva]

I think I like this guy. The quality of public school education is inversely proportionate to the growth of the NEA.

[Eva]

I think I like this guy. The quality of public school education is inversely proportionate to the growth of the NEA.

[Sloth]

I'll support anything bad Paige wants to say about them, but personally I wouldn't call the NEA a terrorist organization. They're more of a group intended to promote child abuse in an organized way, sort of like NAMBLA, only less honest.

[William McKinley]

This is an absolutely moronic statement for him to have made.

While it may be entertaining to slam a wretched organization, equating them with terrorists is uncalled for and is bound to cause political problems for the administration, playing right into Kerry's whine that Republicans are playing dirty.

Stupid, stupid, stupid.

[Flyer]

Rod Paige PING!*

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[MineralMan]

Hmmm...

As much as we may agree with this statement, it was exceedingly foolish for the Education Secretary to say such a thing in a meeting of state Governors from both sides of the aisle.

This is going to get big play on the networks, and all the back-pedaling in the world is not going to help that much.

Stupid!

[El Conservador]

Look forward for Rod Paige to be lumped in the Oreo-cookie, Uncle-Tom, house-negro crowd by the white liberals, just like they did with Colin Powell, Condi Rice, Clarence Thomas, Alan Keyes, Walter Williams, J.C. Watts, Janice Rogers Brown, Jesse Lee Peterson, Ward Connerly, Thomas Sowell, et al.

[MileHi]

I know he wasn't calling teachers terrorists — but to ever suggest that the organization they belong to was a terrorist organization is uncalled for."

No it isn't.

[vaudine]

I've seen Grantholm on TV a lot lately. I don't like her--typical Dem spin. Any chance she won't get reelected, Freepers from michigan?

Paige is right on the mark, joke or no joke. The NEA is a menace to our education and our culture.

vaudine

[barkingdog]

Sounds like a statement made out of frustration. To harsh, but I'm in his corner.

[commandante_zero]

Speak Truth to Power

[Clintons Are White Trash]

"One Term Bob" Holden needs to keep his mouth shut. He has done such a lousy job here in Missouri that the Dem's are already backing someone to run against him when his term is up.

The remark was right on target!

[LexBaird]

I think the NEA has far more in common with a repressive industrial monopoly than a terrorist organization. I sure wish trade unions were subject to the same anti-trust laws that govern the management side.

Of course, with guberment worker unions, there is no management side, just politicians with their hands out.

[RJL]

Goodbye NEA endorsements for the Republicans.

I guess I’d be upset, but since there are zero NEA endorsements for Republicans, there is no loss.

The term terrorist isn’t too far off the mark. What do you call an organization that is doing its best to destroy you and your organization as the NEA does to Republicans and conservatives?

[thackney]

"maybe Paige isn't as bad as most thought" ping