I wonder...
The text of Obama's speech to schoolchildren tomorrow (today)
Really? All you hardcore uber-neo-conservatives who receive your marching orders from Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh are making such a big stink about this? A message encouraging children to work hard and do well in school so that they may do well in life is really that subversive and evil?
I think if there's anything missing from our public education system, it's the inability to ensure that people coming out of it have all of the necessary critical thinking skills so that they can form their own opinions about things and aren't so easily swayed by garbage like this supposed controversy.
And I know the media is just making a big deal of this, like they always do; tempest in a teapot as it were. And I know ~99% of real people really don't buy into this crap or care in the least. But it's a real shame that the inane and endless partisan bickering has really devolved into whether an encouraging and benign stay-in-school-and-try-to-succeed message from the President has been morphed into some kind of plot to brainwash schoolkids into rolling over and accepting the socialist agenda and not questioning the government. It is really beyond belief, and I thought I saw crazy during the George Bush years.
And if there is really anyone out there reading this that actually thinks this speech to schoolchildren will somehow destroy our liberties and encourage us all to accept government intrusion in our lives, then where the hell were you then the PATRIOT ACT was passed?
Really? All you hardcore uber-neo-conservatives who receive your marching orders from Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh are making such a big stink about this? A message encouraging children to work hard and do well in school so that they may do well in life is really that subversive and evil?
I think if there's anything missing from our public education system, it's the inability to ensure that people coming out of it have all of the necessary critical thinking skills so that they can form their own opinions about things and aren't so easily swayed by garbage like this supposed controversy.
And I know the media is just making a big deal of this, like they always do; tempest in a teapot as it were. And I know ~99% of real people really don't buy into this crap or care in the least. But it's a real shame that the inane and endless partisan bickering has really devolved into whether an encouraging and benign stay-in-school-and-try-to-succeed message from the President has been morphed into some kind of plot to brainwash schoolkids into rolling over and accepting the socialist agenda and not questioning the government. It is really beyond belief, and I thought I saw crazy during the George Bush years.
And if there is really anyone out there reading this that actually thinks this speech to schoolchildren will somehow destroy our liberties and encourage us all to accept government intrusion in our lives, then where the hell were you then the PATRIOT ACT was passed?