Big news day. Before it even started, MSNBC was declaring Romney was going to finally win a news cycle. I guess when the President has determined he is not going to schedule one-on-one meetings with world leaders so not to make news and play it safe, then Romney wins. Maybe we should at least wait to see what Romney screws up first.
It's the UN, the Clinton Global Initiative, NBC News Education Nation summit, and a swing state campaign stop all competing for time. Unfortunately, when the Romney Richter scale has become so skewed that if Mitt's not directly insulting 47% of the population, then it isn't news. At the education summit, some of the comments won't resonate beyond the education field. This doesn't lessen the impact, since education policy impacts everyone.
These 45 minutes will be the most we get from Romney on education in this election cycle. All teachers should watch this interview to fully appreciate Mitt Romney's philosophy on education, teachers and unions.
Brian Williams kicked it off explaining there was going to be a change in format. Instead of going directly to interviewing Romney and then audience Q&A, appartantly Mitt decided to run some time off the clock by giving a standard stump speech. Even in the compressed Q&A, Mitt managed to make several questionable comments.
Most of the damage occurs with Q&A, which begins at 29:25 mark. Clueless thoughts include:
We need more use of private learning centers to get kids kindergarten ready.
Life is full of tests so get used to them.
Just because you have a good idea about education, don't expect the federal government to pay for it.
So we have a collection of Romneyisms that range from gaffes, insults, foolishness and ignorance that hopefully don't get lost in a busy news day. (Note, these are paraphrased - not the word for word quotes. I'll post a link to the remarks when available so actual quotes in context can be heard.)
Which should be the most troublesome?
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