A very small difference

John McCain gave a speech yesterday to the NAACP, with a focus on education. We learn something useful:

If I am elected president, school choice for all who want it, an expansion of Opportunity Scholarships, and alternative certification for teachers will all be part of a serious agenda of education reform. [italics mine]
Obama’s position is slightly different.

Obama said he doesn’t support such vouchers, but does support charter schools.
Obama sends his kids to the elite, private and expensive University of Chicago Lab Schools. So, like McCain, Obama believes in school choice. It is just that Obama thinks choice should be limited to wealthy people like himself, not them po’ colored folk.
In practice, I suspect it will not make much difference. Vouchers are too big a danger not only to the teachers unions (of which the Democratic Party is a wholly owned subsidiary), but to a bipartisan coalition of well off people. Whatever would happen to their property values if their schools ceased to be the exclusive property of their wealthy suburbs and became open to just anyone?