Facebook: We Believe In Real Change, So FIRE ARNE DUNCAN!

[Dinger]

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=49334373979


December 2008 article by Greg Palast on arne. It rings true, true as hell.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21481.htm
"Obama Slam-Duncans Education"

By Greg Palast

December 16, 2008 "Information Clearinghouse" -- -- Hey, you Liberal Democrats. You may have won the election, but you're getting CREAMED in the transition.

Today, President-elect Barack Obama stuck it to you. He's chosen Arne Duncan as Secretary of Education.

Who? Duncan is most decidedly not an educator. He's a lawyer. But Duncan has this extraordinary qualification: He's Obama's pick-up basketball buddy from Hyde Park.

I can't make this up.

Not that Duncan hasn't mucked about in the educational system. Chicago Boss Richie Daley put this guy in charge of the horror show called Chicago Public Schools where Duncan turned a bad system into a REALLY bad system.

[ingac70]

1. Where did he go to law school?

[BrklynLiberal]

2. No mention of Law School in h is wiki bio

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arne_Duncan

[ingac70]

3. I know, just curious why this article LIES and says he is a lawyer. n/t

[Catshrink]

4. There's this

"Duncan was a fellow in the Leadership Greater Chicago's class of 1995<15>, and a member of the Aspen Institute's Henry Crown Fellowship Program, Class of 2002. In May 2003, he received an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Lake Forest College." (from the wikipedia link)

It looks like the lawyer thing is about as real as everything else about Arne: Fail. Wonder why Palast said he was a lawyer? I thought Palast was better than that.

[ingac70]

5. Do people with honorary degrees actually get to practice? n/t

[Catshrink]

6. I don't think so

Palast apparently was wrong. I checked Arne's bio on the DOE website also and no mention of a law degree.

[Starry Messenger]

7. check out the new addition in the photo section there

:D

[Catshrink]

11. Hm....

Where have I seen that before?

[Smarmie Doofus]

8. In a nutshell:

>>>>In no other cabinet department is the lack of expertise, lack of accomplishment, lack of a degree in the field found acceptable but in Education.>>>>

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. A+

[Smarmie Doofus]

9. 'Course, this is illuminating too:

>>>>>And Obama knows it. Indeed, although he plays roundball with Duncan (who was captain of the Harvard basketball team), State Senator Obama was one of the only local Chicago officials who refused to send his kids to Duncan's public schools. (The Obamas sent Sasha and Malia to the Laboratory School, where Duncan's methods are derided as dangerously ludicrous.)>>>>>

[Hannah Bell]

10. that's arne duncan's alma mater, too.

Duncan attended the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, where he aspired to a future career coaching basketball or playing the sport professionally.<1> He then graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a bachelors degree in sociology in 1987.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arne_Duncan

[tonysam]

14. OMG!!!!

Obama trusts Arne to ruin other kids' lives but not his own.

He walks the walk and talks the talk, I guess.

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. LOL check out the picture: