GORDON wrote:To repeat myself, can you imagine the crap that would be said if fascist Bush had done this?
Turns out he did. Well, one of them did. The first Bush pres asked school kids to send him a letter explaining how they can help with issues of the time. I've heard it play over and over at the airport this morning. They may be taking it out of context because they only play the sentence where he asks for the letter.
And when Bush did it, Democrats "investigated" and "held hearings."
Democrats pounced. "The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students," said Richard Gephardt, then the House Majority Leader. "And the president should be doing more about education than saying, 'Lights, camera, action.'"
But ignore all that... anything Obama does is Right and Just.
The most extreme response I've seen from the right regarding Obama's thing is, "I'm keeping my kid out of school that day."
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"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Everything has always been overblown. Well, at least since people started to have free time to be outraged about silly things instead of scraping to keep their family alive.
"ATTENTION: Customers browsing porn must hold magazines with both hands at all times!"
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Said one parent in an e-mail to Broward School Board member Stephanie Kraft: "I will not tolerate my children being brainwashed by this man."
Republican Party of Florida Chairman Jim Greer on Wednesday criticized what he called Obama's plan to "indoctrinate America's children to his socialist agenda."
In his opinion, Notter said in an interview, having childen listen to the country's elected leader "is some of the purest of civics education." Letting them choose whether to not to attend would set a bad precedent, Notter said. He compared it to students who might object to saying the Pledge of Allegiance.
Actually, Notter, let's talk about the latter. You can force people to be there, since it's school, but hell if you can force them to recite that.
Broward Schools Superintendent James Notter wrote in a memo to principals Thursday that students will not be allowed to opt out of viewing Obama's address. The district has encouraged civics education through programs such as Kids Voting Broward and by watching presidential inaugural addresses, Notter wrote, so letting students skip Obama's speech "does not align with our practices and responsibility to provide a well-rounded, quality education for all students."
Yeah, nothing's well-rounded like zero tolerance for dissent.
Letting them choose whether to not to attend would set a bad precedent, Notter said. He compared it to students who might object to saying the Pledge of Allegiance.
You can't, just can't be comparing his (thinly veiled) pandering to the Pledge of Allegiance.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
If you get in trouble, that doesn’t mean you’re a troublemaker, it means you need to try harder to behave. If you get a bad grade, that doesn’t mean you’re stupid, it just means you need to spend more time studying.
Yes, it might, you dumb-ass motherfucker.
So there's no connection at all between what you do & who you are? You just aren't "trying." Hello, Neville Chamberlain.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
When critics lashed out at President Obama for scheduling a speech to public school students this month, accusing him of wanting to indoctrinate children to his politics, his advisers quickly scrubbed his planned comments for potentially problematic wording. They then reached out to progressive Web sites such as the Huffington Post, liberal bloggers and Democratic pundits to make their case to a friendly audience.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
"Who is the boss of you? ME! I am the boss of you! I am the boss of you!"
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."