How Many Democrats Does It Take to Spell HYPOCRISY?!
I just read an article in the Wall Street Journal about selective school choice. The article, written by Clint Bolick, bashes Democrats as being hypocrites concerning the area of school choice (or school vouchers). I’m a semi-regular reader of this newspaper, and they’re not entirely in favor of Democrats having the majority in Congress. And sometimes I disagree with their opinions. However, today I agree with the article that Bolick has written.
Mr. and Mrs. Clinton is my first example. He was given the choice of sending his children to any public school in the Washington, D.C. area. Instead, he paid for private school and blocked school vouchers for inner-city parents. Mrs. Clinton has vowed to “never abandoning public schools,” although she remorselessly never allowed her kids to be taught in a public education system.
John Edwards, one of the popular candidates running for president, as blocked school choice programs as well. He has criticized that “America has two different school systems–one for the affluent and one for everyone else.” Yet, he has chosen to keep the status quo for inner-city youth because he instantly switched his kids over to a religious school the moment he was voted into the Senate. Because, “public schools are deeply troubled.” But he has blocked attempts that provides a path out of those “deeply troubled” schools.
And Obama too is guilty. However, his reason is a bit more confusing. He calls school vouchers a form of social Darwinism. Interesting. Since I had no idea what that was, I looked it up at Dictionary.com. “The application of Darwinism to the study of human society, specifically a theory in sociology that individuals or groups achieve advantage over others as the result of genetic or biological superiority.” Doesn’t school vouchers offset the advantages of wealth and class, by allowing otherwise disadvantaged youth to have access to the best in education? Yes, they do.
The only Democrat who supported school choice AND signed it into law in his state was former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack. He recently stepped down from the presidential candidacy. He sent his children exclusively to public school, yet he signed the bill. Senator Joe Biden also sent his children to private schools, but he supported the school choice law.
It’s a bit hypocritical of these Democrats to say they don’t want to abandon public schools, yet they do anyway when they refuse to send their kids there. What do you think?
(I’m not Conservative by the way, but I really hated how spineless the Democrats acted towards the Iraq War. NOW they want to raise questions…but they should’ve done it before!)
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