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Re: AP's summary of the Lies and Distortions of the Palin nomination . . .
« Reply #15 on: September 04, 2008, 09:50:53 PM »
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Less meaningful than ever now that the Republicans were stupid enough to remind us that 27 million Americans are able to do it.

It's a smaller voting block than the blacks but if McCain/ Palin get 90% of small business owners they are doing well. Each small business averages about 18 employees and small but fruitful zone of influence.

Probably wise to recognize their worth to the economy.




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Re: AP's summary of the Lies and Distortions of the Palin nomination . . .
« Reply #16 on: September 04, 2008, 11:12:11 PM »
Probably wise to recognize their worth to the economy.

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Sure, they have influence. That is hardly the issue.

It is Plane's contention that somehow signing someone else's paychecks magically qualifies someone to be president.

I don't think it's really very relevant.

It's like the old crap that a good teacher makes a good administrator.
"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."

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Re: AP's summary of the Lies and Distortions of the Palin nomination . . .
« Reply #17 on: September 04, 2008, 11:22:15 PM »
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It's like the old crap that a good teacher makes a good administrator.

Hmmm they say Obama was a good teacher at the law school.



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Re: AP's summary of the Lies and Distortions of the Palin nomination . . .
« Reply #18 on: September 04, 2008, 11:27:58 PM »
Hmmm they say Obama was a good teacher at the law school.


I did not say that good teachers are bad administrators, I said that good teachers are not necessarily good school administrators.
Good teaching requires a different skill set than administrating fellow educators effectively. Some can do it, some can't.



If you had ever been a teacher, you would know exactly what I mean.

"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."

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Re: AP's summary of the Lies and Distortions of the Palin nomination . . .
« Reply #19 on: September 05, 2008, 05:41:37 PM »
I think that being an educator is a valuable life experience , being an emplyer is another valuable life experience.

Some what simular too, you must praise and disapoint and get the best out of students , an employer also must deal with people and get the best of them if he can, People depend on teachers and they depend on their employers .

  The experience of haveing a bunch of people depending on you is something I would want in the history of a Preident.

Of coourse there are diffrences between being a teacher and being an employer , I am pointing out simularitys to introduce the idea.


The Presidency , as an executive position is something like being an employer , every now and then a President has to call someone in to say "your fired".

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Re: AP's summary of the Lies and Distortions of the Palin nomination . . .
« Reply #20 on: September 05, 2008, 11:03:55 PM »
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It's like the old crap that a good teacher makes a good administrator.

So it isn't necessarily old crap?

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« Reply #21 on: September 05, 2008, 11:20:29 PM »
It's like the old crap that a good teacher makes a good administrator.

So it isn't necessarily old crap?

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Most administrators believe that all good teachers make good administrators, even those who have no interest in telling others how to teach or holding all those usually meaningless boring meetings.

Some teachers see getting a chairmanship or some other administrative position as a promotion. I never did. Teaching and experimenting with new methods is a challenge. Manipulating one's colleagues always seemed like a tedious imposition on the freedom of said colleagues to me. I am surely not the only one.

So it is just not always true, that is all.
"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."

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Re: AP's summary of the Lies and Distortions of the Palin nomination . . .
« Reply #22 on: September 05, 2008, 11:23:49 PM »
If you need a place to host your travelogues i'll be glad to work with you. Been thinking of reviving post 41 , with movie reviews travel tips etc.

let me know if interested.


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Re: AP's summary of the Lies and Distortions of the Palin nomination . . .
« Reply #23 on: September 05, 2008, 11:29:41 PM »
I can host as well.
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