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How many Stupid kids does it take to vote for Barack Obama???

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ama gi Posted: Mon, May 11 2009 7:50 PM

A while ago I found this blog and, in spite of its partisan, paternalistic POV, I found it to be quite eye-opening.

Gup tells how he asked his class of freshmen and sophomores how many had heard of the word “rendition?”—this after years of that word being used in newspapers and on television newscasts referring to the U.S. policy of shipping suspected terrorists off to other nations where they can be tortured to gain information.

No one in the class knew. And, when he told them, Gup says they were outraged this had been going on and wondered how this could have happened in America.

Gup’s answer was easy: He told his students to look around the room at one another and then he told them, they were “seated next to the answer.”

http://thefeldmanblog.com/2008/04/08/how-stupid-kids-may-get-barack-obama-elected-president-why-they-should-be-seen-but-not-allowed-to-vote/

I suppose we are all seated next to the answer.

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Rugrat replied on Wed, May 13 2009 2:12 PM

The professor should remember that this kids are the future of tomorrow. if he is calling them stupid, then America's future is also stupid.

 

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Rugrat:

The professor should remember that this kids are the future of tomorrow. if he is calling them stupid, then America's future is also stupid.

 

Basically.

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banned replied on Wed, May 13 2009 5:29 PM

Nice one LS :)

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