The USA has one of the highest levels of literacy rates in the world. This is in spite of the vast diversity of people's that we educate. Other nations might produce a larger number of STAR intellectuals but we educate a far broader number of people. Anyways, you think you're so smart, take this sample exam required for graduating from CA high schools. http://www.sauguscenturions.com/keaton/CAHSEE/cahsee.htm I was working in the office one recent weekend and a friend of mine brought in his daughter who was in the 3rd grade. She was doing an essay with an 'Outline': I was taught how to make an 'Outline' in the 7th grade back in the 1970's. ATTACKS ON THE USA EDUCATION SYSTEM IS NOTHING BUT AN ATTEMPT BY RELIGIOUS FANATICS TO GET THE TAXPAYER TO FUND THE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION OF THEIR ROBOTS..er..I mean..CHILDREN. Medicare and SSI are NOT broke: they are due monies from the general revenue funds because the money has been borrowed from these funds to pay our nations bills. In any event, we can always scale back on our Offensive Military spending to fund these things that REALLY help AMERICANS.
I find it interesting how the word "Liberal", in the political sense, appears to have a very different meaning in the US to Europe.
If this is true, then by applying a similar sensitivity and scale of classification, perhaps George Bush was a Neo Nazi faschist ideologue and an abhorrence to the freedom loving, self reliant peoples of the entire world?
Bush too... there is a video clip where Bush says under his breath something about "... I wouldn't mind a world dictator so long as it was me..."
That doesn't seem quite right to me. However he did abuse his office for his own personal agenda.... different issues but much the same sort of thing now with Obama. Both are ASSHOLES and deserve all things bad which come to them... but don't get me started.
i heard on a chinese cable news show saying the same thing "ching chong, Obama ching chong ching chong Mao tse tung ching chong ching chong Obama ching chong ching chong Karl Marx ching chong "
The disdain and hatred for Obama that I see coming from a small but very vocal cadre is strikingly like the hatred and epithets hurled at President Kennedy. There were people, a small number mind you, actually rejoicing when he, Kennedy, was killed. As a fairly apolitical college student, I didn't understand what was then, to me, an illogical heaping of vitriol onto an otherwise extremely popular President; I had not enough sense to be appalled. Now, however, I am appalled. And these wild criticisms of Obama seem even more illogical and irrational then those of Kennedy many years ago. To me they seem childish or stooping to the level of name calling; the sort of behavior one might expect in someone lacking education.
I love the term Jeffersonian Classical Liberal. I consider myself one. The right-wing and left-wings of American public debate and the American Media think this is some kind of swear word. They have no functional understanding of what it truly means.
Then you're missing something. Seems to me the most strongly opposed to Obama are highly educated, intelligent, analytical... thinkers..... with a strong sense of American history since our beginning.