“Bo” the puppy Vs. DC school children
on April 13th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Photo: Life Magazine.
Bo’s coverage
- Obama puppy a gem but animal groups warn of backyard breeders
- Video: The Wait’s Over: Obama’s Choose First Dog
- The Scoop on New Obama Puppy Bo and His Powerful Enemies
- Today in Slow News: Meet Bo, The New Obama Puppy
- Obama’s Puppy
- How Bo the puppy wound up with the Obamas
- The Wrong First Dog: Obama Should Have Gotten the Puppy From a Rescue
- Obama girls new puppy from Wise County
- Obama dog makes critics whine
- Animal rescuers disappointed over first dog choice
- Portuguese Water Dogs: What You Need To Know
- Humor: First Interview With Bo, The New White House Puppy
- Inside Info On “First Puppy” Bo!
- Obama’s dog Bo: Cute but what about promise to adopt?
- Portuguese Water Dogs Spirited, Energetic Breed
And I’m just warming up….
Regarding Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s decision to pull the plug on the DC school voucher program~
>DC kids sold out by Obama, Dems (By Deroy Murdock)
>& This one: Presumed Dead from the Washington Post.
EDUCATION SECRETARY Arne Duncan has decided not to admit any new students to the D.C. voucher program, which allows low-income children to attend private schools. The abrupt decision — made a week after 200 families had been told that their children were being awarded scholarships for the coming fall — comes despite a new study showing some initial good results for students in the program and before the Senate has had a chance to hold promised hearings. For all the talk about putting children first, it’s clear that the special interests that have long opposed vouchers are getting their way.
Those were the only two articles that I could find that actually addressed this recent decision by the Education Secretary.
In the meantime, let’s go back to the Washington Post article published recently: “Blacks at Odds Over Scrutiny of President”. Here are some random bits from the article.
“Yours truly” is NOT at odds. 
Patricia Wilson-Smith also thinks Obama is deserving only of praise at this point.
[...]
“To jump all over him at this point because they haven’t seen anything specific toward the black condition, when he has two wars to deal with and an economy failing, is a little silly.”
[...]
Glen Ford, who co-edits the left-leaning Black Agenda Report, says the pull to support Obama is powerful for blacks. When Obama ran for the U.S. Senate in 2004, Ford recalls, editors at the online publication endorsed him even though he was too middle-of-the-road for their tastes. “We did not want to be perceived as the proverbial crabs in a barrel trying to bring a brother down,” Ford says.
But as Obama settles into his presidency, Ford says, it would be irresponsible not to look at him critically. He puts it this way: “We broke out of our cowardice.”
Do a search through the online media that WE produce and you will find more talk about Rihanna and Chris Brown then about the consistent mismanagement of public schools (especially those that are located in mostly-Black communities).
Like I said in a previous post: “Well, at least some kids out there are straight”.
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