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dm88morl

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Member since : May-27-2009 (Verified)
0 Ideas, 5 Comments, 105 Votes

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Voted On Idea : Hi again 9 months ago

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dm88morl 9 months ago
Read the 14th amendment to the Constitution, then go to the urban legends website:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/citizen.asp
dm88morl 9 months ago
First, read the 14th amendment about citizenship.

Then go to the urban legends website:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/citizen.asp
dm88morl 9 months ago
It's easy to confuse quantity with quality. It's not the quantity of government that's the big problem, in my opinion, it's the quality of those parts of government that are inefficient, overly bureaucratic, and run without common sense that lead to further problems in our society.

On the other hand, I'd love to see more input from citizens, and that's what Obama has seen is lacking.
dm88morl 9 months ago
I understand the love for a one-room schoolhouse, having gone to one for a year and had an outstanding experience. However, other adults have complained that their experience was not as good and that they found it difficult to move on to higher education afterward. And with one school, perhaps for all education, a student can get stuck with a poor teacher.

While I love how older kids teach the younger ones, and I know it does help both, I think the idea posted simply can't work in today's world.
dm88morl 9 months ago
It is through the public at large that change ultimately comes about. It comes through conversations, letters, emails, and commentaries. It is the public at large who came to understand, at last, that the modus operandi of the previous administration, which not only did not invite public input but which shut out almost all, could actually destroy our living democracy.

When the polarity fostered by that administration spread so widely that ordinary people began to see its destructiveness, they began to talk to one another and to imagine creating different ways of living together that might help us all.

Thus, choosing citizens at random seems an appropriate way of finding the pulse of the nation. It makes clear the difference between empowerment backed by reason and power backed by force.