Romney's education promise.

Today Mitt Romney spoke to a group of Latino small business owners. Among the topics he discussed with them was education. Romney said that some U.S. students receive a third world education, and that minority students were the most likely to be under educated.
I have to give the Romney camp credit for stating an actual point of fact. Fact are hard for this candidate to grasp so, good job.
Romney said that the solution to this problem was to allow federal dollars to follow each student rather than be given to states to allocate. The logistics of this plan are a nightmare, but that is not why I am writing about this. A few months ago Romney was overheard at a campaign event telling rich donors that if elected to office he would eliminate the department of education. He said that each state should handle its own education needs, and that the federal government had no place in education. Yet today he told prospective supporters that poor, and disabled children should be given a chance to go to any school they want, funded by the department of education.
It is easy for Romney to talk up the uses of education spending to people who use the public school system, and then tell rich donors that he will get rid of such spending, because he is a wind sock candidate. Romney will  pander to each audience and will in the end lean to the side with the most money.
Please vote wisely.

How hypocrisy aims to destroy a congressman

I truly did not think that I would be talking about this.
When Anthony Wiener gave his press conference, I figured that the news networks would run with the story. This happened as I predicted. What I didn't think would happen, was that Democrats would so quickly and willingly join in.
We truly have a problem in this country, a problem with political hypocrisy. Now I am not totally naive, I have seen proof of it again and again. What shocks me, is how it is being manifest in the case of Wiener.
Wiener admitted to having sent lewd pictures to women over the internet. When Andrew Breitbart released one of those pictures, everyone acted shocked and horrified. Why? It isn't like they hadn't been told about the picture, they had.
Despite what the media is saying, Wiener is not the first congressman to be caught sexting. Am I the only one who remembers transcripts being read of lewd texts sent to male interns?
I am going to lay all of that aside for now. The GOP and those Democrats who are calling for Wiener to resign; say that it is not because of his amorous activity. They say it is because he lied.
Lying in congress simply cannot be tolerated, they say. Well, if that is the case why are any of them still in congress. Every member of congress has either told an outright lie, or have stretched the truth to get their political agenda across.
Every congressman who has been involved in a sex scandal has lied about it. Some even broke the law to lie about it. What Wiener did is not so unique as to be the deplorable act of deception that the media and politicians are making it out to be.
We are fallible imperfect creatures, who because of the puritanical/overstimulated society that we live in, are naturally confused and embarrassed by sex. I am not excusing Wiener's behavior. What I am doing, is saying that getting caught sending pics of your privates is embarrassing. It is a perfectly normal reaction to lie about it.
The idea that lying can destroy a political career is ludicrous.

Now back to the actual lewd acts at hand.
The idea that cyber sex can destroy a political career, and that buying prostitutes did not is equally ludicrous. One is perfectly legal, the other is not.
I stand by congressman Wiener, he is a good man who gives voice to people who have no high paid lobbyists.