Conservatives Revolt Over Obama Speech to Students - Political Hotsheet - CBS News »
Posted By chuck-the-canuck 3 months ago in Political Opinion
Next Tuesday at noon, President Obama will be delivering what the White House is billing as "a national address to the students of America."
"During this special address, the president will speak directly to the nation’s children and youth about persisting and succeeding in school," according to Education Secretary Arne Duncan. "The president will challenge students to work hard, set educational goals, and take responsibility for their learning."
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Eagle_Eye3 months ago
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They don't even have a clue what he is going to say!! What a bunch of lonie tunes, totally out of touch with the real world, even more scary is they are a part of our real world. -
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ConquerorWyrm3 months ago
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Wow! Just read the article...that Greer is a sociopath at best. He hasn't even heard the speech and he plants every possible strawman argument into Obama's mouth and intentions. Isn't this what is called "bearing false witness"? But of course, moral standards being what they are for the faux-christian National Socialist Party of America (Republicans...which, in mock humor of the manner the NSPA tried to change the name of the Democrats, the National Socialist Party of America is what should be adopted here), what more can one expect?
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TheNewsseeker3 months ago
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Honestly speaking, I can´t understand such a strong and exaggerated reaction by the conservatives. President Obama himself has experienced the importance of education. Intelligence allone isn´t enough to achieve the leadership of the US, it also takes ambition and a strong will. There was nothing said about any kind of political indoctrination, but only of an encouragement to make the best out of one´s talents and to work hard to reach educational and personal gains. What young Americans should learn very early, is to have their own opinion and their own strong attitude. Prepared like this, no politician on earth, and be he as rhetorically talented as Mr. Obama, will make little socialists out of them!
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cherev2 months, 4 weeks ago
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"Honestly speaking, I can´t understand such a strong and exaggerated reaction by the conservatives. "
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I suspect that you can understand, but you'd rather not.
"There was nothing said about any kind of political indoctrination,"
Nor does there have to be. When my current congressman won his first seat, he was invited by one of his young campaign workers (the father got his son involved) to address his school. My daughter attended that school. She was 11 at the time. The oldest child in the audience was 13. When asked how he got people to vote for him, he replied, "I just tell people that Republicans don't care about families." That's what he told a group of children.
"What young Americans should learn very early, is to have their own opinion and their own strong attitude. Prepared like this,"
The group of kids at my daughter's school wasn't prepared for the congressman's remarks. When I challenged the administration over this, they replied that it probably went over the kids' heads. I pulled my daughter out at the end of the term, and never sent my son there.
"be he as rhetorically talented as Mr. Obama, will make little socialists out of them!"
That job is being done by our public schools.
Have a nice day.
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sprzats2 months, 4 weeks ago
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Keep the kids home from school? Are they really serious? I don't understand where these people are coming from. They must be watching too much of Glenn Beck because they sound just like him. I have never seen so many irrational people in my life. From the nasty shouting at the town hall meetings to all of the stupid e-mails that are still showing up claiming Obama is everything from the anti christ to Hitler reincarnated. Now they're condemning a speech that he hasn't even given yet. I can't believe that so many people actually take Beck seriously. What's wrong with these people? They are letting the likes of Beck and Limbaugh do their thinking for them and they actually BELIEVE the garbage that those two morons rant and rave about. Do they ever bother to check the accuracy of what these instigators are reporting? If anyone on this forum is going to keep their kids out of school that day I would really like to hear why they are. Maybe I'm missing something here, but I do not understand the reasoning of keeping your kids at home because the president is going to make a speech encouraging kids to stay in school.
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cherev2 months, 4 weeks ago
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"Keep the kids home from school? Are they really serious?"
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I don't know if you're a parent. I am. And I'm concerned about the influences surrounding my children. Obama is someone I would prefer my children not be exposed to.
"I don't understand where these people are coming from."
I suspect you don't want to understand.
"They must be watching too much of Glenn Beck because they sound just like him. I have never seen so many irrational people in my life. From the nasty shouting at the town hall meetings to all of the stupid e-mails that are still showing up claiming Obama is everything from the anti christ to Hitler reincarnated."
Yes, we're all nuts. Keep repeating that to yourself over and over again.
"Now they're condemning a speech that he hasn't even given yet."
No, we're just not interested in having Obama speak to our impressionable children irregardless of what he's going to say.
"I can't believe that so many people actually take Beck seriously. What's wrong with these people?"
We're just not as "enlightened" as you, right?
"They are letting the likes of Beck and Limbaugh do their thinking for them"
Right. We're all incapable of thinking as rationally as you.
"Do they ever bother to check the accuracy of what these instigators are reporting?"
Do you? There's a reason people like Beck are so popular, just as there is a reason Obama is so popular. And if you think only your "truths" are real, you're delusional.
"If anyone on this forum is going to keep their kids out of school that day I would really like to hear why they are."
See my note above. I'm not keeping my kids home because neither is in the public school system any longer. I learned my lesson after having one child exposed to a Democrat politician.
"Maybe I'm missing something here, but I do not understand the reasoning of keeping your kids at home because the president is going to make a speech encouraging kids to stay in school."
This may come as a surprise to you, but some of us believe Obama doesn't always tell the truth.
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mesodude2 months, 4 weeks ago
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Anyone else seeing a pattern of extreme right wing hypocrisy here? It occurred to me this morning that it was almost exactly a year ago that panic-stricken cons were in a similar frothing paranoid frenzy because Gwen Ifill had been chosen to moderate the VP debate. As everyone knows, cons are not only fortune tellers but, in fact, know *everything*. They were sure that Gwen Ifill was writing a "pro Obama" book (months before the book was finished). They were even convinced that even though Ifill was a respected journalist who had moderated debates in the past (with nary a peep from anyone on the right), she could not be trusted to moderate *this* debate fairly. Apparently their premise was that, unlike all the "fair and balanced" white "journalists" at FOX who were the mouthpiece for the Bush administration and the neocons for 8 years plus, Ifill couldn't be trusted (because everyone knows only white people can be impartial).
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Flash forward to today. Cons (who bleated for 8 years that every American must "support our President" no matter what--or the terrorists would crawl out from under our beds and kill us) are now bleating that they don't want their ignorant kids to be "brainwashed" into supporting Obama's "socialist" agenda. This despite the fact that they, yet again, don't even know what the hell he plans to say. But Glenn Beck knows--and what the self described “recovering alcoholic rodeo clown with limited education” knows is good enough for cons. -
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