I began teaching when I was 20 years old in a small freedom school affiliated with the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. The year was 1965, and I’d been arrested in a demonstration. Jailed for ten days, I met several activists who were finding ways to link teaching and education with deep and fundamental social change. They were following Dewey and DuBois, King and Helen Keller who wrote: “We can’t have education without revolution. We have tried peace education for 1,900 years and it has failed. Let us try revolution and see what it will do now.”

I walked out of jail and into my first teaching position—and from that day until this I’ve thought of myself as a teacher, but I’ve also understood teaching as a project intimately connected with social justice. After all, the fundamental message of the teacher is this: you can change your life—whoever you are, wherever you’ve been, whatever you’ve done, another world is possible. As students and teachers begin to see themselves as linked to one another, as tied to history and capable of collective action, the fundamental message of teaching shifts slightly, and becomes broader, more generous: we must change ourselves as we come together to change the world. Teaching invites transformations, it urges revolutions small and large. La educacion es revolucion! (The education is the revolution)

Are you scared that this man has worked with Obama on education? Are you scared that William Ayers, someone who believes that education should be used to provoke revolutions, helped launch Barack Obama's political career? I sure am. Saying this guy is a loony does not serve it enough justice. If put in a position of power, this man could destroy America as we know it.

Obama's campaign has funded an organization to "get out the vote." This organization, ACORN, has paid people to vote. They have registered people many times. There was one man who registered 72 times!

They have registered Mickey Mouse!
They have registered dead people!
They have registered 7 year olds!
They have registered many other made up names!

This organization is a corrupt organization that is trying to cheat for Barack Obama. The most disturbing thing is Barack Obama not only funded this, he was once a general counsel for them.

What makes ACORN particularly embarrassing for Obama is that he used to be one of them. He served as general counsel for ACORN in Illinois, channeled millions to the organization from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (whose funds he distributed) and has lately spent $800,000 of his campaign money to subsidize the group’s activities. For this emolument, ACORN has registered voters 15 times over, canvassed the graveyards for votes and prepared to commit electoral fraud on a
massive scale.

John McCain differs from George Bush by leaps and bounds. George Bush thought he could increase spending and cut taxes. That just doesn't make sense. McCain wants to cut taxes AND cut spending. This a very different stance and one that makes sense.

This election is NOT Barack Obama vs. George W. Bush. This election is Barack Obama and Joe Bidden vs. John McCain and Sarah Palin.

"Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn't it?" the plumber asked, complaining that he was being taxed "more and more for fulfilling the American dream."

"It's not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they've got a chance for success too," Obama responded. "My attitude is that if the economy's good for folks from the bottom up, it's gonna be good for everybody ... I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."

http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=195153

What lesson does this teach us? If a business is failing, let it fail. It is failing for a reason. Money pumped into dying businesses will be lost.

The american people will not get a return on investment on that 700 billion dollars. If that money were put into defense and other technologies, those technologies could be sold to other countries. This would bring more money into our economy.

(http://www.cleveland.com/indepth/steel/index.ssf?/indepth/steel/more/10069434435335104.html)

Russert: Senator Biden, what do you think of John McCain as a Democratic candidate for vice president?

Biden: I think John McCain would be a great candidate for vice president. I mean it. I know John doesn't like me saying it, but the truth of the matter is, it is. We need to heal the red and the blue here, man, the red states and the blue states. And John McCain is a loyal Republican. God, he drives me crazy how loyal he is as a Republican as much of a friend as he is. We disagree on a lot of things, but I'll tell you, the fact of the matter is that we've got to bring together the red and the blue here. This is a divided nation. And I think that--I would still urge John Kerry to pick up the phone and call John McCain. He'll say no probably. But I think John Kerry has an obligation to do that for the way he wants to heal. And I know John will listen. He'll say no, but I'm going to tell you, I'm counting on him being a more loyal American than he is a loyal Republican.

And, John, I'm not so sure you're so happy about the Senate. I'd like to see you president instead of the guy we have now. So--but you're a great senator. But I think you'd also be doing a great service. Do I think it's going to happen? No. But I think it is a reflection of the desire of this country, and the desire of people in both parties, to want to see this God-awful, vicious rift that exists in the nation healed, and John and John could go a long way to healing that rift.

You think things are going to change with Barack Obama? You're right... we'll have Barack Obama bail out Fannie Mae no matter how inefficient and pathetic Fannie Mae is. Barack Obama isn't change... he's more of the same.

We must never forget the attacks on 9/11...

I’m proud to be an American,
where at least I know I’m free.
And I wont forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me.

And I gladly stand up,
next to you and defend her still today.
‘Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land,
God bless the USA.

Barack Insane Obama is lighting a fire that he should not be lighting. He is calling the GOP's first woman vice president a pig. I thought he was about new politics? He always tears into McCain for his Karl Rove politics. Karl Rove would advise his candidate to be tough. But he would never go as far as calling a woman a pig. If Barack loses this election, this would be one of the nails in his coffin. Congratulations Barack... you've ticked off women everywhere.

In the first 100 days of our administration, we will look at every agency and department and expenditure of the federal government and ask this simple question: Is it serving the needs of the taxpayer? If it is not, we will reform it or shut it down, and we will spend money only on what is truly in the interest of the American people.

This message will resonate with economic conservatives. This will also resonate with the average american. This will resonate with the average american who is always balancing their own budgets because they understand that money must spent wisely. Sarah Palin and John McCain are completely changing the Republican Party. This is not the 3rd term of Bush. They will bring a completely new brand of conservatism to the table. I say bon voyage to the big spending Bush GOP and hello to the economic conservative John McCain GOP.

As those of you who have followed this blog know... I was wishy-washy about my support for John McCain for the last few months. Let me make this clear. The Sarah Palin VP selection has put me 100% into John McCain's camp.