OBAMA A Lame Duck

[nero_bolt]

Obama is now more of a lame duck after the mid terms than he has been this year.

A totally inept leader thats done nothing at all for the USA

The American people have spoken and Obama is the loser 

Lets see how many of his inept policies get through both houses now......

[raptor_rebooted]

and unfortunately our kids are not

doing so well

AUSTRALIAN teenagers' reading and maths skills have fallen so far in a decade that nearly half lack basic maths skills and a third are practically illiterate.

The dumbing down of a generation of Australian teenagers is exposed in the latest global report card on 15-year-olds' academic performance.

http://www.news.com.au/national/pisa-report-finds-australian-teenagers-education-worse-than-10-years...

[goldenjet16]

Thank you Julia!!! Same here. And now half don't even know how to spell, with all this texting

[goldenjet16]

Sorry for the OT Nero.

[azureline**]

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@*julia*2010 wrote:

yeah....aussie 14 year olds are just like any

other 14 year olds.  you won't find many interested

in politics or even know the major parties' political

leaders. 

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maybe the 14 yo's I know are smarter than the ones you know?

and the reality is, even the 5 and 7 yo grandchildren in my family know who the PM is and what he does.

[goldenjet16]

Yeah, and 5-7 year olds here know who Abraham Lincoln was. And they may even know who Joe Biden is, or Barney or the Cookie Monster. But what does that have to do with knowing politics.

Ok... I'm done here.

[icyfroth]

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@goldenjet16 wrote:
Yeah, and 5-7 year olds here know who Abraham Lincoln was. And they may even know who Joe Biden is, or Barney or the Cookie Monster. But what does that have to do with knowing politics.

Ok... I'm done here.

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Most Australian teenagers wouldn't know the first thing about the country's politics and would cast their vote emotionally rather than intellectually.

[raptor_rebooted]

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@azureline** wrote:

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@*julia*2010 wrote:

yeah....aussie 14 year olds are just like any

other 14 year olds.  you won't find many interested

in politics or even know the major parties' political

leaders. 

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maybe the 14 yo's I know are smarter than the ones you know?

and the reality is, even the 5 and 7 yo grandchildren in my family know who the PM is and what he does.

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or maybe it is because i know a lot

more teenagers than you do?

[goldenjet16]

Icy,

You always post with reason. Thanks for stopping by, I was gently trying to get my point across but I guess it just kept getting lost.

[raptor_rebooted]

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@goldenjet16 wrote:
Yeah, and 5-7 year olds here know who Abraham Lincoln was. And they may even know who Joe Biden is, or Barney or the Cookie Monster. But what does that have to do with knowing politics.

Ok... I'm done here.

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it would be tragic if that was not

taught at school (all the school plays)

and of course that does not mean

they understand politics.

[softail-joanie]

but Joanie, can you elaborate as to what happened to his campaign? It's like one minute he was there, then the next he was gone...  

I'm not sure I understand it fully, but the talk is that the powers that be, changed the rules in how ballots were counted up. As soon as this was anounced, his supporters who put in so much of thier own efforts in Paul's favor were upset to the point where they turned their chairs away from the stand and ignored the speakers seeing the whole process as not valid and started holding their own as if Ron Paul had gotten the ligitamate nomination. At this point Ron Paul himself attacked his own supporters and steered things back to Mit Romney being the ligitamate republican nominee.

Ron Paul had people ready and willing to go to bat for him, to die if need be, but in the intrest of peace in the process, he threw that away.  Heres a video that goes into much more detail-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_WBo4sfmi4

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