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Conservatives resist march of historic change

During the presidential campaign, John McCain admitted he voted against the Martin Luther King holiday. He apologized. This lack of vision gives us a brief look into the mind of conservatives: grudging resistance even in the face of advancing history.

Rachel Rogers’ letter (Dec. 31) confirms that conservatives present their sinister world view by selectively choosing only the indicators that support their case. Rogers carefully chooses some statistics while ignoring others. She ignores the percentage of North Carolina voters who shifted from Republican to Democratic. She stretched credibility when she gave a skewed statistic purported to indicate Guilford County was less interested in the presidential election than the rest of the state.

Give me a break! John Kerry carried the county in 2004. We were already there.

Rogers suggests that the county schools should not postpone exams for this historical inauguration. She presumes to speak for all students who supported McCain, believing they are also inflexible, thus would loathe to watch the inauguration of our first president of African descent, Barack Obama. Like McCain, she is blinded by her dismal ideology, unable to see history shining as it marches by her.

Sour grape juice, anyone?

Danny Glenn
Greensboro

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rahrah [TypeKey Profile Page] said:

The kids want to 'watch' the inauguration, I promise. Otherwise, they might have to do a little work.

Weather they watch the inauguration are not, I could care less.
Can anyone speak with facts as to weather the kids were required to watch the Bush inauguration!
I asked 10 are more teachers none can recall watching Bush.

... so .. ?

Was that a slight Doggie? I'm "sure" the media halted that interest.

Did schools stop for Clinton? B41? Reagan? Carter? Ford? Nixon? Johnson? Kennedy? Eisenhower ... how about George Washington?


J Peterman Reality Tour [TypeKey Profile Page] said:

I think I'm going to sue the school system as this is clearly a perverse racial issue and it is racially affecting my childs civil rights and hindering educational rights . . .

. . . I'm gonna get rich baby just like those cops in downtown Greensboro . . .

ghost from white oak [TypeKey Profile Page] said:

" During the presidential campaign, John McCain admitted he voted against the Martin Luther King holiday. He apologized."
You are correct in that this was wrong.
He should have never apologized for a proper vote.

tonymo [TypeKey Profile Page] said:

It looks like the govrnment school brainwashing took with mr. Glenn. Perhaps he should look at the Zogby poll of Obama voters for proof of how truly ignorant most of them are. I didn't say stupid, I said ignorant. One can't help being stupid, but can surely cure the ignorance!

Is the fact that Guilford County is now "blue" the reason for the overpriced, failing, government schools, the explosion of criminal gangs here, the outrageous tax structure, and just about everything else associated with "blue" cities and states!

yard dog [TypeKey Profile Page] said:

The ignorance is frightening:
http://howobamagotelected.com/

firerescuechick [TypeKey Profile Page] said:

Ahhhhh, it's nice to see that I didn't miss much since I've been gone over the holidays!

I can remember when I was in school, we watched every inauguration, no matter what a candidates political affiliation. I believe it had something to do with social studies or U.S. history, you know, that old chestnut.

I also wonder if the students that Mrs. Rogers says supported McCain really supported McCain, or if they just listened to their parents. (Same for those that supported Obama).

I too switched my Republican status.....to unaffiliated.


Hope everyone had a great holiday!

conundrum [TypeKey Profile Page] said:

Paul Krugman of The New York Times spoke recently and eloquently about the Republican Party.

"The fault, however, lies not in Republicans’ stars but in themselves. Forty years ago the G.O.P. decided, in effect, to make itself the party of racial backlash. And everything that has happened in recent years, from the choice of Mr. Bush as the party’s champion, to the Bush administration’s pervasive incompetence, to the party’s shrinking base, is a consequence of that decision."

Republicans for the most part, are similar to those Southerners who are still looking for an alternate ending to The Civil War.

Rockhead I dodging nothing , I asked a straight question. I never said a word about the *media.
Conundrum, quoting the NY Times as FACT!
That like saying you believe Palin does porn films because Joe Killian posted it. Still say a paper worth a damn would have fire him on the spot.

Dan [TypeKey Profile Page] said:

Conundrum, there is a reason I never quote Ann Coulter, she is a far right wing zealot. Quoting Krugman is the same and will get you laughed out of the thread.

conundrum [TypeKey Profile Page] said:

Dan, seriously! You are comparing Ann Coulter to a Nobel Prize winning economist. Who by the way, teaches at Princeton. If the NYT is not considered a credible newspaper, then, there are no credible papers in this country. Coulter vs. Krugman. Come on!

Dan [TypeKey Profile Page] said:

Conundrum, seriously! The NYTimes is a credible newspaper? That's right, it's chapter and verse for lefties.

I stand corrected on Krugman, he is a far left wing zealot with a Nobel Prize.

Many think of Coulter as a dumb blond but don't realize she graduated cum laude from Cornell and received a law degree from the University of Michigan.

J Peterman Reality Tour [TypeKey Profile Page] said:

You mean sour Grape Kool Aid . . . my funky brutha's . . .

Yeaahhhuhhhh . . . can I get an Amen and file a discrimination suit up in he-ahaa . . .

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