These people are idiots
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/05/nyregion/05murder.html?_r=1&hpHOUSTON - President Obama’s plan to deliver a speech to public school students on Tuesday has set off a revolt among conservative parents, who have accused the president of trying to indoctrinate their children with socialist ideas and are asking school officials to excuse the children from listening.
The uproar over the speech, in which Mr. Obama intends to urge students to work hard and stay in school, has been particularly acute in Texas, where several major school districts, under pressure from parents, have laid plans to let children opt out of lending the president an ear.
There are frivolous complaints. There are ineffectual complaints. There are irrational complaints.
But there is no way to characterize these complaints, and by extension the people making them, as anything other than crazy, ignorant, uneducated, and downright stupid.
Sometimes some people in this country really, really infuriate me. I hate the glamorization of stupidity and the lack of respect for accomplishment, rationality and thought they display, and how they're willing to latch onto a label they think is somehow dirty and unconditionally hate it.
And I'm unbelievably angry that people like this stand a chance of removing my family's only chance of getting affordable and decent health insurance, in the name of purging some kind of nonexistent boogeyman and denying the legitimacy of someone who is legitimate in every way.
The uproar over the speech, in which Mr. Obama intends to urge students to work hard and stay in school, has been particularly acute in Texas, where several major school districts, under pressure from parents, have laid plans to let children opt out of lending the president an ear.
There are frivolous complaints. There are ineffectual complaints. There are irrational complaints.
But there is no way to characterize these complaints, and by extension the people making them, as anything other than crazy, ignorant, uneducated, and downright stupid.
Sometimes some people in this country really, really infuriate me. I hate the glamorization of stupidity and the lack of respect for accomplishment, rationality and thought they display, and how they're willing to latch onto a label they think is somehow dirty and unconditionally hate it.
And I'm unbelievably angry that people like this stand a chance of removing my family's only chance of getting affordable and decent health insurance, in the name of purging some kind of nonexistent boogeyman and denying the legitimacy of someone who is legitimate in every way.