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KERRY CLAIMS: 53% OF CHILDREN DO NOT GRADUATE FROM HIGH SCHOOL
Drudge Report ^ | February 1, 2006 | Matt Drudge

Posted on 02/01/2006 7:56:24 AM PST by West Coast Conservative

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To: Mo1
As usual he gets his facts wrong

Who needs facts when you have a good imagination?

21 posted on 02/01/2006 8:02:21 AM PST by grobdriver (Let the embeds check the bodies!)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

So are a lot of the whorellywierd elites.


22 posted on 02/01/2006 8:02:57 AM PST by NCC-1701 (RADICAL ISLAM IS A CULT. IT MUST BE ELIMINATED.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

Even the Perky One seemed annoyed with Kerry.


23 posted on 02/01/2006 8:03:04 AM PST by hflynn ( Soros wouldn't make any sense even if he spelled his name backwards)
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To: West Coast Conservative

Does that 85% number include kids from all types of schools -- including homeschooling?


24 posted on 02/01/2006 8:03:18 AM PST by SoftballMominVA
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Yeah, but she cant help it. Brain donors like her just dont have a prayer.


25 posted on 02/01/2006 8:03:25 AM PST by CougarGA7
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To: West Coast Conservative

What he meant to say was that he was only in attendance at high school 53% of the time.


26 posted on 02/01/2006 8:03:36 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (When I learn everything, I will know nothing.)
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To: West Coast Conservative
But 53 percent of our children don't graduate from high school. Kids don't have after-school programs... He didn't ask America to sacrifice anything to achieve great goals and the biggest example is making the tax cut permanent for the wealthiest people in America. The average American struggles to find time to take carry of families, working two or three jobs.

Maybe parents don't want to pay for kids to have after-school programs. Maybe parents would rather their children come home after school. Oh right, less time to indoctrinate those kids in good Dimmocrat values. Maybe I don't know any average Americans, but Kerry's grammer leaves a lot to be desired. Did he mean families work 2 or more jobs, or individuals work 2 or more jobs ? Maybe if taxes weren't so high Americans wouldn't need to work 2 or more jobs, hhmmm ? Why do all these politicians think an appeal to "sacrifice" is a stirring call to Americans ? Anybody here want to "sacrifice" anything ?

27 posted on 02/01/2006 8:03:43 AM PST by cinives (On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

Well, it depends on what the definition of "graduate" is. I would think all they have to do is pass the "condom on the cucumber" exit exam, and they're ready for the world.


28 posted on 02/01/2006 8:04:03 AM PST by neodad (Rock Chock Seahawks)
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To: atomicpossum

If Bush said this, the media would have a field day.


29 posted on 02/01/2006 8:04:27 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

More palaver about tax cuts for the wealthy. Geez.

The top 20% of taxpayers in America pay more than 80% of the taxes. The bottom half of taxpayers? Only 4%. So, who needs tax cuts? People who don't pay taxes? Nonsense.

Senator Kerry is such a whining gasbag. The voters in MA must be positively crackers to keep returning this meathead to the Senate election after election.


30 posted on 02/01/2006 8:04:43 AM PST by RexBeach ("There is no substitute for victory." -Douglas MacArthur)
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To: West Coast Conservative
America is sooooo over democrat "solutions" to problems.
31 posted on 02/01/2006 8:05:07 AM PST by aligncare (No one says, "I liked the movie but, there just wasn't enough cursing")
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To: US_MilitaryRules

LOL then we skew the statistics


32 posted on 02/01/2006 8:05:08 AM PST by cinives (On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

So just how many URBAN children has Kerry fathered?

Is he in a race with Bill Cliton and Jesse Jackarse?


33 posted on 02/01/2006 8:05:30 AM PST by funkywbr
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To: edcoil
On this one, Kerry is right

How do you figure that? There is no way half the kids don't graduate from HS.

34 posted on 02/01/2006 8:05:32 AM PST by Always Right
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To: West Coast Conservative

In Kerry speak, what he meant to say was that 53% didn't graduate before they did graduate.


35 posted on 02/01/2006 8:05:32 AM PST by Ditto ( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)
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To: West Coast Conservative
John "D Student" Kerry.
36 posted on 02/01/2006 8:06:34 AM PST by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: West Coast Conservative
This is probably where Kerry got his numbers:
http://www.urban.org/publications/410934.html

They claim 53% of African Americans graduate, but considering that there overall graduation rates are off by over 10%, I doubt these numbers.
37 posted on 02/01/2006 8:06:41 AM PST by mnehring (Perry 06- It's better than a hippie in a cowboy hat or a commie with blue hair.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

The 47% who don't graduate work in the ketchup mines of western Pennsylvania under the rule of the white raisin queen.


38 posted on 02/01/2006 8:06:54 AM PST by TheForceOfOne
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To: RetroSexual
I assume that Couric was grinning and bobbing her head the whole time?

probably on her knees too.

39 posted on 02/01/2006 8:07:03 AM PST by JackDanielsOldNo7 (If it wasn't for marriage, I would not have this screenname.)
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To: Acts 2:38
The average American works 3 jobs?

He considers the low-wage staff at several of his mansions scattered around the globe to be "average Americans".

40 posted on 02/01/2006 8:07:16 AM PST by kromike
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