Many conservatives enraged over Obama school speech – CNN.com.
The latest controversy to swirl around our Commander-in-Chief’s head is the one where all the conservative folks are up-in-arms about Obama delivering a pep talk to kick off the school year
“‘Thinking about my kids in school having to listen to that just really upsets me,’ suburban Colorado mother Shanneen Barron told CNN Denver affiliate KMGH. ‘I’m an American. They are Americans, and I don’t feel that’s OK. I feel very scared to be in this country with our leadership right now.’”
God forbid our leader should exercise his First-Amendment rights, or schoolchildren should hear a message from their president.
“Florida GOP Chairman Jim Greer released a statement this week accusing Obama of using taxpayer money to “indoctrinate” children.
‘As the father of four children, I am absolutely appalled that taxpayer dollars are being used to spread President Obama’s socialist ideology,’ Greer said.”
Say–wasn’t Bush reading “My Pet Goat” to a classroom full of kids in Sarasota, Florida, when the attacks of September 11th took place? I suppose he was trying to indoctrinate them into the seedy underworld of animal husbandry.
“In November 1988, President Ronald Reagan delivered more politically charged remarks that were made available to students nationwide. Among other things, Reagan called taxes ’such a penalty on people that there’s no incentive for them to prosper … because they have to give so much to the government.’
Once again, I guess if you’re a Republican, it’s okay to make political statements to our nation’s schoolchildren? Is that the message I’m getting here?
“‘As far as I’m concerned this is not civics education — it gives the appearance of creating a cult of personality,”‘ said Oklahoma state Sen. Steve Russell, a Republican.
Well. You really gotta work hard to make a Republican so mad he’ll quote a song by Living Colour. You mean to tell me that Dubyah didn’t have his own “cult of personality,” as Senator Russell so indelicately puts it? Well than how did a complete and utter moron manage to get elected to the highest offiice in the land, not once, but twice!?
In washington, of couse, it’s all about spin; I reckon if you’re party’s leader is in power, he has a “strong following.” If the other guy’s party’s leader is in power, it’s because they have a “cult of personality.”
Really, when you boil it down, this is just a bunch of political grandstanding by embarrassed conservatives grasping at any straw, no matter how ridiculous or absurd, to distract people from the fact that their party had complete and total carte blanche for eight years and in that time have managed to drive this country to the brink of complete ruin.
