Librarians have a few reasons to love Obama, including the fact that he gave libraries a shout-out in his weekly address on Jan. 3: “To make America, and our children, a success in this new global economy, we will build 21st century classrooms, labs, and libraries.”
And unlike Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, he has never been known to try to ban a book — not even “The Case against Barack Obama” (current Requests: 44).
Let’s not worry about
Let’s not worry about Obama’s fascist policies…
This Obama?
The guy who compared library jobs to the lunch ladies?
We all know that library work is just busywork, there can be no benefit to any work done in a library. They are as useful as the barely literate we have wiping the tables in the refectory. Work in a library is sure as heck not public service. They need to be out organizing in the community rather than working in a library.
I guess a shout out carries more weight than a position on a candidates website. Who knew.
Oh, and Governor Palin never tried to ban any books. But why go with accuracy when you can editorialize and lie. Sure, she asked what would happen if someone asked for a book to be removed, but that is no more banning books than Oprah trying on a size two frock is her losing 100 pounds.
If you read the comment
If you read the comment carefully (or even not so carefully), you see that they are talking about student workers, not people who perform the jobs daily. Work-study money is for students; their primary “job” is college. The “lunch ladies” also perform a valuable function; I’d hate to try to feed a few hundred kids daily. They’re not the ones wiping down the tables, just as the librarians are not the ones stamping the due date on cards.
Oh, well, we all spin the way we are bent.
Apologist for your messiah?
I did not say that the work study students were librarians.
Do you not value the work of the students in the library?
There is dignity in all work, but it seems your anointed one feels that some jobs are less than dignified. Apparently community service, whatever he means by that euphemism, is more important that good honest work in the library or the lunch room.
As an Obama apologist do you feel the same way? What is not beneath you?
Thank you, Anon 12.
I had started to think I had halucinated that, after every librarian/library worker I know looked at me like I was insane when I mentioned it.
I thought this was lisnews,
I thought this was lisnews, not lispropaganda.
Palin tried to ban a book?
“And unlike Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, he has never been known to try to ban a book…”
I’ve heard this rumour many times throughout Libraryland, but I never saw the evidence. As librarians, I would think we could cite our sources a bit better, or at the very least not exaggerate the facts.
Which book(s) did Palin try to ban? Source? Thanks for any info.
Joe
Of course not
Of course Governor Palin did nothing of the sort; however why rely on the truth when you can throw around innuendo.
Apparently doing anything it takes to win is par for the course for many. Subjecting the president to boos and jeers prior to inauguration, using pejorative names for the president, and lying seem to be acceptable these days.
Of course there were all the arrests of Republican protesters at the inauguration, protesters like those at the Republican convention, protesters like those who throw shoes, protesters who hide behind masks. Oh, wait there were no such protesters because some people do know what it is to be civilized. Some people don’t steal things from the White House when they leave, some people don’t pry keys off the keyboards in the White House. Some people still have class and respect for the office of the president, and the man elected to that office even though they disagree with him.
Others just lie.
No Books Banned
Even though I did not vote for her, Palin never banned any books either.
See: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/09/politics/animal/main4430259.shtml