Schooled

Barack Obama took the day off from campaigning Monday to accompany his daughters to their first day of school Monday, in Chicago's prestigious University of Chicago Lab School , a large, private facility.

It seems that the $50 million in Annenberg Challenge money he blew through creating social welfare programs for old leftist terrorists and other Ayers' allies couldn't quite bring Chicago's public schools up to his standards.

Posted by: Confederate Yankee at 07:52 PM

Comments

1 And yet he'll get the NEA endorsment just because he's got a (D) next to his name.
*sigh*

Posted by: joated at September 08, 2008 09:16 PM (GAf+S)

2 The NEA is a union. It's got nothing to do with actual learning.

Posted by: Trish at September 08, 2008 09:29 PM (IlbgI)

3 Wasn't it $110 million they wasted?

Posted by: Alpheus at September 08, 2008 09:41 PM (rkV8b)

4 It seems that the $50 million in Annenberg Challenge money he blew through creating social welfare programs for old leftist terrorists and other Ayers' allies couldn't quite bring Chicago's public schools up to his standards.

Matching funds chipped in from other sources ran that 50 million up to almost 150 million. And it did indeed fatten up a lot of 'activists', at the cost of those school kids, whose education did not improve a bit despite those vast coffers. Walter Annenberg should still be spinning in his grave.

I'm sure some of the small change left over, after all that activism, is used to the benefit of glitzy private schools for the offspring of, well, those who know better than the rest of us. A paltry few million should suffice.

Posted by: Micropotamus at September 08, 2008 10:27 PM (fuC1N)

5 Shouldn't that be 150 million? (the 50 million original and the 100 million donor match)

Posted by: Lord Nazh at September 09, 2008 01:29 AM (/fqeh)

6 Isn’t it ironic that democrats like Obama, Gore and Clinton send their children to private schools but refuse to give parents of talented inner city children vouchers - their own tax money - to do the same.

Posted by: arch at September 09, 2008 08:41 AM (fKThr)

7 As Barry says, there just aren't enough private school slots for the general public to attend decent schools. That is just for the well-heeled elite. With all the attention paid to Palin's expense accounts lately, does anyone care how Barry and Michelle got their pile? Does no one wonder just what is up with a new position being created for Michelle, with triple her old salary, just when Barry got elected to the Senate? And if the pressies need a bigger hook they might also notice that the hospital Michelle performs 300k worth of PR for every year reaped mighty rewards in the 7 figures at Barry's request. That's what an "earmark" is, doofs, if you wanted to know.

Posted by: megapotamus at September 09, 2008 10:18 AM (LF+qW)

8 Barry said aabout 2 hours ago,in an obvious reference to Gov. Palin: "You can take the lipssic off a pig, but it's still a pig".

I'm sure with that kind of classy remark, he'll drop another 10-20 pts. in the polls.

Damn, grab the popcorn boys & girls; this is gonna be FUN!!

Posted by: Jack Coonan at September 09, 2008 07:02 PM (VrC8E)

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