NEA chief Dennis Van Roekel proposes they back Obama -- again

In the 2008 election cycle, the National Education Association, the largest union in the USA, by far, spent more money on the Obama campaign than any other union, had more volunteers working for him, and more members on the floor of the Democratic National Convention than any other group. NEA leaders like Dennis Van Roekel, now President of NEA, bragged about their effective support for Obama repeatedly.

Now, after a third war; $12.9 trillion of financial bailouts to Wall Street and other major financial institutions; Arne Duncan and the "Race To The Top"; a full scale assault on reason and wages in school; 2.3 million mostly poor and black people incarcerated; attacks on immigrants that exceed the Bush era; a speech about the assassination of Osama Bin Laden that dripped with mysticism, nationalism and treacle; the refusal to publish the OBL photos denying he's a trophy, then a victory lap at "ground zero"; and a very real promise of perpetual war matched by booming inequality as the bill for foreign invasions comes home to workers - after all this, NEA wants to be an early endorser of Arne Duncan.

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