To be a little less pissed off about which asshole ends up in the White House, Obama brings the finger wagging.

So McCain- still an asshole, always an asshole. But Obama never misses an opportunity to be the disapproving school marm. In talking about the abysmal state of the US educational system, I actually like Obama’s plan for $4000 per year for college in exchange for community service. But he just can’t quit there.

But there’s one last ingredient that I just want to mention, and that’s parents. We can’t do it just in the schools. Parents are going to have to show more responsibility. They’ve got to turn off the TV set, put away the video games, and, finally, start instilling that thirst for knowledge that our students need.

Seriously! Yes it’s us lazy parents who are teaching our kids that “learning is for suckers!” Perhaps having to work 2 or 3 jobs to keep up with housing and insurance costs (which your economic plan doesn’t actually help with) means that parents have less time to spend with the kids. But the problem with the educational system is not lazy parents, it’s CRAPPY FUCKING TEACHING METHODS. And that has nothing to do with teachers, it’s how teachers are supposed to teach here. The same information taught over and over and over with just the tiniest bit of additional knowledge every year does not make smarter kids. It makes bored kids. It makes under-educated kids. And piling on 3 or 4 hours of homework per night to make up for the time spent on repeating crap doesn’t help either.

I may have yelled “Oh Fuck You!” very loudly at the tv (from the other room) when I heard him spout that shit.