Amusing….just amusing.
Obama 2007:
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And today?
President Barack Obama privately derided the controversy over the blockbuster June 6 revelation of the National Security Agency’s far-reaching capabilities as “noise rather than something that’s real and meaningful,” said Education Secretary Arne Duncan.
What does he wish the media would pay attention to rather than that whole NSA “noise”?
Increasing internet to our schools.
Instead of showcasing the president’s June 6 speech about a new plan to boost Internet use in schools, the major media in the United States and abroad were focused on Snowden’s claims that the NSA was copying huge quantities of private, commercial and criminal emails from around the world.
“‘I remember him sort of saying, “It’s a shame that there’s going to be a focus on the noise rather than something that’s real and meaningful,’’’ Duncan said, according to an Aug. 13 report in the Washington Post.
“As Air Force One flew toward North Carolina that day, Obama lamented to his education secretary that one of the administration’s biggest ideas was going to be overtaken by other news,” said the Post.
Yup…that is some initiative there. It’s not like the kids of today don’t have enough social media, video games, and text messages. Books and real learning? Eh…who needs it.
NSA scooping up millions of records?
Just noise.
Ace:
I can’t seem to help thinking that this is a classic sign of narcissism– whatever the narcissist wants, that is clearly the most important thing in the entire world, and these other things that you might think are important, well, that’s just something stupid for babies, isn’t it?
A new plan to boost internet use in schools. What the hell is this, 1996? This is what this brain trust thinks is a major policy initiative in education?
Oh, and his plan gets better, if that’s possible.
The school-Internet project, dubbed ConnectEd, is expected to cost roughly $5 billion. Obama wants to pay for the program by having the Federal Communications Commission raise taxes on cell-phone owners, without any agreement from Congress.Obama is pushing the controversial fund-raising scheme, according to the Washington Post, and told his staff that “We are here to do big things — and we can do this without Congress.”
I take my previous criticism back — that is real and meaningful, though not in the way he imagines.
Unbelievable.
But not shocking. Nothing this guy does shocks me anymore.
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