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Mika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-22-10 09:50 AM Original message |
Obama: "We have to educate our children for an economy where knowledge is capital." |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-22-10 09:52 AM Response to Original message |
1. One might think that free, universal public education would be the foundation for that... |
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Ozymanithrax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-22-10 09:53 AM Response to Original message |
2. But knowledge is capital...for most of us. |
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Mika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-22-10 09:56 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. I agree w/ your point, but the statement reeks of information age corporate newspeak. |
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Ozymanithrax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-22-10 10:10 AM Response to Reply #4 |
10. We live in an age when all political leaders speak in sound bites... |
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Autumn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-22-10 09:56 AM Response to Original message |
3. Knowledge. And yet schools are cutting |
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Mika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-22-10 09:58 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. One can't capitalize if everyone has the same information. |
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Billy Burnett (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-22-10 10:02 AM Response to Original message |
6. How about some knowledge on stopping deep sea oil well blowouts before we drill? |
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Pirate Smile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-22-10 10:04 AM Response to Original message |
7. He says something true and obvious and you bash him. for it. We don't need the RW to twist what he |
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Billy Burnett (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-22-10 10:11 AM Response to Reply #7 |
11. Yes. The information age has served mankind well, especially the US labor class. |
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ShortnFiery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-22-10 10:04 AM Response to Original message |
8. Where hard science is *King* and creative arts are "the peons." |
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Mika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-22-10 10:15 AM Response to Reply #8 |
13. More like creation science will be king. |
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ShortnFiery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-22-10 01:33 PM Response to Reply #13 |
25. Exactly! As Saint Ronnie and Reverend Falwell would have intended. |
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tranche (913 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-22-10 10:48 AM Response to Reply #8 |
16. Only a nutt would come to that conclusion from his comment. |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-22-10 10:08 AM Response to Original message |
9. Did he leave out a word or did you misquote him? |
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Mika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-22-10 10:13 AM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Oops. Thanks. |
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freddie mertz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-22-10 10:21 AM Response to Original message |
14. "Knowledge is Capital." I prefer "Knowledge is Power." |
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izquierdista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-22-10 10:26 AM Response to Original message |
15. Other type of education |
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tranche (913 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-22-10 10:50 AM Response to Original message |
17. So talking about education is something to be mocked on DU now? |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-22-10 11:23 AM Response to Reply #17 |
21. Absolutely not but talking out of both sides of your mouth sure is. |
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vaberella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-22-10 10:58 AM Response to Original message |
18. Wow...to the posts on this thread. |
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emulatorloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-22-10 11:49 AM Response to Reply #18 |
22. Take a boring (cliched) statement, twist the meaning around and turn it into something "Scary" |
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chill_wind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-22-10 11:03 AM Response to Original message |
19. 126,907,748 Students receiving Pell Grants of $5550 would go a long way |
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emulatorloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-22-10 11:14 AM Response to Original message |
20. If Obama said "Education is American as Apple Pie" DU would attack him. |
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Mika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-22-10 01:14 PM Response to Reply #20 |
23. But he didn't say that. |
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emulatorloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-22-10 03:05 PM Response to Reply #23 |
28. He said something equally benign. Did you break into Glenn Beck's medicine cabinet? |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-22-10 01:21 PM Response to Original message |
24. Yeah, I'm sure that's exactly what he meant. |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-22-10 01:40 PM Response to Original message |
26. It must be painful to twist that hard to find a negative way to interpret that |
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Starbucks Anarchist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-22-10 01:57 PM Response to Original message |
27. Boo, knowledge! Let's stay stupid! |
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