Say Anything Blog

Conservatives in general have a deep-rooted suspicion of public schools, largely because of their antipathy toward the NEA, whose actual power over the public classroom is grossly exaggerated.

Truth-be-told, most public school teachers adhere to a strict and detailed curriculum mandated by the state in which the teacher works.

A blogger at SAB challenged me to list the private schools which are liberal, unaware that such a task would be staggering and impossibly time consuming.

Instead, and based on the premis that, “By their fruits, you shall know them”, I offer a list of well-known liberal and conservative personalities along with the secondary schools from which they graduated. You can draw your own conclusions.

Private School Liberals

Dianne Feinstein - Sacred Heart High school

Al Franken - The Blake SChool

John Kerry - St. Paul’s School

Ted Kennedy - Portsmouth Abbey School

Joe Biden - Archmere Academy

Barack Obama - The Panahou School

Nancy Pelosi - Notre Dame School

Al Gore - St. Alban’s School

Bill Richardson - The Middlesex School

Elliott Spitzer - The Horace Mann School

Public School Conservatives

Ronald Reagan - Northside High School

Fred Thompson - Lawrence County High School

Rush Limbaugh - Cape Central High School

Richard Nixon - Fullerton High School

Glenn Beck - Sehome High School

Gerald Ford - South High School

Gen. David Petraeus - Cornwall Central HS

Dwight Eisenhower - Abileen High School

Charleton Heston - New Trier High School

Newt Gingrich - Baker High School

Speaking today to a large student and faculty group at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburg, Republican presidential nominee John McCain called for an immediate moratorium on the federal gasoline tax from Memorial Day until Labor Day. The applause was immediate and prolonged.

"Somewhere along the way, too many republicans in congress became indistinguishable from the democrats they used to oppose" , he quipped.

McCain said the moratorium would provide much need relief to American consumers while reducing the federal tax burden faced by them.

http://www.brietbart.com/article.php?id=D902EAPO1&show_article=1

Dana Milbank reports in today’s Washington Post that Senators John McCain and Barack Obama addressed the National Association of Newspaper Editors and receieved quite different responses.

Milbank described Obama as peevish and flat when questioned by the assemblage.
“Bitter, are we?’, Milbank mused. When the Senator from Illinois was done, he received polite applause from the newspaper moguls.

According to Milbank, Senator McCain, who appeared two hours earlier, was relaxed, confident and open to questions. He was presented with a box of donuts by the group; his favorite offering to them on the famous “McCain Express” bus.

When queried about the age factor, McCain pretended to doze off, and then invited the journalists to come watch him campaign. At the conclusion of his remarks, McCain received a standing ovation.

Could it be that we are seeing the unravelling of Obama under the pressure of the primaries?

http://www.washingtonpost.com  15 April 2008

Picture the young senator from Illinois, safe and cozy in the warm environment of San Francisco, the arch-capitol of American liberalism, surrounded by wealthy, urbane elitists intent on bankrolling his crusade.

Flattered and basking in their adulation, Barack Obama lets slip his carefully contrived mask - that of a young African American, free from the ‘old’ ways of politics - and yearning for hope and change.

Encouraged, he begins to tell them what they want to hear; that smalltown Americans [those outside large cities and surrounding burbs] are racist, homophobic, gun-toting, resentful fundamentalists, unaware - amid the sage nods and knowing smirks of his audience - that his analysis will ever be revealed to the unwashed masses.

And here, at last, he defines the liberal mindset with ringing clarity; indeed, does so far better than we on the right have ever been able to do. And, in so doing, he speaks for more than the handful of San Franciscans gathered at his feet.

He speaks for elitist liberals everywhere: The Kerry’s and the Kennedy’s; the socialist faculties of our colleges and universities and their pampered, mindless students; the journalists of our mainstream media; the clergy of many elite denominations and all those whose liberal mindset leads them to believe that others, less enlightened, need to be governed, regulated and cared for.

His message is simple. Those who live in small towns, or own a gun, or are fundamental christians, or ever lost a job, or oppose illegal immigration, or distrust government, are resentful, and, by implication, ignorant. [The term “rednecks” comes to mind.]

While those around Senator Obama and the liberal community at large will swing quickly into ‘damage control’, clucking and cooing about the misconstrued, uninformed reactions of those who can’t understand this man of hope, the rest of us have genuine cause to pause.

For we have at last seen the light, and it is a dark one indeed, casting ugly shadows into the deeper recesses of liberalism and the heart and mind of Barack Obama.

DNC Chair Howard Dean says average Americans are concerned about John McCain’s age. Claming that the Dems never brought the matter up, he says the people in DNC focus-groups none-the-less raised the issue.

History is replete with examples of how age matters.  All of the following came on to the world leadership stage in their 60’s or older, and several stayed into their 80’s.

Ronald Reagan, Winston Churchill, Golda Meir, Charles DeGaulle, Nelson Mandela and Conrad Adenauer come to mind, to name a few.

Since you won’t believe this, check it out at http://www.drudgereport.com 11 April 2008

Today, according to Matt Drudge, Senator Barack Obama put forth his version of life in small-town America:

“… and it’s not surprising then that they get bitter. They cling to guns and religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them, or anti-immigrant or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations… ”

Doesn’t look like Senator Obama left out anything, does it?  Maybe wife-beating.

This from a man who claims to rise above prejudice and seeks to be president of the United States.

FOXNEWS is reporting today that George Soros and David Brock met with a number of deep-pocket democrats in Manhattan, raising $40 million dollars to establish a new liberal media service, Progressive Media USA. PMUSA will use the talents of CNN's Paul Bagala, among others, to create 4 months worth of TV advertising attacking John McCain.

Translated to realpolitik, Soros, Brock and their running-dog financiers will do the dirty-work for Obama or Clinton in the upcoming election.

Nice work if you can get it.

To the horror of every liberal and democrat in the country, John McCain told a Bridgeport audience today that he would not rule out a pre-emptive strike option were he president.

If someone is about to launch a weapon that would devastate America, or have the capability to do so, obviously, you would have to act immediately in defense of this nation’s national security interests.

MoveOn, DailyKos and the Huffington Post will go nuts!  WARMONGER!!!!

check it out at http://www.breitbart.com

Drudge is posting this Yahoo paid DNC news item: 
http://www.drudgereport.com 9 April 2008

On ABC’s THIS WEEK, DNC Chair Howard Dean says, in reference to McCain…

He’s wrong on Iraq, he’s wrong on health care, he’s wrong on home mortgages. The American people want change.

You can read that to mean:

* John McCain wants to defeat terrorism.

* McCain doesn’t want to bankrupt the nation.

* He doesn’t want to bail out every Tom, Dick and Harry who chose a bad mortgage.

* McCain doesn’t want to veer the country to the left.

For a man who ran one of the worst and most liberal campaigns in recent history, Dean talks a really good show.

In its best liberal tradition, and with no regard for the safety of Lance Corporal James McCain, who served in Anbar Province, The New York Times ran this article by Jodi Kantor on April 6th.

McCAIN IS VOCAL ON WAR, BUT SILENT ON SON’S SERVICE

McCain has staked his candidacy on the promise that American troops can bring stability to Iraq. What he almost never says is that one of them is his own son.

McCain has largely maintained a code of silence about his son… making only fleeting references to him in public, both to protect him from becoming a prize target and avoid exploiting him for political gain…

The NYT sanctimoniously defended the article by saying they had withheld some details about Cpl. McCain. Reminds one of the Prince Harry In Afghanistan debacle.

Would that the New York Times had the same ethical standards as Senator McCain.

Footnote: Meanwhile Barack Obama boasts that he never voted for the war, while Hillary Clinton fabricates stories about her courage dodging bullets in the Balkans.

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King who stirred the conscience of our nation as few have ever done.

We aren’t engaged in any negative protest or any negative argument with anybody. We are saying that we are determined to be men. We are determined to be people. We are saying that we are God’s children.

Dr. King, Memphis, April 3rd, 1968

God damn America, God damn America

Dr. Wright, Chicago, 2007

Dr. King, who realized that his cause might cost him his life, had that rare gift of speaking to the better angels of our nature and, in so doing, transformed the American people, armed only with faith, courage, eloquence and determination.

Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who will retire to a mansion on a suburban golf course, behind the iron bars of an exclusive, gated community, has vilified his nation and resurrected the ugly spectre of racial hatred, armed with rants and rage.

Dr. King had a dream.  Wright, it would seem, had a plan.

Is it possible that we are edging toward the brink of WW III?  The answer may lie in our not-so-distant past. The following quotations, with very little alteration, could be from today’s headlines.

Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of GB in a radio address to the British people, 1938:

“How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas masks because of a quarrel in a far-away country between peoples of whom we know nothing.”

Hassam al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, in a letter to his followers in Cairo, 1938:

“To a nation that perfects the art of death and knows how to die nobly, Allah gives proud life in this world.”

Gerald Nye, United States Senator, an address to the America First Committee, 1940:

“The conflict in Europe is not worthy of the sacrifice of one American mule, much less one American son.”

and this…

“We have been manuvered into this war by the President.”

Joseph P. Kennedy, U.S. Ambassador to GB, in the Boston Herald, 1940:
"Democracy is dead."

Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of Germany, in an address to the party, Munich, 1936:

“The democracies are weak and decadent. They will sacrifice nothing. They are finished.”

Over on Right Wing News, John Hawkins confronts RNC chairman Mike Duncan on why any conservative should back John McCain.  His answer is instructive.

http://www.rightwingnews.com

Peter Paul Olszewski, a Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania judge, has ordered three young latino men, all school drop-outs, to learn to read and write english or go to jail, after their conviction on drug and gun-related charges.

“Do you think we are going to provide you a translator all your life?”, the judge asked them.

A lawyer for the trio is considering an appeal… probably on the grounds of cruel and unusual punishment.

http://www.cnn.com 28 March 2008

In an interview today, Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela, told Reuters that relations with the U.S. could worsen if John McCain were elected.
“McCain is too war-like”, Chavez noted and went on to say, “One would hope for the level of relations we had with ex-president Clinton.”

McCain calls Chavez a dictator, the article said.

Another reason to vote for McCain, in my book.

http://www.drudgereport.com  25 March 2008