Update: Obama and Vouchers
February 25, 2008 by libertyisforme
What did I tell you, the guy is not sincere and will never support school vouchers.
From the NY Sun:
“No sooner had we issued Elizabeth Green’s dispatch under the headline “Obama Open to Private School Vouchers” than his campaign was scrambling to undo the potential damage with the Democratic primary electorate. On February 20, his campaign issued a statement headlined, “Response to Misleading Reports Concerning Senator Obama’s Position on Vouchers” that said, “Senator Obama has always been a critic of vouchers.” The statement went on, “Throughout his career, he has voted against voucher proposals and voiced concern for siphoning off resources from our public schools.” It noted that Mr. Obama’s education agenda “does not include vouchers, in any shape or form.”
Senator Obama has no backbone to stand up against the unions and do the right thing. He claims he wants to lift up the middle class but how can that be when he isn’t giving parents school choice.
I know deep down, the Senator wants to promote vouchers but he can’t because he is in bed with the teachers union.
Tsk, tsk….shame on you for picking unions over kids.
Well, there goes my one pro-Obama talking point.