I live in the Washington DC area.  In the mornings on my commute I like to listen to a local radio show called the Junkies.  It is a group of 4 friends that are about my same age that rag on each other just like my friends do, they just get paid to do it.  Jason, Cakes, EB, and JP.  3 of the 4 Junkies are democrats, although I don't think that they have thought about their views just gone with ebb and flow of politics.  One of them is a conservative for the most part.

On MLK Day I was listening to a repeat performance.  The show was recorded prior to the election.  The Junkies interviewed Matt Damon, or brought him on to plug away for Obama.  Anyhow, the one conservative (forgive me I cannot remember which) asked Matt Damon, after his spiel, what change he was actually looking forward to if Obama was elected.  Damon couldn't give an answer.  He sounded like an idiot.  He was asked the same question again.  Damon went into a soliloquy about how his mother is in early childhood education (as if had any relevance) and that he and his wife had started their daughter in public school.  Apparently their daughter wasn't doing well in school and they met with the teacher about her progress.  The teacher told Damon and his wife that their daughter may be served better in a private school.  And Obama is going to stop that from happening to any more first graders.

Now I'm no big city lawyer, but this is a non-sequitor of the highest order.  It argues post hoc ergo proctor hoc in reverse.  First, the president has no power over how a child is taught in a local school.  And don't start crying to me about No Child Left Behind because it is a set of standards, not a set of curricula to be taught in school.  The local school board, and more directly the teacher, is responsible for the instruction and classroom management in a particular school.  The fact that Damon wants to blame President Bush for the fact that his daughter wasn't doing well in a public school overlooks the most likely culprits for her lack of success;  HER PARENTS.  I don't know their story, but I do have anectdotal evidence of my own where overactive and undisciplined children within my own family have learned to flourish within the public school environment.  Do you think that a first grade teacher had never seen a kid with an attention deficit or overactivity before?  You gotta be kidding me.

I guess it is OK to blame everything on President Bush.  If he can single-handedly destroy the planet, the Constitution, and our civil liberties he can definitely screw up a school in New Jersey or wherever they lived.