President Barack Obama - Term 1 and 2 Thread

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Postby conversationpc » Mon Sep 07, 2009 10:53 am

Barb wrote:
Glenn Beck wrote:I expect that questioning to continue for the foreseeable future."


Glenn is going to get himself killed. He's screwing with some very powerful thugs.


I'm not saying that anyone in the White House would threaten him but he is certainly making some enemies with this stuff and there are kooks out there who have already threatened his life. Hence the security detail that he needs to take with him everywhere he travels now. I'm concerned about his safety.
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Postby donnaplease » Mon Sep 07, 2009 11:30 am

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Barb wrote:
Glenn Beck wrote:I expect that questioning to continue for the foreseeable future."


Glenn is going to get himself killed. He's screwing with some very powerful thugs.


Not that it probably means much but Olberman has already tweeted his gang to send him dirt on Beck and his Producer. These people are real loons.


HEY!!! :evil: Watch it, throwing around that term like that! Talk about dangerous, we loons will really kick your ass for that!!! :twisted:
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Postby Saint John » Tue Sep 08, 2009 1:14 am

I'm as conservative as anyone, but I have to laugh at all of the right wingers here trying to "prove" that Obama's doing a bad job. He's trying too! He hates this country as it is, and is trying to redistribute wealth to those that haven't worked hard and earned their fair share. So far so good!
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Postby Ehwmatt » Tue Sep 08, 2009 1:17 am

Saint John wrote:I'm as conservative as anyone, but I have to laugh at all of the right wingers here trying to "prove" that Obama's doing a bad job. He's trying too! He hates this country as it is, and is trying to redistribute wealth to those that haven't worked hard and earned their fair share. So far so good!


Touche sir, touche.
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Postby treetopovskaya » Tue Sep 08, 2009 1:18 am

Rick wrote:
Lula wrote:time to heed the advice of another and get out of dodge.


Yep, they'll tag team you all day. I'd jump in, but I'm not in the mood to argue with the wall today.


what complete BS. no one is tag teaming anyone. this has been a pretty civil debate. no name calling or personal attacks... like the ones DEAN AND TNC dish out. are people NOT supposed to have an opinion around here because it might make someone feel ganged up on or take it as a personal attack? wtf? can we no longer use metaphors, analogies or exaggerations to make a point? or is it just okay for the left/libs?
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Postby RobbieG » Tue Sep 08, 2009 1:27 am

Saint John wrote:I'm as conservative as anyone, but I have to laugh at all of the right wingers here trying to "prove" that Obama's doing a bad job. He's trying too! He hates this country as it is, and is trying to redistribute wealth to those that haven't worked hard and earned their fair share. So far so good!


Great post Saint John. :D I enjoy working 60 hrs a week and knowing someone else is benefiting from my hard work.
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Postby Saint John » Tue Sep 08, 2009 1:29 am

RobbieG wrote:
Saint John wrote:I'm as conservative as anyone, but I have to laugh at all of the right wingers here trying to "prove" that Obama's doing a bad job. He's trying too! He hates this country as it is, and is trying to redistribute wealth to those that haven't worked hard and earned their fair share. So far so good!


Great post Saint John. :D I enjoy working 60 hrs a week and knowing someone else is benefiting from my hard work.


lol...last year I was forced to work many 60 hour weeks, a few 70 hour weeks and one 82 hour week. I've earned what I have and would like to keep it. If a cup shaker wants money he better get a fucking job. I have no obligation to take care of anyone but myself. Pretty simple concept.
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Postby Ehwmatt » Tue Sep 08, 2009 1:32 am

Saint John wrote:
RobbieG wrote:
Saint John wrote:I'm as conservative as anyone, but I have to laugh at all of the right wingers here trying to "prove" that Obama's doing a bad job. He's trying too! He hates this country as it is, and is trying to redistribute wealth to those that haven't worked hard and earned their fair share. So far so good!


Great post Saint John. :D I enjoy working 60 hrs a week and knowing someone else is benefiting from my hard work.


lol...last year I was forced to work many 60 hour weeks, a few 70 hour weeks and one 82 hour week. I've earned what I have and would like to keep it. If a cup shaker wants money he better get a fucking job. I have no obligation to take of anyone but myself. Pretty simple concept.


Heartless bastard!
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Postby treetopovskaya » Tue Sep 08, 2009 1:36 am

Fact Finder wrote:
Barb wrote:
Glenn Beck wrote:I expect that questioning to continue for the foreseeable future."


Glenn is going to get himself killed. He's screwing with some very powerful thugs.


Not that it probably means much but Olberman has already tweeted his gang to send him dirt on Beck and his Producer. These people are real loons.


let's spread the hate! yay! }=C))
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Postby treetopovskaya » Tue Sep 08, 2009 1:43 am

Ehwmatt wrote:
Saint John wrote:
RobbieG wrote:
Saint John wrote:I'm as conservative as anyone, but I have to laugh at all of the right wingers here trying to "prove" that Obama's doing a bad job. He's trying too! He hates this country as it is, and is trying to redistribute wealth to those that haven't worked hard and earned their fair share. So far so good!


Great post Saint John. :D I enjoy working 60 hrs a week and knowing someone else is benefiting from my hard work.


lol...last year I was forced to work many 60 hour weeks, a few 70 hour weeks and one 82 hour week. I've earned what I have and would like to keep it. If a cup shaker wants money he better get a fucking job. I have no obligation to take of anyone but myself. Pretty simple concept.


Heartless bastard!


it shouldn't be forced that's for sure. it means more when people do things out of the kindness of their hearts. america is full of the most charitable people.
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Postby Saint John » Tue Sep 08, 2009 1:45 am

Ehwmatt wrote:
Saint John wrote:
RobbieG wrote:
Saint John wrote:I'm as conservative as anyone, but I have to laugh at all of the right wingers here trying to "prove" that Obama's doing a bad job. He's trying too! He hates this country as it is, and is trying to redistribute wealth to those that haven't worked hard and earned their fair share. So far so good!


Great post Saint John. :D I enjoy working 60 hrs a week and knowing someone else is benefiting from my hard work.


lol...last year I was forced to work many 60 hour weeks, a few 70 hour weeks and one 82 hour week. I've earned what I have and would like to keep it. If a cup shaker wants money he better get a fucking job. I have no obligation to take care of anyone but myself. Pretty simple concept.


Heartless bastard!


You're fucking-A-right! :lol: The "Obama won! I don't have to do anything anymore" mentality will only force that Curious George, long-legged Mack Daddy looking motherfucker to take from those that have earned, and give it to those that haven't, even more. Fuck this guy. He's simply "buying" votes off of the backs that have been responsible and accrued a lot of wealth because, sadly, they outnumber those that haven't.
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Postby Ehwmatt » Tue Sep 08, 2009 1:45 am

treetopovskaya wrote:
Ehwmatt wrote:
Saint John wrote:
RobbieG wrote:
Saint John wrote:I'm as conservative as anyone, but I have to laugh at all of the right wingers here trying to "prove" that Obama's doing a bad job. He's trying too! He hates this country as it is, and is trying to redistribute wealth to those that haven't worked hard and earned their fair share. So far so good!


Great post Saint John. :D I enjoy working 60 hrs a week and knowing someone else is benefiting from my hard work.


lol...last year I was forced to work many 60 hour weeks, a few 70 hour weeks and one 82 hour week. I've earned what I have and would like to keep it. If a cup shaker wants money he better get a fucking job. I have no obligation to take of anyone but myself. Pretty simple concept.


Heartless bastard!


it shouldn't be forced that's for sure. it means more when people do things out of the kindness of their hearts. america is full of the most charitable people.


They are out to demonize success, and the more they do that, the less the people capable of giving the most will feel inclined to help, the tax code notwithstanding. It's a cancerous mentality and I fear for what the conditions might be in this country in another 20 years if they're allowed to continue perpetuating the "Success is Bad" mantra.
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Postby Saint John » Tue Sep 08, 2009 2:00 am

Fact Finder wrote:
Saint John wrote:I'm as conservative as anyone, but I have to laugh at all of the right wingers here trying to "prove" that Obama's doing a bad job. He's trying too! He hates this country as it is, and is trying to redistribute wealth to those that haven't worked hard and earned their fair share. So far so good!


Oh I always knew he'd do a bad job, at least from my political perspective. I've been trying to warn everyone since that long election thread of The Wons Socialists tendencies. I've shown O's ties to the New Party and the DSA, of course there was Wright, Ayers and Dhorn and now I just find it incredibly funny that O has been shown yet again as a Radical with his appointment of Communist Van Jones. Instead of outrage that an American President would knowingly hire an avowed Communist, the libs want to feign outrage and attack Beck to get back at us for outing the guy. Not one lib I have heard has so much as batted an eye towards Jones beliefs and I personally find that incredibly scary.


Any black (or other minority) appointee under a Dumocrat has a bulletproof vest. It's called "racism." :roll:
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Postby treetopovskaya » Tue Sep 08, 2009 2:03 am

"uk court convicts 3 of plot to blow up airliners"

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Postby treetopovskaya » Tue Sep 08, 2009 2:17 am

Fact Finder wrote:This should lift some spirits.

18,000 people showed up for Saturdays Tea Party at Voice of America Park north of Cincinnati. We won't go without a fight that's for sure.

WEST CHESTER TWP. — Thousands of people made their way to the Voice of America Park this afternoon, Sept. 5, for a Tea Party event.

It was festival-like atmosphere of patriotism, with food vendors, face-painting for kids and live music for crowd that Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones estimated topped out at 18,000.

People of all ages were wearing patriotic clothing in hues of red, white and blue, many carrying American flags and hand-made signs with myriad slogans.





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSF2AK5D14o

There is a massive Tea Party scheduled for next Saturday the 12th in DC. People will be attending from all over the Country. We can only hope for a massive turnout and maybe a bit of coverage from the State Run Media.


you mean the "TEA BAGGERS"?

noooo... THAT wasn't insulting... right... umm... lula?

just in case...

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.p ... =teabagger
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Postby treetopovskaya » Tue Sep 08, 2009 3:04 am

why does obama have/need so many czars???

who is paying them?
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Postby donnaplease » Tue Sep 08, 2009 5:23 am

Fact Finder wrote:This should lift some spirits.

18,000 people showed up for Saturdays Tea Party at Voice of America Park north of Cincinnati. We won't go without a fight that's for sure.

WEST CHESTER TWP. — Thousands of people made their way to the Voice of America Park this afternoon, Sept. 5, for a Tea Party event.

It was festival-like atmosphere of patriotism, with food vendors, face-painting for kids and live music for crowd that Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones estimated topped out at 18,000.

People of all ages were wearing patriotic clothing in hues of red, white and blue, many carrying American flags and hand-made signs with myriad slogans.





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSF2AK5D14o

There is a massive Tea Party scheduled for next Saturday the 12th in DC. People will be attending from all over the Country. We can only hope for a massive turnout and maybe a bit of coverage from the State Run Media.


I'm not too far from DC and has actually been contemplating attending this.
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Postby Saint John » Tue Sep 08, 2009 6:05 am

donnaplease wrote:
I'm not too far from DC and has actually been contemplating attending this.


Don't do it. You lump yourself in with the nuttiest of the nutty by doing so. I'm all for the right to congregate and voice your opinion, but there will be some nutty fuckers there and how would you feel if some goofy right wing nut job hurled a grenade onto The White House lawn and the camera panned in on you as being a part of the crowd? :lol: :idea:
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Postby donnaplease » Tue Sep 08, 2009 8:20 am

Saint John wrote:
donnaplease wrote:
I'm not too far from DC and has actually been contemplating attending this.


Don't do it. You lump yourself in with the nuttiest of the nutty by doing so. I'm all for the right to congregate and voice your opinion, but there will be some nutty fuckers there and how would you feel if some goofy right wing nut job hurled a grenade onto The White House lawn and the camera panned in on you as being a part of the crowd? :lol: :idea:


Then I'd feel like I was at another MR party...! :twisted:
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Kudos to the President!

Postby Blueskies » Tue Sep 08, 2009 8:21 am

The speech the President is giving to students and teachers has been released.

A speech which some have been in an uproar about and some are even boycotting it so their children don't hear it. A speech which talks about taking responsibility and given with only the intent to motivate. Things that are good for all to hear and just as other Presidents have done in the past it IS the place of the President of the country to address the citizenry to motivate them, encourage them and to tell them they are a part of their society and it's their responsibilty to take advantage of their education and make the most out of it and be the best they can be. The children hold the future.
How sad that some parents due to their political bias and jumping to conclusions before the fact from what they hear from politically biased fear mongering... would not want their children to hear something like this. Things are being said in this speech that I would think all parents and citizens of this country would agree on.

Partisan politics have gotten totally out of hand once again. If people want to stay so stuck to only their views without hearing others and quit talking rationally about issues and not work together on solving problems nothing will ever get done. Stagnation from fear..prejudging, misunderstanding and jumping to conclusions and the need to be "always right" and not admit wrong and being so entrenched in beliefs to not being open to listening and discussing to try to resolve differences and problems ......well.....such entrenchment will not solve anything but will only cause further decline.
Just like when a pond gets stagnant....all life in the water dies.
It's past time for politicians and the voting public to stop being so partisan, stop trying to shut down the oppositions voice and stop being so closed off from listening to what is actually being said and stop interjecting what is not said into it and stop being closed off to other solutions.....so much so that we then become totally stagnant.

Anyway thats my 2 cent speech on the subject of the speech and the partisan politics that have been going on to try to stop it.
The Presidents school speech has been released for all to read so those who had fear can look it up and read the entire thing. For a start heres an article about the speech and a video clip:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090907/ap_ ... ool_speech

An excerpt from this article:

"It's a sad state of affairs that many in this country politically would rather start an "Animal House" food fight rather than inspire kids to stay in school, to work hard, to engage parents to stay involved, and to ensure that the millions of teachers that are making great sacrifices continue to be the best in the world," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday. "It's a sad state of affairs."
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Re: Kudos to the President!

Postby Rick » Tue Sep 08, 2009 8:26 am

Blueskies wrote:The speech the President is giving to students and teachers has been released.

A speech which some have been in an uproar about and some are even boycotting it so their children don't hear it. A speech which talks about taking responsibility and given with only the intent to motivate. Things that are good for all to hear and just as other Presidents have done in the past it IS the place of the President of the country to address the citizenry to motivate them, encourage them and to tell them they are a part of their society and it's their responsibilty to take advantage of their education and make the most out of it and be the best they can be. The children hold the future.
How sad that some parents due to their political bias and jumping to conclusions before the fact from what they hear from politically biased fear mongering... would not want their children to hear something like this. Things are being said in this speech that I would think all parents and citizens of this country would agree on.

Partisan politics have gotten totally out of hand once again. If people want to stay so stuck to only their views without hearing others and quit talking rationally about issues and not work together on solving problems nothing will ever get done. Stagnation from fear..prejudging, misunderstanding and jumping to conclusions and the need to be "always right" and not admit wrong and being so entrenched in beliefs to not being open to listening and discussing to try to resolve differences and problems ......well.....such entrenchment will not solve anything but will only cause further decline.
Just like when a pond gets stagnant....all life in the water dies.
It's past time for politicians and the voting public to stop being so partisan, stop trying to shut down the oppositions voice and stop being so closed off from listening to what is actually being said and stop interjecting what is not said into it and stop being closed off to other solutions.....so much so that we then become totally stagnant.

Anyway thats my 2 cent speech on the subject of the speech and the partisan politics that have been going on to try to stop it.
The Presidents school speech has been released for all to read so those who had fear can look it up and read the entire thing. For a start heres an article about the speech and a video clip:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090907/ap_ ... ool_speech

An excerpt from this article:

"It's a sad state of affairs that many in this country politically would rather start an "Animal House" food fight rather than inspire kids to stay in school, to work hard, to engage parents to stay involved, and to ensure that the millions of teachers that are making great sacrifices continue to be the best in the world," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday. "It's a sad state of affairs."


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Re: Kudos to the President!

Postby Saint John » Tue Sep 08, 2009 8:35 am

White House dumbfuck wrote:to ensure that the millions of teachers that are making great sacrifices continue to be the best in the world,


This is fucking laughable. I've met some great teachers and I've also met quite a few that shouldn't be teaching ABC's. As long as The Federal Teacher's Union keeps their paws in the cookie jars our teachers will continue to fail. Fuck, they aren't even drug tested. I've come across many that smoke pot and snort white lines that would make Keith Richards jealous.
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Re: Kudos to the President!

Postby Saint John » Tue Sep 08, 2009 8:43 am

Fact Finder wrote:
Saint John wrote:
White House dumbfuck wrote:to ensure that the millions of teachers that are making great sacrifices continue to be the best in the world,


This is fucking laughable. I've met some great teachers and I've also met quite a few that shouldn't be teaching ABC's. As long as The Federal Teacher's Union keeps their paws in the cookie jars our teachers will continue to fail. Fuck, they aren't even drug tested. I've come across many that smoke pot and snort white lines that would make Keith Richards jealous.


My son just met one of his old High School teachers at Bonaroo. Dude was selling acid and I am not making that up.


How many did your kid buy? :lol: :twisted: :P
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Postby Blueskies » Tue Sep 08, 2009 8:47 am

Fact Finder wrote:
How sad that some parents due to their political bias and jumping to conclusions before the fact from what they hear from politically biased fear mongering... would not want their children to hear something like this. Things are being said in this speech that I would think all parents and citizens of this country would agree on.


#1 The original plan was for a DOE written Lesson Plan, with specific tasks submitted from the gov, to teachers for kids to complete. That part and several of the Gov Approved Questions such as, "What can I do to help the President", have been dropped.

#2 How can you not act before the fact, when told that "The speech will come out Monday" (A freaking Holiday), for perusal just 24 hours before the speech. These are kids and parents want to know what the kids are being taught/told, 24 hours is a short window for review.

#3 I guarandamnteeya that since last Friday that speech has been rewritten several times.


1.) They did say the wording of the lesson plan could have been better. So that the intent was not misconstrued it was re-written.

2.) All the slander before the fact was jumping to conclusions and condemning without evidence. Questions to what was to be said were fine but the all out slander of the President ...all the accusations and namecalling... was entirely uncalled for and unnecessary.

3.) Maybe it was re-written, maybe it wasn't. You saying you know it in your mind doesn't make it a fact. Besides, most speechs get rewrites up until the time they are delivered. When I had speech class in college I know I revised my speechs a few times before the deadline to give it. I also just revised my little one here a couple times before I hit submit. :lol: :wink:







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Postby Saint John » Tue Sep 08, 2009 12:06 pm

They showed a helicopter view live on the news and expressed their surprise at the size of the crowd. Obviously a conservative crowd because there was no looting, no fights and no one was raped.
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Postby treetopovskaya » Tue Sep 08, 2009 2:19 pm

ff maybe you could have used mussolini instead.

"Mussolini may have done many brutal and tyrannical things; he may have destroyed human freedom in Italy; he may have murdered and tortured citizens whose only crime was to oppose Mussolini; but “one had to admit” one thing about the Dictator: he “made the trains run on time."

http://www.snopes.com/history/govern/trains.asp

van jones may be brilliant... but... he is messed up in the head. some say hitler was a smart guy... he was crazy tho. people like that shouldn't have any kind of power.

(yes this has bothered me all day... sue me.) }:C))

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Lula wrote:van jones has a great reputation for green jobs. i imagine that is why.



Good grief Lula....Hitler made the trains run on time, had a great reputation for that, was he ok with you as well?

Jones was also found to be a member of a Communist-sympathetic group with ties to former SDS co-hort Chicagoan Bill Ayers.

World Net Daily's reporter Aaron Klein broke the story and relentlessly pursued it, revealing Jones who was identified as a self-described radical communist and "rowdy black nationalist" who said his environmental activism was actually a means to fight for racial and class "justice":

■Jones previously served on the board of an environmental activist group at which a founder of the Weather Underground terrorist organization is a top director.

■Jones was co-founder of a black activist organization that has led a campaign prompting major advertisers to withdraw from Glenn Beck's top-rated Fox News Channel program. The revelation followed Beck's reports on WND's story about Jones' communist background.

■That Jones and other White House appointees may have been screened by an ACORN associate.

■One day after the 9/11 attacks, Jones led a vigil that expressed solidarity with Arab and Muslim Americans as well as what he called the victims of "U.S. imperialism" around the world.

■Just days before his White House appointment, Jones used a forum at a major youth convention to push for a radical agenda that included spreading the wealth and "changing the whole system."

■Jones' Maoist manifesto while leading the group Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM, was scrubbed from the Internet after being revealed by WND.

■Jones was the main speaker at an anti-war rally that urged "resistance" against the U.S. government –a demonstration sponsored by an organization associated with the Revolutionary Communist Party.

■In a 2005 conference, Jones characterized the U.S. as an "apartheid regime" that civil rights workers helped turn into a "struggling, fledgling democracy."

■Jones signed a petition calling for nationwide "resistance" against police, accusing them of using the 9/11 attacks to carry out policies of torture.

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Postby Eric » Tue Sep 08, 2009 11:46 pm

Good solid speech, except for the following, otherwise I have no issues and think its a good idea:


You'll need the knowledge and problem-solving skills you learn in science and math to cure diseases like cancer and AIDS, and to develop new energy technologies and protect our environment. You'll need the insights and critical thinking skills you gain in history and social studies to fight poverty and homelessness, crime and discrimination, and make our nation more fair and more free.
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Postby Ehwmatt » Tue Sep 08, 2009 11:55 pm

Eric wrote:Good solid speech, except for the following, otherwise I have no issues and think its a good idea:


You'll need the knowledge and problem-solving skills you learn in science and math to cure diseases like cancer and AIDS, and to develop new energy technologies and protect our environment. You'll need the insights and critical thinking skills you gain in history and social studies to fight poverty and homelessness, crime and discrimination, and make our nation more fair and more free.


That's all fine on its face speaking to kids, at least those under the age of 16. Of course we all know that parsing it we get the following:

Ending discrimination = Increase affirmative action, keep demonizing the white man
Ending homelessness = Redistribute wealth from those who work to those who don't
Protecting our environment = Someday I'd love to see the government tell you how long you can watch TV and have your lights on in your house
Make our nation more fair and free = See "ending homelessness" and "ending discrimination" entries ^^
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Postby lights1961 » Wed Sep 09, 2009 1:59 am

from 1991... democrats fury over George HW Bush speech to kids... ;-) way too funny...


When Bush spoke to students, Democrats investigated, held hearings
By: Byron York
Chief Political Correspondent
09/08/09 7:11 AM EDT
The controversy over President Obama's speech to the nation's schoolchildren will likely be over shortly after Obama speaks today at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia. But when President George H.W. Bush delivered a similar speech on October 1, 1991, from Alice Deal Junior High School in Washington DC, the controversy was just beginning. Democrats, then the majority party in Congress, not only denounced Bush's speech -- they also ordered the General Accounting Office to investigate its production and later summoned top Bush administration officials to Capitol Hill for an extensive hearing on the issue.

Unlike the Obama speech, in 1991 most of the controversy came after, not before, the president's school appearance. The day after Bush spoke, the Washington Post published a front-page story suggesting the speech was carefully staged for the president's political benefit. "The White House turned a Northwest Washington junior high classroom into a television studio and its students into props," the Post reported.

With the Post article in hand, 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.'"

Democrats did not stop with words. Rep. William Ford, then chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, ordered the General Accounting Office to investigate the cost and legality of Bush's appearance. On October 17, 1991, Ford summoned then-Education Secretary Lamar Alexander and other top Bush administration officials to testify at a hearing devoted to the speech. "The hearing this morning is to really examine the expenditure of $26,750 of the Department of Education funds to produce and televise an appearance by President Bush at Alice Deal Junior High School in Washington, DC," Ford began. "As the chairman of the committee charged with the authorization and implementation of education programs, I am very much interested in the justification, rationale for giving the White House scarce education funds to produce a media event."

Unfortunately for Ford, the General Accounting Office concluded that the Bush administration had not acted improperly. "The speech itself and the use of the department's funds to support it, including the cost of the production contract, appear to be legal," the GAO wrote in a letter to Chairman Ford. "The speech also does not appear to have violated the restrictions on the use of appropriations for publicity and propaganda."

That didn't stop Democratic allies from taking their own shots at Bush. The National Education Association denounced the speech, saying it "cannot endorse a president who spends $26,000 of taxpayers' money on a staged media event at Alice Deal Junior High School in Washington, D.C. -- while cutting school lunch funds for our neediest youngsters."

Lost in all the denouncing and investigating was the fact that Bush's speech itself, like Obama's today, was entirely unremarkable. "Block out the kids who think it's not cool to be smart," the president told students. "If someone goofs off today, are they cool? Are they still cool years from now, when they're stuck in a dead end job. Don't let peer pressure stand between you and your dreams.
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