So let’s get this straight. Obama’s predecessor took America to war under false pretense, citing “weapons of mass destruction” that everyone agrees did not exist, and today’s Republicans don’t want Obama addressing children because of “indoctrination?”
Our previous president preached war against Iraq to anyone who would listen, children, adults, young and old, making us partners in his blunder, and the Republicans dare talk of keeping their children safe from Obama’s ideas? What are Obama’s ideas? That the government can be an active partner in change, rather than a nuisance? And this notion is suppose to be bad?
The Republican Party seems determined to be “against” everything Democratic.
Jen Park
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Jen,
While I was initially apprehensive about the content of the speech due to the furor, my location gave me a chance to screen it before any showings to my kids.
Please count me out of your categorization.
As a conservative and a Republican, I can say it was a powerful speech that all school children should see, internalize, and put into practice. The message was one that every parent should echo and stress as important. Excellent stuff!
As for the President’s ideas. Well, that’s another story.
In 1988 George H. W. Bush gave a televised speech to the school children of America. It was a benign speech urging children to stay in school, and work hard.
The Democrats had a hissy fit, and whined that he was using the children as a “political prop”, and even held hearings to determine if it was “proper”, and if some law had been broken.
Fast forward to today. Obama plans on giving a speech, and no one knows what the original speech was going to be about since it has not been produced, only the revised version, along with a “study plan” which obviously had implications of support for Obama.
Now the Democrats are having a hissy fit about how Conservatives objected to certain elements of the planned event.
More hypocrisy.
Welcome back OldTrapper, I mean Mr. Swippies.
Ted Ronson says:
Welcome back OldTrapper, I mean Mr. Swippies.”
Have made no attempt to hide who I am which is obvious.
However, due to the “protection” given me by the editors of The Source, at least according to the “honest” Shortall, Miller threatened to ban me, some editor has not printed letters of mine, and someone blocked my user name. So, I finally decided to use a different user name without pretense like another I could speak of.
Anyway, I have decided also that it is not worth my time to continuously argue with those who have no intention of using any real facts to support their form of “debate”.
As it is written: “But fools despise wisdom, and instruction… and fools hate knowledge… Do not answer a fool according to his folly lest you also be like him.”
“As it is written: “But fools despise wisdom, and instruction… and fools hate knowledge… Do not answer a fool according to his folly lest you also be like him.””
I wish you’d told us all this before we wasted several weeks trying to educate you Krazy Koprophagous Ken fro Kenniwick! Than all us liars, boors, cheaters, communists, socialists, fools, schemers and drones could have spent our time more productively!!! Maybe we could have met, with the editors (who didn’t want to meet you either) and “head-hunted” together!
Haw, Haw, Haw
Dear Swipies the Clap-Trapper…..
“In 1988 George H. W. Bush gave a televised speech to the school children of America. It was a benign speech urging children to stay in school, and work hard”… the reason for the hissy fit over the Shrub’s speech in a school (of all places!!!) was that a semi-literate cowardly thug like Bush lecturing school children about studying and doing their homework is an example of HIGH IRONY that children are not equipped to deal with.
We had another one yesterday – a Republican calling Obama a liar… Irony.
As usual the nattering fools show their lack of knowledge, and lack of reading comprehension, and can only respond with more denigration, and ignorance. However, one can always be assured they will raise their ugly heads.
This is George H. W. Bush’s military record:
“Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Bush decided to join the US Navy,[1] so after graduating from Phillips Academy earlier in 1942,[4] he became a naval aviator at the age of 18.[3] After completing the 10-month course, he was commissioned as an ensign in the U.S. Naval Reserve at Corpus Christi, Texas on June 9, 1943, just three days before his 19th birthday, which made him the youngest naval aviator to that date.[1]
He was assigned to Torpedo Squadron (VT-51) as the photographic officer in September 1943.[1] The following year, his squadron was based on the USS San Jacinto as a member of Air Group 51, where his lanky physique earned him the nickname ‘Skin’.[5] During this time, the task force was victorious in one of the largest air battles of World War II: the Battle of the Philippine Sea.[1]
After Bush’s promotion to Lieutenant Junior Grade on August 1, the San Jacinto commenced operations against the Japanese in the Bonin Islands. Bush piloted one of four Grumman TBM Avenger aircraft from VT-51 that attacked the Japanese installations on Chichijima.[6] His crew for the mission, which occurred on September 2, 1944, included Radioman Second Class John Delaney and Lieutenant Junior Grade William White.[1] During their attack, the Avengers encountered intense anti-aircraft fire; Bush’s aircraft was hit by flak[7] and his engine caught on fire.[1] Despite his plane being on fire, Bush completed his attack and released bombs over his target, scoring several damaging hits.[1] With his engine afire, Bush flew several miles from the island, where he and one other crew member on the TBM Avenger bailed out of the aircraft;[7] the other man’s parachute did not open.[1] It has not been determined which man bailed out with Bush[1] as both Delaney and White were killed as a result of the battle.[7] Bush waited for four hours in an inflated raft, while several fighters circled protectively overhead until he was rescued by the lifeguard submarine USS Finback.[1] For the next month he remained on the Finback, and participated in the rescue of other pilots.
George Bush in his TBM Avenger on the carrier USS San Jacinto in 1944Bush subsequently returned to San Jacinto in November 1944 and participated in operations in the Philippines[1] until his squadron was replaced and sent home to the United States. Through 1944, he flew 58 combat missions[7] for which he received the Distinguished Flying Cross, three Air Medals, and the Presidential Unit Citation awarded to San Jacinto.[1]
Because of his valuable combat experience, Bush was reassigned to Norfolk Navy Base and put in a training wing for new torpedo pilots. He was later assigned as a naval aviator in a new torpedo squadron, VT-153. Upon the Japanese surrender in 1945, Bush was honorably discharged in September of that year.”
Call him a coward if you wish. We know you are.
Mr. Shortall–the speech in ’88 was made by the so-called “Shrub’s” father and the Democratic fuss was nothing short of the politics as usual in DC. The pay-back nature of the political parties wastes time and energy best directed elsewhere. But many people find it easier to shout ‘liar,’ use pejoratives and be the bully than to engage in honest dialogue and run the risk of learning something. That might mean that they were wrong or misinformed. Alpha males are NEVER wrong.
I read that somewhere that ‘Ignorance is the cornerstone of self righteousness.’ For all of you self righteous alpha males, please, remember that being self righteous is not the same as being correct.