by Don Park
at 2008/01/26 18:31:18
At the start of the Presidential campaign, I was sitting rather ambivalent between Obama and Hillary. On the Replican side, I like McCain but not his stance on Iraq. It was Hillary's campaign turning ugly after Iowa that repelled me toward Obama. Hillary's exaggerated expressions and display of emotions just didn't jive with my image of a President. And Bill Clinton's attempt to help his wife finally pushed me over the edge into Obama camp. Anyway, I 'shoped above postal stamp (using Zazzle and someone else's image of Obama) as an expression of my support.
Update: Woot. Obama won South Carolina.
Update2: Source of the image used in the stamp.
Comments
I may copy that and put it on my blog, Thanks.
Don-
If you'd like to get more involved in the Obama California effort locally let me know. I'm trying especially to reach out to folks like you and me who are tech folks.
I assume you are familiar with Obama's technology statement: http://www.barackobama.com/issues/technology/ -- he's the *only* candidate on either side who has spoken out on technology issues specifically.
If you'd like to get more involved in the Obama California effort locally let me know. I'm trying especially to reach out to folks like you and me who are tech folks.
I assume you are familiar with Obama's technology statement: http://www.barackobama.com/issues/technology/ -- he's the *only* candidate on either side who has spoken out on technology issues specifically.
Gabe, I am a passive politically which means I like Obama enough to give him my vote and do what occurs to me spontaneously but nothing active nor planned, a couch-cheerleader of sort.
Re Obama's technology statement, I think US needs to do more. Packing students into a classroom full of computers and raising teacher salary to attract better teachers is not my idea of better education. I want fewer and better teachers, not more and newer teachers. I also want us to cast aside monolithic books in favor of packages of hand-created notes, tests, and videos shared and rated across the web with revenue model designed to reward good teachers. I like what MIT is doing with open lecture stuff but it's in need of a better revenue model to drive it, something that won't result in the likes of today's textbook industry. Schools? Do we really need schools to teach our kids? To me schools are like factories.
I can go on and on but I'll stop my radical rant here to save everyone the shock.
Re Obama's technology statement, I think US needs to do more. Packing students into a classroom full of computers and raising teacher salary to attract better teachers is not my idea of better education. I want fewer and better teachers, not more and newer teachers. I also want us to cast aside monolithic books in favor of packages of hand-created notes, tests, and videos shared and rated across the web with revenue model designed to reward good teachers. I like what MIT is doing with open lecture stuff but it's in need of a better revenue model to drive it, something that won't result in the likes of today's textbook industry. Schools? Do we really need schools to teach our kids? To me schools are like factories.
I can go on and on but I'll stop my radical rant here to save everyone the shock.
Don-
I wasn't sure about your reaction to the technology statement - were you responding to the education plan: http://www.barackobama.com/issues/education/
We can certainly discuss that too - I like your ideas -- though there *is* a need for simply more teachers. And while you don't want schools, I'm not sure on the scale of a society as large as ours, you can make wholesale changes away from public schools like you are proposing, at least not in the span of a presidency. In any case, did you have any reaction to the technology proposals?
BTW, do you want a bumper sticker or something? Don't know what sort of signs are available any more, but i can ask about that if you want something in your window?
I wasn't sure about your reaction to the technology statement - were you responding to the education plan: http://www.barackobama.com/issues/education/
We can certainly discuss that too - I like your ideas -- though there *is* a need for simply more teachers. And while you don't want schools, I'm not sure on the scale of a society as large as ours, you can make wholesale changes away from public schools like you are proposing, at least not in the span of a presidency. In any case, did you have any reaction to the technology proposals?
BTW, do you want a bumper sticker or something? Don't know what sort of signs are available any more, but i can ask about that if you want something in your window?
Woops. I see what you are responding to. I think that blurb at the top of the technology statement is out of place. Read beyond it.
Hehe. Yeah, that quote sort of fits but not really the ideal starting paragraph for position statement on technology.
Bill was one of my political heros, but this scorched earth routine hurt. And the idea of a President Von Hillbot is demoralizing.
http://flyingator.blogspot.com/
http://flyingator.blogspot.com/
Obama is gaining momentum, no less than Paul Volcker just endorsed him:
http://kudlowsmoneypolitics.blogspot.com/2008/02/is-volcker-obamas-robert-rubin.html
http://kudlowsmoneypolitics.blogspot.com/2008/02/is-volcker-obamas-robert-rubin.html
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