All this brings back to mind, Dubya, sitting there in the classroom, half asleep, half awake, with the book upside down, as Americans were being burnt alive in the worst terrorist attack on the U.S. soil, the commander-in-chief instead chose to read My Pet Goat for the next eight minutes.

The past administration had their chance to promote educational excellence and failed miserably, let the new commander-in-chief have his chance to inspire the future generation of this nation.

Parents living in schools systems refusing to air the speech should keep their children home in protest AND allow them to view it in comfort.

The students would sing PRAISES to the parents…. it’s a win/win.  A follow-up letter of disatisfaction would be in order, one to the local school system and one to the overseeing state agency.

MN Gov. Pawlenty is a religious right wing wacko, but seriously…. from what I’ve read his wife is even WORSE.  It sounded as if she’s another Michelle Bachmann type.  Scary, isn’t it?

shemp333,

I was brought up to rely on Jesus, who would help me to stand, but I have to be the one who stands and keep standing for whatever it is I want to accomplish, and if I don’t give up, I will overcome with God’s help through Jesus, but if I give up, not even God can help me and that has worked in my life and will work for anyone as long as what you are doing is constructive without destructive purpose. 

These RIGHT-WING CONSERVATIVE EXTREMIST demagog Christians are using religion as a destructive tool—there is nothing at all in the Bible for their basis since Jesus.  War on nations for greed is not of God, destroying and conserving all the wealth of a nation to a few wealthy conservative capitalists to destroy that nation’s economy and make a whole common population destitute is not of God, and the RIGHT-WING CONSERVATIVE EXTREMISTS promoting racial and political hatred is not of God, either.

It’s not a surprise to me that there are some people “on the right wing” whose attitudes are firmly grounded in ignorance and hate… it’s that THERE’S SO DAMNED MANY OF THEM that astounds me! Didn’t any of these people attend school past Grade 8?

Most Americans, compared with the plight of citizens in many other countries, live in safety, comfort and luxury with more than plenty to eat (obviously). It brings tears to my eyes that so many not only take all that for granted and as their “right” but DEMAND more and more and more. There’s no reason or balance in their attacks on anyone who doesn’t 100% agree with their narrow, mean-spirited, jaded and paranoid view of the world.

It would be so refreshing to encounter even one of them who would pause and reflect on ALL SIDES OF AN ISSUE to seek the answer that adds up to WIN-WIN instead of ALWAYS in terms of WIN-LOSE.

MarthaA,

  Dammit you are one tough cookie and I do not disagree with you in any way.  I’m just looking for how best to deal with these nutters.  I just worry that we will be doing the exact same thing that they did.  I was brought up to believe in someone called jesus and another called santa claus and all that shit… but pulled out and it all made me stronger.  I am now Their worst enemy.  All I’m saying is that if they want to be ridiculous,  trust me,  the intelligent kids will figure it out all on their own without you or me.

shemp333,

There can’t be that many rotten apples in the barrel, but these rotten apples need to be removed.

Making the RIGHT-WING CONSERVATIVE EXTREMISTS be seen as the traitors they actually are would be a wonderful idea, as long as bigoted principals and bigoted superintendents can’t do anything to hurt the children.

Neither racial bigots nor conservative political bigots should be allowed to be leaders in the school system.  There couldn’t be that many and all of them need to be sought out and removed from service.  This is the 21st Century, our nation needs to quit living in their bigoted past.

MarthaA,

  I agree with what you said.  I am just not sure that firing them all would be the best way to deal with this.  Let’s think on… How about getting around them?  Let’s make them appear to the kids how stupid the traitors really are.  Youtube would be a great venue.  Children are much more tuned into the internet than most adults.  It is a generational gap they are filling in without our control or will.  I bet the kids denied will see it anyway,  and wonder what the hell the fuss was all about.  Undermining their stupid parental walls.

At noon on Tuesday, September 8th the President will be welcoming America’s students back to school – after all, sometimes they need a little extra motivation after a glorious summer. The President has spoken often about the responsibility parents have for their children and their education, but in this message he’ll urge students to take personal responsibility for their own education, to set goals, and to not only stay in school but make the most of it.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/My-Education-My-Future/

All parents taking their children out of school to undermine the President of the United States’ speech are fools and are making an egregious mistake.  And, all principals and superintendents trying to undermine the President of the United States, must be FIRED, because it isn’t proper educating to leave an impression with the children that the President of the United States can be undermined by unworthy principals and superintendents in the education field.

And by the way christian96,

  I like the way you think.  I just wasn’t sure where you were coming from with that last comment.  You straightened it all out.  Good post bro.

christian96,

  Your last post helped me understand what you were trying to say.  Thanks.  I now know what you were saying.  cool and well updated.

Shemp—-The point I was trying to make is that CNN
and other big business controlled media are trying
to mold the thoughts of people.  For example, they
reported that parents didn’t want their children
listening to our President but they didn’t tell you
HOW MANY parents are involved.  It’s probably less
than 1%.  Yet when CNN reports just the fact that
parents are keeping their children home it influenes
the thoughts of other people.  People are basically
sheep. They follow what other people are doing.
The other point I was making is that the big business
controlled media does not report on important issues
such as public schools teaching children how
interest on debt cards is calculated or how what is
broadcast on their media influences the buying habits of children and people.  People are being
deceived without even realizing it is happening.

LOL,

I just got it.  MainStream Media.  Told you I was a dumb ass!  If I only thought for 3 minutes more before posting… no 1 would know I’m a dumb ass!  Carry on!

StuartH,
  Great post.  All you said is 100% spot on.

Someone enlighten my dumb ass…  What does MSM stand for?  Just want to be sure I’m understanding this correctly is all.  Thanks.

“Stay in school, kids and get good grades” controversial!!

Obama hasnt said anything controversial since he’s been in office.

But the MSM always caters to these wingnuts, because they make good T-v! and because they are owned by wingnuts like Rupert Murdoch.

I really hope that the Republicans continue to expose their true nature to the world.  The more they expose the worse they look. 

Very true.  This hateful and ignorant part of the Republicans should help to remind us constantly why America cannot afford to let them back in any sort of leading role.  I just hope that Obama and his backers start getting a little tougher.  They do come across as weak, or not confident in their convictions. 
    I think Bill Maher said it best on Real Time a couple months ago.
  “What Obama needs is a little of that Bush attitude.  Not caring what the other party thinks and just doing what you see fit to do.  As if to say,  I’m doing this,  and if you don’t like it…  You can suck on it,  America!!!”
    Very funny,  and very true.  Grow a pair already Obama!

I really hope that the Republicans continue to expose their true nature to the world.  The more they expose the worse they look. 

If the Republicans keep up the stupidity the Republican Party will be a distant memory and will split up into its Jesus/Homophobe, Racist/Secessionist and Corporate/Greed factions.

Careful, that strain of anti-intellectualism that always runs through the fascist mentality is showing.

For people who don’t analyze the true nature of political events, this is not just
a case of nutty people getting hysterical like some St. Vitus Dance syndrome.

The radical right is using demonization and negative stigmatization in any way
they can, town halls, and now this school speech thing.  It isn’t about issues,
and it isn’t about whether the President of the United States can address
concerns about student success in public schools. 

The people organizing this have no interest in issues.  What they want to do is
to pull down Obama’s favorable poll ratings to the point where the elections in
2010 may be affected and Republicans can gain seats in Congress.  Beyond
that, they hope to retake the White House in 2012.

Why be so caustically negative?  Really, they have no constructive policy
proposals to offer.  They just want power. 

Unfortunately, a lot of people simply respond to the negative environment and
will blame Obama for it.  Many people are not prepared to see through the
manipulations.  A lot of people think the argument is really about a considered
position on whether the President speaking constitutes a politically charged
event.  It is not.  It is about people ruthless enough and unscrupulous enough
to appeal to baser instincts.  It is contemptible, but it may succeed in souring
the political climate even worse than it already has been.

it’s just racism folks, fostered AND TRUMPETED by the MSM’S corporations.

repubaholes…........turns out secession by the South was a good idea after all and the matter should be turned over to the Supreme Court with a preordained conclusion that it was a legal secession and reinstated so that there is a CSA, Confederate States of American. Then the productive states tax monies can be used in the productive states instead of propping up the ignorant, gullible, ingrate cretin of the South. Slavery and discrimination needs to be prohibited in the CSA. The whites in the South are so lazy that without blacks and undocumented immigrants the CSA WILL collapse under its own weight of incompetence inbred, brain dead, and soul dead[zombies] whites here. I live in North Georgia and just two blocks from our Rep. Broun, who decries socialism,campaign HQ there is a house with a full size NAZI FLAG flying, on the outside.

Goodness, these idiots are certifiable.  You would think that Obama was the first President to speak to the kiddies!  They’ve all done it.  This shouldn’t even be given space or time by the MSM—it’s a distraction (which is, I guess, the real reason why a mountain is being made out of this non-issue).  Anything they can latch onto is fodder.

Childish, spiteful, and unpatriotic.  I can’t believe adults act like this.

We in Europe call this the Goebbels syndrome, all politic power men, go for it.

Goebbels was the men who invented the radio indoctrination for Hitler.

Its a very dirty play, its not in any balans, its like an elephant shiting on a mouse.

What Obama has to do is to stop all this wars, than he is doing the right thing for the young American’s

christian96,

I am sure I have no idea what, if any, point you are trying to make.

  Anyway…  What could possibly be harmful or disagreable about the president wanting to give a message of encouragement to American kids as they return to school?  Talk about making a problem or issue where none exists!  There is no valid reason to keep your child away from a simple back to school message.  Not one,  not any.  RIDICULOUS!!!

and pathetic, hateful, divisive, stupid, and childish as hell.

A couple of hours ago I watched CNN reporting on
parents keeping their children home next Tuesday
so they can’t hear the President of the UNITED(a joke) States talk to them.  CNN also reported
school districts refusing to let their students
watch our President.  However, CNN didn’t report
HOW MANY parents and school districts.  Hmmmmm!
Wonder why?  You don’t think CNN is trying to mold
public opinion do you?  Naw, not in America!  I
wonder if CNN would cover a story where parents
refuse to let their children watch TV programs and
movies that are corrupting the minds of their children?  I wonder if CNN would cover a story where
parents refuse to allow their children to play
violent computer games?  How about a story where
school districts decide to teach their students how
the interest on credit cards is calculated?  How
about school districts teaching their children how
the media manipulates their buying habits?

If this weren’t so frakking insane it would be worth spending air time and column inches in discussing…

Oops! So here we are, talking about another baseless, fact-free argument ginned-up by the 20% of the population that are the real remaining core of the Rethuglican party.

Yes, and Ronald Reagan addressed students directly—with all the cameras handy—in 1987 or 88, and the topic he discussed?

Tax reform, and cutting taxes to the top tier income grabbers.

So now we have a [black] socialist [black] fascist [black] terrorist [black] mind-controlling [black] grandma-hating killer [black] Muslim brainwashed in the [black] Christian pews by [black] Jeremiah Wright—and wasn’t even born [black] in America!

Well, okay: Half-rican, since he was half born in Kenya!

And he’s taking the totally unique, never happened before (except for Reagan, Bush I and Bush the Lesser) approach of going in to attack our young, since he can’t get enough of throwing the old into health care wood chippers!

Git yer guns! Secede! Water the Tree and dip yer tea bags!!!!!!!

We thought the John Birch Society faded away? Nah. It now just wears red, white and blue elephant pins.

These anti-American few, these anti-patriots have no level so low they will not stoop to it. There is a danger in our midst, and it is them.

Your children have the right to remain ignorant. It was
good enough for their parents it’s good for them. Where
do you think good Republicans come from? Why do schools
have to fight for every dime?
We wouldn’t want our youth to become elitists with
useful knowledge and skills.

“Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota, a potential presidential contender in 2012, said Obama’s speech is “uninvited””

WOW, “uninvited”, the President of the United States does not have to be “invited” to speak to the school system of the United States by out of power REPUBLICANS.  Hogwash.

“Many school districts have decided not to show Obama’s speech, to be delivered at 12 noon EDT Tuesday, partly in response to concerns from parents.”  Hogwash again.

All public school districts that do not show the President of the United States speech should be looking for new principals and superintendents, because the President of the United States can speak to the schools any time he pleases and hopefully the President will give more speeches than one to the schools.

I do hope those who do not show the President of the United States’ speech at school do get reported, as REPUBLICANS Reagan and Bush both spoke to the schools, perhaps the REPUBLICANS are in a dream world thinking REPUBLICANS somehow have a monopoly on speaking to the school system, NOT.  There is a Democratic President in power and there is a Democratic President going to speak to the school system.  REPUBLICANS get used to a DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT being in charge of the country.  REPUBLICANS are OUT of power and hopefully for a long, long time.