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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
John McCaslin :: Townhall.com Columnist
Rapid Growth
by John McCaslin
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Campaigning for president on Jan. 29, 2000, George W. Bush asked residents of Concord, N.H., the somewhat confusing question: "Will the highways on the Internet become more few?"

No matter how you phrase it, Mr. Bush and his Democratic challenger, Al Gore, would soon begin to realize the tremendous value of the Internet in reaching potential voters, albeit during the hotly contested 2000 race their individual campaign Web sites were viewed by only a few hundred-thousand people during an average month, compared with tens of millions today.

In fact, slightly more than 50 percent of congressional candidates in 2000 cared or even knew enough to create campaign Web sites.

What a difference a decade makes.

Word this week is that three-quarters (74 percent) of Internet users went online during the 2008 campaign to take part in, or else get news and information about, the 2008 election cycle, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

This represents 55 percent of the entire adult population, and marks the first time more than half the voting-age population used the Internet to connect to the political process during an election cycle.

FORDS FOR ALL

The Ford Motor Co. headline reads: "David Plouffe is the latest in President Obama's inner-circle to jump on the Ford hybrid bandwagon."

Other owners of the environmentally "green" car being Mr. Obama himself (somehow we can't picture his predecessor, George W. Bush, behind the wheel of a Ford hybrid, although Mr. Bush did enjoy showing off his rugged white Ford F-250 pickup truck whenever foreign heads of state came calling to his Crawford, Texas ranch, - often riding shotgun) and White House press secretary Robert Gibbs. Continued...

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In God We Trust--Ignore the Godless (2)

Americans had better wake up and realize that our entire system of government and traditional values, customs, and bliefs that made this country great are under attack, and it is no accident that Obama is the one to push and consolidate the overthrow of this Country as a Sovereign nation, while making us just one of another Communist State in the One World Communist Government which is what the United Nations has as their agenda.

"Article 3 of the Northwest Ordinance in its entirety, which states in part: "Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged."

And, since the Federal Government began to Federalize Education in the mid-1960's at gunpoint by Traitor Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson, up until now, when under the Obama Administration, the U.S. Department of Education has finally erased all vestiges of Local and State control of education, and this was the communist plan from the beginning. Using the public education system as Indoctrination and Dumbing down institutions was their aim and under the Obama Administration, this plan has now reached full fruition. Use these numbers and it tells the whole story. In 1966, we were in the top 3 in public education in the world. Today, after only 43 years of Federal Intervention into Local Education, we are now at #28 in the world, trailing many banana republics. Was this a plan or just a product of misguided government policy. It does not matter. The result is what matters. If we are to take this country back, We Must Take Our Children Back, and We have to Take Our Local Schools back and put them under Local Control, and begin to properly educate our children, and stop with the Dumbing Down and Propaganda agenda being lead by USDOE and National Teacher Unions who are Communist, Anti-American Fronts. Wake Up Americans.

In God We Trust--Ignore The Godless
In this column, the following is the most relevant and should be the Battle Cry for Everybody Who Loves This Country, Their Families, Liberty, The Pursuit of Happiness and Freedom. If we continue to allow the Godless, Anti-American and Immoral Leftists from Ombama on down to the Racist Preachers such as Obama's Spiritual leader, Jeremiah Wright, who Teach God Damned the United States, to the Pinks, the Gay Agenda Terrorists, The PETA Animal Rights Terrorists, the Dumbing Down and Propaganda Machine at the U.S. Department of Education and National Teacher Unions and Teacher Colleges, and the Mainstream Media and the Entire Hollywood Communist establishment who are daily releasing TV shows, movies, music, and so-called news programs that are an onslaught of any American who has any values such as Patriotism, Family Values, and a belief in God.
Americans had better wake up and realize that our entire system of government and traditional values, customs, and bliefs that made this country great are under attack, and it is no accident that Obama is the one to push and consolidate the overthrow of this Country as a Sovereign nation, while making us just one of another Communist State in the One World Communist Government which is what the United Nations has as their agenda.

"Article 3 of the Northwest Ordinance in its entirety, which states in part: "Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged."

And, since the Federal Government began to Federalize Education in the mid-1960's at gunpoint by Traitor Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson, up until now, when under the Obama Administration, the U.S. Department of Education has finally erased all vestiges of Local and State control of education, and this was the communist plan from the beginning.
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