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 A Back-to-School Pep Talk From President ObamaPosted on Sep 14, 2010
It’s hard to believe that it has already been a year since President Obama’s last back-to-school speech—the one that got certain detractors in a tizzy about his purported plans to brainwash America’s youth with dangerous socialist messages. This time around, his speech seemed to go over without incident, or at least without that kind of incident. Speaking in Philadelphia on Tuesday, the president advised students to stay on task with their “job” of going to school and keeping out of trouble, and he attempted to make himself more relatable by admitting, “I wasn’t always disciplined. I wasn’t always the best student when I was younger.” Presidents—they’re just like us! —KA AP via YouTube: Advertisement Previous item: 'Daily Show': Islamophobiapalooza Next item: Naomi Klein: Building an Independent Left New and Improved CommentsWe are launching a major overhaul of our comments section. In addition to more robust spam filtering and moderation, new features include the ability to rate other comments, sort how they are displayed and respond directly via e-mail or in a thread. Unfortunately, commenters will lose their existing Truthdig identities. It's a pain, we know, but on the plus side you will now be able to log in with a plethora of options, including Google, Twitter, Facebook and Disqus accounts. Before launching this system we spent months in discussion with our top commenters. We listened to the feedback and we hope you like what we've come up with. Please direct any problems or concerns to us via our contact page. |
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By Dennis, September 16, 2010 at 5:24 pm Link to this comment
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The fox was not only guarding the hen house, he was in the hen house! That freak show of a President was talking in one Philadelphia’s finest public schools while at the same time he and Arne Duncan are doing everything they can to dismantle public education and its teacher unions. Yes, kids, do your best and maybe you too can grow up and become a complete and total fraud like your president.
Report thisBy ofersince72, September 15, 2010 at 2:45 am Link to this comment
I didn’t watch this video, I can’t stand his voice
anymore.
However, he has a captured audience of youngsters.
I bet he didn’t tell them of his Health Ins. reform bill.
Report thisOr the fingers getting cut off in Afghanistan, or
How he orders predator drones to kill a dozen people in
order to get at one “suspected” enemy.
Or what the “enemy” is, because us adults don’t even
quite understand who and what the enemy is.
All the unemployed understand.
I bet he didn’t tell them about the $20 billion deal
he made with the CEO of BP.
I bet he didn’t tell them that we have an
E C O N O M I C…...D R A F T….system into the military
and that will probably be their only choise of
employment after graduation.
I din’t listen….so I don’t know what he told them…..
By G.Anderson, September 14, 2010 at 9:49 pm Link to this comment
Words are one thing, but when words have no back up then, they have no meaning…
Yes, everything you said Mr. President is laudable, and who could disagree…?
But, speaches are more than words, not something like a book, that you can set down, and forget about or put in your book shelf, with the other books you’ve read.
But what makes words dangerous, and inspiring, is the will behind them, the will that makes them real, that takes them from the abstract, and puts them to work, with sweat and blood, and muscle and guts.
The life of a scholar, is life lived with borrowed knowlege. Borrowed knowledge, that doesn’t belong to you.
Does reading about being a president make you a president? No it does not..
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