People should be ashamed of themseves. ASHAMED. I'm certainly ashamed of them.


President Obama's remarks for tomorrow...yeah, that's some scary shit. <eyeroll>

So, as is normal, the White House has released the prepared remarks President Obama will give at a high school in Virginia tomorrow.

You should read them. Go ahead. I'll wait.

I kept reading and reading. Waiting for the indoctrination to begin. Waiting for the socialist theory to start. Waiting for the evil, the EVIL that was surely contained within to make people go completely off their rockers, as they have been doing.

Instead the speech was motivating. And full of those ideals that the right wing thinks they OWN, like responsibility, accountability, self-direction and discipline.

Instead the speech was relevant. Citing goals and visions of the future that today's kids might aspire to and that today's adults should want them to aspire to. Not just to cure cancer, but to invent the next iPhone. Not just to teach kids like themselves, but to start companies that create jobs.

Instead the speech was moving. Telling stories about growing up with a single mom, without a lot of money, not fitting in, not always being the perfect kid...but choosing the right path and turning away from a dimmer future to seek the brighter one.

I'm so disgusted with certain factions in this country right now, I can barely speak.

What makes it even more disgusting is that many presidents, just in my lifetime, have addressed kids in a similar fashion, and were sometimes much more political about it. Oh, but that's right: Those were Republican presidents, so i guess that's OK then.

For example, check out Reagan's 1988 speech to school kids. [Link to video.]

Or, read the transcript. [PDF.]

You know if I'd been a parent back then, I'm not sure I would have appreciated him making politicized remarks to my kids about low taxes and religious faith.

I don't know whether the right's mock outrage is purely politically-based, or if there's a dash of good old-fashioned racism thrown in for flavor. Either way. they should be ashamed of themselves.

Posted: Mon - September 7, 2009 at 10:12 AM       EmailFeedback

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