Wow, this is depressing. In yet another step towards Idiocracy, students are now *less likely* to graduate high school than their parents, according to a national study. What happened to the America I knew where a large percentage of my classmates were the first in their family to go to college? Where America was a leader of science and entrepreneurship? According to Anna Habash from the article, “The U.S. is stagnating while other industrialized countries are surpassing us … The United States is now the only industrialized country where young people are less likely than their parents to earn a diploma.” That is sad.
I do think Obama has the right idea of making education a priority again, and I hope he makes good on his word and I hope enough dems are elected to enable him to change policy and I hope he gets elected. Things are looking good, but I’ve been disappointed and have felt swindled by polls before…Remember when Zogby called the election for Kerry? Remember when Kerry said no incumbant president with less than 50% approval rating has been elected before? Yeah, I’m still going to be donating more to the Obama campaign. I’d rather this be a landslide.
In another step towards Idiocracy, McCain was twice dumbfounded last week by the appalling ignorance of his base. These two clips from a Lakeville Minnesota rally show McCain getting booed for calling Obama a ‘decent man’, and then taking away the mic of an audience member calling Obama an Arab.
I have to say, I’ll be heartbroken if McCain wins this election, but he gets a lot of credit for playing this game fair, and by putting his base in their place even while being booed. I’m somewhat troubled by his correction of ‘Arab’ with ‘decent’ (did you mean, ‘Christian’?), but I think he was just too flabbergasted by the ignorant attacks of his audience members.
I’m heartened by McCain’s integrity in this election but depressed by how ignorant this country is.
On a side note, Obama also thanked McCain for his remarks.
