White House releases school speech

I didn't even know there was a protest of Bush going to school. The liberal media really dropped the ball on that one. I'm sure you mean the protesters against No Child Left Behind and there was the standard Bush bombs babies out front of the schools he attended early in his years, but he was pushing the No Child Left Behind bill while he and his wife did their school tour. I didn't know it was a republican cause to protest people telling kids to stay in school and work hard for your education.

Another fool!

You're a fool! To say anything more would make me a fool like you...

Fester, were you one of the many Democrats that protested Bush speaking to the schools?
By the way, is Mac Daddy going to teach the kids Patriotism or just loyalty to work for the mother country? Is he going to be proud of America like Reagan and Bush, or is he going to teach them to apologize? You can say what you want, but I really don't think it is up to you to decide what other parents want their children to hear. Maybe you want Jones to speak to your kids?

Until Obama brainwashes our children. It's all part of the master plan to teach children to read, write and possibly learn math. They could possibly try to teach your children about science, physical education or worse music. We could be informed of a new army that plans to promote peace around the world or how being a rapper or entertainer may not be an easy goal to achieve. Not long everybody, i'm really worried about my son's fragile mind hearing about this at school. We must stand up and tell educators to STOP educating our children now. No need for school kids to learn ANYTHING about Central Government or how our society is managed. We should just tell our kids their is NO president of the US and shelter them to ensure they think and judge just like us completely. No need for our children to experience the world like a free individual. We should just brainwash our kids so they do not become individuals who think freely in a free society. When Ronald Reagan, GH Bush and GW Bush we know they would never talk about a political agenda or try to educate them about current events or policy. no one just read a book upside down, the other asked kids to write him letters to explain how they could help him achieve his agenda and the other talked about the need for tax cuts and a new world vision economically.

bniolet on September 8, 2009 - 8:55am.

I'm close to pulling the plug on this thread. Godwin's law applies here. Please tone down the rhetoric. -- BN

Good idea, pull the plug.

I'm close to pulling the plug on this thread. Godwin's law applies here. Please tone down the rhetoric. -- BN 

to kane1488:
America is getting tired of LEADING the president in his job. If it wasn't for the concerned parents, he wouldn't have changed his subject. When you say that nothing better could be expected from the president, you are right, we don't expect much from him in a positive direction. He has to be lead in the right direction, kicking and screaming all the way.

to gercohen:
Actually, comparing Obama to Hitler is not too far off, if you take a look at history. Besides, the current administration (Obama)is basically turning it's back on Israel. The handling of the Iran situation and Obama's bowing to Muslims, and making apologies is not in the best interest of America. You can say what you will, but the majority of Americans feel that Obama should not apologize to other countries. To them, it is a sign of weakness. I am surprised that he didn't know that,,,,or did he?

uncfan4u
It is always a race thing with you, isn't it? Whenever you libtards don't have an answer, you always resort to race. Do you realize how much folks are tired of hearing that crapola? Give it a break or come up with something new. No one cares about what color he is. How come you Bush bashers didn't use the race card against him? Race doesn't phase me at all and all you do is make yourself look weak by using it.

Really a very very good step. The White house is thinking about the school children. Nothing better could be expected from the president.

Colon Cleanse

LastFreemanStanding - You are a complete nut, crawl back under your rock. Do you know that the first President Bush ask the students to write how they could "help the president" achieve his goals? Of course, you didn't know that you are a nut case. I guess it was OK because it was a white republician asking the students this question. I will be mad if my child does not get to hear the president. I hate to say it but most of the people on here are crazy and they do not know what they are talking about.

Can we show this utub video to the students???

The message is:

You are stupid
You are the laughing stock of the world
Your liberal teachers cannot even tie their shoes
You rank 50th in the world for public education

The idea is good.

The delivery is horrible....

Hitler finds out that Obama will speak to schoolchildren:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,760539,00.html

What you libs do not understand is when we compare boo boo to hitler; it is hitler & germany pre 1939; pre war.

We are not comparing him to the monster that hitler became when he launched ww 2.

Get a life.........

Study history

Bigbaddog says:

"You liberals really need to study history...... What the libs want to do now is exactly what hitler did in germany in the 1930's... Look it up..."

I did not need to look it up, many of my relatives died in ovens. This BS of comparing Obama to Hitler is REALLY REALLY SICK. It has no connection whatsoever to reality.

Moderator, isn't it time to lock this thread?

You liberals really need to study history......

What the libs want to do now is exactly what hitler did in germany in the 1930's...

Look it up...

What part of wanting seniors to die because they cost to much; don't you get????

Even if the seniors can pay for their own health care.............

The speech is fine now that he completely rewrote it and neutered it from it's original message. He also completely removed the accompanied "Lesson Plans" where he originally planned to have the kids write in the plans specifically how they could "help the President" achieve his goals.

So, this process shows that democracy can work. Obama finally realized he had gone way too far and he backed off.

I'm Just ashamed this day and age that people would refer to the PRESIDENT as Hitler. I mean REALLY? And its even more ignorant because Hitlers agenda was completely different that what they accuse Obama of! But if you cant call him the "N word" out loud I guess hitler is the next best thing huh?

products of our public school system?

Somewhere among all of these comments today it was stated that President Obama used 'I' 'me' 'my' etc. 56 times. But when I read the speech I could not help but notice how many times he said 'you' 'your' 'yourselves', etc. By my count those words added up to 142. That says to me he was speaking TO his audience, the students, about them and their future which was the purpose of his speech.

"I made you look it up...........

So I win......."

Congratulations, I hereby award you with the Internet Medal for Distinguished Trolling in the Name of Freedoms.

acidqueen: "It says "when I was young, my family lived in Indonesia for a few years".

I daresay, sir, that you're the one who's incapable of reading."

No, no, you just think that's what it says because you are a communist. True Americans can see the implied meaning, which is that Obama was born in Indonesia.

I made you look it up...........

So I win.......

And you know that everyone in the White House is a Communist...how?

Just curious.

It says "when I was young, my family lived in Indonesia for a few years".

I daresay, sir, that you're the one who's incapable of reading.

understand his vacation coincides with Ramaden and the other days he has been less than available are also days of Religious significance to the Moslem world! How do you explain that!
flashgames

Look it up. Right there is the speech......

Oh thats right, liberals cannot read.

This be smoke and mirrors! Just a well written speech by someone and Chairman Obie is a good out-loud reader. This is just a distraction in getting his government health care plan off the ground, while everybody is ooohing and aahing over how good he is with the kids! And, if you noticed he is also cutting off questions about his own schooling. He was probably sent to a Muslim school and this story is gonna be heard by essentially everybody in the country and probably be believed by a large majority to be factual. He is a born prevaricator and doesn't mind if the facts aren't completely turthful most of the time; so why shold we believe this portion of his story?? Well, because the rest of the stuff is pap to make everybody feel good about the man "who cares about our kids" - unmitigated male bovine fecal matter is what he is using to blimd us to his many other short comings!!

Now that I've seen the speech, I can really see why Conservatives are so opposed to it. It promotes education, and asking students to do their best. Conservatives cannot survive if we have an educated, thinking population. Their fear mongering and lies won't work on such a population. This is a huge threat to the future of Conservatives. However, I think that Conservatives need to stop bad-mouthing the President of the United States and the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. armed forces. Every time a conservative badmouths our President, it is a slap in the face to every service member. Why do Conservatives hate America so much?

redriver: Apparently you haven't been watching the economy.

And how quickly do you expect healthcare reform to come? It's a HUGE issue! Do you know how you get something done in Washington like Healthcare reform? You have to sell it. You have to convince people to vote for it. The President has been working his ass off selling it to the American people and in turn Congress. That involves a lot of public speaking, at which he is very talented.

Let's also recall that at this point in the Bush administration, Richard Clark, the chief counter-terrorism adviser on the U.S. National Security Council (meaning he's the #1 person in the US government on terrorism), had been requesting a meeting with the whitehouse to discuss Al-Qaeda since before inauguration, and had been consistently denied. The Bush administration also removed the cabinet-level access that Clark had in the Clinton administration. Clark knew that Al-Qaeda was the #1 threat to national security, and he was blown off while the Bush administration pursued missile defense.

Oops.

I used to be "hip" to terminology, but I haven't a clue, what "Mack Daddy infers other than a sophmoric name for the president. But I want to know where it came from and what it means.

there you go again with your darn facts and your insistence on that eggheaded "context." What a pansy.

;-)

gercohen ---- don't disagree...but also don't take things too seriously.

I was offended when I first saw the Mac Daddy reference...but I learned that it came from an African-American Reverend Manning...and when I saw the YouTubes of this guy...well, if you don't think it's funny...you might be wound a bit too tight.

Here's a link to the Revererd,

Finally he will be talking to a group he is used to and can impress. So far along and so many speeches one must wonder just how long it will take for his talks to sound like the boy who cried wolf. I am sure he misses the fuzy faced college students who hung on every word and adored his speeches. The reality is that the voters are not impressed with words but deeds. So far we have heard a lot of talk and very little action that has actually acomplished anything. I just hope that these kids understand the idea that what the president and government says is hardly ever what they do and that government and leaders are all about their own self preservation first and the country and its citizens are way down the list. I wonder if he will tell the kids that the country they will work, play and retire in is already bankrupt? And that their standard of living will surely be lower, after all, we want them to know the truth don't we?

Some historians estimate that as much as 75% of the entire world's population was in slavery or indentured servitude until the late 1700's. This includes people of all races. The word slave comes from "Slav", referring to people of Slavic decent since they were continuously enslaved. The Trans-Atlantic or African Slave Trade defines slavery for many Americans, and it was a terrible chapter in European and American history. This is but one chapter in a terrible sin of slavery in worldwide history that started in 2000BC and has affected people of every race, culture and ethnic origin.

O-hitler will go off the prompter and spew his socialism....

He cannot help himself.............

Just wait, there will be a pre-amble and a closing that has not been posted.........

this thread is a complete joke. Arguing with someone who says that "Mac Daddy" is a "communist" is a waste of time( by the way, what does "Mac Daddy" mean? I have not a clue but I assume it is the President) Another poster wonders about and disparages blacks who do not know what "country" they are from when in fact their ancestors were swept up from Africa 250 years ago and put in the hold of slave ships and deliberately denied an education and punished if they learned to read, (countries which were named by and whose boundaries were invented by European empires to suit their own national interest, all well after the slaves were transhipped to America) and compares it with his broad knowledge of Europe and is is pointless arguing with that person as well. It is about the same as arguing with the left wing nut jobs I've seen shouting "911 was an inside job".

Actually fester I had "big boy business" beyond the Internet. Not all of us live here. You are correct in that Ronald Reagan attempted a Vulcan mind meld in the 80s. He was unsuccessful.

I have no problem with your boy doing everything he can to take total control over America up to and including rewriting the Constitution if he can get away with it. If "we" can't stop him, he wins. "We" did a p*ss poor job of trying to stop him w/ the unelectable John McCain on top of Bush-fatique.

So here we are. Knowing nothing about you, maybe you are a "gimmee free stuff" voter or simply someone unable to "make it" under capitalism or maybe you are George Soros' love child. You're pinning your hopes on BHO making your life easier. I'm betting he can't/won't do it.

You insult me .... I hold you in contempt. Tomorrow likely won't change either of our points of view.

Here's one of the questions STUDENTS asked Reagan in the PREPARED LESSON plan where he asked MIDDLE SCHOOL students to prepare questions for him.

Q My name is Cam Fitzie and I'm from St. Agnes School in Alexandria, Virginia. I was wondering if you think that it is possible to decrease the national debt without raising the taxes of the public?

Do Sean Hannity and the folks at NewsBusters think President Reagan was engaging in Maoist indoctrination? Do Glenn Beck and WorldNetDaily think Reagan was pulling a Mussolini or attempting to assemble his own Hitler Youth? Or is it possible that the conservative media has decided that if Obama is for it – whether “it” means “universal health care” or “stay in school” – they’re against it?

Agent Pierce has no retort for Reagan being the first President to address school children Nationally on 3 DIFFERENT DAYS to the entire nation, For some reason when Reagan did it, it wasn't Orwellion. I guess if A sitting President speaking to school kids is Orwellion then Reagan almost hit 1984 on the head, as Maxwell Smart would say "missed it by that much"

Jugband just owned some wingnut

Neo Mom said Obama is a narcissistic man-child with serial abandonment issues. He just NEEDS to be loved and adored. I agree with you Neo-Mom and if you told me EVERY president and WORLD leader thru the course of time wa, I would agree strongly. It's no secret that men/women who seek power have that character flaw. As a matter of fact it's a common trait for the average CEO as well. I guess sociology wasn't ever in your course load.

"Lets see, I once worked for a guy that said he was African-American. I asked him what country he was from. He said, "what do you mean?" I wanted to know which African country he was from. He didn't know. I told him that I was Euro-American, and I could tell him what country my family was from."

Did he then reply, "Well your racist ancestors forced my ancestors to come to North America as slaves. Through centuries of oppression much of their original culture was lost. Thus, I have limited knowledge of my heritage, you smug bastard."

Well agent Pierce how quickly you forget history. It was 20 years ago, so let me rewind.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 Marlin 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:

He used schools as a soapbox to champion his agenda being continued thru Bush 1. Where was the public outrage from the right wing for his NATIONAL address to school children shown nationwide.

Stop watching FOX news and start reading history books.

Well agent Pierce how quickly you forget history. It was 20 years ago, so let me rewind.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 Marlin 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:

He used schools as a soapbox to champion his agenda being continued thru Bush 1. Where was the public outrage from the right wing for his NATIONAL address to school children shown nationwide.

Stop watching FOX news and start reading history books.

"Riiiiigggghhhhttttt...... That's why he said a civilian NATIONAL SECURITY force that is just as large and just as powerful and just as well funded as the military instead of saying - hey we need to expand the current PeaceCorp and Diplomatic Corp. Sure."

Yep. Check out the full speech: .com/posts/1216451854.shtml

He's talking about expanding the Foreign Service, AmeriCorps, and the Peace Corps. I think his hypothesis is that if you do things to help people, they'll be less likely to try to kill you. I know, I know, it sounds preposterous to me too. So it can't be true. He must really be talking about creating an additional army whose primary task is to oppress conservatives. Nothing else would make sense.

guitar - not that it will matter at all to you, but the Africa thing was a complete hoax, MSNBC even retracted it.

http://www.snopes.com/info/inthenews.asp

But please, can we return to the topic at hand... Our Dear Leader...

to tboard47
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