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The third embarrassing spelling error was no charm for the Mitt Romney campaign — or for the unfortunate employees managing his online messaging.
Less than a week after the presumptive GOP presidential nominee’s “Amercia” iPhone app mistake generated laughs worldwide, two more spelling errors emerged — this time on the campaign’s official Facebook account.
WASHINGTON - Ronald Regan, the former president of Amercia?
Mitt Romney's campaign has made yet another embarrassing misspelling, this time flubbing the name of one of the country's most adored conservative icons in a slideshow made by his pollster for fundraisers.
The slide, which displays the approval ratings for various presidents six months before their presidential elections, lists the commanders-in-chief from Dwight D. Eisenhower to Barack Obama. It spells Ronald Reagan, however, "Ronald Regan."
Originally posted by Flatfish
Furthermore, IMO these are hardly typo's. Typos occur when someone accidentally hits the key next to, or near, the intended key and that's hardly the case here. This is a clear demonstration of lack of oversight and review, nothing more.
Originally posted by Flatfish
Is Romney The Right Person To Fix Our Broken Education System?
Originally posted by UltimateSkeptic1
You truly are picking the wrong fight here. Did you ever read Obama's G20 letter?
So, based on your premise, do you agree Obama is also not fit to be President?
Harvard grad Obama typo Letter to G20
Update: I’ve gotten a number of e-mails saying these look like artifacts of optical character recognition (OCR) from a scanner or fax machine output. I’d agree with that, but that hardly lets the White House off the hook, either. Anyone using OCR knows that it requires a lot of fixing on the back end.
Originally posted by Flatfish
While I agree that the Obama administration should have re-proof-read the statement prior to publishing, it was duly noted in the article you source linked that the mistakes were actually caused by optical character recognition software and not caused by errors in the original document. In other words, it was copy/edit software that actually screwed up the original document which was correct in it's original form.
Update: I’ve gotten a number of e-mails saying these look like artifacts of optical character recognition (OCR) from a scanner or fax machine output. I’d agree with that, but that hardly lets the White House off the hook, either. Anyone using OCR knows that it requires a lot of fixing on the back end.
While that doesn't excuse the error, it doesn't reek of ignorance either.
An earlier post described the four-step polka in North Carolina enroute to destroying public education, demoralizing teachers, and enriching the private vendors.
Here is a suggestion by another reader, who says it actually is a five-step process.
1. Under-fund/STARVE the schools financially
2. Overcrowd the classrooms, reduce programs, supplies
3. Fail the public school using NCLB and/or Race to the Top laws leaving the public school in death-throws
4. Sell the school to private charters
5. Public school, Dead On Arrival
Who are the criminals?
Corporate Education DeFormers, privatizers, Democrats for Education Reform, and the GOP. Neo-Liberals and Neo-Conservatives have joined together to tag-team as partners in the killing of public education. We know the list.
I would change point 4 to read: Give the school away to private charters, to for-profit corporations, to online for-profit vendors, and to any business or religious group that wants to open a school, either in person or online. Diane
The main points of neo-liberalism include:
THE RULE OF THE MARKET. Liberating "free" enterprise or private enterprise from any bonds imposed by the government (the state) no matter how much social damage this causes. ...Reduce wages by de-unionizing workers and eliminating workers' rights that had been won over many years of struggle. ...All in all, total freedom of movement for capital, goods and services. To convince us this is good for us, they say "an unregulated market is the best way to increase economic growth, which will ultimately benefit everyone." It's like Reagan's "supply-side" and "trickle-down" economics -- but somehow the wealth didn't trickle down very much. CUTTING PUBLIC EXPENDITURE FOR SOCIAL SERVICES like education and health care. REDUCING THE SAFETY-NET FOR THE POOR, and even maintenance of roads, bridges, water supply -- again in the name of reducing government's role. Of course, they don't oppose government subsidies and tax benefits for business.
DEREGULATION. Reduce government regulation of everything that could diminsh profits, including protecting the environmentand safety on the job.
PRIVATIZATION. Sell state-owned enterprises, goods and services to private investors. This includes banks, key industries, railroads, toll highways, electricity, schools, hospitals and even fresh water. Although usually done in the name of greater efficiency, which is often needed, privatization has mainly had the effect of concentrating wealth even more in a few hands and making the public pay even more for its needs.
ELIMINATING THE CONCEPT OF "THE PUBLIC GOOD" or "COMMUNITY" and replacing it with "individual responsibility." Pressuring the poorest people in a society to find solutions to their lack of health care, education and social security all by themselves -- then blaming them, if they fail, as "lazy."