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Originally Posted by JoeXIII'007

#1. Let's try not to go into politics here, we and I do not want this image to be ripped off the server of the CD forums in any way for any reason.

#2. We invited her here, primarily because she was barking about how Michigan must be on the leading edge of educating students on the improtance of science and technology. After so many years of this regional going on, she finally came. She fulfills her commitment to improving the quality of science and math education.

#3. Capitalism and big business were not the only two factors in getting FIRST off the ground in Michigan. In order for the 'auto' companies to exist, an idea was discovered to create the 'horseless carriage.' That idea evolved into what today we see as automated assembly plants, and the mass numbers of automobiles in which one gets YOU to GLR. The assembly line idea came from Michigan, and that became applied to nearly every manufacturing business in the world, automated or human: for computers, for chips, for everything almost. If there were no ideas, there would be not industry, capitalism, or big business as we know it, and worse, there would be no FIRST.

Now as far as Granholm turning it into a political platform, *sigh* she's a politician, she had camera's and journalists and us in front of her, and so, as her title implies, she literally has to do what she did. That's what the state senator did early Saturday. Even if she had no camera's in front of her, she has to do what she does to make doubly sure her rep doesn't die. She cannot just blow it or take it easy. From there, people like you can make decisions and develop opinions on her. But if she blew it, she would have possibly lost her career all together (and yet another person on the unemployment list (exaggeration)).

In short, politicians play a game, in which we are the referees, and points can be scored by shooting great ideas into the center of our minds.

2 cents from Joe

Re. #1

agreed

Re. #2

Let us keep in mind that she is not a legislator. In my mind its just political babble. There is not a single candidate who doesn’t want better schools and more math and science (and art and music and sports...).

Re. #3

You are 100% right, i was outlining the differences between Michigan and other sates.

Re. the rest

Your right... It just bugs me that any politician would be at FIRST at all. I cant se any reason for her to be there other then petty political gain. She does not have a technical background. She has no appriciation of what the teams really accomplish! Politics and FIRST are diametrically opposed no matter which side of the isle you are on. There is no Gracious Professionalism in politics, there is no teamwork. It is all cutthroat tactics to get yourself ahead and sway the sheeple in your direction.