–-It’s not about the text of the speech, as he is being closely scrutinized and therefore it became inocuous, it’s about the subtext. It’s about the radical activism of the White House Teaching Fellows who designed the education guides tied to Obama’s speech.

–It’s about the overzealousness of public school educators who have turned classrooms into Obama campaign offices.

–It’s about the influence of the left-wing social justice crusaders of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge on Team Obama.

–It’s about the Left’s embrace of Obama Chicago pal Bill Ayers’ pedagogical philosophy of “education as the motor-force of revolution.”

–In essence, It’s not about the Obama’s speeches, it’s about Obama’s leeches, and how they are trying to influence a new radicalism.
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——HOW GHWB’s SPEECH TO SCHOOLCHILDREN WAS HANDLED BY DEMOCRATS———

That was then, this is now – how Democrats treated GHWB’s speech to schoolkids
Posted by: Sister Toldjah on September 8, 2009 at 10:22 am

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock the last week or so, you’ve seen and maybe even commented about the controversy surrounding President Obama’s speech to schoolchildren, which he has either already given this morning at Wakefield High School in Arlington, VA or will give sometime today (I don’t know the exact schedule of events).

I don’t really have an issue with him giving a speech to schoolkids – provided there is no line in it about how the kids can “help the President” with his agenda (thankfully, there isn’t), and provided it’s pretty innocuous (it is). In fact, it appears as though there is a tradition of sorts surrounding Presidents giving “pep talk”-type speeches to public school students at least once during their respective administrations, and usually in the fall.

What’s interesting to me about all this is the hypocrisy angle. Byron York has a detailed look at how the left treated George H.W. Bush’s speech to school kids in October 1991. They didn’t kick up much of a fuss before the speech, but they sure as heck did after it – even launching a GAO investigation as to whether or not it was appropriate:

Democrats, then the majority party in Congress, not only denounced Bush’s speech — they also ordered the General Accounting Office to investigate its production and later summoned top Bush administration officials to Capitol Hill for an extensive hearing on the issue.

Unlike the Obama speech, in 1991 most of the controversy came after, not before, the president’s school appearance. The day after Bush spoke, the Washington Post published a front-page story suggesting the speech was carefully staged for the president’s political benefit. “The White House turned a Northwest Washington junior high classroom into a television studio and its students into props,” the Post reported.

With the Post article in hand, Democrats pounced. “The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students,” said Richard Gephardt, then the House Majority Leader. “And the president should be doing more about education than saying, ‘Lights, camera, action.’”

Lost in all the denouncing and investigating was the fact that Bush’s speech itself, like Obama’s today, was entirely unremarkable. “Block out the kids who think it’s not cool to be smart,” the president told students. “If someone goofs off today, are they cool? Are they still cool years from now, when they’re stuck in a dead end job. Don’t let peer pressure stand between you and your dreams.

Not only that, but lost in all of this is how conservatives are being treated as “nuts” by the MSM for being concerned about what the context of Obama’s speech was going to be (the speech transcript was finally released over the weekend), whereas the MSM obviously played an active role in perpetuating the liberal myth that GHWB’s speech was nothing more than “political propaganda.”

Mainstream media hypocrisy? Check. Congressional Democrat hypocrisy? Another check.

Same crap, different day.

sistertoldjah.com/…/that-was-then-this-is-now-how-democrats-treated-ghwbs-speech-to-schoolkids/ - 8 hours ago

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–So, I guess all that is left then is for Republicans to begin house oversight hearings…

http://www.althouse.blogspot.com/…/when-president-george-hw-bush-gave.html

–In case you missed it…

Released: August 31, 2009

Zogby Interactive: Loss of Democrats’ Support Helps Bring Obama Job Approval Down to 42%

Several Core Constituencies Souring on Obama

UTICA, New York - President Barack Obama’s job approval rating is down to 42%, with a decline in approval from Democrats the leading factor.

Doc–

So the rightie-tighties think it’s not about what Obama says but what they THINK they would want him to say. What they imagine.

What a sad group of folks you belong to.

They hate the president for what he says and does OR what he doesn’t say or do.

Just THINK about what that says of YOU.

It says you ahte Obama , the president of the United States because ….FOX TOLD you to.

BTW Gallup has Obama at +53% today.

Shame on you.

Gamecock –

Isn’t THIS one of your leaders ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsCIpOLA6GU

Bunky,

I’ve been wearing the foil on my head for two days, now. I still don’t see the lizard people. How long does this take, and can I take it off when I shower?

Jellio & Hkchastises,

–What, no explanation or comment on the hypocrisy angle? Shocking!
–Only insults and ad-hominem demagoguery? More shocking. Lord I love it when liberals are exposed. Thanks for playing along…

–BTW-Latest Gallup Presidential approval…Sep 3rd, Approval-51%…
Nice try, or should I say lie, Hkchastises.

Bunky,

I find that bladder control can be an issue with the foil on my head when I stand in front of the microwave. Do you have the same problem?

Jellio,

–Is your head inside the microwave at the time? That would be the problem, as you know you’re not supposed to put foil in the microwave.

Posted by Gateway Pundit at 9/08/2009 11:53:00 AM
NBC: Parents Who Oppose Dear Leader’s Youth Speech Aren’t Smart Enough to Be Raising Kids (Video)
How dare they interfere!

NBC says that the parents who objected to Dear Leader’s speech to America’s youth are not smart enough to be raising their own children:

Via Free Republic and FOX Nation

When Bush 41 spoke to American students, Democrats investigated and held hearings.

More… Rumor has it that Dear Leader was questioned by another plant this morning.
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—No Jellio, they are not referring to a ficus…