Thread: Presidential speech to our children.

Originally Posted by honedright

Respected, yes. Deified, no.

He (any president) is Commander in Chief of the armed forces, not the people. If he wants to speak with my kids, he can ask me first.

I bet your children don't hear or learn anything without your permission.

Nobody complains about all the Armed Forces advertisements encouraging our children to enlist (and I have the utmost respect and admiration for our soldiers and vets), but as soon as our President starts telling kids that they can achieve great things with their education, it's intolerable.

What was it? 5 minutes long? People need to get over it.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

The republicans are ruthless and are only interested in playing politics to place themselves in the best position come 2010 and the democrats are spineless wimps overall who won't stand up to them now just as they didn't when dubl U was in there messing everything up that he touched. We're in a helluva shape in the meanwhile.

Oh come on Jimmy. you could switch "republican" with "democrat" in the above quote and it would still make just as much sense

Originally Posted by commiecat

I bet your children don't hear or learn anything without your permission.

That's right. I'm one hard @$$'d straight razor wielding sunuvagun.

Cheers

Originally Posted by hoglahoo

Oh come on Jimmy. you could switch "republican" with "democrat" in the above quote and it would still make just as much sense

Maybe they have more in common than they have differences? While we bludgeon the crap outta each other. Oysters and champagne along thePotomac, business as usual.

Originally Posted by hoglahoo

Oh come on Jimmy. you could switch "republican" with "democrat" in the above quote and it would still make just as much sense

Funny how often that is true no?



-Rob

Originally Posted by hoglahoo

Yes you did. He's young and inexperienced and he's got a funny name. And did I mention he's black?

That, Ogie, is why the people are afraid of him

And his ears stick out reeeeel far. He might be an alien.

<--------- Obama?

Originally Posted by honedright

And his ears stick out reeeeel far. He might be an alien.

An illegal alien. WHERE'S THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE?!

Originally Posted by hoglahoo

Oh come on Jimmy. you could switch "republican" with "democrat" in the above quote and it would still make just as much sense

That is why as a life long registered dem I switched to 'No party affiliation'. When Scoop Jackson died the rest were dems in name only .....excepting Senator Robert Byrd and maybe Senator James Webb.

BTW, not to change the subject but as far as health care goes if they will give all of us the same policy they have that would be fine ..... or take whatever it is they do pass for themselves instead.

Originally Posted by majurey

I read that both Reagan and George Bush Snr made similar speeches as Republican presidents. I have no knowledge about those.

How were they received, both before they were made and after? Was there the same level of distrust before the speech was delivered? If not, why might that be?

Note: those questions above are entirely open questions. Please do not read any sarcasm or implied agendas, as there are none. I genuinely would like to know if there were differences between how the motivation behind those speeches were perceived compared to the criticism Obama is receiving now.

I was in middle school when Reagan made the speech. We didn't get to watch it as our schools lacked funding for such an endeavor. Lack of TV's and the cable hookups and so forth with bad reception in the mountains using an antenna. I called an old teacher I know and asked why we didn't see it back then and she said that was why. God Bless Mrs. Lewis apparently she tried to get a taped copy but to no avail. But as I recall there wasn't a major deal made of it. I will say perhaps we could have seen it, had Reagan not cut funding for education, perhaps not.

When Bush made his, I recall some flap about it, but once the nature of the speech was made public, the flap died down out of common sense.

I can't understand why a speech of encouragement from a sitting President would be considered an indoctrination or worse yet, a brain washing to our youth.

Seriously do they think he's going to bring a hypno-toad or something. Besides it'll be a long while before those children will be voting anyway.

Plenty of time to be re-brainwashed.

I've yet to hear the speech be criticized for the actual content. It's always that ever special talent of the Conservatives to look into that crystal ball and tell us what "is really" going on and what "is really" being said.

Originally Posted by joscobo

It's always that ever special talent of the Conservatives to look into that crystal ball and tell us what "is really" going on and what "is really" being said.

Another idea that can be flipped and still be just as pertinent!