Republicans Voice Support for Obama’s Back to School Speech »
Posted By capj71 2 months, 3 weeks ago in Political NewsThe right wing’s reaction to President Obama’s planned back to school speech has brought about criticism from mainstream Republicans. Today Rudy Giuliani, Newt Gingrich, and Sen. Lamar Alexander all went on the Sunday talk shows and supported the idea that the president should be allowed to speak to school children.
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stephen-johnson2 months, 3 weeks ago
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My reaction to Obama's speaking to the children was lack of enthusiam rather than opposition - doesn't he do anything other than make speeches and hold press conferences?
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"Silent Cal" Coolidge could never cut it in the 24/7 media saturation of today. -
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ConquerorWyrm2 months, 3 weeks ago
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There will be "leaders" in the (former) Republican Party ONLY when there is someone with enough integrity who stands up and condemns the un-American rhetoric and extremism spouted by the likes of Glenn Beck. Until then, people like Gingrich are only trying to cover their own arses on this one being that they can't avoid the fact that RayGun and GHWB also addressed students. As for Gingrich...well, he still leads the mouth-breeders on too many levels. Note his outright lies insofar as the health care debate. When this perverted fraud stands up and denounces such lies as "death panels" and exposes them for what they are, then he can be called both a "leader" of his party and a "Republican" (a party that is now all but extinct with the ghosts of Lincoln, Roosevelt, Eisenhower and Goldwater lying shamefaced in their graves).
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cherev2 months, 3 weeks ago
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"Today Rudy Giuliani, Newt Gingrich, and Sen. Lamar Alexander all went on the Sunday talk shows and supported the idea that the president should be allowed to speak to school children."
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Did anyone really claim that Obama should not be "allowed" to speak to school children? The article in my local paper, which has a left-wing bias, indicated that the objection was to the lesson plan that accompanied the speech....something along the lines of "getting" the children to write an essay regarding "how they could help the President".-
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Ratskii2 months, 3 weeks ago
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Your second paragraph displays ignorance, cherev, but ignorance is correctable. The lesson plan was from a version of the proposal that was discarded. According to the whitehouse it was badly worded and was replaced even before the objections began to come out.
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stephen-johnson2 months, 3 weeks ago
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http://hotair.com/archives/2009/09/07/obama-school...
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I’ve run the speech through a word frequency counter and found the following results:
* 56 iterations of “I”
* 19 iterations of “school”
* 10 iterations of “education”
* 8 iterations of “responsibility”
* 7 iterations of “country”
* 5 iterations each of “parents”, “teachers”
* 3 iterations of “nation”
In other words, Barack Obama referenced himself more than school, education, responsibility, country/nation, parents, and teachers combined. And to think that people accused Obama of self-promotion! -
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