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Obama plans 'major policy address'
Middletown Journal ^

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."


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KEYWORDS: education; educationpolicy; obama; obamabiden
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1 posted on 09/08/2008 6:22:46 PM PDT by Chet 99
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I bet one well used word will be ‘invest’.


2 posted on 09/08/2008 6:24:06 PM PDT by tbpiper (Obama/Biden: Instead of Ebony and Ivory, we have Arrogance and Insolence.)
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The campaign is not releasing advance details of new initiatives Obama may announce here.

Because they don't know what they are yet.

3 posted on 09/08/2008 6:24:35 PM PDT by inkling (exurbanleague.com)
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To: tbpiper

And, every sentence will contain something about George W. Bush.


4 posted on 09/08/2008 6:25:26 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Read my lipstick")
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To: inkling
Because they don't know what they are yet.

They'll hire a pollster and a focus group for that.

5 posted on 09/08/2008 6:25:51 PM PDT by Chet 99 (http://www.mccainpalinvictory2008.com/)
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To: Chet 99
Zzzzzzzz

He;s struggling to stay relevant.

6 posted on 09/08/2008 6:26:24 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (PALIN-MANIA ... I haz it!)
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To: Chet 99

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.


7 posted on 09/08/2008 6:26:52 PM PDT by Tarpon (Three things matter when selecting a President - character, character and character.)
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To: Chet 99

Closed event?

What a coward. Shivering in his boots and soiling his drawers about real questions getting asked, with real, CONCRETE responses expected.


8 posted on 09/08/2008 6:26:55 PM PDT by roaddog727 (BS does not get bridges built - the funk you see is the funk you do)
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To: tbpiper

>> I bet one well used word will be ‘invest’.

Drinking game!


9 posted on 09/08/2008 6:27:25 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (I've left Cynical City... bound for Jaded.)
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To: Chet 99

No Taxes and Freeeeee Educationnnnnnn -— yEEEEhaaaaa
Free Medicare...
Free Freee Freee like a bird


10 posted on 09/08/2008 6:27:35 PM PDT by forYourChildrenVote4Bush (Today, July 16th I no longer donate money for Israel)
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To: Chet 99

Hang on to your wallets.


11 posted on 09/08/2008 6:28:26 PM PDT by johniegrad
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To: roaddog727

>> Closed event? What a coward.

And desperate!

Ginning up some friendly unopposed coverage.


12 posted on 09/08/2008 6:28:36 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (I've left Cynical City... bound for Jaded.)
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To: Chet 99

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.


13 posted on 09/08/2008 6:28:43 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: Chet 99

When the teachers unions are pulling for you, all you can expect is half-assed accountability promises and more government money.


14 posted on 09/08/2008 6:28:49 PM PDT by VanDeKoik (Sarah Palin in 2008, 2012, and 2016!)
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To: Chet 99
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.

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.

15 posted on 09/08/2008 6:28:53 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Chet 99; tbpiper
I bet one well used word will be ‘invest’.

Oh... like and Insurance Annuity Investment Seminar Sales errrr... Informational gathering.

16 posted on 09/08/2008 6:29:00 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Chet 99
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.

Anybody see any "change" here? Looks like the usual political pandering to the NEA.

17 posted on 09/08/2008 6:29:17 PM PDT by McLynnan
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To: Nervous Tick

“Ginning up some friendly unopposed coverage.”

Bingo.


18 posted on 09/08/2008 6:30:12 PM PDT by roaddog727 (BS does not get bridges built - the funk you see is the funk you do)
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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.


19 posted on 09/08/2008 6:30:17 PM PDT by Owen
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To: Chet 99
Obama's word: "There are enormous costs to that blunder. It's the equivalent of them driving the car off the ditch."

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.

20 posted on 09/08/2008 6:30:23 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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