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AMERICAblog: Mark Sanford and Son

  • tduffy2 · 8 months ago
    Good ad. My only critique is that the music is a bit too loud and overpowers Sanford's words. (Not that I really want to hear anything this moron says - but perhaps that's the point?)
  • mirth · 8 months ago
    In this case, tduffy2, the music is as important as Sanford's words - it's from the old teevee show Sanford (and Son), who were junk dealers.
  • tduffy2 · 8 months ago
    Mirth, I know the show. I'm old enough to remember when it premiered (although could never stand Redd Fox). It was just my .02.
  • mirth · 8 months ago
    Oh, sorry :(

    I thought maybe you didn't know about the show.
  • tduffy2 · 8 months ago
    That's OK. How would you know? I really wasn't very clear in my post.
  • mirth · 8 months ago
    Sweet of you.

    You must be a Liberal!

    :)
  • tduffy2 · 8 months ago
  • Paddy · 8 months ago
  • mirth · 8 months ago
    Woo Hoo

    When O'Donnell makes his point, which cannot be refuted, Buchanan gets so tangled in his defensive words that all he can do is keep repeating them. Otherwise he would have to actually address what O'Donnell is saying, actually confess the hypocrisy of Notre Dame.

    Same thing with all these rw talking heads. Repeat Repeat Repeat
  • serge · 8 months ago
    Sanford is a joke without a punchline. I hope he does attempt to run for the big job in 2012. He should get eviscerated. I live in Charleston County where one would expect the high property taxes used to provide "quality" education might, in fact, provide quality education. Oh, no...not so much. The schools in poorer sections are a little bit better than the "Corridor of Shame" provides, but they're still woefully underfunded. There are many dedicated teachers who work their asses off for the kids, but they work for a pittance and still have to buy their own classroom materials out of their own pockets.

    I was strong-armed by a close friend into mentoring one of two twins where she worked at Mary Ford Elementary twelve years ago. My best friend took on his brother. They are twenty now and we're still at it. It's rewarding but tough, these kids were part of a social and system that barely functions. They begin life behind the eight ball.

    It's totally different when you get into white, suburban areas. Ask Sanford about Sullivan's Island Elementary School, one of the top rated in the state. Whoa...average home prices in the millions, still. I wonder why the school is so good? (Full disclosure, I live on Sullivan's Island as does Sanford. The difference between us is that he's rich, and I was lucky; my house cost $90K twenty-five years ago.) The disparity is evident to everyone except rich, republican, amoral takers like Sanford. I cannot fully express how much loathing I feel for this monster.

    This wasn't even trying to express it...
  • CarolAll · 8 months ago
    I wonder whose money financed Sanford's grandstanding ad? I seriously doubt it came out of his own pocket. While Sanford gains national attention, the people and state of SC suffer. He fails to remind them that their grandchildren will be paying for the Republican supported, historic levels of national debt that Bush racked up anyway. More Republican hypocracy!
  • a. mcewen · 8 months ago
    And then he is going to be speaking at one of those "tea bag protests" next week. This guy has never visited some of the schools in need of the stimulus money.
  • benb · 8 months ago
    I gotta wonder what it must feel like to be a Carolinian listening to Sanford's soft and creepy voice tell me it's government's fault when I lose my job and health insurance and face foreclosure.
  • Ann · 8 months ago
    Less education means dumber voters who will believe the republican/conservative propaganda/crapola.
  • Eric · 8 months ago
    If you check out some Charleston SC newspapers on-line you'll see just how unpopular Gov. Sanford has become. The senate in his state may even force him to accept the funds very soon.
  • Audie · 8 months ago
    Y'all are missin' the point. Decent white people in SC send their children to private Christian schools. Government schools just waste taxpayer money on the folks who don't matter.
  • grandpajohn · 8 months ago
    Sanford and few cohorts have been trying to destroy the public school system here in SC from the time he took office, he is a libertarian idiot and I would suspect that beyond the support of a few fellow idiot followers that this latest but by no means first political stunt of his has finished his political career here in SC
  • Rui · 8 months ago
    Flashpoint: better education results are never achieved by more money or having new schools; if that were the case, then the 70% increase in funding during the Bush years should have produced Einstein's all over the place.
    And Audie, how many policiticians send their kids to public school? How about the President? It's too bad you are wanting to play the race card instead of addressing the real issues.
    When people start focusing on how ways to improve our public schools, the ones that will continue to suffer will be the kids.
    If you are interested in factoids: one of the top three performing schools in the early twentieth century happened to be Dunbar High School in Baltimore, a black school as poor as any school could be, in a time of outright racial discrimination. Other examples also exist but maybe you can learn a little more about that on your own.
  • Gregory Pittman · 8 months ago
    Check your facts, please. Sanford has indeed had a rough relationship with the SC General Assembly. The reason for that is because both houses are filled with good ol' boy politicians. However, his public ratings are in the stratosphere. Presidential aspirations? He may indeed run for the presidency, but this is classic Sanford; common sense fiscal policy. And I'm glad he's standing in the gap for the irresponsibility found elsewhere in Columbia and Washington.