The Real Sporer’s sources say Sam Brownback had a good turnout with great content at the Alveda King event at Sam’s WDM HQ.
Ms. King is a rarity, an African-American conservative. Ms. King has apparently concluded that the corruption of our culture is a bad thing. Of course liberals disagree, who apparently find illegitimacy and illiteracy to be social virtues rather than failures. The liberal desire to uncritically repeat failed models continues to be as baffling as the public’s willingness to uncritically accept the liberal repetition of failed models as the preferred social policy.
Ms. King’s appearance illustrates a rather interesting standard that has apparently been adopted by the DMPS. Having invited a Martin Luther King’s niece Alveda King, a prominent civil rights figure, the DMPS revoked the invitation upon learning that Ms. King is a “conservative” whose ideas about family, morality and responsibility might offend some parents and students.
The standard given by the Roosevelt principal for withdrawing Ms. King’s invitation was the receipt “some complaints from parents about King’s agenda.” One wonders how more liberal guests will be evaluated for controversy. We will be watching very carefully for the choice of topics and speakers to which students are exposed in the Des Moines schools.
We received only a brief report that said Sam had a good event and that the crowd was enthusiastic. Hope to have more details tomorrow. If the Real Sporer’s back permits we may have a first hand report on Fred Thompson and the gang at the ICA dinner tomorrow.
Ms. King is a rarity, an African-American conservative. Ms. King has apparently concluded that the corruption of our culture is a bad thing. Of course liberals disagree, who apparently find illegitimacy and illiteracy to be social virtues rather than failures. The liberal desire to uncritically repeat failed models continues to be as baffling as the public’s willingness to uncritically accept the liberal repetition of failed models as the preferred social policy.
Ms. King’s appearance illustrates a rather interesting standard that has apparently been adopted by the DMPS. Having invited a Martin Luther King’s niece Alveda King, a prominent civil rights figure, the DMPS revoked the invitation upon learning that Ms. King is a “conservative” whose ideas about family, morality and responsibility might offend some parents and students.
The standard given by the Roosevelt principal for withdrawing Ms. King’s invitation was the receipt “some complaints from parents about King’s agenda.” One wonders how more liberal guests will be evaluated for controversy. We will be watching very carefully for the choice of topics and speakers to which students are exposed in the Des Moines schools.
We received only a brief report that said Sam had a good event and that the crowd was enthusiastic. Hope to have more details tomorrow. If the Real Sporer’s back permits we may have a first hand report on Fred Thompson and the gang at the ICA dinner tomorrow.
9 comments:
Anyone who would send in jack booted government thugs to launch a Waco-style raid on a hospital because somebody, somewhere might actually be dying with some dignity gets my vote.
Did Switchback make anti-semitic push poll calls to increase turnout to this event?
Chairman, when will the IA caucus be?
Friend of Eric, I don't know if you are a friend but you clearly share a mindset and a method.
If just imagine those whom you politically oppose are Nazis it makes it easy to kill them.
Strangely enough, I'll bet you actually cheer for the real Nazis in the world like Iran, Syria and the hodge podge of terror groups they support.
I have to agree with what I assume is Sporer's fundamental sentiment. If we can't even be exposed to opposing viewpoints, I think we are in deep shit. This is particularly the case when it comes to issues related to the African-American community. Luckily, we are starting to see a new generation of leadership emerge (including my guy Obama) who appears to be ready to move on from the 60's mentality and confront today's reality.
As outraged as Ted by the bias against the expression of conservative values, we'd get a warm reception by shifting away from moralizing and sermonizing to practical solutions to reverse America's moral decline. But that means challenging political correctness and the big money interests which own and operate the government by controlling today's professional political class.
Today's Ur-poltical correctness sacred cow is feminism. Women can do or say no wrong so it's beyond the Pale to address the divorce situation and the negative consequences to family life of mothers working fulltime. The obesity epidemic, for example, is largely a creature of mothers to exhausted from working all day not preparing balanced home cooked meals and properly supervising snacking.
Nevertheless most women work because of the borrow and spend policies which destroyed the buying power of earnings. Our governing elites believe in free enterprise for the middle class but socialism for themselves. Hence the wild money printing after the August market meltdown to bail out the speculators.
We'd be welcome with open arms coming with practical solutions to restore stable, affordable middle class family life.
That's only reason I'm trying for the GOP nomination. For the same old same old no point for me to leave my little spot of paradise in California.
rf makes a good point and is one of the few liberals who wish to engage in rational dialogue. Ms. King would have challenged the liberal orthodoxy with which the DMPS students are indoctrinated, including he culture of victimization by which liberals define every problem encountered by “minorities”, which , of course, includes women, the demographic majority.
I watched Jesse Jackson, who ranks right up there with George Wallace as a race baiter, with O’Reilly. Normally I am not a huge O’Reilly fan but, as the world now knows, this latest “racist” accusation was a total and contrived smear. So JJ is down to supporting the proposition that O’Reilly’s racism was revealed because he had unexpressed low expectations of black civility. The evidence of this astoundingly sensitive statement was O’Reilly’s description of black restaurant patrons as “polite”. That’s the gibberish these kids are learning in school.
Could any thinking person believe that a successful black woman telling a mixed race teenage audience that the problems that arise from teen pregnancy can be entirely avoided by abstaining from sexual intercourse? Fathers in the home is a good thing?
Obama has tried to move the discussion but I don’t think the aging 60s liberals that are trying to relive their glory days are ready to move beyond the politics of Marxism, just yet.
9:41:
You obviously missed the sarcasm. That was meant as an attack on Brownback, not support of a Eric Rudolph.
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