[ebuddy]

I love the confusion and "outrage" here over some opposition to President Obama speaking in public schools. Where were these people calling the opposition tin-foilers when Bush spoke in a Jr. Highschool in 1991???

• Washington Post; "The White House turned a Northwest Washington junior high classroom into a television studio and its students into props"
• Rep. William Ford, then chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, ordered the General Accounting Office to investigate the cost and legality of Bush's appearance.
• On October 17, 1991, Ford summoned then-Education Secretary Lamar Alexander and other top Bush administration officials to testify at a hearing devoted to the speech.
• The National Education Association denounced the speech, saying it "cannot endorse a president who spends $26,000 of taxpayers' money on a staged media event at Alice Deal Junior High School in Washington, D.C. -- while cutting school lunch funds for our neediest youngsters."

Hypocrisy you can believe in.

[CreepDogg]

Originally Posted by ebuddy 

I love the confusion and "outrage" here over some opposition to President Obama speaking in public schools. Where were these people calling the opposition tin-foilers when Bush spoke in a Jr. Highschool in 1991???

• Washington Post; "The White House turned a Northwest Washington junior high classroom into a television studio and its students into props"
• Rep. William Ford, then chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, ordered the General Accounting Office to investigate the cost and legality of Bush's appearance.
• On October 17, 1991, Ford summoned then-Education Secretary Lamar Alexander and other top Bush administration officials to testify at a hearing devoted to the speech.
• The National Education Association denounced the speech, saying it "cannot endorse a president who spends $26,000 of taxpayers' money on a staged media event at Alice Deal Junior High School in Washington, D.C. -- while cutting school lunch funds for our neediest youngsters."

Hypocrisy you can believe in.

So basically, your argument is "The other team acted like a bunch of morons in 1991, so it's OK for my team to act like a bunch of morons now." Brilliant. Way to raise the level of discourse.

[SpaceMonkey]

Originally Posted by ebuddy 

I love the confusion and "outrage" here over some opposition to President Obama speaking in public schools. Where were these people calling the opposition tin-foilers when Bush spoke in a Jr. Highschool in 1991???

• Washington Post; "The White House turned a Northwest Washington junior high classroom into a television studio and its students into props"
• Rep. William Ford, then chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, ordered the General Accounting Office to investigate the cost and legality of Bush's appearance.
• On October 17, 1991, Ford summoned then-Education Secretary Lamar Alexander and other top Bush administration officials to testify at a hearing devoted to the speech.
• The National Education Association denounced the speech, saying it "cannot endorse a president who spends $26,000 of taxpayers' money on a staged media event at Alice Deal Junior High School in Washington, D.C. -- while cutting school lunch funds for our neediest youngsters."

Hypocrisy you can believe in.

I don't know, I wasn't working for the Washington Post in 1991?

[Chuckit]

Originally Posted by CreepDogg 

So basically, your argument is "The other team acted like a bunch of morons in 1991, so it's OK for my team to act like a bunch of morons now." Brilliant. Way to raise the level of discourse.

Word. Giant freakin' WORD. What is it that makes people think "He did it first" is a legitimate excuse?

[ort888]

Well, to be fair, those sound like a few opinion pieces on the matter... not a very vocal movement of people pulling kids from classrooms for fear of socialist indoctrination.

But who freaking cares. All of this crap is so painfully moronic. Can we stop paying so much attention to the wackos at the very edge of both groups who always do stupid crap like this and focus on actual issues and not retarded sensationalism.

Yes, this weirdos are funny, but how much time do we need to report on them?