Obama to address your kids at school??

reefraff

Active Member
Originally Posted by bionicarm
http:///forum/post/3131668
I don't hope she's sick. I hope he didn't keep her home simply because he didn't want her to hear Obama's speech.

I know that you big dope, i was just messing with ya

I mean you might not be too bright, have smelly feet and look funny but I don't think you are mean
 

nina&noah

Member
As a teacher I can say that I think every kid in America really should have heard that speech! I think it is sad that there are kids who didn't hear it because of political nonsense. The speech was very good, my favorite parts were...
"Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No one's written your destiny for you, because here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future."
and
"These people succeeded because they understood that you can't let your failures define you -- you have to let your failures teach you. You have to let them show you what to do differently the next time. So if you get into trouble, that doesn't mean you're a troublemaker, it means you need to try harder to act right. If you get a bad grade, that doesn't mean you're stupid, it just means you need to spend more time studying."
Again, it's a shame that alot of kids did not hear this message!
 

darthtang aw

Active Member
Originally Posted by nina&noah
http:///forum/post/3131759
As a teacher I can say that I think every kid in America really should have heard that speech! I think it is sad that there are kids who didn't hear it because of political nonsense. The speech was very good, my favorite parts were...
"Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No one's written your destiny for you, because here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future."
and
"These people succeeded because they understood that you can't let your failures define you -- you have to let your failures teach you. You have to let them show you what to do differently the next time. So if you get into trouble, that doesn't mean you're a troublemaker, it means you need to try harder to act right. If you get a bad grade, that doesn't mean you're stupid, it just means you need to spend more time studying."
Again, it's a shame that alot of kids did not hear this message!
Is it a shame that the children he was speaking live in front of in the school were subjected to a Healthcare speech/Q&A session with Obama, before the nationally televised part started?
 

reefraff

Active Member
Had the white house and NEA not been pushing a totally inappropriate lesson plan to go along with the speech it wouldn't have been such a big deal.
 

zelfin

Member
So here is something i do not understand.
Every person has an opinion. By general odds that means many people will not have the same oppinions. What happened to the America that believed it was a persons right to think how they want and do as they want (as long as it is not harming others).
Instead we get intolerant people being raised in america. If you do not agree with their mentality your stupid, idotic, racist, sexist, hateful, ignorant, or whatever other name they decide to use.
I find that most of the people who feel the need to insult others are doing so because of their own little prejudices. Religions that talk down to others, people who scream racism, sexism, etc. more oftan than not are the ones who are themselves intolerant of others.
So some parents do not want their children to hear Obama. Ask yourself, how does this affect YOUR life? It doesnt you say? then what did those parents do wrong?
Congratulations all of you who condemn those parents. You are being as intolerant of other peoples differences as the KKK, Black Panthers, Radical Muslim, and yes, the Nazis. These are all groups that insisted their way of thinking was better than everyone else. They all work out great, dont they?
 

nina&noah

Member
Originally Posted by Darthtang AW
http:///forum/post/3131815
Is it a shame that the children he was speaking live in front of in the school were subjected to a Healthcare speech/Q&A session with Obama, before the nationally televised part started?
I hadn't heard that had happened. If it did infact happen, than yes it is a terrible shame!
 

uneverno

Active Member
Originally Posted by reefraff
http:///forum/post/3130855
Bushes approval ratings were in the 60's when he left office. It was the left wing fanatics who disliked him.
ermmm http://www.hist.umn.edu/~ruggles/Approval.htm
Miami was wrong to ignore the court ruling in the Gonzalez case but the real mess up was in how the feds took custody of the kid. Completely uncalled for.
Agreed, as was Waco (Clinton) and the FLDS incident in Eldorado (Bush).
It's not what's wrong w/ FL, TX or any other State. It's what's wrong with the Fed's entrenched bureaurocracy. Those people don't get replaced come left or right, but they influence policy either way in their own favor.
 

reefraff

Active Member
Originally Posted by uneverno
http:///forum/post/3132034
ermmm http://www.hist.umn.edu/~ruggles/Approval.htm
Agreed, as was Waco (Clinton) and the FLDS incident in Eldorado (Bush).
It's not what's wrong w/ FL, TX or any other State. It's what's wrong with the Fed's entrenched bureaurocracy. Those people don't get replaced come left or right, but they influence policy either way in their own favor.
You post a graph of George Bushes approval ratings in a discussion about Jeb Bush???
 

uneverno

Active Member
Whoops - sorry - I thought we were talking about Neil.
The Bush's all look the same to me. My mistake.
 

cranberry

Active Member
Knowing his speech was controversial, knowing all eyes were on him, he still slipped that in!! Does anyone else think it would have been a bright idea to totally not mention healthcare this time round and prove everyone wrong that he had an ulterior motive?
I'm not political what-so-ever... but even I said "Oh no you didn't!"
 

socal57che

Active Member
Originally Posted by bionicarm
http:///forum/post/3131581
I hope it was because she was sick.
Thanks, jerk. I guess you will be glad to hear that she suffered from spider bites. Are multiple spider bites a good enough reason to satisfy you? Maybe polio? Small pox? Malaria? What degree of suffering should she endure before you approve of keeping her home?
Shall I send you a copy of her doctor's note? Should I send one to Obama, too? How about a facsimile of her prescription. How can I ever live up to your expectations? Judgement comes, brother, but not from the likes of you. Jerk.
 

geridoc

Well-Known Member
Originally Posted by socal57che
http:///forum/post/3134484
Thanks, jerk. I guess you will be glad to hear that she suffered from spider bites. Are multiple spider bites a good enough reason to satisfy you? Maybe polio? Small pox? Malaria? What degree of suffering should she endure before you approve of keeping her home?
Shall I send you a copy of her doctor's note? Should I send one to Obama, too? How about a facsimile of her prescription. How can I ever live up to your expectations? Judgement comes, brother, but not from the likes of you. Jerk.

I'm sorry that your daughter was not well, but you were the one who inserted, inappropriately, that she had not gone to school. Do you normally post on here when she is ill and not attending school? Or only when it will seem that she did not go to school because she might be contaminated by the President of the United States? I had the same reaction that bionicarm had - the I hoped that she missed school because of a (hopefully,minor) illness, and not in some misguided right-wing protest to the President.
 

reefraff

Active Member
Originally Posted by socal57che
http:///forum/post/3134484
Thanks, jerk. I guess you will be glad to hear that she suffered from spider bites. Are multiple spider bites a good enough reason to satisfy you? Maybe polio? Small pox? Malaria? What degree of suffering should she endure before you approve of keeping her home?
Shall I send you a copy of her doctor's note? Should I send one to Obama, too? How about a facsimile of her prescription. How can I ever live up to your expectations? Judgement comes, brother, but not from the likes of you. Jerk.

Come on man, He didn't mean it like that. Could have, should have been more artfully worded.
 
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