AP: McCain raps Obama over school vouchers, union ties

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20080801/D929PV4G0.html

Aug 1, 7:39 PM (ET)

By BETH FOUHY

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - John McCain, the father of private school students, criticized Democratic rival Barack Obama on Friday for choosing private over public school for his kids.

The difference, according to the Arizona Republican, is that he - not Obama - favors vouchers that give parents more school choices.

"Everybody should have the same choice Cindy and I and Sen. Obama did," McCain told the National Urban League, an influential black organization that Obama will address on Saturday.

McCain listed a variety of changes in education policies that he contended would improve a flawed system - from school choice to more local control and direct public support to parents for tutoring. In each case, he said Obama came up short.

"My opponent talks a great deal about hope and change, and education is as good a test as any of his seriousness," he said. "If Sen. Obama continues to defer to the teachers unions instead of committing to real reform, then he should start looking for new slogans."

McCain's criticism of Obama, the first serious black candidate for president, to the National Urban League echoed the Republican theme that the Democrat's words don't necessarily match his actions or his thin resume.

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Obama is SMART to not support them.

the idea that, if you want public schools to be better and stronger, you therefore cannot send your children to private schools.

And every time I go to my yahoo e-mail, there's another "McCain attacks Obama for this"; "McCain criticizes Obama for that"; blah blah fucking blah. Of course, if he talked about his own policies, why then he'd definitely lose.

to the McCain/Bush similarities. I know this is hard to do with the MSM, but he's got to come up with something - even just now on Countdown, Keith said "now they're saying Obama is too skinny to be president". Obama's getting the Kerry treatment and if he doesn't fight back hard, he loses.