Senator Clinton Goes Off Her Meds

You have got to be kidding me. Someone needs to find out if the NEA slipped Senator Hillary Clinton something, because these statements are beyond ridiculous...

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton slammed private-school voucher proposals yesterday, predicting that vouchers would eventually lead to the creation of taxpayer-financed white supremacist academies - or even a government-funded "School of the Jihad."

Clinton, a longtime voucher foe who earned the backing of the city teachers union in 2000, says government financing of sectarian groups would incite ethnic and religious conflict - and encourage fringe groups to demand government cash to run their schools.

President George W. Bush has long favored laws that require states to provide vouchers, a position that earned him the allegiance of conservative Christian groups that have clamored for public education dollars.

"First family that comes and says 'I want to send my daughter to St. Peter's Roman Catholic School' and you say 'Great, wonderful school, here's your voucher,'" Clinton said. "Next parent that comes and says, 'I want to send my child to the school of the Church of the White Supremacist ...' The parent says, 'The way that I read Genesis, Cain was marked, therefore I believe in white supremacy. ... You gave it to a Catholic parent, you gave it to a Jewish parent, under the Constitution, you can't discriminate against me.'"

As an adoring, if somewhat puzzled, audience of Bronx activists looked on, Clinton added, "So what if the next parent comes and says, 'I want to send my child to the School of the Jihad? ... I won't stand for it."

That audience is right to be puzzled. I'm looking everywhere for my local Jihad school (do they advertise in the Yellow Pages?). I'm wondering, as does John Hawkins, if the voucher programs that currently exist have experienced a huge surge in people trying to send their kids to madrassas (or the David Duke Academy).

This may be the dumbest argument ever against vouchers (and that's saying something). We already provide educational funding to state universities where professors make statements calling dead victims of 9/11 "little Eichmanns" and where others espouse Communist and socialist orthodoxy. To that end, I don't agree with the pseudo-religious liberal secular orthodoxy preached by most in the public schools today. Can we stop financing public education, too?

The only good thing about this statement is that it's more proof that Hillary isn't nearly the politician Bill was, which makes it less likely that she will win the Presidency. Let's keep our fingers crossed.