Posted on 09/08/2008 6:22:46 PM PDT by Chet 99
Obama plans 'major policy address'
By Lynn Hulsey
Staff Writer
Monday, September 08, 2008
RIVERSIDE — In what is being billed by the Barack Obama campaign as a "major policy address" on reforming the country's education system, the Democratic presidential nominee will speak today, Sept. 9, at Stebbins High School gymnasium.
Sen. Obama will speak at 10:30 a.m. before an invited crowd. The event is closed to the general public.
"I'm hoping to hear what changes we need to make us competitive in the 21st century," said Mark Owen, Montgomery County Democratic Party chairman. "So often we are being left behind in the competition with other countries."
The campaign is not releasing advance details of new initiatives Obama may announce here.
He has called for expanding early childhood education programs such as Head Start, a new accountability system for educators, providing more help to struggling schools, and improving efforts to keep students from dropping out.
Obama's plan also calls for a college education tax credit that would make the first $4,000 of tuition free for most Americans, according to his Web site.
On Monday, Ohio Republicans held a news conference to denounce Obama and to tout his Republican opponent Sen. John McCain and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. They are the "original mavericks" and the ones to fix a "broken Washington," said Ohio Rep. Kevin DeWine, R-Fairborn, Ohio Republican Party deputy chairman.
"Change for change's sake is desperate," DeWine said. "What Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are laying out is reform."
Obama campaign spokesman Tom Reynolds said the McCain-Palin campaign offers disastrous economic and foreign policies and he scoffed at the notion of McCain as an agent of reform.
"Reforming Washington will be tough for John McCain since he has been a part of the problem for 26 years, opposing solutions on health care, energy and education," Reynolds said. "When McCain votes with George Bush 90 percent of the times, the only change Ohio families can expect is the person sitting in the White House."
I bet one well used word will be ‘invest’.
Because they don't know what they are yet.
And, every sentence will contain something about George W. Bush.
They'll hire a pollster and a focus group for that.
He;s struggling to stay relevant.
He is going to fire the teacher unions, or promise them more money so they campaign for him. hmmm tough choice.
I hope he doesn’t follow the same plan he and Bill Ayers used in Chicago, cause that was ahuge waste of money. Indocrination centers for kids, who though that was agood idea.
Women are walking out on the big Zero, got to do something quick.
Closed event?
What a coward. Shivering in his boots and soiling his drawers about real questions getting asked, with real, CONCRETE responses expected.
>> I bet one well used word will be ‘invest’.
Drinking game!
No Taxes and Freeeeee Educationnnnnnn -— yEEEEhaaaaa
Free Medicare...
Free Freee Freee like a bird
Hang on to your wallets.
>> Closed event? What a coward.
And desperate!
Ginning up some friendly unopposed coverage.
Oh, not another “major policy address”!
I expect this one will also be touted by Olbermann, Mathews et al as the “best speech since Lincoln’s Gettysburg address,” like all his other ones, but as usual no one will be able to remember a word of it an hour later.
When the teachers unions are pulling for you, all you can expect is half-assed accountability promises and more government money.
By using my amazing psychic powers, I dedude it will involve throwing 100's of billions of dollars down yet another black hole and his picked audience and media will swoon.
Oh... like and Insurance Annuity Investment Seminar Sales errrr... Informational gathering.
Anybody see any "change" here? Looks like the usual political pandering to the NEA.
“Ginning up some friendly unopposed coverage.”
Bingo.
This is about women voters.
Sarah needs to talk about education too, but on a more personal level. Fight for the women voters. Women are a LARGER percentage of the electorate than men.
I sure hope his education policy includes plans to teach kids that you drive a car off a cliff, not off a ditch as he suggests.
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