What a difference a year makes.
At the start of last school year, Republican teabaggers were in hysterics that President Obama was going to address students on the first day of school on the importance of education, staying in school, working hard and perseverance. Parents threatened to boycott the schools, and some even threatened recruit “other parents to keep their children home on fall student count day if the district aired the speech.”
This was the height of the Astroturf teabagger movement, and they falsely claimed the President telling the kids to study hard, stay in school and work hard was “socialist indoctrination.” Rightwing talk radio hosts even tried to organize a "Keep Your Kids Home." That crap led many districts allow student to opt out, tape it to show later instead of live and some even ignored it.
On Tuesday at 1 p.m. President Obama will deliver his second annual Back to School speech on at Julia R Masterman Middle-High School in Philadelphia, PA. The President’s Back to School speech will be streamed live on the White House web site, and schools can also view the speech on CNN which has said it plans to take the event live.
Despite all the false rhetoric and outright lies from the right and the Republican noise machine, the news about this year’s speech has been extremely quiet. Apparently, right-wingers are too busy trashing the 1st Amendment to worry about this annual event by all U.S. presidents.
4 comments:
Barack Obama is a socialist? How did I miss that?
You're like a lady on pms. So dramatic. Last years speech was changed by the White House because of something he was going to say that the parents flat out disagreed with and yes, parents did threaten to hold their children out of school on that day so as not to subject them to the narcisist in chief.
A search of fact check will tell the truth as opposed to what's read on this site.
Father of the world greatest McDonald's employee ever we all know if the roles were flipped and it was school district in a blue state that let parents pull their kids out of school during one of Bush speeches to school kids, you and your thinking challenge right wing buddies would be raising all kinds of hell.
Thanks for the compliment, coming from an anonymous coward like you it means a lot.
I don’t believe the speech was changed by the White House or anyone else. I never said parents did not “threaten to hold their children out of school,” and in fact, I said they did.
I’m still waiting for you to prove something written, at least by me, on this blog that is false, anonymous coward.
Again, anonymous coward, I’m still waiting for you to back up your outrageous lie that we were “nearly shoulder to shoulder once.”
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