Reply #90: Points for good intentions, demerits for execution.

[Jakes Progress]

I didn't say that the president hated children or made it his goal to ruin education. He may want to do wonderful things, but he lacks the knowledge or perception to see that the people he is entrusting this to are lying charlatans who, best scenario, don't know what they are doing or, more likely, have goals of their own that don't include making schools better for children. That was the point of my post. Our president - the one I worked my butt off for in his election - just doesn't have what is needed here.

Kennedy did want to improve education. He made the same fatal flaw that Obama is making now. He trusted the wrong people. Kennedy is a co-sponsor of the bill and shepherded it through the Senate. Kennedy wanted to reform education but he worked with the republicans to do so and the result was a bill that he supported with george bush and whose house sponsor was john boehner. We would have been better off with no bill than the bill that will go down as a part of Kennedy's legacy. Obama is following a similar course. The tragic error he is making will be linked to his name and administration forever. You can't make newt gingrich and bill bennet happy if you are doing the right thing.

I envy your hope. Mine has shriveled in disillusionment.