Gov. Christie "wins hearts" at Iowa education summit.

So many people seem to find him lovable and powerful and means what he says and never backs down. Makes me wonder how many of them really know what he is about.

From the NJ Star Ledger:

Chris Christie wins hearts in Iowa


John O'Boyle/The Star-LedgerNJ Gov. Chris Christie speaks during a Town Hall meeting in Fair Lawn in June. The governor was in Iowa today to speak at an education summit.



There is a video at the link, and a statement from NJ reporter wondering if Iowans know all they should know about Christie.



Maybe they should know how Chris Christie treats teachers. He attacked teachers right in front of a group of students, and he once said they used students as drug mules.

Chris Christie insults teachers in front of students


Martin Griff/The Times of TrentonGov. Chris Christie answers a question during a question and answer session with the Governor at the Boys & Girls Club of Trenton & Mercer County in Trenton.



Arne Duncan was also there at the education conference. He talked sternly to Iowans about how they needed to transform their school system. He echoed the Republican governor Terry Branstad. Funny how they are all sounding pretty much alike now on education, both parties.

Duncan challenges Iowa to reform its education system



There he goes with the "status quo" talking point again. He uses that to refer to the traditional public school system. He doesn't seem aware we have caught on to that. In fact he seems unaware about the anger of teachers.

I think I may have detected a note of surprise from the NJ reporter at how much Iowans supposedly loved their governor..."looking from the outside in."

What an odd statement.

Arne and Christie in Iowa

He seems like a big hug able teddy bear ..


:sarcasm:

Yeah, that sounds about right.

He won't get the Republican nom, then, since people with hearts are now a tiny minority within the GOP.

I grew up in NJ, in a home very active in education (as teachers, mostly). He is a hated man, despite the generally conservative nature of my mother.

to his kids baseball game was arrogant and tasteless. Sending a limo ahead to haul his fat ass the hundred yards from the chopper to the stands was just plain pitiful. Trying to justify it and then bill the taxpayers for it was hypocritical. Those images reflect his style of governance, his sense of entitlement and his self-importance.

Yup, a true Reagan Republican. Doesn't matter if everything that comes out of his mouth is wrong, he makes it sound good!

In the video she seemed so happy to find someone to say just what she wanted to hear. It was so simplistic in thinking.

I had the impression that she doesn't get listened to very much.

make alot of loud noises and gestures too. Observers oft times find the this entertaining. But making noise doesn't make the critters able to do useful and practical things in the world of humans.

And Duncan! There's one IGNORANT SOB. When PARENTS get back to parenting, THAT'S when education will see a turnaround. Friggin' idiot! :dunce: <-Arne

Another egotistical sob, who has the ability to con people in to hearing what they want to hear, rather than the truth.

He really should be on Jersey Shores - he would fit right in.

As a fellow Italian, Christie makes me sick. He's nothing but a bully. Mean-spirited, egomaniacal, and an all-arround asshole.

so long is that anybody is a child, poor, non-white, unionized...

Has he ever not backed down to a wealthy donor?

I enjoy these Republicans. Hey this guy hates people just like me, but if I pretend he's sticking it to the man then suddenly I have a channel for my rage. I wonder what color the sky is in their world?

You let go of what does not work in favor of what does. It is an evolutionary process. Just like evolution large dramatic changes do not work. These are mutations that lead to death. These reformers want to mutate our educational system and they will kill it in the process.

And to them it is not about what works. It is about what is profitable. It sickens me.