I'll spare you the obvious if you're too dumb to hit the right button you shouldn't be holding office comments. Suffice to say, why are stupid people running our lives?
A veteran state lawmaker in North Carolina says she pushed the wrong button late Monday night in a marathon legislative session and accidentally opened up the state to fracking.
Rep. Becky Carney, a five-term Democrat from Charlotte, burst into tears after mistakenly voting with Republicans to override Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue’s veto of the contentious legislation. The measure lifts the ban on hydraulic fracturing as a means for mining for natural gas, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Carney and other Democrats asked for a do-over, as is common when a member pushes the wrong button. But in this instance, Republicans said no. A change in Carney’s vote would have changed the outcome, which is against the House rules. But Ms. Carney asked for the rules to be suspended so she could change her vote, but got nowhere.
Hope and change. This woman should not be teaching anywhere! No ifs, ands, or buts about it! And I won't even mention she sounds less intelligent than the student she is supposed to be teaching.
Teacher Diantha Harris browbeats McCain supporting student. The poor girl is obviously distressed over the teacher's line of questioning and belittling her choice of candidate in front of her school mates. Watch as she tells the girl, whose father is in the military, that he will be in the military for another 100 years.
A former city schools teacher filmed in a Swedish documentary talking about politics in the classroom is drawing fire from bloggers for “belittling” a student who supported Republican presidential candidate John McCain.
Diantha Harris of Fayetteville teaches fifth grade in Cumberland County.
She left Asheville in 2004. Bloggers on Thursday had identified her as an Asheville teacher and said she “willingly browbeat and belittle a student in class for her choice of a presidential candidate,” according to Tundra Tabloids, a blog about Islamic extemism.
Harris, in an interview today with the Asheville Citizen-Times, said that’s not true.
A crew from Sweden’s public broadcasting company STV visited her classroom in May for the documentary “From Bill to Barack.”
The film aired Monday on Finland’s Swedish language Channel Five.
The part with Harris made its way on to YouTube and quickly became fodder for bloggers on Thursday.
Harris on Thursday said she wasn’t advocating for one candidate over the other and that the footage of her lesson is heavily edited.
She said the film’s producers asked her to talk about politics that day and that she not only discussed the presidential race but all the races in North Carolina.
She said her comments of “Oh lord” and “Oh Jesus” were her way of engaging her students to spur discussion. She said the camera does not show her sticking her tongue out and throwing up her hands when one student said he supports Obama.
“I wasn’t necessarily pulling for one person or the other,” she said in a telephone interview from her home in Fayetteville. “If I was pulling for just one person then I would have never said the other person’s name.”
She said her comment to the child whose father was in the military was not meant to change the child’s mind about supporting McCain.
At the end of the segment, Harris can be seen in her home wearing a Barack Obama button. She was also filmed at a May “informance” at the school, which is a cross between a performance and an information presentation, wearing an Obama button while talking to kids about voting.
“Now I can support whomever I want to support, as long as I don't browbeat another person for the candidate that they supported,” she said in the film. “Like I have some students that support John McCain, and when they told me that, I said ‘that's good' and I just moved on.”
Harris was a subject in the film because President George H.W. Bush visited her home in 1992 after an invitation from her then-husband, Roy Harris, who was serving on the Asheville city school board.
She had not seen the documentary or the blogs until she was contacted by the Citizen-Times on Thursday.
Dude's pissing a lot of people off. If elected, he will divide this country in half between those who work and those looking for a handout. Obama received an ugly reception during his recent visit to Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Barack Obama's stop at Cape Fear BBQ and Chicken in Fayetteville, N.C., this afternoon underscored the continued resistance of some voters to his candidacy — and his identity. The trip, according to a pool report, offered “some powerful and at times ugly interaction.”
Obama arrived at the barbecue joint around 12:30 p.m., where an older and majority white clientele of several dozen were eating lunch after church services. Many patrons applauded as he walked into the diner, but Diane Fanning, 54, began yelling “Socialist, socialist, socialist — get out of here!”
Obama did not look directly at her, as she was across the diner, but it was loud enough that he most likely heard her.
Later, Obama came to the long table where Fanning and other members of a local First Presbyterian church were gathered. He held out his hand to her and asked, “How are you, ma’am?” but she declined to shake his hand.
Fanning asked Obama about a North American union, and Obama responded: “Well, you know, I am opposed to it if it were happening. But it doesn’t seem to be actually be happening. The truth of the matter is there is no plans. I’ve talked to a lot of people, including folks down in Texas. There’s no plan to create a common government between Mexico, U.S. and Canada. That’s just not … that’s just not happening. I know some people have been hearing rumors about it. But as far as I can tell, that’s just not something that’s happening. We would never give up our sovereignty in that way. Any other questions?
In an interview, Fanning said, “I still think he’s a closet Muslim.”
Obama ordered some food to go for himself and his aides. They ordered chicken, collards, baked beans, slaw and wings. The tab was $13.91. The visit lasted about half an hour.
Chicken and collard greens? Damn! It's gonna take years to get the funk out of the White House.
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