Pretty scientific.
I'm worried about you when he beats Gingrich & gets another term.
White House memo notes shortage of applicants for contest to have Obama to speak at high school graduation
The White House is ramping up an effort to promote a nationwide competition to decide which high school wins a commencement speech by President Obama.
An internal White House memo indicates that the White House is facing a shortage of applications less than a week before the deadline.
The competition was extended from the February 25 deadline until Friday, March 11 after few schools met the original application deadline. CBS News has learned a White House Communications Office internal memo dated February 22 noted "a major issue with the Commencement Challenge."
"As of yesterday we had received 14 applications and the deadline is Friday," the memo said. The memo also urged recipients to, "please keep the application number close hold."
A follow-up memo on February 28 reported receipt of 68 applications. Noting the competition among more than 1,000 schools last year, the memo said, "Something isn't working." It called on staffers to ask "friendly congressional, gubernatorial and mayoral offices" to encourage schools to apply.
Officials were unable to explain the reason for the apparent lack of interest, beyond pointing to possible procrastination by school systems.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_1...00-503544.html
I imagine the schools want inspiration not desperation in a commencement speech. Looks like the party is over.
Pretty scientific.
I'm worried about you when he beats Gingrich & gets another term.
So the fact that school's have lazy staff means Obama has a low approval rating? right....
"We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power." -O'Brien, Nineteen Eighty-Four
Like Herman Cain da Pizza man
http://hermancain.com/
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. -Thomas Sowell
The most controversial thing I've ever done was to decide to think with my brain instead of my skin color. - Candace Owens
Actually current polling has Huckabee and Romney, in that order, as the front runners with Gingrich and Palin a distant 3 and 4. I personally like Mitch Daniels but I think he's saving it for 2016. All 4 of the current front runners have serious questions. Personally, even with the health care question I think Romney is the strongest candidate but all the polls I've seen for Obama vs "A Republican at large" or vs Romney, Huckabee has Obama with substantial leads and vs Gingrich or Palin he has a crushing lead. Dweebway and the other far right wing nuts are in denial that Americans would vote for another far right extremist like Palin or Gingrich or even a reactionary populist like Huckabee. If they are serious about beating Obama they would be wise to circle their wagons around Romney early on.
You're Never Alone With A Schizophrenic!
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
Romney has a way better shot than Huckabee, IMO. One of the reasons I am less than worried about the growing Dixie ire associated with my assessment of his campaign so far. Romney could use the almost identical system he set up in Mass that caused prices to go up to explain the difference between implementing poor policy without testing and using states as testing grounds.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
If Gingrich even comes close to being the nominee, the republicans are finished.
A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
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