How Democrats Created Betsy DeVos

How Democrats Created Betsy DeVos

While educators and politicians throughout the land are recoiling at the notion of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education, Democrats created her. Or someone like her. The Democratic Party's embrace of corporate education, corporate textbooks, corporate testing and corporate-sponsored 'education reform' is what led to this.

…have faith in our values, our history and our country. America, in all its greatness, its variousness, its customs and history is far, far greater than any President

And yet here we have the opportunity to be America's guardians and protectors at a unique moment, perhaps a moment of especial peril. Who would not embrace that challenge? We know the curse: may you live in interesting times. We are living in interesting times. Most of us would not have chosen it. But we have it. I think many of us look back at critical momentous moments in our history, the Civil War, World War II, the Civil Rights Movement and other comparable passages in the country's history and think, what would I have done?
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The following are posts written by Delaware Liberal contributors reflecting on the Presidency of Barack Obama. Please feel free to add your thoughts about the last eight years and Obama as well.