Chicago Daily Observer

And on the same day that he was extolling the need to shake up the “status quo” in education, Obama also defended his opposition to school vouchers.

“We don’t have enough slots for every child to go into a parochial school or a private school. And what you would see is a huge drain of resources out of the public schools,” Obama said.

McCain advocates giving every parent a voucher to essentially choose which school they’d like to send their child. Obama, whose two daughters attend private school, said that idea would crush the public school system entirely.

“But what I don’t want to do is to see a diminished commitment to the public schools to the point where all we have are the hardest-to-teach kids with the least involved parents with the most disabilities in the public schools,” he said. “That’s going to make things worse, and we’re going ... Read More...

The website for Sen. Barack Obama’s church—Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago—not long ago described the “Black Value System” in the “About Us” section of its website.

And it used to provide a link to the Trumpet Magazine that once gave an award to Louis Farrakhan—a magazine published by Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s daughter.

No longer.

You can see the old webpage, including both the Black Value System and a link to Trumpet HERE

Interestingly, Trumpet used to have a web presence and now it doesn’t seem to.

Here’s the Google cache of the Trumpet Magazine heralding Louis Farrakhan (“When Minister Farrakhan speaks, Black America listens,” says the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright,likening the Minister’s influence to the E. F. Hutton commercials of old. “Everybody may not agree with him, but they listen…Minister Farrakhan will be remembered as one of the 20th and 21st century giants of the African ... Read More...