Podesta and Bush. Milking metaphors.
August 21, 2010
H/T Kenneth Libby.
To DC lobbyist John Podesta, students are like fish. To ex-Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Education is like milk.
“You can get flavored milk — chocolate, strawberry or vanilla — that doesn’t even taste like milk,” he said. “Most of the time, there is a whole other refrigerator case dedicated to milk alternatives — like soy milk, almond milk and rice milk. They even make milk for people who can’t drink milk.”
“Who would have ever thought you could improve upon milk? Yet, freedom, innovation and competition found a way.”
Center for American Progress head John Podesta:
When the Food and Drug Administration fixates on seafood safety in the Gulf of Mexico, we don’t call it obsessed with chemical testing. These tests provide the means by which safety can be determined. Similarly, the administration’s “Blueprint for Reform” calls for testing as a tool for ensuring “every student graduates from high school well prepared for college and a career.”
So now this argument by Podesta seems to make perfect sense:
“The fact of the matter is, [the president] is on the right track,” Republican Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida, said last year.
Well, John. If Jeb “the milkman” Bush thinks the Obama/Duncan education agenda is on the right track, who could argue with that?
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If we’re gonna go with milk, adding sugar, or more likely high-fructose corn syrup, is hardly an improvement. Furthermore, those soys and almond mixtures do not happen to be milk.
I’ve no doubt Jeb has ideas on education that rival his notions about milk. Had he discussed low-fat or half and half we’d at least have the makings of something meriting conversation.