Reply #18: I hear a good deal of the same rhetoric....

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Enough that makes me very uncomfortable. But that's my exact point. It's not an either/or situation. It's not Christie education rhetoric bad/Obama education rhetoric good. It's Christie education rhetoric bad/Obama education rhetoric not far enough from Christie's rhetoric to my liking.

The only thing I should hear from a Democratic administration is that we want to have the best 100% public education system in the world, and want to give teachers every tool they need to get their kids to perform, INCLUDING strong union support and adequate tenure. That's the liberal Democratic position and it has been for as long as I remember. And the fact is I'm not hearing enough of that and hearing a little too much demonization of teachers unions and tenure and emphasis on test scores and the coded "accountability" rhetoric. Yes, it's much LESS than what I hear from Christie but there's still far too much of it for my liking coming from a Democratic administration.

Again, maybe it's enough for you. That's fine. But "to the left of Chris Christie" is just not enough of a hurdle to clear for me to think that everything that can be done is being done to support liberal democratic principles.