Scarborough rips conservatives for seeking ratings by scaremongering about Obama’s education speech.
By on Sep 3rd, 2009 at 3:50 pm
Scarborough rips conservatives for seeking ratings by scaremongering about Obama’s education speech.
Earlier today, ThinkProgress noted that conservatives are freaking out over President Obama’s upcoming speech to schoolchildren about “persisting and succeeding in school,” claiming that it is actually aimed at political indoctrination. On MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, host Joe Scarborough ripped into the hyperventilating conservatives. “Seriously, why don’t we want the president of the United States, any president of the United States, delivering the message to kids: work hard, stay in school, succeed,” said Scarborough, adding, “get your ratings if you want, you’re just screwing your political party.” Watch it:
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It is utterly flabbergasting that ANYONE would generally have an issue with this but the far-right, neo-nutbags that get their news from the local Klan church and newsletters that are dropped from Rove’s office every morning, and actually BELIEVE something that Glenn Beck is spewing and getting this to the level of ANY debate is wing-nuttery at it’s peak…
PLEASE IGNORE THIS CRAP IN THE FUTURE…..
September 3rd, 2009 at 3:56 pmScarborough rips conservatives for seeking ratings by scaremongering about Obama’s education speech.
– - Could Joe be courting moderate Republicans and independents, eyeing a run in 2012? Hmmmm, but then there’s his dead intern problem….
September 3rd, 2009 at 3:56 pmHe’s right.
September 3rd, 2009 at 3:56 pmWhat to call the latest conspiratorialist fixation..
noskoolers.. doctrinaters .. scarers..
September 3rd, 2009 at 3:58 pmi guess it’s okay when ray-gun gives speeches to schoolchildren.
http://belowthebeltway.com/2009/09/03/reagan-gave-obama-like-speech-to-schoolchildren-in-1988/
September 3rd, 2009 at 3:59 pmEvery once in awhile Mr. Scarborough says something against his party, and everytime he does it gets reported as if we should ge grateful or something. This man was part of the “Contract ON America” Congress, so I dont care what he says he’s irrelevant.
I said this before and I’ll say it again, there is no such thing as a clear thinking, respectful, stand up for what’s right, Republican. Mr. Scareborough should do his show from the house floor and say that to all of his buddy’s faces, then we’ll have us a show.
Sorry, not buying it.
RIP
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:00 pmSGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq
If anyone’s seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail, there’s a scene where Lancelot is attacking a castle, and the build up is that the two door guards have been seeing him coming for hundreds of yards. He finally gets to the door, kills one of the guards and rushes into the castle. At this point, the second guard looks into the castle and says, very quietly, “Hey?”
Joe Scarborough is the second guard.
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:00 pmHowling Crap! Joe’s right on something? And not in the right as in reich sense?
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:01 pmGotta buy lottery tickets today.
Joe’s got nothing to lose by being a Republican who speaks with a voice of reason. With so many others behaving like lemmings and choosing the crazy road, Joe is presenting himself as a rational alternative. Moderate Republicans are an endangered species. Here’s hoping that they can find their way out of the dark pit that they keep digging.
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:03 pmraynman,
That is perfect.
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:03 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Doctrinater!!
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:04 pmAthena says:
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:03 pm
Prove that the “blacks” have a stereotypical view of education.
I assume you aren’t saying that in a good way.
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:06 pmThis kind of radical behavior from the right is going to be their downfall, reasonable people will be turned off. Education is not a goal of the GOP, they are afraid of the message stay in school, get a good education, learn to think. An educated population will be a lot less susceptable to lies and misrepresentations that the GOP is so famous for. The right fear Obama giving a message that most people would consider as a great thing to be telling young people.
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:07 pmMy hope is the Republicans KEEP digging a hole, never to see the light of day again. The more they rant and rave like this, the less they are seen as capable of THINKING, much less governing. And if your espoused viewpoint is that government can’t govern, they GET THE HELL OUT OF GOVERNMENT and let people who want to do right by government be in those positions.
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:09 pmWhy does the Republic Fascist Party hate American kids?
Fcuk the Republic Fascist Party
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:09 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Anyone else here see the sweet irony of the dead-enders objecting to President Obama’s speech to school children because he will “indoctrinate” them?
These morons, themselves, are willingly “indoctrinated” day in and day out by the likes of Darth Cheney, Little Seanie Vanity, Rush Limpballs, FoxSnooze and all the rest of their like-minded wannabes.
To that, I say: “Pot, meet kettle”.
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:11 pmGood for him – I’m so tired of this daily faux (and Fox) outrages by the winnuts.
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:11 pmoops, did you hear that noise?
Listen again.
Yeah, I heard it.
That’s the sound of the republican party cannabalizing itself.
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:11 pmAthena says:
Wow I didnt know that this was about teachin us ignant “blacks’ that edgemucashun is good!
RIP
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:12 pmSGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq
Joe Scarborough is looking to run for office again and now he’s using his shop to get votes. Yes Joe Scarborough was a Law Maker who represented Flordia but his secretary was murdered and Joe quickly had the investigation dropped as he then resigned from Office and his friends got him the TV gig. Now with Republicans having problems with the crimes they committed so Joe is looking to get back to getting those free pay for play bucks to pay off the favors he’s been given by the Republican Party.
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:12 pmMy indoctrinator told me not to listen to what the Republicans think. He says they don’t like the larning and the thaynkin. He says they are meanies and that I should right an assay abut it. And then send it to him. Cuz my edumacation is portent.
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:13 pmI’ve been in a lot of white communities that don’t care one bit for education, and know of a lot more than I’ve seen, Glenn Beck’s 9/12ers, for instance.
There’s no difference, Athena,
no matter how much you want to believe there is.
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:14 pmAs far as I can tell, the far-right resistance is based on denial that a black man can be president and worthy of respect as such. Moreover, they don’t want their kids to know that the President is one of “them.” More than all their other antics to date, this one seems to be racism pure and simple.
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:14 pmJoe Scumborough is just covering his a$$ on a network where all of the newest talent and highest ratings are going to Keith Olberman, Ed Shultz, and Rachel Maddow.
This is purely selfish and self perserving on his part.
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:15 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Joe got one part right, though…
The Republic Party is screwing itself.
Enjoy it, Republics, it’s about as close to good sex as you’ll get!
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:18 pmNo, it goes beyond racism, bureaucrap. This is to totally delegitimize the notion that he is President. It because of those damn Democratic values! The Pubs have become so totally insane that I’ll bet dollars to donuts they would be delivering screeches if Biden was President.
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:18 pmtombaker says:
There’s no difference, Athena,
no matter how much you want to believe there is.
Remember the commercial, “You Can Learn A Lot From A Dummy”.
Enuff said.
RIP
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:18 pmSGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq
Athena says:
I think he is a great inspiration for blacks in this country. And i believe in a lot of black communities School is considered not cool and more of a white thing.
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:10 pm
Wow. So all the dumb-assed racist white crackas around here who think school is for pansies are really black.
Thanks.
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:19 pmI am purely basing this on my personal observation as a student in a public school.
HEHE and Athena holds back the rod and casts a beauty across the water.
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:20 pmUnfortunately, Ed Schulz, Rachel Maddow et al are only preaching to the choir. I listen to them once in awhile, and they have great things to say, but what good does it do if you’re only reaching the people who already agree with that viewpoint?
Personally, I think Scarborough is a total opportunist, but when did that ever stop anybody?
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:21 pmSo all the dumb-assed racist white crackas
Whoa! was that necessary Zoo?
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:21 pmAthena says:
I didn’t mean it as an insult I think it could be very beneficial especially to the black community. I am purely basing this on my personal observation as a student in a public school.
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:16 pm
How old are you, and how many public schools have you attended?
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:21 pmTundra says:
Whoa! was that necessary Zoo?
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:21 pm
Probably not, but I’m trying to make a point here.
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:22 pmBelieve me, Joke had an alterior motive by making that comment, he is a Reicher through and through.
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:24 pmDid Meeka object?
It’s funny how the conservatives are worried that Obama may be trying to “indoctrinate” the kids, when other conservatives in the more right leaning states are trying to change the school syllabus to teach more right leaning theories, thoughts, and figures over any other. (This includes Rush Limbaugh’s life story!)
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:24 pmI am 17 and in my life time I have attended 5 different public schools.
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:25 pmProbably not, but I’m trying to make a point here.
Sorry, just hate that word. Carry on.
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:25 pmAthena says:
I didn’t mean it as an insult I think it could be very beneficial especially to the black community. I am purely basing this on my personal observation as a student in a public school.
When you grow up you need to travel more, I think you might sh!t on yourself if you saw some of the “black” students that are excelling in academics. Are there some who dont, hell yea, and there are too many that think that education is BS, but there are many more who dont think that way. This is not a color thing, but as with anything else that our President wants to do, the focus on his color, or the hatred of his color comes out. Dont use words like most, the majority, etc., you sound like Bob Bennett or Meghan McCain.
Also you might want to go to the South or to the more rural areas in the country and check in on some of your own, you might end up eating your words.
RIP
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:26 pmSGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq
I am 17 and in my life time I have attended 5 different public schools.
Ummm, this explains a lot…Athena’s a military brat.
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:28 pmMy bible is your manifesto. Let’s face it, we’re all indoctrinated during our education. It definitely depends on where you grow up. I was lucky enough to grow up in a pretty liberal area and to think independently. I have friends who grew up in upstate New York, and there is a definite difference in the way of thinking. If it’s a choice between learning about Limbaugh and learning about Mao, I’ll go with Mao…
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:29 pmUmmm, this explains a lot…Athena’s a military brat.
What would be explained by Athena being the child of a soldier?
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:29 pmAnd a racist too. When will you acutally grow up and leave the 6th grade?
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:29 pmAthena’s 17. Cut her some slack, folks. On the other hand, Athena, Tired of fighting is right. Bad attitudes about pursuing education — and good ones — are not tied to race.
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:31 pmTundra says:
Ummm, this explains a lot…Athena’s a military brat.
What would be explained by Athena being the child of a soldier?
Just that their children typically move from school to school while the military family moves from base to base…
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:31 pmAge and being a military brat, if that’s all actually true, is no excuse for racism. Period.
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:33 pmAthena says:
I am 17 and in my life time I have attended 5 different public schools.
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:25 pm
Uh huh. And how many states/places have you lived?
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:33 pmIndoctrination?
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:34 pmHow about the “war on drugs” DARE program that was forced on public school children throughout the country?
They sent narcotics officers out to every elementary school and introduced them to every kind of drug, it’s effects, and how to use it.
To ten year olds!
But since it was Reagan and Bush’s program the conservatives couldn’t wait for their middle class suburban children to learn all about drugs.
And they did.
Athena
I am 17 and in my life time I have attended 5 different public schools.
and are these schools you attended all in kentucky or south carolina ? What books do you read at your white’s only country club?
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:34 pm“conservatives are … claiming that it is actually aimed at political indoctrination”
Wasn’t there a thread a few days ago about Repiggies and Texas school books to only show Conservative values heros and such?
They sure weren’t screaming about political indoctrination then, now were they.
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:35 pmZooey says
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:21 pm
How old are you, and how many public schools have you attended?
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Don’t be too hard on the troll. Since he is basing his opinion solely on his experience in a public school, one must presume he hasn’t seen much beyond the remedial classes, where students of all colors probably aren’t wild about school.
If he could see the AP classes, he’d see almost all of the students there — black, white, and all other colors — place quite a bit of emphasis on education.
Athena is like any of the six blind men and the elephant…judging the entire world based on his little corner of it.
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:35 pmJust that their children typically move from school to school while the military family moves from base to base…
While that may be true, 5 public schools is not that many. Take Brockport New york
Grades PreK to 1st grade – Ginther school
Second and third grade – Barclay Elementary
Fourth and fifth Grade – Fred w Hill School
Six through eight- Oliver Middle School
Nine through Twelve – High School
There would be the five if Athena lived there and would could very possibly have very little military influence.
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:36 pmI am purely basing this on my personal observation as a student in a public school.
Socialist!
/kidding/
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:37 pmi just heard on the APradio news that obama has changed his plans about this… something about the lesson plan, so as not to be controversial…
i just don’t know anymore……..
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:37 pmAge and being a military brat, if that’s all actually true, is no excuse for racism. Period.
Agreed there is no excuse for it.
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:38 pm17?
Cripes. lighten up a bit peeps
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:40 pmI’ve spent a good portion of the day reading comments left on the local news site here. It absolutely scares me the hateful and bigoted comments from supposedly educated people.
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:40 pmWhat a terrible thing to encourage students to aim high, get a good education.
How old is Athena’s imaginery friend?
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:41 pm***
several of anthena’s far right friends have
been busted and have just pleaded guilty,
can you guess for what?
**
the “family values” crowd strikes again.
:|
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:42 pmI am incredulous – Scarborough is making sense this time.
That the rightwingers would take an inocuous address to children, reminding them to do their homework, study hard and get ahead in school so they can be better adults is beyond the pale.
Yet, they have riled up a large portion of the populace, including eductors who should know better.
Both former presidents, Bush, addressed school children. And their sainted Ronald Reagan – during his address to school children – actually extolled the benefits of tax cuts!!
I do not remember any outcry from anyone on any of these former addresses.
Obama is releasing the text of the address one day early so schools can pre-screen it for suitability. Can you believe that?!
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:42 pmOur school children are being discouraged from the president – is this before or after they say the pledge of allegiance?
The rightwingers will be the ruination of America.
I’m not so convinced that Scarborough is saying this to take a liberal stance.
Folks that watch him are at least more sentient that most of the folks watching Rush et al. Consequently, they can hopefully notice stupidity a little better also.
I think that Scarborough is trying to hold onto the ones in the repub party who still exercise at least some of their brain cells.
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:43 pmI will gladly lighten up on racism when there is no more racism.
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:43 pmIt does not matter what Obama does or says. These idiots just plain hate him and all that he stands for. That is why I do not understand Obama trying to do a bi-partisan bill. IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN.
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:44 pmAthena says:
I agree! He could help remove the stereotypical view most blacks have about education
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Exactly what is this stereotypical view that MOST blacks have about education?
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:44 pmAthena says:
You were basing it on your ignorant racist preconceptions and of COURSE it was offensive. Just how stupid are you anyway?
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:46 pmI was a military kid, and I found that it broadened my world view and made me better understand that we are all members of the human race.
I guess that might not be true of all military kids.
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:48 pmAthena says:
17? I will cut you SOME slack. Time for some serious introspection about the assumptions you toss out so casually.
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:48 pmZooey says:
I was too. My father was a 20 year Marine and for a time a DI at Parris Island which IS in SC. He would have had my butt had I been so casually racist as Athena was in her first post though
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:50 pmI know an extreme hottie from Brockport NY and she turned out just fine….
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:51 pmAw gee, I was a military brat and I turned out OK…
…maybe not while I was at Ft. Leavenworth.
/snark
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:52 pmHas anyone looked thru a Texanistan school book lately?
Mein Gott.
Those kids need all the confidence building they can get after having their heads pumped and tested with that narrow slice of reality.
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:53 pmI guess that might not be true of all military kids.
If Athena is a immature, ignorant racist, it means no more than that.
It does not mean that:
-People who attended 5 public schools are racist.
-Military children are racist
-People from Kentucky or South Carolina are racist
-People who are religous are racist
-People who are 17 are racist
In their attempt to prove WHY Athena is a racist, several people on this site have had no problems painting that broad brush stroke across several (innocent) groups.
Can’t it just be that Athena is a racist?
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:53 pmI know an extreme hottie from Brockport NY and she turned out just fine….
Gotta love college towns.
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:55 pmThat’s right Joe….btw, Mika,looking nice as always…:)
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:56 pmWingnut education strikes again…
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:57 pm“Former Regent University Asst. Dean, Wife Plead Guilty On Child Sex Abuse Charges”
http://crooksandliars.com/logan-murphy/former-regent-university-asst-dean-wi
Tundra says:
Can’t it just be that Athena is a racist?
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:53 pm
That was my first inclination.
September 3rd, 2009 at 5:00 pmI apologize to the black people I have offended. I just see a lot of black males being very aggressive to females and frankly it scares me. Honestly I am aware of how racist my statement must sound but, it is too obvious of a situation for me not to notice that it is mostly a black thing that I observe. I am planning a trip to Europe next summer and hopefully my small view of the world will get a little bigger.
September 3rd, 2009 at 5:00 pmGreat point. Most homeschoolers are white trash types. I think they have more of a problem with education than black communities.
September 3rd, 2009 at 5:03 pmA few less wackjobs running the streets
September 3rd, 2009 at 5:04 pmThe guy who kidnapped the young girl and held her for 18 years fathering two children and had an extensive history of abuse is a WHITE MAN. STFU a$$hole.
September 3rd, 2009 at 5:05 pmHa!
September 3rd, 2009 at 5:06 pmAthena, if you’re a 17 year old girl traveling in Europe, you’ll soon discover that male aggression has no race or nationality boundries.
Just another racist statement.
You want to learn to open your mind visit Detroit or NYC for the summer!
September 3rd, 2009 at 5:07 pmAthena,
I’m not black, but you have offended me.
Please, enjoy your trip to Europe, and keep your eyes, ears and mind open.
September 3rd, 2009 at 5:09 pmI try tomaintain a little pity for stupid people. Many of them are stupid through no fault of their own. That being said, there’s something profoundly wrong with anyone who would be afraid to have the President of the United States adress their children.
I recall, a long time ago, when I participated in the Presidential Fitness Testing. Using the technology of the day, it included a short film featuring John Kennedy, who was already dead, explaining the importance of fitness. It was an honor to hear the man himself.
And, a few short months ago, these same sick freaks would have seen this address in the same light. They would, correctly, see it as an honor to receive as personal a message as possible from our President. I guess it’s just another example that the opposition to Obama is neither logical nor patriotic.
September 3rd, 2009 at 5:10 pmBut white guys not so much?
seriously?
Quick Quiz:
What kind of guy is in the news this week for a “unique” relationship between his wife, himself, and his eleven-year-old kidnap victim and their children?
September 3rd, 2009 at 5:12 pmGive up while you’re behind, trollette. All you are doing is making yourself look like a real POS.
September 3rd, 2009 at 5:12 pmI am not implying blacks hold a patten on aggressive behavior toward women. And it absolutely goes both ways and, I am not denying that one bit. I also am not a hateful person but observant, I thought, until I came here and it a seems my observations are strictly racist.
September 3rd, 2009 at 5:12 pmFirst Athena’s racist attack was about the lack of respect to an education by “Teh Blacks” and now it’s about agressive black males. And we all know that all agressive males are black, right Athena??
By the way…whites, blacks, hispanics, asians etc. are all offended by racism.
Apologize to everyone here or none.
September 3rd, 2009 at 5:13 pmI applaud the man for standing up for what is right. And if it were Bush 41, Bush 43, Carter, or Clinton, I would say it is ridiculous to deny the children the right to hear the President of the United States’ address. In fact, I would go so far as to say it is downright unpatriotic. You don’t have to agree with him, but you should respect the office of the Presidency no matter who is in it.
Actually, the question really should be that if a school is keeping their students from hearing a public address from the President, aren’t they the one’s guilty of indoctrination, particulalry those who say they have to record the address on tape and review it before they present it to their school.
In fact, I would recommend that if your children’s schools are doing this, you ask for the lesson plans from the teachers the day before, because in my opinion this is leading to a Michel (slit-out-wrists) Bachmann – like cult following.
September 3rd, 2009 at 5:13 pmAthena says:
I also am not a hateful person but observant, I thought, until I came here and it a seems my observations are strictly racist.
September 3rd, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Ok, you’ve made an observation about yourself. You can’t un-know it. Take it with you every moment of every day, and make a difference.
September 3rd, 2009 at 5:22 pmAthena,
Please accept a little sincere advice from someone who is older and more experienced than you. If you have to say, “I apologize to the black people I have offended“, it’s best to stop right there.
September 3rd, 2009 at 5:22 pmI thought you were Mr. P. Now you’re a 17 year old? Yes your opinions are strictly racist. You probably don’t realize because your parents are ignorant crackers too. Realizing you have a problem is the first step. You have several. And the word is “patent” Einstein.
September 3rd, 2009 at 5:26 pmScare mongering, fear mongering, obstructionism, spewing hatred, thinly veiled racism, promoting lies, encouraging hatred, these are the only things the gNOp have left to offer the American people, other than war, tax cuts for the wealthy and tax breaks for the corporations.
September 3rd, 2009 at 5:27 pmI have to wonder about the people that are worried that President Obama is going to indoctrinate their kids in school. I mean who is going to do something about the indoctrination of the people that listen to Rush and Glenn and Sean that aren’t even in school?
And if the logic follows that presidents shouldn’t come to a classroom, then what the heck was President Bush indoctrinating the 2nd grade class in Florida when he was reading My Pet Goat to them?
September 3rd, 2009 at 5:27 pmMy 14 year old daughter was in France, Germany and Italy for a month this summer. And she said she’s never seen anything like the Italian boys/men. I don’t think they’re black Athena.
September 3rd, 2009 at 5:28 pmLearn the first rule of holes Athena. By the way often what we observe is colored by the preconceptions we bring to the observation. Quantum mechanics says that the very act of observing a phenomena effects it. Here is an observation. Anytime you begin hating in a group you are making a mistake. Anytime you push an observation of a small set to be universal to a larger set you are almost certainly making a mistake. You are young. Take stock of the preconceptions you bring to your observations AS you make them. Identify them. Analyize whether or not they are valid universally or at all.
September 3rd, 2009 at 5:28 pmThey worry about President Obama indoctrinating their children but they’re anxious to send them to God Camp and routinely have the military coming to recruit them.
September 3rd, 2009 at 5:30 pmScarborough, you are a mystery wrapped in an enigma…
Half the time you’re chumming up with big corporations (Starbucks) and repeated controversial conservative talking points, then on other weeks you flip around and say something respectable, if not downright hilarious. Which man are you? Do you have multiple personalities? Quit toying with me!
September 3rd, 2009 at 5:30 pmI might add that a lot of good, smart, people are racists. Often they don’t even realize it. My late step-mother is a perfect example.
She was a life-long self-professed “liberal” and wouldn’t have voted for a Republican to save her life. She even spoke out against discrimination of all kinds. And yet?
I witnessed on many occasions that she would clutch her purse or even shift it to the other side of her body when she approached anyone who wasn’t of “her kind”. Over time, being observant, I came to realize that just about everybody wasn’t “her kind”. She was, in fact, the single most bigoted and judgmental person I’ve ever met. Yet she went to the grave believing that she wasn’t so.
September 3rd, 2009 at 5:31 pmThe market is up and retailers are doing better than they expected. Fox has to make up this hateful insanity so they don’t have to talk about the fact that the President’s economic policy is working.
September 3rd, 2009 at 5:34 pmIt would be amusing if the stakes were not so high, Shayne. Even when they try to argue about a legitimate issue, military policy for example, they don’t rationally question the policy. They blabber about him “giving aid to terrorists” or some other made-up rot.
September 3rd, 2009 at 5:37 pmI find it very ironic that the people who object to President Obama speaking to their children because they fear that Obama will indoctrinate them about a socialist agenda while they are sitting in a PUBLIC (socialized) school.
September 3rd, 2009 at 5:39 pmI don’t know that it’s terribly ironic, LibertyLover. At least not to them. It seems like they are from a group which is pretty hostile to public education to begin with. They are definitely the type who “don’t want their school associated with evolution” or much anything else that accurately examines the real world.
The really sad part is that they will deprive, and damage, their own children to preserve their delusions.
September 3rd, 2009 at 5:46 pmWhy do I have the feeling that people objected to Obama conveying his message to schoolchildren because they think the message might encourage more black children to succeed and eventually become President, too? Or ascend to positions they think should go to them? That can’t be behind this ridiculous scaremongering, can it?
September 3rd, 2009 at 5:48 pmLibertyLover is oh so right. People who are frightened of Obama’s “socialism” are also more than happy to take Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security or SSI benefits or to call police and fire in emergencies or drive on public roads. All are paid for in common and are forms of socialism.
They tried to portray Obama and his wife as terrorists (remember the fist-jab?), they tried to manufacture a deeper relationship between Obama and Bil Ayers, they tried to assign the anger (justified as it were) of Reverend Wright to Obama, in addition, they tried to portray him as too young to be president. So they have done their best to characterize him as a young, angry black man.
Now, as president, the stimulus package has passed which is surpassing early estimates in success, the auto bailout has been effective in getting clunkers off the road, while clearing dealer inventories.
These are being portrayed as socialist (gasp!) programs.
He is promising to change our health care system from the profit driven exclusive club for healthy persons to an all inclusive, public plan where everyone has a choice to participate and he is being compared to a communist.
He is planning to give a “Bill Cosby” address to kids returning to school, admonishing them to study hard and succeed. That is compared to Hitler’s brown shirts.
I believe that the covert and increasingly overt racism still existing in this nation is behind this latest attempt to destroy the character of the president.
September 3rd, 2009 at 7:01 pmThey cannot beat him if they don’t practice these dirty, nasty tactics, and this appeals to more people than I like to imagine.
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September 3rd, 2009 at 7:32 pmfancy airball there,
slap-a-doodle-doody.
better take a rest now.
September 3rd, 2009 at 7:45 pmSlappyMORON
Still here begging us to pity you. Still showing just how stupid and pathetic you are. It wont work. It is desperation. You are addicted to pity. You are stupid we know that but we have pitied you enough. Get help. Find some dignity and self respect. The principle I stated is well know. That you are so stupid you dont know ANYTHING except how much you crave out pity isnt anyones fault but your own. Have the self awareness to be embarassed at how stupid you are.
September 3rd, 2009 at 7:56 pmSLAM DUNK!
September 3rd, 2009 at 9:14 pmSlappyMORON
My GOD you are stupid. You still wont get any of my pity
September 3rd, 2009 at 9:25 pmpete says:
I try tomaintain a little pity for stupid people. Many of them are stupid through no fault of their own. That being said, there’s something profoundly wrong with anyone who would be afraid to have the President of the United States adress their children.
I recall, a long time ago, when I participated in the Presidential Fitness Testing. Using the technology of the day, it included a short film featuring John Kennedy, who was already dead, explaining the importance of fitness. It was an honor to hear the man himself.
And, a few short months ago, these same sick freaks would have seen this address in the same light. They would, correctly, see it as an honor to receive as personal a message as possible from our President. I guess it’s just another example that the opposition to Obama is neither logical nor patriotic.
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I remember this too. It was a special time – the President’s fitness program – and I remember that ’60’s, ’70’s public educational system seemed excellent. We knew way more information and remembered it.
To complain and protest about the President of the United States speaking to our country’s school children is anti-American.
September 3rd, 2009 at 9:25 pmSo… it appears SlapStupidBastard has slam dunked something into his mouth and he is so very proud of it.
I just hope he’s not m0lesting another little b0y again….
September 3rd, 2009 at 9:26 pmdixie blood says: I am sorry but this is all I have. Life has been unkind, this is all I know. Please help!
September 3rd, 2009 at 9:38 pmShayne says:
Great point. Most homeschoolers are white trash types. I think they have more of a problem with education than black communities.
September 3rd, 2009 at 5:03 pm
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Most are white; but trash?
“Research from the mid-1990s through the mid-2000s is quite
consistent in regards to the demographics of who home schools. These families differ from the average American family in that they are: more likely to be white, more likely to be headed by a married couple, more likely to have greater numbers of children, more likely to be headed by college-educated parents, more likely to have larger annual incomes, and more likely to be state certified to teach.”
“A multitude of studies concerning the student achievement of home educated children have been conducted. Over 25 different studies indicate that these students score above national
averages. Only two studies have demonstrated otherwise.”
http://usm.maine.edu/soc/collom/collomlchd.pdf
September 3rd, 2009 at 10:46 pmok so they’re Mormon.
still nobody cares.
September 3rd, 2009 at 11:18 pmLet’s face it…He’s a black man talking to children..That is their problem with him…I thought we as a country were more evolved that this…so sad
September 4th, 2009 at 12:41 amThe social concepts mentioned, have a lot to do with adults’ healthy attitudes : 1) A measure of ‘working hard’ is personal, because adults typically maintain a wide range of goals in their working lives, which may represent to a family the ‘fruits of their labor’! 2)’Staying in school’, probably should be considered best, along side of ’staying out of jail’, and 3) A ’success’ is probably a person who is both happy, and productive, and does what he or she likes compared to what his or her parents did, or presently do!
September 4th, 2009 at 12:50 amupright left says:
Thank you for debunking the stereotype that homeschooled chldren are “White trash”.
September 4th, 2009 at 2:04 amNah, Repugs get plenty of good sex. But I think they finally figured out that screwing themselves is cheaper than hiring prostitutes.
September 4th, 2009 at 11:42 amLet’s keep in mind that Bush was speaking to school children in Florida the morning of 911. Our country has apparently be come dumber through that process.
I would rather have an intelligent man with a command of the language speaking to kids.
September 4th, 2009 at 3:33 pmHey GOPER’S, honestly are you people on the right insane? Don’t you know why we want a well-educated populace? It’s because if you don’t have an educated and well-informed public, people will vote for a Grecian Formula cowboy (Ronald Reagan) or some moron who never suceeded in anything in his whole self-absorbed life, (George W. Bush).
As a result of these two cowboys we had Iran-Contra (selling arms to Iran, the same country that took U.S. citizens hostage and had state-sponsored terrorism. Then taking those illegal profits and promoting a war in Central America). Or you can have 220 U.S. Marines killed in Beirut, Lebanon. Why they were their is still a mystery to me!
Or you can have a president invade the wrong country after 9-11. That is why education is important! If you’re well-educated and well-informed, you know your Geography and don’t invade and destroy the wrong country, after being attacked.
September 5th, 2009 at 1:38 pmyou for your sharing.!
September 7th, 2009 at 10:31 am