Obama Addresses the Students....

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Its a speech where he tells kids to stay in school. How is that objectionable? When I was a kid we heard speeches from Reagan and Bush 41 in school.

I guess you kids are too young to remember Nancy Reagan and "Say NO to Drugs". Or the "President's Fitness Challenge" that used speeches from every single American president since JFK.

If all of you oppose "government involvement" in your kids education, maybe you should consider sending them to schools that aren't ran by ... you know ... the government.

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Its a speech where he tells kids to stay in school. How is that objectionable? When I was a kid we heard speeches from Reagan and Bush 41 in school.

I guess you kids are too young to remember Nancy Reagan and "Say NO to Drugs". Or the "President's Fitness Challenge" that used speeches from every single American president since JFK.

If all of you oppose "government involvement" in your kids education, maybe you should consider sending them to schools that aren't ran by ... you know ... the government.

Is that to me (or folks like me)? And who is a "kid" to you? Someone that has 11 years on you of life? I was getting into middle school the day you were born, man. I have a daughter only a couple of years younger than you. I'm no "kid."

It's not the President's job to "tell the children to stay in school." It's the parent's job. It's my job. And your "comparison" above is almost like apples and oranges. The same as it is used to help further the populace into a better/healthier/more educated living, but the above wasn't blasted and broadcast into every school in the Nation. I was there. I know.

And before you keep the insults flying my way, it has nothing to do with Obama. I voted for the man. Later, QD.

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Its a speech where he tells kids to stay in school. How is that objectionable? When I was a kid we heard speeches from Reagan and Bush 41 in school.

I guess you kids are too young to remember Nancy Reagan and "Say NO to Drugs". Or the "President's Fitness Challenge" that used speeches from every single American president since JFK.

If all of you oppose "government involvement" in your kids education, maybe you should consider sending them to schools that aren't ran by ... you know ... the government.

Funding of Bush Speech Draws Fire; Democrat Calls Education Broadcast Paid Political Advertising' [FINAL Edition] The Washington Post (pre-1997 Fulltext) - Washington, D.C. Author: Kenneth J. Cooper; Eric Pianin Date: Oct 3, 1991 Start Page: a.14 Section: A SECTION Text Word Count: 664
The Democratic critics accused [Barbara Bush] of turning government money for education to his own political use, namely, an ongoing effort to inoculate himself against their charges of inattention to domestic issues. The speech at Alice Deal Junior High School, broadcast live on radio and television, urged students to study hard, avoid drugs and turn in troublemakers.
[David T. Kearns] defended the $26,750 expenditure, calling the messages that Bush conveyed to schoolchildren "an important part of the mission entrusted by statute" to the department. An administration official said the costs covered lighting, taping and transmitting the speech via satellite. A videotape will be provided to the White House for deposit in the National Archives, the official said.
Rep. Martin Frost (D-Tex.) said that if Bush feels obliged to use government funds to hire outside consultants "to make him look good," then he should fire some of the public relations experts on the White House payroll. "Then the president might be more sympathetic to unemployment benefits," Frost said, referring to Bush's threat to veto legislation to extend benefits.

The dems wanted to prosecute Bush 41 for doing the same thing that Obama did yesterday... Just sayin...

My son will not be going to a public school, I prefer the charter school that is here. They have gotten higher test scores, smaller student to teacher ratios, and more parent involvement.