Posted on 02/24/2006 10:14:46 AM PST by presidio9
Every now and then, Hillary Clinton lifts the curtain and gives the world a peek at her real views. It's not pretty.
New York's junior senator spoke this week to the South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corp., raising the issue of tax-funded school vouchers — which many reformers see as a key tool, one that gives parents immediate alternatives to public schools that are failing to educate their kids.
Now, vouchers face a major obstacle in New York: The state constitution's Blaine Amendment arguably bans sending public funds to parochial schools.
Then there' the implacable opposition to vouchers of the United Federation of Teachers and its Albany-based parent, New York State United Teachers — politically potent unions that are entrenched in the failed status quo.
Any alternative to the present system is anathema to the unions and their bought-and-paid-for political minions.
However vouchers have succeeded in Milwaukee, Cleveland and parts of Florida — even if the unions claim that they simply take away precious resources from the public schools.
Hillary could have used that approach — dishonest as the argument may be.
But no, she had to go one step further.
One major demagogic step further.
Hillary waved the specter that vouch- ers would lead to a publicly-funded racist "School of the Church of the White Supremacist" or a radical Muslim "School of the Jihad."
"I won't stand for it," she added.
Of course she wouldn't.
No one would.
Certainly the hypersensitivity that informs public debate in New York and the nation is such that a hate academy of the sort Clinton conjures wouldn't last 10 seconds on the public dime.
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Nearly 60 percent of New York City eighth-graders can't pass eighth-grade state math tests, despite the incremental progress of the Bloomberg regime. -snip-
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Uglier? Is that even possible?
She gets any 'uglier' they are gonna have to redefine the word ugly...
There's new standard in town...
Watch the movie here.
She is nuts.
"School of the Church of the White Supremacist"
OK WHAT CHURCH IS THIS?
"Now, vouchers face a major obstacle in New York: The state constitution's Blaine Amendment arguably bans sending public funds to parochial schools. "
So parents cannot get vouchers to send their children to a parochial school, however, even if they are presently sending their child to paraochial school they have to still pay property taxes for public education.
Subtle demonization of the mythical "Christian Right."
Didn't you know? All of us who go to church regularly are secretly racists.
At my parish, if it isn't Easter or Christmas (when the riff-raff shows up) the weekly sermon is typically about sending all blacks back to Africa. Although, sometimes the priest explains how AIDs is God's way of punishing homos.
Well then, the Queen has spoken! What an arrogant bee-otch!
That woman defined ugly 40 years ago:
Since she mentioned only schools run by Catholics, Jews, Muslim extremists and white racists, I can only assume that Hilliary believes schools run other Christian organizations would be included in the latter category.
This from a woman who sent her child to private schools. Shoosh. Maybe she is uninformed, but one of the fastest growing segments of private schooling in America is Islamic schools. I am not aware of any white supremicist schools. I am aware that women and black only schools do exist and both receive public funds. I wonder how Mz Clinton feels about those inequities? Are there any all male schools still in existence?
Obviously Protestant.
its all about pandering to the teachers union.
In fairness to Hillary, there are very few private Protestant schools in NY (one exception that I can think of is "Friends Academy). Most of the private schools are Catholic, Jewish, Muslim or secular.
Even if your assumption was correct or even if Hillary admitted that.She would never get called on it.
Funny, I don't hear her gripping about US gov support of ACLU or local gov support of YWCA.
Vouchers for leftist schools have always existed under different banners.
No problem.
Liberals are accustomed to redefining words/expressions, i.e.: "Tolerance", "Gay", "Sex", "Nazi", "Free Speech", "Separation of Church and State", "Conservative", "Mainstream", "Fundamentalist Christian", "Choice", "Sexual Orientation/Preferences"...and the list goes on and on in the lexicon of the Brave New World.
You could offer a million dollars to anyone who could produce evidence that Hillary has ever admitted she was wrong about anything, and I believe your money would be safe.
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