Is Senator Kerry Reading Impaired?

Pointing out that Sen. John Kerry is not the sharpest tool in the box is not difficult since he keeps going on national television to distribute the evidence himself.

Sen. John Kerry claimed this morning on NBC TODAY that 53% of America's children do not graduate from high school -- a claim that raised eyebrows in the NBC control room, sources tell the Drudge Report.

Perhaps, the Senator from Massachusetts misread information provided him about the graduation rate of Democratic voters.

Illiteracy Remains a Problem in the U.S. Date: 12/17/2005 A new federal survey of literacy in the United States should sound a warning, Michele Erickson, executive director of Wisconsin Literacy Inc., said Friday.

Nearly 800,000, 19 percent of Wisconsin residents age 16 or older, are not enrolled in school and do not have a high school diploma, while over 368,000, or 7.3 percent of residents over age 5, speak a language other than English at home. And while Wisconsin has the second highest high school graduation in the country for whites, it has the worst (50th out of 50 states) for African-Americans, the Center on Wisconsin Strategy reports.

To repeat, Wisconsin has the worst high school graduation rate for African-Americans in the entire United States of America. The ability to read and comprehend is crucial if this country does not want a voting public willing to accept absurd mischaracterizations of fact from the 24/7 verbal media.

Wisconsin Literacy Inc.: According to the U.S. Department of Education, the single greatest factor affecting a child's success in school is his or her mother's level of literacy.

Those of us who can read should continue to be appalled by Democratic Unions and Democratic Politicians refusing to open up the education process to those who would benefit most from school choice.

WEAC: To seek to escape public schools, which reflect the conditions of life in a community abandoned by the marketplace, is a natural human response. However, it is a personal and not a community solution. Government, in the interest of the public good, must act in a supportive way rather than abandon the people and the public institutions in our urban communities. The solutions are not to be found in private school choice but in vigorous support for the families and children who struggle daily to realize a measure of the American dream in Wisconsin's urban communities.

Of course the current Democratic Party is nearly exclusively based on the principal of maintaining their existing voting base, whether or not they have meaningful High School Diplomas.