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Putting aside possible ulterior motives, the conservativefreak-out over President Obama’s planned speech to students urging them to stay in school and work hard is due to fears that Obama will use his platform as an opportunity to push his agenda on unsuspecting students. Ironically, that’s exactly what President Reagan did two decades ago. On November 14, 1988, Reagan addressed and took questions from students from four area middle schools in the Old Executive Office Building. According to press secretary Marvin Fitzwater, the speech was broadcast live and rebroadcast by C-Span, and Instructional Television Network fed the program “t o schools nationwide on three different days.” Much of Reagan’s speech that day covered the American “vision of self-government” and the need “to keep faith with the unfinished vision of the greatness and wonder of America” but in the middle of the speech, the president went off on a tangent about the importance of low taxes:
Your stupidity is showing. Where did I say it was okay for Reagan or Bush.
It is not.
Assumptions make you look foolish.
So why isn't it ok? In your view anyway. I think the President has a right to address whoever he wants. Why don't you? Is it some kind of "only I will decide what my kids hear or see" mentality? Because that thinking never leads to anything good.
School districts from Maryland to Texas are fielding angry complaints from parents opposed to President Barack Obama’s back-to-school address Tuesday – forcing districts to find ways to shield students from the speech as conservative opposition to Obama spills into the nation’s classrooms.
“The gist is, ‘I want to see what the president has to say before you expose it to my child.’
Exactly right. Let's hear it first.
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Obama isn’t the first president to be criticized this way. O’Neill recalled President George H. W. Bush made televised address to students in October 1991 as campaign season was heating up. A handful of Democrats denounced Bush’s address as pure politics.
Ok for democrats to object, not ok for conservatives.
A handful of Democrats. There was nothing like this furor. I don't even remember it happening, and I had kids in school at the time. Reagan did the same, and I don't remember that, either, though my kids weren't in school during the Reagan years (thank G**)!
...Some of you people really need to take a break from politics if it makes you this...ape**** roving insane.
Just sayin'.
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I wonder why...
