This is the most ridiculous bullshit, I have ever heard.
When I was a kid, I wrote the President. Who didn't? And I surely was not wondering if he was a Democrat or Republican, he is the President of the United States, period.
And for anyone thinking that President Obama is going to give a speech on health care or partisan politics is utter nonsense.
This is about a racist fuck, why? Because this Jim Greer said NOTHING when President George W. Bush talked to school kids about "No Child Left Behind", nor did this individual have anything to say when President George H.W. Bush talked directly to kids during his tenure.
This kind of shit keeps the GOP in the column of "RACIST PARTY".
Some conservatives, driven by radio pundits and bloggers, are urging schools and parents to boycott the address. They say Obama is using the opportunity to promote a political agenda and is overstepping the boundaries of federal involvement in schools.
"As far as I am concerned, this is not civics education – it gives the appearance of creating a cult of personality," said Oklahoma Republican state Sen. Steve Russell. "This is something you'd expect to see in North Korea or in Saddam Hussein's Iraq."
Again, if this was one of the former "white presidents", no pun intended but it is a fact, do you think anyone would be UP IN ARMS? EXACTLY, they would NOT.
And President Ronald Reagan? Spoke to kids about tax cuts. Now if that is not PARTISAN, what is it?
On November 14, 1988, Reagan addressed and took questions from students from four area middle schools in the Old Executive Office Building. According to press secretary Marlin Fitzwater, the speech was broadcast live and rebroadcast by C-Span, and Instructional Television Network fed the program “t o schools nationwide on three different days.” Much of Reagan’s speech that day covered the American “vision of self-government” and the need “to keep faith with the unfinished vision of the greatness and wonder of America” but in the middle of the speech, the president went off on a tangent about the importance of low taxes:
Today, to a degree never before seen in human history, one nation, the United States, has become the model to be followed and imitated by the rest of the world. But America's world leadership goes well beyond the tide toward democracy. We also find that more countries than ever before are following America's revolutionary economic message of free enterprise, low taxes, and open world trade. These days, whenever I see foreign leaders, they tell me about their plans for reducing taxes, and other economic reforms that they are using, copying what we have done here in our country.
I wonder if they realize that this vision of economic freedom, the freedom to work, to create and produce, to own and use property without the interference of the state, was central to the American Revolution, when the American colonists rebelled against a whole web of economic restrictions, taxes and barriers to free trade. The message at the Boston Tea Party -- have you studied yet in history about the Boston Tea Party, where because of a tax they went down and dumped the tea in the Harbor. Well, that was America's original tax revolt, and it was the fruits of our labor -- it belonged to us and not to the state. And that truth is fundamental to both liberty and prosperity.
And this is A-OK?
This made up controversy is bullshit to n'th degree.
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This Week With Barack Obama