2009-09-05, 04:24 PM
I read about this on Yahoo on Thursday and posted on my personal forum about it. If I'm mysteriously mixing up two events, then feel free to yell at me... :f6:
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Me Wrote:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20090903/ ... ws_pl888_1
I found that really stupid. I think it's a great idea Obama wants to speak to the students of American schools about education, and it's been blown FAR over proportion. The Cato Institute's quote makes me think they're Republican, out to get Obama. The White House sent suggestions for a classroom discussion, not instructions on what to do. Heck, it's not even being enforced. It's like with the presidential election (the actual day Obama was given the full title on January 20th). Some schools aired it live, some showed a clip of the speech (which amazed me further the second listen). I know that many schools across the nation did not show off the event (can't even think of the name of it ), but what effect was there? None. But it was a learning opportunity to know what our government is up to, and that shouldn't be a priviledge, but more of a right to me. Why be secretive when the people should know what's going on? This speech sounds like a fine idea by me and the Republicans are being plantain Cheney (spelt wrong I believe) and Rush Limbaugh about it. I HAAAAAAAAAATE republicans. If any of you are, I don't mean I hate you, but I hate the republicans in the government and political party. They NEVER try to help with realistic stuff and they love to complain. Maybe we'd get crap done if we had more democrats. And it's obvious how fail-hard the republican party is if you have plantain Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, and Sarah Palin as the figure heads. They targeted a girl who asked a question at a school auditorium to Obama (or his staff, don't remember). wtp? Really? She lost her rights to ask a question and be answered? I don't even remember what was asked, but if it was THAAAT "on-the-edge", why didn't it make TV headlines for the RIGHT reasons?
Just some thoughts.
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