Three Quick Strikes
February 2nd, 2008Bill Clinton says No Child Left Behind was poorly constructed because the Administration didn’t speak with enough teachers before drafting it and he promises that Hillary Clinton would do better. “She has her own experience drafting legislation without talking to anyone about it,” he must reason, “except hers didn’t pass and was abandoned after the Democratic Party was shelled in 1994″. The point being that Clinton won’t make Bush’s mistakes again nor hers! That kind of learning from experience? That’s what will make education work again in America! (I am only giving them a hard time for its own sake; just this one, I will indulge that desire.)
Bill Richardson and Christopher Dodd won’t endorse anyone before Super Tuesday. Why is this important? It isn’t, although I’m sure both campaigns are upset that they won’t be receiving all thirteen of their supporters. (Actually, both candidates simply want to avoid latching onto a loser because they’re looking for jobs with the new Administration but that is beside the point: they have almost zero support to give.)
If you are in the mood to see what the American government and the Iraqi public are up against in Iraq, go here. Terrorists are using women with down’s syndrome as suicide bombers, detonating them by mobile phone. That’s the worst thing I’ve read in a long time, and it makes me prouder of George W. Bush for suggesting that we will remain in Iraq until the job (of democratization and relative, progressively-less-relative stablization) are complete.