If Obama wins is anyone else afraid

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Registered: 08-24-2008
If Obama wins is anyone else afraid
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Sat, 10-04-2008 - 5:25pm
of what will happen to our health care and our nation's security? I am paranoid.

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Registered: 09-08-2006
Mon, 10-06-2008 - 10:43am

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You must be referring the Wood Fund since we already covered the Annenberg Challenge.


"In the late 1980s and early '90s, the Woods Fund was at the forefront of the movement to reform Chicago's public schools, stressing the need for more local control and community involvement. That focus on education led the fund to Ayers, a tenured professor of education at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and a widely published expert on the subject. "The foundation had a special interest in the Chicago public schools, and Bill's specialty is teaching teachers," Rudd explains. "He had built a great reputation in that field." Ayers joined the board in 1999, serving as chair for two years and overlapping with Obama until 2002, when Obama left to run for the US Senate.


Today Woods's eight-member board includes three academics, a civic leader, a former Illinois state senator and executives from the BP oil company, UBS investment bank and Sahara Enterprises. Former board members include R. Eden Martin (1996-2004), attorney for the law firm Sidley Austin and president of the Commercial Club, Chicago's most prestigious business group. "The board is comprised of a very representative group of Chicago civic leaders," says Adele Simmons, of Chicago, a former president of the MacArthur Foundation. " http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080519/berman


Should we be afraid of all the people who are working on this group?

 

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Registered: 04-24-2008
Mon, 10-06-2008 - 10:44am

I agree.

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Registered: 02-24-2008
Mon, 10-06-2008 - 10:56am

"Obama's tax plan lowers taxes for 95% of people in this country and raises taxes for the rest to the levels they were at under Reagan."

"Don't confuse a plan with what we will end up with."

At this point, especially with a $700 billion bailout going on the books, I have no illusions that either candidate will stick to their campaign tax plan. The larger point is - what do the plans the candidate present say about their philosophies and approaches? Obama's do not scream socialism or anything close to it, nor do his other stances.

If McCain in particular did stick to his campaign tax plan, we would really be in trouble as a country. I don't understand why people (I'm not sure whether you're one of them or not) are comfortable with an ever-growing deficit and national debt. Talk about a threat to sovereignty.

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Registered: 01-07-2005
Mon, 10-06-2008 - 10:56am

OH, you mean the Woods Fund which funneled money to Israel hating Arabs?

http://www.jewishpress.com/content.cfm?contentid=30283










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Registered: 02-08-2005
Mon, 10-06-2008 - 10:59am

no way....if Obama wins we will FINALLY BE ON THE RIGHT TRACK......

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Registered: 05-05-2008
Mon, 10-06-2008 - 11:10am

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Mon, 10-06-2008 - 11:11am

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Mon, 10-06-2008 - 11:18am

"The idea of people flaunting deviant sexual behavior and then demanding special rights based on behavior is grossly repugnant to me and to many others whom I love and respect.

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Registered: 05-05-2008
Mon, 10-06-2008 - 11:27am

I responded to this post

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Mon, 10-06-2008 - 11:37am
Hi - I am in BC and we have coverage for kids under 12 for dental (unless their parents are employed with a dental plan or fairly well off).

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