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ANALYSIS

School Speech Uproar Shows Country Divided

In addressing kids, Bush 41 didn't have problems like Obama's

By Kevin Spak| Posted Sep 4, 09 12:44 PM CDT|

(Newser) – When George HW Bush gave a televised address to a public school in 1991 and urged schools around the country to show it in class, no one much cared. When President Obama announced plans to do the same, he drew outrage and comparisons to Chairman Mao. That’s America in 2009. "The country is far more polarized," Todd Gillman writes for the Dallas Morning News.

Back then, CNN was considered neutral, Fox and MSNBC didn’t exist, and Bush aroused few passions. “Sometime between Bork and impeachment it became progressively less civil,” says a political researcher. The Obama administration also hurt itself by using the “c” word, suggesting the speech be added to the curriculum. “The Department of Education is prohibited from doing anything with curriculum,” says a Bush education official. The word “is radioactive.”

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Then-presidential hopeful Barack Obama talks with students at Carver Elementary School during a tour Thursday, Feb. 7, 2008, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Barack Obama isn't sure why there's such an uproar over his address. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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godawgs
Sep 4, 09 12:55 PM CDT

Here i will just say it so everyone else doesn't have to, it's because he's black and the right is a bunch of red neck racists. Reply

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Reader64481089
Sep 4, 09 12:57 PM CDT

Nice of you to admit what is so readily apparent to the entire world

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LovinLife
Sep 4, 09 1:01 PM CDT

Is anyone on the right complaining that the NASCAR Drivers are encouraging kids to do well in school and listen to the President's Speech? This is just another outbreak of RWC (right-wing-crazy) and the CDC should be alerted promptly.

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Doctor_Zaius
Sep 4, 09 1:01 PM CDT

I finally found something to thumb you up on doggie.

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godawgs
Sep 4, 09 1:02 PM CDT

just wanted to save everyone some time, and DR you are my number 2 fan...thanks for all of the support.

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IndependentThinker
Sep 4, 09 1:02 PM CDT

Sad but mostly true. The base is, which makes up a large portion of the right. Odd thing is that the right's base is also very religious Christians too. Yet they fight things like universal heathcare and equal rights, which from my reading Christianity's main man, Jesus, would have been, and was at the time, very for.

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sache
Sep 4, 09 1:14 PM CDT

Amen godawgs. It is so crystal clear that only the people who are part of the problem will not admit racism is at the core.

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Newser001
Sep 4, 09 1:15 PM CDT

@godawgs - Now you're flat out lying... Doctor_Zaius is the 2nd highest user WHO DOESN'T LIKE GODAWGS'S COMMENTS.

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godawgs
Sep 4, 09 1:21 PM CDT

@ewser it was a joke, way to use that caps lock.....

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hybrid
Sep 4, 09 1:47 PM CDT

independent thinker.....your right we are all racist. we have held you down, there we are just profiting off your misery,,wawawawwa go cry me a river you pansy it aint the 50s anymore

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JonmarkP
Sep 4, 09 2:07 PM CDT

There is also a deep division between healthy people and the few screaming paranoid schizophrenics down at the bus station. But the bus station people don't get their own TV "news" network and daily coverage in the press. Will Obama eventually figure out that you don't try to meet crazy people half way?

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Snowleopard
Sep 4, 09 2:32 PM CDT

totally agree godawgs.

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Jayster999
Sep 4, 09 3:23 PM CDT

It's because he's a leftist radical and moderates and conservatives are shunning him in droves.

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Jayster999
Sep 4, 09 4:02 PM CDT

This comment has been removed by Newser’s community. You must be logged in to view this comment.

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godawgs
Sep 4, 09 4:11 PM CDT

but I will also post this link so that we know that both parties do the exact same thing. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/sep/03/arne-duncan/barack-obama-not-first-president-address-school-ch/

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jl92008
Sep 4, 09 7:27 PM CDT

no it's because he's using the schools as a political platform that's inappropriate for our President. I don't care what color he is, i care what he's doing and saying. Pull your head out, just because someone doesn't agree with Obama does not make them a racist. Stop playing the race card and start talking about facts and issues.

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jamerican
Sep 4, 09 7:44 PM CDT

Thats not a bad start but you need to add he is a half white imposter socialist who will only address my white children with his brainwashing BS when hell freezes over.

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WallyEFunk
Sep 4, 09 11:15 PM CDT

I'm speechless Dog.

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UrUndertaker
Sep 4, 09 12:55 PM CDT

"In addressing kids, Bush 41 didn't have problems like Obama's".....Yea, Bush is white and the Dems didn't go insane as the Party of no apparently has with one lie after another from Birther to the school speech, just total Republican b/s and time to quit pandering to the squalling idiot party of Repub Racist Party Reply

+21

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doingtherightthing
Sep 4, 09 3:32 PM CDT

undersnaker......playing the race card again... Let me break it to you gently dipstick. Not all consertatives are Republicans and those who lean right are not all bigots like you A-hole. Go tell your mama!

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godawgs
Sep 4, 09 3:54 PM CDT

@urundertaker check out the link, apparently he did have a problem from some democrats. so does this mean that the democrats are racist too? http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/sep/03/arne-duncan/barack-obama-not-first-president-address-school-ch/

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OWLWOMANXXXX
Sep 4, 09 7:12 PM CDT

not many crazies in the Democrat Party

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AnnieOkie58
Sep 4, 09 12:57 PM CDT

Ever since President Obama been in office..no matter what he does...the republicans bitch about something...then you have the people who bitch because he is black...Well you know what all you bitchers...for no longer then he has been our President...he has done a mighty fine job so far..trying to get our country back on track...so quite your bitching and start giving him some credit. Reply

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odowd80
Sep 4, 09 2:02 PM CDT

Just imagine how much better off the country would be if even a handful of Rethugs broke ranks and voted their conscience.

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AnnieChrist
Sep 4, 09 5:00 PM CDT

Unfortunately only a handful of republicans have a conscience.

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NewserScooter
Sep 4, 09 11:59 PM CDT

You have got you be kidding, a fine job. I don't think even Obama would agree with that. Certainly not the hard left.

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RockyPneumonia
Sep 4, 09 12:59 PM CDT

If the country's divided, it's because the Republicans found it politically expedient to divide it; all President obama did was to schedule a fairly benign speech. Reply

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godawgs
Sep 4, 09 1:24 PM CDT

of course it's always someone else's fault isn't it?

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odowd80
Sep 4, 09 2:04 PM CDT

@godawgs: you don't think politics have changed since Fox News and Carl Rove came to town? The right purposely seeks to divide citizens in every election with guns, God, and gays. You're being pretty childish not to admit that.

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godawgs
Sep 4, 09 2:19 PM CDT

@odo do you really believe what you type? so now you are blaming all of the country's problems solely on Karl Rove and Fox news?

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odowd80
Sep 4, 09 2:48 PM CDT

@dawg: no, I'm saying tactics employed by the right have served to divide, rather than unite, the country.

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godawgs
Sep 4, 09 2:51 PM CDT

@odo you can admit then, that to some degree the tactics of the left do the same thing right?

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odowd80
Sep 4, 09 7:44 PM CDT

@godawgs: absolutely not. Obama ran on a platform of Hope and Change. Healthcare reform, a withdrawal of troops in Iraq, and improvement of the economy were also important to the campaign. How are those issues divisive? Meanwhile, McCain and Palin were insinuating that Obama was a friend of terrorists. Its obvious the right has honed division to an art and you are delusional to think that the Dems pushing a positive domestic agenda is divisive. If you disagree, I'd love to see some examples of the Dems engaging in divisive politics.

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godawgs
Sep 4, 09 11:22 PM CDT

@odo so you don't consider bill ayers a domestic terrorist?

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Newser001
Sep 4, 09 1:08 PM CDT

I'm sick of the hateful right and their disrespectful, destructive behaviors. Let's us not pander to those who seek to undermine our Nation, our values, our future - Disrespecting, attacking the Office of The President with unfounded assertions will define and create a precedence - Vicious cycles, one that we ALL will regret for all eternity. We are teaching our young to disrespect authority, our Nation and its office's. We are ALL facing a future of a truly unhealthy archaic society where chaos will reign if this doesn't stop. Repubes', just imagine when it comes your turn to hold the reigns, is this the life you wish for...? Reply

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godawgs
Sep 4, 09 1:23 PM CDT

they just lived it for the last 8 years...now since a dem is in office we should all play nice and respect the office right? are kidding me maybe you just locked up your protest signs in the garage until a republican wins office again and then it will be open season huh?

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Newser001
Sep 4, 09 1:27 PM CDT

You're making your own bed - One day you'll be laying in it.

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godawgs
Sep 4, 09 1:29 PM CDT

okay you made yours for the last 8 years how is it?

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hybrid
Sep 4, 09 1:51 PM CDT

godawgs i am your biggest fan you always get a thumbs up from me!

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Newser001
Sep 4, 09 2:02 PM CDT

@godawgs - You seem to have an exceptionably selective memory - WE were ALL lied to about the war, WMDs, governmental inaction, incompetence, lack of governmental oversight (SEC, etc), mismanagement of the economy, sub-prime, 40:1+ borrowing ratios within the securities' industries, banking abuses, credit and credit card abuses, Katrina, etc, etc, etc... Is this what you're referring to? Was it really wrong to address the fallaciousness, incompetence, the electoral fraud the GW administration and GOP pretreated upon its own citizens? Again, is this what you're referring to? As former soldier, we were subjected to total and complete incompetence with regard to the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Compounded with the needless deaths of our own and civilians of other Nations. You and your party got us here - Live with it. You have very little, if nothing to bitch about, the way I see it.

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Fondue
Sep 4, 09 2:06 PM CDT

Damn your nose stinks.

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odowd80
Sep 4, 09 2:07 PM CDT

@Newser001: haven't you heard? You're just a biased partisan hack if you point out the failures of the Bush administration.

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godawgs
Sep 4, 09 2:21 PM CDT

@odo kind of like you are bigoted racist redneck if you don't like all of the President's policies..

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godawgs
Sep 4, 09 2:27 PM CDT

@newser actually what I was referring too was the claim by the left wing that now we should just stop arguing with President, and all get along. The left doesn't understand how the right just can't play follow the leader, because the left played follow the leader and be quiet while Bush was President. Now that you bring up other things, we can look at them if you want, first the Supreme Court stated that Bush won. Why is the Minnesota Supreme Court decision that Frankhen won good enough for the left but the US Supreme Court for Bush isn't? Two as for all of the mismanagement of funds and credit cards and abuse and all of that, that happened with both parties. As a former Sailor I don't know what to tell you about Iraq because my job was to put war heads on foreheads and we did that. maybe you need to find your ncoic and yell at him if you didn't thing you were being treated right or had incompetent leadership. Now didn't on to the financial industry, didn't the democrats decide it was a right for everyone to own a house? Now that the democrats have control of everything how is the country doing?

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odowd80
Sep 4, 09 2:53 PM CDT

@godawgs: Once again you are full of shit (on the homeownership issue this time). http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/housing/2004-01-20-fha_x.htm

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WallyEFunk
Sep 4, 09 11:25 PM CDT

8 years of good economy THANKS to no one. corporate greed , and tax breaks to the 250,000 plusers,not paying down the deficet,in times of good. screwed us all. Getting bail outs now on tax poayer dime. Economey was tanking BEFORE O'bama got in .but some PPL smugley saying not the last governmnens fault.OMG. protest yes. LIES slander NO. imtimidation NO. "THE TREE OF LIBERTY...ETC" OMG... gadawgs.

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Forderon
Sep 4, 09 1:09 PM CDT

As I said in other comment threads, this is a symptom of the polarized culture we live in today. The mass media and Internet lend themselves to bipolar shouting matches rather than nuanced civil, nuanced discussion. It doesn't have to be this way, but it is. Reply

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hybrid
Sep 4, 09 1:49 PM CDT

stfu you pussy(just kidding)

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Fondue
Sep 4, 09 2:07 PM CDT

kill yourself jk?

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Even-Steven
Sep 4, 09 1:52 PM CDT

I know it's been said a million times so i'll make it a million one. He's our President, all of us if you voted for him or not. President Bush was my President, now it's President Obama. I am not 100% convinced it's the race card thing but we're way too divided on this as a country. Unfortunately we'll need another 9/11 to get our dumb asses to think like Americans instead of Dems or Repubs. This is getting out of control! he just wants to speak to children like every President as far back as i can recall has! let it go! Reply

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Fondue
Sep 4, 09 2:09 PM CDT

I do not think another 9/11 is necessary. Republicans need to stand with their president - plain and simple.

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prowlerzee
Sep 5, 09 2:37 AM CDT

Uhhhh....Bush was NOT my president and neither is Zerobama. Call me old-fashioned, but I like my candidates ELECTED not SELECTED. Whether it's the Supreme Court stopping the vote count, or the Dem Rules Committee simply TAKING delegates from Hillary and handing them to ZERObama, whose name was not even on the Michigan ballot, you can't just ASSIGN votes or ignore votes and call that the winner. And no....not one president has asked kids to pledge to serve *him* ---did Kennedy say, "...ask what you can do for me?" No, he said "do for your country." Zero is a narcissistic freak, and you Obot worshippers are minifreaks who would've had a MELTDOWN had Bush's regime asked schoolkids to "pledge" to "serve George Bush."

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JonmarkP
Sep 4, 09 2:00 PM CDT

Dear Professor Obama: YOU CAN'T MEET CRAZY PEOPLE HALFWAY. Reply

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odowd80
Sep 4, 09 2:08 PM CDT

Well put JP.

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prowlerzee
Sep 5, 09 2:38 AM CDT

Worry about your own crazyness, 9/11 conspiracynut.

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polstroad
Sep 4, 09 2:10 PM CDT

As I read the piece I recalled the image of Bush reading in a classroom to very young kids as 9/11 was taking place. He was always a guy that cared about learning. Reply

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passinthru
Sep 4, 09 2:17 PM CDT

too bad he never learned the book was upside down...

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freethemall
Sep 4, 09 2:26 PM CDT

Yes, George W. Bush caught a lot of grief as POTUS, similar to what Obama is catching now. The difference is that he was given a chance to do his thing, even though he got fewer popular votes in the general election than his opponent. It was only after he made many mistakes, and failed to own up to them, that he became unpopular and disrespected. Obama, on the other hand, unlike Bush, inherited a huge mess, and unlike Bush, he had a clear mandate. And yet he is being totally disrespected by his political opponents, and relentlessly hounded, though he has been in office less than a year. Is it racism? Maybe it is, but I recall Clinton got similar treatment. Reply

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prowlerzee
Sep 5, 09 2:44 AM CDT

Yes, good start at critical thinking, freethemall. Clinton got the same treatment, so it isn't racism...and the OBOTS should be ashamed of themselves for calling the Clintons racist! Now continue that critical thinking: the progressive Dems were strongarmed by Zerobama to increase funding to continue Bush's war...and now they are putting their collective foot down and opposing the Trojan Ass in the White House by saying they will not vote for a health reform without public option. So what next? Will Jonmark the 9/11 conspiracynut call the Congressional Black Caucus "racist" for opposing Zero???? No doubt.

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kansas1946
Sep 4, 09 4:36 PM CDT

This is the biggest bunch of nonsense I have ever heard. I guess the reason that no one paid much attention when Bush addressed school childres is that Democrats, unlike Republicans, are not lunatics. This is not worth any time or attention from the Obama administration. Reply

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godawgs
Sep 4, 09 5:04 PM CDT

incorrect they also said that the right shouldn't politicize the public education system http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/sep/03/arne-duncan/barack-obama-not-first-president-address-school-ch/

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NewserScooter
Sep 5, 09 12:03 AM CDT

There was a lot of complaints about 41's address by the left. And he didn't include a lesson plan on how he could be helped by the kiddos. I don't care that Obama addresses the kids, but the lesson plan was pure politics!

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inky
Sep 4, 09 4:41 PM CDT

It seems to me that a VERY vocal minority with more lung-power than brains is having trouble accepting the fact that we have a new President. Fairly elected; no recounts; no shenanigans. It's high time to let him govern. If Bush, Clinton, ANY other (WHITE) president had wanted to address schoolkids, it would've been a photo op, not a tempest in a teapot. This whole thing is very insulting to people of color, the sitting President of the United States of America, who happens to be half-black, is being portrayed as the new Boogeyman. Ridiculous, racist and way beneath the ideals I hold dear. Reply

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godawgs
Sep 4, 09 5:04 PM CDT

no the dems did it too http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/sep/03/arne-duncan/barack-obama-not-first-president-address-school-ch/

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foodchain11
Sep 4, 09 5:16 PM CDT

Look back on the troops we had to have in the SOUTH just to get black kids to school. Yep, that's how big the hate was. George Wallace ran on a segregationist platformn. You may want to blame the hippies for the culture war, but let's be very clear: SOME PRETTY BAD STUFF was going on in the south. Many have forgotten enough that they don't even have embarrassment. But here we are.agian, just as angry. The MEDIA does a disservice to us all by playing with fire. Reply

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JimW
Sep 4, 09 5:18 PM CDT

Racism pure and simple. Yeah, don't let those kid get encouragement from Barak, OUR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES !, it would take maybe a whole 15 minutes away from the right doing it to kids in their schools all day long, like I just had to point out to MY kids school administration. This is a heavy repupican area, and I get to laugh at their BS all the time. They just can not STAND it when their arguments are tore up in front of everybody to see. Rednecks indeed. That's from reality slapping them on the back so often. Reply

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godawgs
Sep 4, 09 11:25 PM CDT

hey jim tell me what kind of bs you get to laugh about, and then can you tell me how you tear up their arguments while you are in the car on you way home thinking of what you could have said.

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prowlerzee
Sep 5, 09 2:50 AM CDT

So, Jim, now that you have proven, so ungrammatically, that you are so superior to "rednecks" ---do tell: are the members of the Congressional Black Congress also "racist" because they are opposing and slapping down the Trojan Ass Obama's "Insurance reform?"

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cornelison
Sep 4, 09 9:33 PM CDT

This President's face is going to age faster if he won't put a public plan on the table. Reply

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prowlerzee
Sep 5, 09 2:52 AM CDT

Did you hear, cornelison, that those RACISTS in the Congressional Black Congress are giving the poor president hell over this?

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Adapt-Overcome
Sep 4, 09 10:07 PM CDT

Because Bush was white and stupid. America's racists are alive and well and mostly members of the GOP. They're afraid of what an intellegent black man might have to say. Reply

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NewserScooter
Sep 5, 09 12:08 AM CDT

Actually Klan members are slightly more likely to be Dem. The largest group still recruiting is on Long island in NY. They still distribute their newspaper "the white patriot" in colleges in NY.

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MarkFL
Sep 4, 09 10:21 PM CDT

Divided? Sure. However, saying that these conservative imbeciles are part of the divided gives them like fifty percent status. The truth is that they are a vocal minority with a sympathetic media that amplifies every stupid thing they say. Very few parents care about this Obama speech. It makes for a good shout match on Hannity. We are not divided. We are diluted. Reply

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NewserScooter
Sep 5, 09 12:11 AM CDT

A sympathetic media, cite one study that shows any major media outlet or school leaning Conservative besides Fox, the Wall St journal, & the Washington times. The Columbia J school reported that 85-88% of journalists were liberal.

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Derni
Sep 5, 09 8:02 AM CDT

three other presidents gave such speeches-this is just another exam[le of crass people trying to get their way-parents do it all the time in schools where every kids a genuis-People are fickle and not always firing on all cylinders-and opposing this speech is an example of that- Reply

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Are_you--Nobody--Too
Sep 5, 09 8:28 AM CDT

"The Department of Education is prohibited from doing anything with curriculum." WHAT? Reply

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Janniel
Sep 5, 09 9:33 AM CDT

It's not that the country is so very divided. Rather, there is a small, hate fueled, lunatic fringe raising hell. Yes, hell, literally and figuratively. What these mindless, brainwashed people are doing is an embarrassment for the vast majority of this country. Reply

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LibertyMan
Sep 5, 09 10:35 AM CDT

If you knew your constitutional history, you left wing assholes would know that education is a State responsibility, not Federal in spite of repeated federal assaults on States rights in regard to local education. Of course this is done through Federal funding mandates that force States to comply with noxious federal education rules if they want the tax money they sent up to Washington returned to their state for use on behalf of State residents. Curriculum is still and has always been a state accountability even as your left wing asshole leaders attempt to usurp State power in violation of the 10th Amendment. Reply

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