While we may or may not agree with the actions of some things on the list, there are significant deeds here which we may not be aware of and may need to weigh before making a personal assessment.

The author is Professor Robert Watson of Lynn University who was once a writer for the New York Times.

Professor Watson writes:

Hi friends,

I am always being asked to grade Obama's presidency. In place of offering him a grade, I put together a list of his accomplishments thus far. I think you would agree that it is very impressive. His first six months have been even more active than FDRs or LBJs the two standards for such assessments. Yet, there is little media attention given to much of what he has done. Of late, the media is focusing almost exclusively on Obama's critics, without holding them responsible for the uncivil, unconstructive tone of their disagreements or without holding the previous administration responsible for getting us in such a deep hole. The misinformation and venom that now passes for political reporting and civic debate is beyond description.
As such, there is a need to set the record straight. What most impresses me is the fact that Obama has accomplished so much not from a heavy-handed or top-down approach but from a style that has institutionalized efforts to reach across the aisle, encourage vigorous debate, and utilize town halls and panels of experts in the policy-making process. Beyond the accomplishments, the process is good for democracy and our democratic processes have been battered and bruised in recent years.
Let me know if I missed anything in the list (surely I did).
Robert

1.Ordered all federal agencies to undertake a study and make recommendations for ways to cut spending

2. Ordered a review of all federal operations to identify and cut wasteful spending and practices

3. Instituted enforcements for equal pay for women

4. Beginning the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq

5. Families of fallen soldiers have expenses covered to be on hand when the body arrives at Dover A.F.B.

6. Ended media blackout on war casualties; reporting full information

7. Ended media blackout on covering the return of fallen soldiers to Dover A.F.B.; the media is now permitted to do so pending adherence to respectful rules and approval of fallen soldier's family

8. The White House and federal government are respecting the Freedom of Information Act

9. Instructed all federal agencies to promote openness and transparency as much as possible

10. Limits on lobbyist's access to the White House

11. Limits on White House aides working for lobbyists after their tenure in the administration

12. Ended the previous stop-loss policy that kept soldiers in Iraq/Afghanistan longer than their enlistment date

13. Phasing out the expensive F-22 war plane and other outdated weapons systems, which weren't even used or needed in Iraq/Afghanistan

14. Removed restrictions on embryonic stem-cell research

15. Federal support for stem-cell and new biomedical research

16. New federal funding for science and research labs

17. States are permitted to enact federal fuel efficiency standards above federal standards

18. Increased infrastructure spending (roads, bridges, power plants) after years of neglect

19. Funds for high-speed, broadband Internet access to K-12 schools

20. New funds for school construction

21. The prison at Guantanamo Bay is being phased out

22. US Auto industry rescue plan

23. Housing rescue plan

24. $789 billion economic stimulus plan

25. The public can meet with federal housing insurers to refinance (the new plan can be completed in one day) a mortgage if they are having trouble paying

26. US financial and banking rescue plan

27. The secret detention facilities in Eastern Europe and elsewhere are being closed

28. Ended the previous policy; the US now has a no torture policy and is in compliance with the Geneva Convention standards

29. Better body armor is now being provided to our troops

30.The missile defense program is being cut by $1.4 billion in 2010

31. Restarted the nuclear non-proliferation talks and building back up the nuclear inspection infrastructure/protocols

32. Re-engaged in the treaties/agreements to protect the Antarctic

33. Re-engaged in the agreements/talks on global warming and greenhouse gas emissions

34. Visited more countries and met with more world leaders than any president in his first six months in office

35. Successful release of US captain held by Somali pirates; authorized the SEALS to do their job

36. US Navy increasing patrols off Somali coast

37. Attractive tax write-offs for those who buy hybrid automobiles

38. Cash for clunkers program offers vouchers to trade in fuel inefficient, polluting old cars for new cars; stimulated auto sales

39. Announced plans to purchase fuel efficient American-made fleet for the federal government

40. Expanded the SCHIP program to cover health care for 4 million more children

41. Signed national service legislation; expanded national youth service program

42. Instituted a new policy on Cuba , allowing Cuban families to return home to visit loved ones

43. Ended the previous policy of not regulating and labeling carbon dioxide emissions

44. Expanding vaccination programs

45. Immediate and efficient response to the floods in North Dakota and other natural disasters

46. Closed offshore tax safe havens

47. Negotiated deal with Swiss banks to permit US government to gain access to records of tax evaders and criminals

48. Ended the previous policy of offering tax benefits to corporations who outsource American jobs; the new policy is to promote in-sourcing to bring jobs back

49. Ended the previous practice of protecting credit card companies; in place of it are new consumer protections from credit card industry's predatory practices

50. Energy producing plants must begin preparing to produce 15% of their energy from renewable sources

51. Lower drug costs for seniors

52. Ended the previous practice of forbidding Medicare from negotiating with drug manufacturers for cheaper drugs; the federal government is now realizing hundreds of millions in savings

53. Increasing pay and benefits for military personnel

54. Improved housing for military personnel

55. Initiating a new policy to promote federal hiring of military spouses

56. Improved conditions at Walter Reed Military Hospital and other military hospitals

57. Increasing student loans

58. Increasing opportunities in AmeriCorps program

59. Sent envoys to Middle East and other parts of the world that had been neglected for years; re-engaging in multilateral and bilateral talks and diplomacy

60. Established a new cyber security office

61. Beginning the process of reforming and restructuring the military 20 years after the Cold War to a more modern fighting force; this includes new procurement policies, increasing size of military, new technology and cyber units and operations, etc.

62. Ended previous policy of awarding no-bid defense contracts

63. Ordered a review of hurricane and natural disaster preparedness

64. Established a National Performance Officer charged with saving the federal government money and making federal operations more efficient

65. Students struggling to make college loan payments can have their loans refinanced

66. Improving benefits for veterans

67. Many more press conferences and town halls and much more media access than previous administration

68. Instituted a new focus on mortgage fraud

69. The FDA is now regulating tobacco

70. Ended previous policy of cutting the FDA and circumventing FDA rules

71. Ended previous practice of having White House aides rewrite scientific and environmental rules, regulations, and reports

72. Authorized discussions with North Korea and private mission by Pres. Bill Clinton to secure the release of two Americans held in prisons

73. Authorized discussions with Myanmar and mission by Sen. Jim Web to secure the release of an American held captive

74. Making more loans available to small businesses

75. Established independent commission to make recommendations on slowing the costs of Medicare

76. Appointment of first Latina to the Supreme Court

77. Authorized construction/opening of additional health centers to care for veterans

78. Limited salaries of senior White House aides; cut to $100,000

79. Renewed loan guarantees for Israel

80. Changed the failing/status quo military command in Afghanistan

81. Deployed additional troops to Afghanistan

82. New Afghan War policy that limits aerial bombing and prioritizes aid, development of infrastructure, diplomacy, and good government practices by Afghans

83. Announced the long-term development of a national energy grid with renewable sources and cleaner, efficient energy production

84. Returned money authorized for refurbishment of White House offices and private living quarters

85. Paid for redecoration of White House living quarters out of his own pocket

86. Held first Seder in White House

87. Attempting to reform the nation's healthcare system which is the most expensive in the world yet leaves almost 50 million without health insurance and millions more under insured

88. Has put the ball in play for comprehensive immigration reform

89. Has announced his intention to push for energy reform

90. Has announced his intention to push for education reform

Oh, and he built a swing set for the girls outside the Oval Office!

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Robert P. Watson, Ph.D.Coordinator of American Studies
Lynn University

The Utah-based church's support ahead of Tuesday night's vote came despite its steadfast opposition to gay marriage, reflected in the high-profile role it played last year in California's Proposition 8 ballot measure that barred such unions.

"The church supports these ordinances because they are fair and reasonable and do not do violence to the institution of marriage," Michael Otterson, the director of public affairs for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said.

Passage made Salt Lake City the first Utah community to prohibit bias based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Under the two new ordinances, it is illegal to fire someone from their job or evict someone from their residence because they are lesbian, bisexual, gay or transgender.

Republicans in Charleston County censured their own U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, saying he puts bipartisanship before the party on issues like climate change.

"U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham in the name of bipartisanship continues to weaken the Republican brand and tarnish the ideals of freedom, rule of law, and fiscal conservatism," according to a resolution passed Monday.

Republican leaders in a South Carolina county have censured their own U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham for working with Democrats on a climate bill and other legislation.

• For every dollar South Carolina spends on corrections, it spends only 49 cents on education.1

• South Carolina's overall incarceration rate ranks in the top fifth of states nationwide.2

• South Carolina's drug use rates are comparable to those of the rest of the country, yet South
Carolina's rate of imprisonment for drug offenses ranks seventh in the nation, putting an
unusually large burden on the state's taxpayers and justice system.3

• Whites and African Americans use drugs at virtually identical rates, yet in Charleston County,
you are 24 times more likely to go to jail or prison for a drug offense if you are African American
than if you are white. This racially disproportionate rate of imprisonment for drug offenses
ranks among the 50 worst for mid-sized counties in all of America.4

• In Richland County, you are 17 times more likely to go to jail or prison for a drug offense if you
are African American than if you are white.5

• In Greenville County, you are 14 times more likely to go to jail or prison for a drug offense if you
are African American than if you are white.6

A FRESH APPROACH…

South Carolina's bursting prisons paired with the ongoing economic crisis demand a fresh approach to
nonviolent drug offenses. Unfair and ineffective laws that require lengthy incarceration of nonviolent
drug offenders have squandered precious taxpayer dollars and pushed the state to the brink of
bankruptcy. "Lock 'em up and throw away the key" policies fail to recognize and resolve the root
causes of drug use and abuse, and undermine the health and safety of us all.

A FRESH LOOK AT SOUTH CAROLINA AND THE FAILED "WAR ON DRUGS"
SO, WHAT CAN OUR POLICYMAKERS DO?

• Create alternatives to incarceration: Eliminate imprisonment for all nonviolent drug
possession offenses, instituting civil penalties and non-prison alternatives, such as treatment,
which have been found more effective and cost-effective than incarceration.

• Let judges judge: Eliminate one-size-fits-all mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses,
allowing judges to make appropriate sentencing decisions on a case-by-case basis.

• Repeal the "three strikes" law, which often senselessly punishes minor offenses with major
terms behind bars to the detriment of us all.

• Take practical steps to prevent recidivism: Facilitate reintegration into the community by
removing the barriers to voting, employment, housing, and driving that now face individuals
leaving prison. For example, remove provisions that suspend the driver's license of a drug
offender when there is no evidence that he or she was driving while impaired.

• Make room in prison for serious, violent offenders: Reform the State's parole system to bar reincarceration
for technical violations.

• Research the impact of drug sentencing: Finally, more state- and local-level data is needed to
better understand the fiscal and human costs of lengthy sentences for nonviolent drug
offenders. The State should make specific data available and collect new data where needed to
allow for an honest accounting of necessary reforms.

For the sake of public safety, fairness and South Carolina's fiscal solvency, a new approach is needed
and soon.

1 Pew Center on the States, "One in 100: Behind Bars in
America 2008," February 2008, p. 31.
2 Ibid, p. 34.
3 Justice Policy Institute, "The Vortex: The Concentrated Racial
Impact of Drug Imprisonment and the Characteristics of Punitive
Counties," December 2007, p. 9.
4 Ibid, Appendix A, p. 26. Charleston ranks #47, with an African American-towhite
drug prison or jail admission ratio of 24.
5 Ibid, p. 25.
6 Ibid, p. 25.

www.aclusouthcarolina.org

Often people are uncomfortable or reluctant to launch into a discussion about race because of possible fallout. But whenever I speak about economic development, the issue of South Carolina's racial climate always surfaces, because negative race relations and economic despair go hand in hand - as do positive race relations and economic vitality.

These discussions most often are below the radar. In order for this state to progress, we must move these discussions from behind the walls of our comfort zones onto public platforms and agendas.

Over the past few months, our race-relations image has been mostly negative, and this has decreased our ability to be competitive in attracting tourists, individuals, families and businesses looking to relocate or do business in South Carolina. We have become one of the most undesirable destinations for many. In many cases, we are unable to competitively recruit some of the country's leading scholars in higher education.

By Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Amy Goodman
Democracy Now, October 20, 2009
Straight to the Source

Funny as hell. See the video. Read at the story at http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_19406.cfm

October 22, 2009

Reporting from Columbia, S.C. - It's tough these days being from South Carolina. Ask Dick Harpootlian.

He was in Peru, on a train from Cusco to Machu Picchu, when he and his wife began chatting with another couple. Where, Harpootlian asked, are you from? Rio, came the response, and you? South Carolina, Harpootlian replied. Mark Sanford! the couple exclaimed. Argentina!

Read the whole story of South Carolina and her embarrassing politicos at www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-southcarolina22-2009oct22,0,2541176.story?track=rss

Details below:

The Pastafarian secular student organization at the University of South Carolina will host a debate on the question “Is America a Christian Nation” October 29th, an event designed to question the fundamental foundations of American government.

Andrew Cederdahl, the group’s founder and president, will moderate the debate between E. Ray Moore and Herb Silverman, two activists with very different perspectives concerning Christianity and its intersection with policy.

Chaplain E. Ray Moore is the executive director of the Exodus Mandate Project, "a Christian ministry to encourage and assist Christian families to leave Pharaoh's school system (ie government schools) for the Promised land of Christian schools or homeschooling," according the the organization's website. Moore has served thirty years in ministry, working as a Bible instructor, Army Reserve Chaplain, and campaign consultant for some 12 political campaigns, including work with Vice-President Dan Quayle's Senate race in 1980 and Pat Robertson's Presidential campaign from 1986-1988. He is considered an authority on involving Christians in politics and government.

Moore's opponent, Dr. Herb Silverman, is the president of the Secular Coalition for America, a national lobbying organization consisting of several of the largest groups advocating for nonreligious Americans and the separation between church and state. Silverman earned his PhD in mathematics from Syracuse University and is Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the College of Charleston. Silverman is responsible for the lawsuit which overturned the religious test for the governorship for South Carolina in 1990, making atheists legally eligible for public office in the state. Herb has appeared in a number of debates, including one at the Oxford Union in Oxford, and is an “On Faith” panelist for the Washington Post online.

The debate will be sure to evoke heated discussion on the role of faith in politics, government and public life. It will occur at 7:00 PM in the Belk Auditorium of the Close-Hipp (Darla Moore School of Business) building.

For more information, visit www.pastafariansatusc.org

Contact:
Melanie Griffin, Pastafarians PR Director, griffiml@mailbox.sc.edu
Patrick Morency, Pastafarians PR, morency@mailbox.sc.edu
Andrew Cederdahl, Pastafarians president, cederdah@mailbox.sc.edu

An innocent woman is arrested, charged, and imprisoned for drug trafficking inthis film based on the life of Regina Kelly, a 24-year-old mother of four in a smalltown in Texas. Ms. Kelly refuses to plead guilty or plea bargain and, with thehelp of the ACLU and others in her community, she challenges the local criminaljustice system. The film explores the issues of racial profiling and other inequities in the “war ondrugs,” and it dramatizes the importance of standing up for our civil liberties.

With the participation of:

Representative David J. Mack, III, SC House of Representatives, Charleston County, District 109
Reverend Joseph Darby, Pastor — Morris Brown AME Church and 1 Vice President of the Charleston Branch of the NAACP

Graham Boyd, Attorney, Director of the ACLU Drug Law Reform Project, who represented Ms. Kelly

Monday, October 26 at 7:00 PMat the Terrace Theater
Admission FREE

by David Michael Green

Are we a sick society?

Oh yeah. You betcha. That's why we need healthcare reform.

Pardon me, however, for wondering if the treatment is just as bad as the disease. At a minimum, the events of the last six months have demonstrated that we have a political system worthy of intensive care, to go along with the broken health of our society that that very political system is supposed to be fixing.

Not to mention, of course, that from obesity to factory farming to tobacco policy, it is the political system which is in large part causing the illnesses that have in turn demonstrated how ill the country's politics are.

And they are sick indeed. America, alone among the developed democracies of the world, has a singular devotion to regressive ideas, no matter how much harm they cause. This patient is in grave condition nowadays, its body abused severely by three decades of regressive debauchery. Here's the unfortunate diagnosis:

See the entire column by David Michael
Green at www.commondreams.org/view/2009/10/17-1.

A friend sent me a Langston Hughes poem (below) and her answer to it. Perfect!

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/us/politics/08genealogy.html

http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/one-familys-roots-a-nations-history/?ex=1270612800&en=8bf0a99a6e3f32e3&ei=5087&WT.mc_id=OP-D-I-NYT-MOD-MOD-M118-ROS-1009-HDR&WT.mc_ev=click


CROSS by Langston Hughes

My old man's a white old man
And my old mother's black.
If ever I cursed my white old man
I take my curses back.
If ever I cursed my black old mother
And wished she were in hell,
I'm sorry for that evil wish
And now I wish her well
My old man died in a fine big house.
My ma died in a shack.
I wonder were I'm going to die,
Being neither white nor black?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The answer?

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

Well, Charleston finally went smokefree in July 2007. We do not have anystatistics on the city, but national statistics show that heart attack rates are down in areas where strong smokefree laws are in effect. See the message below from Americans for Non-smokers Rights.

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A landmark report released today by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) confirms that smokefree laws reduce heart attacks. We've known for years that secondhand smoke exposure causes heart attacks, and that even brief exposure to secondhand smoke is dangerous. Today, the Institute of Medicine confirms those findings.

The IOM report is good news for smokefree advocates like you because it's one more tool we can use to educate policymakers about both the dangers of short-term secondhand smoke exposure and the immediate benefits of smokefree laws.

The landmark report makes it crystal clear that adopting strong smokefree laws will provide immediate health improvements. There are no more excuses for leaving any workers behind. It's time to close the gaps in smokefree protections because all workers deserve protection from toxic secondhand smoke. If gaps still exsist where you live, call your elected officials and tell them you want a smokefree law that protects everyone, especially bar and casino workers who face the highest levels of smoke exposure.

Smokefree law data from the American Nonsmokers' Rights Foundation's U.S. Tobacco Control Laws Database© was cited in the IOM report, and highlights the benefit of tracking smokefree air laws and their impact on public health policy.

Thanks to supporters like you, ANR and the ANR Foundation are able to continue working to educate people on the dangers of secondhand smoke and work to protect the right to smokefree air around the U.S.

View ANR's press release on the report at http://www.no-smoke.org/document.php?id=665 and our IOM page at http://www.no-smoke.org/document.php?id=666 .

To learn more, visit the IOM's page on Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Cardiovascular Effects: Making Sense of the Evidence at http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2009/Secondhand-Smoke-Exposure-and-Cardiovascular-Effects-Making-Sense-of-the-Evidence.aspx .

Annie at ANRwww.no-smoke.org

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It's great to know that during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, the wealth of the 400 richest Americans, according to Forbes, actually increased by $30 billion. Well golly, that's only a 2 percent increase, much less than the double digit returns the wealthy had grown accustomed to. But a 2 percent increase is a whole lot more than losing 40 percent of your 401k. And $30 billion is enough to provide 500,000 school teacher jobs at $60k per year.

Collectively, those 400 have $1.57 trillion in wealth. It's hard to get your mind around a number like that. The way I do it is to imagine that we were still living during the great radical Eisenhower era of the 1950s when marginal income tax rates hit 91 percent. Taxes were high back in the 1950s because people understood that constraining wild extremes of wealth would make our country stronger and prevent another depression. (Well, what did those old fogies know?)

Read more at: www.huffingtonpost.com/les-leopold/the-forbes-400-shows-why_b_306228

Here is how Will Folkes of Fits News saw the recent GOP gubernatorial debate in Newberry — and keep in mind that this is a Republican writing. See an excerpt below:

This week’s “First in the State” GOP gubernatorial debate featured an Indian-American candidate and an African-American moderator … but that’s where the diversity ended and a sea of white faces began.

In an audience of roughly 400 Republicans at the Newberry Opera House on Tuesday night, there were only two African-Americans present — one being GOP National Committeeman Glenn McCall. No Hispanics or other members of other non-Caucasian minority groups attended the debate.

According to one of our on-site analysts, the crowd was comprised almost exclusively of “old white people and young white political dorks.”

“It was all senior citizens and campaign staffers,” the analyst said.

Interesting. And obviously quite a study in contrasts from the image the SCGOP is attempting to cultivate for itself.

Get the whole Fits News scoop on GOP diversity at www.fitsnews.com/2009/09/24/scgop-wheres-the-diversity/

Even if they pass the shitty Max Baucus health care bill, it doesn't kick in for 4 years, during which time 175,000 people will die because they're not covered, and about three million will go bankrupt from hospital bills. We have a pretty good idea of the Republican plan for the next three years: Don't let Obama do anything. What kills me is that that's the Democrats' plan, too.

We weren't always like this. Inert. In 1965, Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare into law and 11 months later seniors were receiving benefits. During World War II, virtually overnight FDR had auto companies making tanks and planes only. In one eight year period, America went from JFK's ridiculous dream of landing a man on the moon, to actually landing a man on the moon.

This generation has had eight years to build something at Ground Zero. An office building, a museum, an outlet mall, I don't care anymore.

Read Maher's entire post at huffingtonpost.com

A number of the out-of-state e-mailers have said they have taken beach trips for years in Myrtle Beach, Hilton Head and other resort areas but don’t plan to return, officials said.

Get the full story at

A number of the out-of-state e-mailers have said they have taken beach trips for years in Myrtle Beach, Hilton Head and other resort areas but don’t plan to return, officials said.

Get the full story at /www.thestate.com/politics/story/943291.html?RSS=general_news.

http://joewilsonisyourpreexistingcondition.com/

This is not your father's Republican party. These are thugs, plain and simple.

We have sunk to yet another new low. I see that his Democratic opponent, Rob Miller, has received over $50,000 in campaign donations since last evening's outburst.

Must we again send W. T. Sherman to discipline South Carolina?

I am just cynical enough to believe that Rep Wilson knew just what he was doing and by putting him on the front page of the NY Times, he got just what he wanted.

Shame, shame, shame again, on South Carolina.

It is also hypocritical that some people were so critical of how Obama was going to set a bad example to their children when he spoke to all school children of America a few days back yet remain so quiet about Joe Wilson actions last night.

Our Congress is no place for racism, undignified conduct and the open mockery of a sitting President.

Wilson was probably self-projecting:)

I serve so that Representative Wilson can shout "You Lie" to the President of the United States. I just wish he hadn't.

And where was Joe Wilson's heat and pointed finger when President George W. Bush declared, "America does not torture."? THEN was the time to cry, "You lie!"

The difficult thing to do is to apologize to the person one has insulted, in person.

Since when is "rare" a proper substitute for "unprecedented"? (Note that Democrats audibly booed Bush in the State of the Union address of 2005. gjs)

We must all mourn the passing of tar & feathering as a means of political protest.

It's time to draw the line on this behavior and one way to do it is to call for Wilson's censure by his House colleagues. Go to http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/5649/t/4997/content.jsp?content_KEY=2825&tag=pof_e1 and say it's time to censure Joe.

Two months after Gov. Mark Sanford admitted slipping out of the country to visit his Argentine mistress, his appointment to the state Board of Education has suddenly resigned after some of her internet sex fantasies came to light on the blog Fitsnews.com.

"Kristin Maguire, an Upstate evangelical and one of South Carolina’s most respected social conservatives, has been one of the governor’s closest education policy advisors for years," Fits writes. "She’s also Sanford’s appointment to the S.C. Board of Education, which last year elected her its Chairwoman....

"Maguire, a professed Christian who home-schools her four children, declined to comment for our story but did not deny that she had previously frequented websites that feature such X-rated material. Maguire believes that a former friend is leaking the information to the media in an effort to ruin her political career....

"Maguire’s involvement in S.C. politics goes well beyond her leadership of the S.C. Board of Education or her involvement with the Sanford administration. She is an executive committeewoman of the S.C. Republican Party, as well as the woman responsible for drafting the party’s education platform.

"Prior to being elected Chairwoman, Maguire led the panel responsible for approving education standards taught in South Carolina classrooms, including what textbooks were to be used and how teachers were to be certified. She has been a strong supporter of 'abstinence only' sex education, as well."

Get all the dirty details at www.fitsnews.com/2009/08/31/sex-education.

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