Last week, at the end of Pander-Palooza in Philadelphia, I asked whether Barack Obama was a breath of fresh air or the most clever pander meister in the bunch.
I honestly don’t know. I still have no idea what Obama believes about education. He promises we’ll know in a few weeks when he unveils some education proposals, but he and his team have a tendency to say a lot of words that don’t really get you anywhere. (The rest of the field was so lame that it allowed Obama to – by default – sound like he really cared about bold moves for education without actually having to attach himself to anything too controversial. He only had to outdo Hillary, which was a cake walk.)
But others had much stronger feelings.