Jul
10
2008
People in any field of endeavor are judged by their accomplishments, their honor and their integrity. As I reflect upon the past 8 years of your presidency, I see the ridiculous rise of gas prices while your corporate friends made billions; I see 4000+ Americans dead for a war that should never have been; I see an economy in ruins, foreclosures, an ailing stock market, and the ruination of our name and our reputation abroad. Further, I can thank you for violating my privacy with illegal wiretaps, for ignoring habeas corpus when it suits you, and, worse, for arrogantly insisting that your God is pleased with you. Honor and integrity will not be hallmarks of your administration, Mr. Bush, and it will take years to undo the harm you have brought to our great country. Your errors and lack of judgment are clearly the result of the position being too much for you and your subsequent need to rely on egocentric, dishonorable men who fed their egos and yours, as everyone became drunk with power. Farewell. I hope your declining years will be spent in reflection and prayer.
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July 11th, 2008 at 6:39 am
I love it!!! She’s a genius and absolutely right! I agree completely!
July 11th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
I have had the honor of working with the righteous, intelligent, well read, democratic teacher who wrote this message. Not only has she marched with Martin Luther King, spent her night in jail in Selma, Alabama, manipulated her way into Red China in the ’60’s using an academic visa while her husband that had a military visa was kept behind, but she has since chosen a life of public service.
She has used her undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral degree teaching and administrating in St. Louis City schools. Three years ago, she left a broken system that had been driven to bankruptcy by a Missouri republican administration, and opened her own alternative, private, not for profit high school for kids that can’t make it in the area’s public schools. She chose a county that has the least assistance for students with special needs.
In the three years that her school has been open, it has been in a constant state of threatened foreclosure. Staying true to her democratic roots, she is resistant to charging families the amount of money it would take to keep the school in the black. The majority of our students are from families in poverty. In sadly rare cases – the district will admit that they cannot provide “the least restrictive environment” for the child that they have most certainly “left behind” and provide tuition. The schools overhead is approximately $14,000 per month. Most of this is due to exorbidant rent, as we currently function with one computer, an inferior copy machine, tables and chairs for up to 25 students, and one textbook each, for content areas are copied and stapled into packets for student use. Shirley’s school has graduated 22 kids and had 3 drop out in just 3 years.
So, in closing, this is not a direct farewell to our current president whose name I do not articulate, (or type, he’s like Voldemort for me), our nations educational system would not be leaving so many behind if not for him. And when Shirley’s loyal staff saw that her midnight farewell was the current favorite, we were not at all surprised, but desperate enough to seek every even remote financial opportunity to obtain donations to continue her work, and saw all the wonderful people reading this site as one.
If after reading this you are inspired, have some spare cash lying around, and would like to help our planet’s future by helping lost teenagers, email this address – thebanite@gmail.com – and we will steer you to doing something that will impact the lives of perhaps not many, but promising children needing the love, individual attention, and firmly grounded liberal values that Shirley gives plentifully, selflessly, and almost freely. (And would, by the way, make a kick-ass vice president for Mr. Obama)
Sincerely,
Pam Cavins, M.Ed.
July 11th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Well said- my sentiments exactly.