WASHINGTON (Map, News) - Years ago, George Wallace stood in an Alabama schoolhouse door to keep black children from getting in for an education. Today, John McCain should stand in front of an inner-city schoolhouse door demanding that the children be let out for an education. Wallace became an enduring symbol of the terrible system of segregation that kept people down for too long. McCain can become a new symbol of people being liberated from another terrible system that has also kept them down for too long.

How many more generations of inner-city children will be cheated by intransigent public education unions of the tutelage they need to share in the American dream before somebody stands up and demands the liberation of school choice? Half of the inner-city children who should graduate from their local public schools won’t, and many of those who do get diplomas will barely be able to read, write and calculate at minimally acceptable levels. These public school products will enter a world in which most will be unable to get and keep good jobs, many will become wards of the state, either by way of the welfare or the penal systems, and, most tragically, more will pass their dysfunction to the next generation.

And think of the legions of successful doctors, entrepreneurs, scientists, corporate executives, homebuilders, engineers and public servants these lost generations of America’s inner-city children could have become.

As Bill McGurn pointed out in The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, their champion will have to be McCain because Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are trapped in the political chains of the education unions’ uncompromising agenda. Many, if not a clear majority, of the delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Denver this August will either be members of the National Education Association or the American Federation of Teachers, which have spent hundreds of millions of dollars in the past two decades fighting proposals to open inner-city schoolhouse doors through opportunity scholarships, vouchers and other forms of school choice. And for the most part, the unions have blocked these efforts, dooming millions more inner-city kids to bleak futures.

The solution is to empower parents to choose their children’s schools. Putting the power of education choice will bust the monopoly of the education unions and force all schools, public and private, to compete for paying students. Such competition will give inner-city parents and children the freedom to break the chains of generations of poverty and failing public schools. This is the first civil rights issue of the 21st century.

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8:01 AM MST on Thu., May. 15, 2008 re: "Baby snatching by Arlington County"

YouTube User said:
If Sabrina's foster parents wanted to adopt her from early on, then it seems to me that part of the reason why CPS made so little effort to reunite Sabrina with her birth parents was because they just favored her foster parents from the beginning. From the videos that the foster parents have posted, they are evidently an upper-middle class family who spend a lot of money on home rennovations. Foster parents should not be allowed to also be pre-adoptive parents, it is a conflict of interest.

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7:00 AM MST on Thu., May. 15, 2008 re: "Baby snatching by Arlington County"

Blondie LeBlanc said:
Hello, Ms. Jay! Unfortunately, Judge Almand's discriminatory opinion toward parents who are differently-abled is evident from the wording in his decision, especially where he says: "Common snese tells us, and the circumstances of this case that it would clearly not be in Sabrina's best interest to be removed from her foster home. Why is this? Because Ms. Hey is diagnosed with pervasive developmental disorder, not otherwise specified, PDD NOS. While not initally accepting that diagnosis, she does now. This condition makes it very difficult for her to recognize needs and non-verbal cues from others. This is not her fault, but it is an existing condition that will remain." Frankly, I am shocked that in this day and age judges who think like that are allowed to make rulings from the bench that make life-altering changes for children and their natural families. Hasn't he ever heard of the Americans with Disabilities Act?

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4:38 PM MST on Wed., May. 14, 2008 re: "Baby snatching by Arlington County"

Case Follower said:
Jeanette, thank you very much for your kind and truthful comments. Sabrina was snatched from her rightful parents and given, as an inner circle favor, to friends of the Arlington CPS and other related cronies. The ethics of the people involved are so doubtful that no one should be surprised if cash was offered to facilitate this devilish deal.

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3:27 PM MST on Wed., May. 14, 2008 re: "Baby snatching by Arlington County"

Ms. Jay said:
The new parents should be worried. I believe in living my life as do to others as I want to be treated. If I railroaded a life from another I would wonder what could happen to me or mine. I am not saying that someone would cause harm at all, but you are taking some of the shielding away, protection, etc. God don't like ugly.

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1:35 PM MST on Wed., May. 14, 2008 re: "Baby snatching by Arlington County"

Ms. Jay said:
Yes I too believe that the new foster parents (who said they wanted to adopt after only 4 months, the CPS worker, the first judge Wiggins Lyles and Arlington Doctor all travel in the same cozy circle.

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12:13 PM MST on Wed., May. 14, 2008 re: "Baby snatching by Arlington County"

Jeanette Jackson said:
Judge Almand made the separation between baby Sabrina and her parents permanent saying that 3 yr old Sabrina would be tramatized. Sabrina has been interacting with her parents the whole time (3yrs)., and I've seen every video of every visit. Sabrina bonds very well with them, and she's very relaxed. I think if the Judge would just see these videos he would know putting Sabrina back with her parents would be the right ticket.

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11:36 AM MST on Wed., May. 14, 2008 re: "Baby snatching by Arlington County"

Jeanette Jackson said:
I am a good friend and co-worker of Nancy Hey, mother of Sabrina. I've worked with Nancy for at least 14 years as a federal gov't worker. Nancy has completed college w/honors, represented our toastmasters club, performed in many of our CFC talent shows and voluteers reading a story to young students at lunch. I would not have known she was autistic until this unplesantry evolved. Also she is a master on the computer. Whenever I have a problem she's my go to girl. I must admit she gets very nervous when she's under pressure so I can imagine how she reacted when she could only ineract with her daughter under the watchful eyes of someone other than family or friends. I think that there is conspriracy within this situation. First when the doctor told Nancy that her baby wasn't thriving properly. He told her what she had to do to rectify the problem. Secondly when authority's came back to check on Sabrina she had put on proper weight but they took her anyway.

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6:02 PM MST on Sun., May. 11, 2008 re: "�New� Dulles Rail is same old bad deal"

For Traditional Middle Class Housing said:
We already have a lovely dedicated highway to the airport. Metrorail is part of the "smart-growth" land planning whose purpose is to prevent traditional middle class housing--"sprawl" from being built. "Smart-growth" Loudoun County needs Metrorail to put the middle class in "Transit Oriented Villages" (density pack) along the rail line, because 2/3 of the county is preserved for the rich who only can afford to build homes on 20 or 40 acre lots, the new zoning. That is why you will see Loudoun politicians supporting rail in Loudoun's 1/3 eastern portion. Meanwhile, young couples are leaving Loudoun in droves for cheaper housing elsewhere. However, with the recent creation of the massive new federal Heritage Area (Journey Through Hallowed Ground), middle class home seekers who want a detached house will have to leave the region. The viewsheds of the rich must be preserved. Awful. Also, I'd like more specifics on how Metrorail will be paid for.

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10:10 AM MST on Sun., May. 11, 2008 re: "Baby snatching by Arlington County"

Ruby said:
Thanks, "MockTheSocialists" - that is definitely the kind of "communism" we can live without, assuming all parents to be a "negative" influence on their children until proven otherwise. The nuclear family is the foundation of our civilization and our morality, and for the government to undermine it is immmoral.

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9:15 AM MST on Sun., May. 11, 2008 re: "Baby snatching by Arlington County"

Examiner Reader said:
All the supposed proof and counter proof does not change this one important fact. There was a medicaly unexplaned weight loss that was gone by the time the child was removed. It is a fundimental human right to raise your own children. The government has violated this basic human right in this case and should be held accountable for this. The government officials in charge should be formaly charged and dismissed from there positions. If the government fails to correct this horrible situation then it falls to the citizens to gather the needed tar and feathers to rectify the problem.

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8:32 AM MST on Sun., May. 11, 2008 re: "Baby snatching by Arlington County"

MockTheSocialists said:
FLASHBACK: I present to you Communist Goal #41. - read into the Congressional Record Jan. 10, 1963, Congressman Albert S. Herlong Jr. ". . . raise children away from the negative influence of parents . . ."

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7:25 PM MST on Fri., May. 9, 2008 re: "Baby snatching by Arlington County"

Ruby said:
The GAL's were NOT "independent"! They went out to lunch with the county attorney, and had a pretty cozy relationship. As for Judge Wiggins-Lyle, she has a reputation in Arlington for being against mothers, as in the case of Sabrina, and also of Naomi Parrish and Ariel King.

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3:19 PM MST on Fri., May. 9, 2008 re: "Baby snatching by Arlington County"

Examiner Reader said:
So, basically, Virginia Roesell, Kit and Nancy and you (a biased friend) are correct and two independent judges, two independent guardian ad litems, a county attorney, and an entire department of CPS are wrong? Hmmmmm.....

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2:01 PM MST on Fri., May. 9, 2008 re: "Baby snatching by Arlington County"

Virginia Roesell said:
I am good friends with this couple and can tell you that they are very good parents. My daughter Martha-Anne came over often to play with Sabrina and the girls had a great time together. The CPS were clearly out of bounds on this one and should be taken to task for it. The couple Sabrina is with now is not and will never be her real parents. Her real parents are the Slitors, and she belongs with them. I don't know who the people are who are writing against Kit and Nancy, but they don't know what they are talking about and should keep their peace. The Slitors have been through enough without your insensitive comments. I pray for the day when justice will be done and Sabrina will be home again with her parents in Arlington, where she belongs.

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1:19 PM MST on Fri., May. 9, 2008 re: "Get the gold watch for the �Golden Hammer�"

Examiner Reader said:
Bravo! I was adding up the tally, but you did it for me. These may cover more than just 2007, but we could add the special ed database ($10 million) that was scrapped, because it, too, didn't work; the mental health agency failing to recover more than $30 million in denied Medicaid claims; the $2.7 million paid by DC schools for non-residents; the list goes on and on and on. At what point will DC taxpayers stop accepting getting stuck with the bill for fraud and incompetence and demand a top to bottom housecleaning?

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11:49 AM MST on Fri., May. 9, 2008 re: "Baby snatching by Arlington County"

Examiner Reader said:
The parents in this case are able to care for their young daughter. No question about it. However, for the people who don't know what it's like for someone to come into your home and take your child away from you, plese do not post. You have no idea whats it like for someone you care so deeply able be taken away from you. No, it has not happened to me, but I do know about the case very well. It breaks my heart to know that it happens everyday and the parents don't know their rights until it's too late. I wish them good luck... I really hope they get their little girl back. After all they have been through, they deserve it.

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8:15 PM MST on Thu., May. 8, 2008 re: "Baby snatching by Arlington County"

Ruby said:
Examiner Reader, why do you bother to keep re-submitting these same comments over and over again, which just make accusations that have no facts to support them? The judges clearly discriminated against the mother due to her mild learning disability. As for the father suffering from clinical depression, that is not a crime, many people in this country suffer from that, as can be seen by the number of ads for antidepressants. The important thing is was he seeking proper treatment for his condition, which apparently he was. As for the child crying during visits, just look at the YouTube videos of where the visits were held, it was a very child-unfriendly place, in a small office room with an observation mirror. So, don't just blindly believe what the judges said, nor the GAL's either, as it looks like they had a very cozy relationship with the prosecution.

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5:13 PM MST on Thu., May. 8, 2008 re: "Baby snatching by Arlington County"

Examiner Reader said:
According to the documents that this couple post all over the Internet, some of the key reasons that the court terminated parental rights were the couple's "troublesome behavior from the interaction" with the child, such as keeping her in a milk crate with a top that had no holes, keeping her in dirty clothes, and refusing to even show the child to the police. The court discussed the child's uncontrollable crying from visitations with them, and how they were unable to keep her safe. Despite numerous hours of training provided by the county, they couldn't even learn how to do basics of parenting -- feeding, burping, diapering, putting the child down for a nap. The child's own lawyers ("guardian ad litem") -- not one, but two successive GAL's - advocated for termination of parental rights. The court found that the "daddy" -- actually it was a sperm donor according to the birth mother's postings -- has clinical depression and has been hospitalized twice.

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5:13 PM MST on Thu., May. 8, 2008 re: "Baby snatching by Arlington County"

Examiner Reader said:
More from the judge's decision and order: The birth mother's husband did not want to be financially liable for the child. (Apparently, he's interested now that his wife has already spent $350,000 in legal fees.) The court was concerned about the child because of his displays of anger towards public officials (social workers, police) and even his own counselor -- he was noted to be "angry and obsessional." According to the decision, he also appears to have a drinking problem. At the end of the day, they claim that everybody is corrupt and out to get them -- their own doctors, the hospital, the police, the social workers and their supervisors, the county attorney, two guardians ad litem (the child's own court-appointed lawyers) and two successive judges. Of course, after they lose their current appeal, then their story will morph to claim that the Virginia court of appeals is also part of the conspiracy against them. Just wait and see....

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11:34 AM MST on Thu., May. 8, 2008 re: "Oink! Oink! Oink! Congress goes hog wild with farm bill"

Examiner Reader said:
Wait until Congress transfers Rail Union Pensions to the Federal Government. Why should farmers who get paid to NOT grow food be the only hogs at the trough? The fact is that it makes no sense to spend taxpayer money in an effort to raise food prices. This is a program left over from the last century to fix the problems of the 19th century.

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7:29 AM MST on Thu., May. 8, 2008 re: "Oink! Oink! Oink! Congress goes hog wild with farm bill"

Examiner Reader said:
We have asked our members of Congress frequently to remove the earmarks from this bill. We are in record deficit and we expect our government to act more responsibly, but we guess that it is just too much to ask that $70 million in tax credits for the sheiks that race horses, unwarranted subsidies, etc. be removed. By the way, has anyone looked at the "PORK BOOK" recently to see which members of our US Congress have been added.

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8:20 AM MST on Wed., May. 7, 2008 re: "False �reform� for False Claims Act"

Zachary Kitts said:
This editorial is poorly reasoned and insulting. As a lawyer who litigates False Claims cases for a living, I have a bias of my own--but I recognize and appreciate intelligent debate on the topic of the False Claims Correction Act of 2007. This editorial completely lacks substance and contributes nothing to the public debate. See my blog rebuttal at www.vaquitamlaw.com . I am sorry to see this paper, which I always enjoy, include such drivel in its editorials.

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8:15 AM MST on Wed., May. 7, 2008 re: "�New� Dulles Rail is same old bad deal"

Examiner Reader said:
re:'New' Dulles rail is same old bad deal A metro line to Dulles should have been built YEARS ago. This is an international and domestic port to the capital of our nation. It is inexcusable that there is no easy and inexpensive link to the city, as there is in almost every capital in the civilized world. There is so much waste on idiot projects, there is plenty of money to build something that makes sense.

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2:34 AM MST on Wed., May. 7, 2008 re: "Baby snatching by Arlington County"

Examiner Reader said:
I am appalled. I wonder what will happen when the little girl begins to show signs of neurodevelopmental differences. It smacks somewhat of Bettelheim who said that children with Autism had obviously been severely and permanently damaged by their parents if they did not respond to his treatment ie being taken from their parents and not allowed contact for nine months. The judge, social services and adoptive parents will then say that it is just as well this all happened, because otherwise the child would have been so much worse.

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5:15 PM MST on Mon., May. 5, 2008 re: "Baby snatching by Arlington County"

Examiner Reader said:
EXCUSE ME. Our Social Services Departments are housed with the same intelligencia that inhabits the State Department. America bad. Americans bad. Government good. International government even GOOD-er. Marxist. Communists. Call them what you will. I am satisfied to call them Liberal Elitists who think gov't is better equipped to raise YOUR children than YOU ARE! Wake Up....yeah, go vote for Obama...he'll be delighted to explain his theories to you stupid red-neck Bible-clinging, gun-loving stupid White Trash. And Michelle Obama can explain it in about three sentences!

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11:10 AM MST on Mon., May. 5, 2008 re: "Baby snatching by Arlington County"

Examiner Reader said:
Felons in the prison system have more rights nowadays.

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4:45 AM MST on Mon., May. 5, 2008 re: "Baby snatching by Arlington County"

Examiner Reader said:
when any government official --- official, NOT employee --- you know, the kind that gets elected or appointed, in other words, the kind that has to swear an OATH --- not just the regular kind of government employees who get "hired"... anyway, when any govt Official knowingly goes against the Constitution, that is willfully violating their sworn oath of office, which is one of the two legal definitions of treason (the most often used is the familiar "spying" and such things..). reminder: Treason is THE highest crime against "The State" that there ever was, or ever will be.. and because it is the highest crime against the State, it is also, therefore, the highest crime against the People, as well, even to considered higher than murder, rape, etc. i.e, your government officials - including any judge, or prosecutor, or any "licensed" attorney, for just a few examples, let alone mayors, governors, sheriffs, etc. - are THE "highest" criminals under our law, by very definition...

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7:04 PM MST on Sun., May. 4, 2008 re: "Baby snatching by Arlington County"

Examiner Reader said:
It is absolutely disgusting and appalling what Arlington County CPS has done in the case of Sabrina. This is a travesty of justice and this little girl should have never been taken away from her loving, fit and committed parents. Return her immediately and hold Arlington CPS accountable! Caren Brown, Richmond, VA

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8:47 AM MST on Sun., May. 4, 2008 re: "Baby snatching by Arlington County"

Joel Finkleman said:
Nancy and Kit are fit parents for Sabrina in no uncertain terms. The way they've been treated is a serious miscarriage of justice and must be addressed and corrected.

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2:17 PM MST on Sat., May. 3, 2008 re: "Baby snatching by Arlington County"

Fennec of the war room bbs said:
America the nanny state where your kids can be taken because some stazi member says something happened where is the evedence I say where?

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1:50 PM MST on Sat., May. 3, 2008 re: "Baby snatching by Arlington County"

Sabrina's Grandmother said:
It's a sad America when three armed policemen can come into your home and snatch your granddaughter from her own bassinet while she is still nursing from her mother.

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1:00 PM MST on Sat., May. 3, 2008 re: "Baby snatching by Arlington County"

Psycho Babble Decoder said:
I doubt that the poster below has ever seen the clothes that Sabrina was dressed in as a baby, so how does he/she know that her clothes were "filthy"? Also, what PROOF does anyone have that Sabrina's father is a "violent weirdo"? Did they check to see if he has any criminal background?

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11:36 AM MST on Sat., May. 3, 2008 re: "Baby snatching by Arlington County"

Examiner Reader said:
If the judge was discriminating by not letting them keep the kid in filthy clothes, I guess I'm discriminating, too. And I don't care if the husband has an IQ of 140, he's pretty stupid to come off as a violent weirdo to the people who decide whether he gets the kid back or not.

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7:13 PM MST on Fri., May. 2, 2008 re: "Baby snatching by Arlington County"

Examiner Reader said:
Just one more reason I avoid Northern VA.

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2:18 PM MST on Fri., May. 2, 2008 re: "Baby snatching by Arlington County"

Examiner Reader said:
Fascism, pure and simple. Arlington is run by fascists.

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11:50 AM MST on Fri., May. 2, 2008 re: "Baby snatching by Arlington County"

Blondie said:
I agree! It has obviously been very traumatic for the parents, and most likely for their daughter as well. Also, with regard to the court decision being freely available on the internet, all the sites I've seen it posted were posted by Sabrina's parents themselves, so they're obviously trying to show that they have nothing to hide from the public. When I read the decision, it did not make any sense to me, but just seemed like judge Almand was discriminating against the parents, and especially the mother just because she learns and processes information differently from the typical person. From looking at the videos of Sabrina and her parents on YouTube, it is obvious that they care very deeply about her.

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10:52 AM MST on Fri., May. 2, 2008 re: "Baby snatching by Arlington County"

Examiner Reader said:
I think this is one of the most heart wrenching story I have heard in a long time. The judge who made this decision should be removed from the bench and also given some kind of punishment. I also believe that the parents should get their daughter back and have all the money they spent on all this plus more for the trauma this has put them through.

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9:14 AM MST on Fri., May. 2, 2008 re: "Baby snatching by Arlington County"

Blondie said:
I also read that Sabrina's parents have IQ's of 130 and 140, that they were both on the Dean's List in college, and that both have held steady employment for over 20 years. It would seem to me that with intelligence like that they could easily be taught how to read a child's "non-verbal cues", even if it doesn't come "naturally" to them. When I read Judge Almand's decision on the internet, I found it strange that he did not take this into account.

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7:04 AM MST on Fri., May. 2, 2008 re: "Baby snatching by Arlington County"

Examiner Reader said:
It seems odd to me that the court decision, which lists the court's reasons for not returnig the child, is freely available on the internet and the writer of this article didn't bother to read it or quote it. The situation makes more sense if you do.

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3:06 AM MST on Fri., May. 2, 2008 re: "Baby snatching by Arlington County"

Examiner Reader said:
I would like to think that, in the olden days, Judge Alden would have been removed from the bench almost immediately. In the even OLDER days, of course, that removal would be far more rope-involved.

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4:03 PM MST on Thu., May. 1, 2008 re: "Baby snatching by Arlington County"

Examiner Reader said:
As usual, the children's protective agency is the guilty party and the biological parents in question are pure as the driven snow. Get real. Children are removed for legitimate reasons with but one goal in mind: to protect the child. Hidden away in this fluff article are two points: the child's weight loss and the mother's ("developmental disorder"? really?) inability to read non-verbal cues. Do you think the good citizens of Arlington would accept the young child's death by starvation because the mother couldn't read the "non-verbal cues?" Would they accept that?

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3:54 PM MST on Thu., May. 1, 2008 re: "When truth becomes �inappropriate� for campaign debate"

Barely About Barack said:
Dave in SoCal said: "How else are we supposed to evaluate him? His resume is practically a blank page." This is a notable observation. He served in the Illinois state legislature and the U.S. Senate for years. When he was running against Alan Keyes in 2004, then-Representative Dennis Hastert told ABC's This Week that Obama was "soft on crime". Did Barack never vote on anything all those years? Did he never make a statement as to why he was voting a certain way on a bill? I would prefer the media dig into that, rather than floating this "guilt by association" stuff that drags us away from worthwhile debate. I might as well post some of that, since the paper has already investigated Obama's books and friends.

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3:36 PM MST on Thu., May. 1, 2008 re: "Baby snatching by Arlington County