Republicans object to textbook including Obama - AP

[steve2470]

http://news.bostonherald.com/news/national/midwest/view/2008_10_16_Republicans_object_to_textbook_including_Obama/

MADISON, Wis. - The Racine school district’s use of an eighth grade textbook that includes a chapter on Democrat Barack Obama but nothing on his opponent John McCain is unfair and troubling, the Wisconsin Republican Party argued Thursday.

A parent complained on an Internet blog about the textbook that includes a chapter on Obama called "Dreams from My Father."

The school district said in a statement that it has received no complaints about the book, which it first used last school year. Even so, the 21,000-student district said it was reviewing its policies regarding the book’s use in a literature class.

The textbook, "McDougal Littell Literature," is published by an arm of Houghton Mifflin Co. A spokesman for the publisher, Richard Blake, said the book was compiled in 2005 before Obama ran for president.

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[skooooo]

1. It's a literature class! Get a grip!

[enki23]

2. tools. it predates the presidential run. and the next edition will almost *certainly* include him.

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[BlooInBloo]

3. lol! They wanna pretend Obama never existed.

[BlueJazz]

4. The School System turned down McCain's book. "How to be a Prick"

[ThatsMyBarack]

6. Hey, BlueJazz!

:rofl: I love your sigline, too! :hi:

[BlueJazz]

10. Thanks...I got it off of a Pick-up driven by a little old lady.

Correction...a Little Brave Lady. :)

[Xipe Totec]

5. My 1970 history text included pictures of Nixon

and I didn't complain.

And this was in Mexico.

[baldguy]

7. 50 yrs from now, a public groundswell will demand that Obama be added to Mt Rushmore.

In March '08 people will say "McCain who?"

[buff2]

8. Republicans need to be driven into extinction

For the good of this country.

[mrcheerful]

9. And just what are they going to say about little Johnny wanna be prez?

That he was 1 of the Keating 5? Or that he lost the country for the republicons by running one of the worst campaigns in US history? I mean really outside of being a POW what is there about McCain that should be in a text book?

[FLyellowdog]

11. I'm shocked they haven't banned or burned the books.

[AlCzervik]

12. did they refuse McCain's stone tablets because they were too heavy for the shelves?

[hulklogan]

13. Republics hate reality. They'll probably write a textbook with a chapter on

President John McCain. That will be the chapter after the one about how President Lincoln rode a dinosaur to school.

[No Elephants]

14. It's a LITERATURE class and these kids cannot vote anyway. People need to chill.