An awesome letter to the editor: from the Memphis newspaper “The Commercial Appeal”
Quite a few Republicans this week have tried to claim that the death of Osama bin Laden is due to the efforts of George W. Bush, not Barack Obama. The same Bush who spent eight years chasing wild geese from one end of Iraq to another? Bush chased bin Laden with angry words and empty threats; Obama chased him with Navy SEALs.
These same Republicans will say that the recession is Obama’s fault, even though the economy began its fall in early 2007, two years before Obama became president. Now they would have us believe Bush is somehow responsible for bin Laden, even though that took place two years after Bush left office. The only way this illogic makes sense is if they believe America had two presidents at the same time for the past four years, Obama in charge of domestic policy and Bush in charge of foreign policy. That way Obama can be blamed for all the failures of the last four years and Bush can receive credit for all the successes.
Barack Obama, the guy Republicans claim is an illegal Kenyan, a secret Muslim, an unelected president, a conspirator to bring a Shariah dictatorship to America, the guy who wants to take away all our rights and guns and make big government control our lives — he’s the guy who took down America’s greatest enemy. He got the job done when your hero Bush could not or would not.
Richard Wilkinson
Amory, Miss.
(via valeriem)i remember a gse parent saying,”i don’t know what indoctrinate means, but i won’t let you do that to my kid!” after our “gse does not indoctrinate, we teach your kids lots of things” lecture.
"The story of America isn’t about people who quit when things got tough. It’s about people who kept going, who tried harder, who loved their country too much to do anything less than their best. It’s the story of students who sat where you sit 250 years ago, and went on to wage a revolution and found this nation. Students who sat where you sit 75 years ago who overcame a Depression and won a world war; who fought for civil rights and put a man on the moon. Students who sat where you sit 20 years ago who founded Google, Twitter and Facebook and changed the way we communicate with each other. So today, I want to ask you, what’s your contribution going to be? What problems are you going to solve? What discoveries will you make? What will a president who comes here in twenty or fifty or one hundred years say about what all of you did for this country? Your families, your teachers, and I are doing everything we can to make sure you have the education you need to answer these questions. I’m working hard to fix up your classrooms and get you the books, equipment and computers you need to learn. But you’ve got to do your part too. So I expect you to get serious this year. I expect you to put your best effort into everything you do. I expect great things from each of you. So don’t let us down – don’t let your family or your country or yourself down. Make us all proud. I know you can do it. Thank you, God bless you, and God bless America."
-Obama speech to school children: ‘You make your own future’ - CNN.com (FULL TEXT)(via apsies) (via think4yourself) and this is what republicans didn’t want children to hear? this brings me to tears.
"Our point is that there are some questions about this address that need to be answered, and parents need to be given the option to choose whether or not their children who are students are going to be expected to watch this propaganda in a public school. Students can’t pray in school, but they can discuss new ideas and actions that the President is challenging them to think about. Well, I know that a lot of the President’s ideas don’t reflect my values and don’t reflect the values that I would be teaching my children. And to be quite honest, there are a lot of the President’s ideas that I wouldn’t want my children discussing in a public school. It’s not appropriate, the place for that is in the home."
-Katie Gordon, Florida Republican Party Press SecretaryFlorida GOP Press Secretary: I Wouldn’t Want Obama’s Ideas Taught To My Children | TPMDC
(via think4yourself)
so encouraging children to study and make goals for themselves in school is now “propaganda”?
(via bringmethathorizon)Hearing from the government in a government-run program (ie, PUBLIC school) is bad? We aren’t being force-fed lies, here. If his ideas don’t reflect your values, then use intelligence to argue them. You said so yourself, “the President is challenging them to think about.” Not brainwashing. Not forcing. By the way, you ended that sentence with a preposition.
Oh, wait. You heard on Fox “news” that Obama is Hitler and that he’s going to kill your grandparents, so you can’t possibly look into the situation.
Stupidity: the reason there is no open dialogue.
and the john lennon shirt. so great.“hurry up and snap the pic! this dude brought some bodacious bud” - Willie Nelson
so happy about this photo, holy hell.
