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"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." "
I don't know about that. It would imply that, because Democrats gave a Republican President a hard time about making a speech to school kids, Republicans were just returning the favor. But .... how many people in the country (1) remembered that Bush gave such a speech, and (2) remembered the reaction on the part of Democrats in Congress? There were certainly some in the first category, but the second?
If it was really tit-for-tat, the huge outcry over President's Obama's speech - heard long before he has even given it - would have been prompted by the memory of how Bush was treated ..... but who remembered that?
I've read Bush's speech, and it's fine. He covered much of the same ground that President Obama will be covering today. I think that Congressional Democrats were wrong in 1991 to criticize the speech as being political. And I think the criticism of President's Obama speech - long before we knew what he would say - has been even more in the wrong.
My parents were Democrats and I didn't hear word 1 about that speech when it was given at my school.
Not every Republican parent has been talking about this. It is a certain few in the most neo-conservative locations in the country. It just gets sensationalized in the media which is alot different now then 18 years ago.
I bet the kids are just happy they get out of regular classes for half a day. Im sure I was for the Bush speech.
I am sure if the speech were up to their standards they would have
publicly praised it. The Democrats never play politics right?
I take it that you believe it was fine for Bush to talk to students, and that the Demos whined about nothing. So, please explain why you would be against Obama doing the same. Never mind, I already know the answer.
Casper
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