The industrial growth needed to supply our European allies with war supplies did far more to get us out of the depression than any of FDR's programs.   Hell, some of his programs were later declared unconstitutional.

Obama.

anone else who did this won:

http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1762538

Here is the video of Barr's responses. It does not show his comments during the debate, but it does expand on his Q&A session.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyn1Nq91-o0

As a teacher, I would say that it is probably the single most important aspect of the education system that needs improvement. Having strong relations with most parents/gaurdians would undoubtedly perculate throughout all areas of the school system: attendance, safety, willingness to learn, positive environment, passages for kids who need the extra challenge, etc. Many weaknesses (obviously not all) of our schools would become less substantial if we started to become more agressive in getting parents to become involved. I taught my first classes last year and was completely heartbroken by the amount of negligence our children recieve and being unable to do anything about it with exception of extreme cases of negligence. I'd love for these people (not individually, of course) to be called out... anyhow, I'm starting to rant and take this too far off topic.

I must say it is comforting to hear Sen. Obama take this stance on education as Canada's school's typically follow policies set in the US shortly after.The thought of vouchers for schooling is very unsettling to me, while it may immediately benefit some students (who certainly deserve it, and should recieve these benefits through a different avenue), I think it would cause long term negative effects in some schools. Students don't learn/want to learn much when surrounded by such negativity. Doesn't create a good culture for learning.

Anyhow, more on topic; I thought the debate was quite good. Jim Lehrer did a good job as usual and I was pleasntly surprised by both candidates. There were some things that bugged me about each of them though, characteristically. McCain, I thought did well and was very aggresive but came off as very condescending. Using his experience is both a strategic move and a valid one, but I often got the feeling that he was talking down to Obama as opposed to talking to him... I mean he wouldn't even look at him. Obama on the other hand was very respectful and talked directly to John McCain and very much held his own. But, I thought he was somewhat elusive on some issues, not as much as he was in the primaries - there was much more meat. I mean, I agree with Obama on just about 100% of the issues relative to McCain, but I'd say it was pretty much a tie. Although, according to polls, it would seem most independants thought Obama had won... I guess that matters much more than what I thought as I can't even vote!