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Originally Posted by MMM
You have all the right-wing buzz words in all the right places. I also like how you did REFUSED in all caps. The speech will be available on line before he gives it. There were many components to the suggested in-class and homework assignments, one of them being "How will you help the president?" A completely innocuous question unless you are of the mind that the president is a boogie man trying to steal our children from us like the Pied Piper. Only then would that question appear ominous and intimidating.
Because of protests, that question was removed from the assignments, and what is the result? He is accused of backpedaling. Sorry, you can't have it both ways.
Just out of curiosity, what do you honestly think he was going to say in his speech, before it was "sanitized"?
Besides the error in Palin comment, remember all of these comments happened during an election. Clinton disrespected McCain and Obama, and McCain certainly had his digs in on Clinton and Obama. It's an election. It's what happens. When it's over you shake hands and move on. McCain did. Clinton did. Sounds like samurai007 has not.
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Did the left shake hands after Bush won in 2000? Or when he won again in 2004? Heck no. Now the shoe is on the other foot, and Obama should expect the same resistance Bush got from beginning to end.
As for what I feel Obama would have said, I think he'd have pushed his agendas on a variety of subjects, including socialized medicine, environmentalism, etc. I think it would have been a soft-sell, aimed at a younger audience, not a fiery hard-sell campaign style speech, but still full of assumptions about what Obama believes and is pushing for. I think he was going to ask kids to get involved in these issues in some way, which is what the homework was referring to. I think he would have couched things in terms that young kids couldn't see through, such as "socialized medicine just wants to help poor people who get sick..." Never mind whether there are better free-market ways to accomplish that goal, he'd leave kids to believe that opposing his plan means you must want poor people who get sick to suffer and die... an impression I'm sure he's only too happy to instill, since they say as much in their rhetoric to adults too.