[JustaCowgirl]

Thanks, Sam.

There was a time when I would have pooh-poohed statements like yours about the agenda of those with a liberal point of view. Not any more.

With two women who are so oriented toward furthering education and learning in the U.S. in the First and Second Ladies, you would think that the national interest in promoting and improving education would be at an all-time high, wouldn't you? But their viewpoint doesn't fit the agenda of the NEA and the universities, so they only have a voice with the ordinary people. I would love to see Newt Gingrich team up with Lynne Cheney and Laura Bush to try to promote a real grassroots movement to improve public education, particularly the teaching of American History and Government. I have heard Newt speak on education in the U.S. before, and he is compelling.

I think parents and grandparents have to take their childrens' educations in their own hands these days. It has been alwlays true, I suppose, but not as it is today.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

But their viewpoint doesn't fit the agenda of the NEA and the universities, so they only have a voice with the ordinary people.

Thanks. But remember, 'twas ordinary people who sacrificed all and gave us all that we have today. For that I am Thankful today. We shall overcome.