Comments on: “President Obama Is Coming For Your Children”

By: Joe Callan

Joe Callan — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:46:40 +0000

shootfromthehip:

I don’t watch FOX News. I’m not keen on spending time watching asinine political melodrama from idiotic pundits. The fact that you and a lot of others do is actually a large part of the issue here.

You know those “high ratings” everyone keeps talking about? Yup.

By: m

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:57:38 +0000

I think the problem lies with the fact that some people just can’t accept that Obama actually is the President. The President has his political agenda and opinions, but his job is being the chief executive of government and most important man in America. He’s been demonized to such an extent by a specific demographic in this country that anything he does is judged upon with partisan eyes, so they forget that at least half of his job description is purely ceremonial.

By: shootfromthehip

shootfromthehip — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 06:32:23 +0000

Gephardt “flipped out?” A statement that was ignored by the press is hardly flipping out. You wanna see flipping out? Check Fox News or the right wing blogs (or talk radio which led this “story”). These people are insane. I fear for this country. As Joe said on “Morning Joe” the other day “you are only screwing your own party” for ratings.

By: Jelperman

Jelperman — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:36:32 +0000

The racism of the Teabagger Right is like Dr. Strangelove’s right arm: The more they try to hide it, the more it springs to life.

By: TfT

TfT — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:04:30 +0000

Hey Beans: Why is asking the President to release his own college transcripts going off the deep end? As for your other insinuations….go jump in lake and wake yourself up. You read into a simple request stuff that just ain’t there. Talk about needing help!

By: Beans

Beans — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:51:33 +0000

Oh TfT you’ve gone off the deep end. Wow. The message is exactly, stay in school and study hard. But really, I can see youre point; how can we trust a president who is so obviously not a graduate, a citizen, or even human. I mean, sure, all these things are “technically” verifiable…but I think we all know the “real” truth about Obama…get some help!

By: Joe Callan

Joe Callan — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 18:51:53 +0000

I’m no Obama supporter, but that this is even being considered controversial is completely asinine. As TfT mentioned above, Gephardt flipped out about H.W. Bush addressing students in 1991. That alone should be enough to point people in another direction to do their rabble rousing, but…welcome to America.

Just another example of the type of asinine grievances being levied against the current administration by the fringe right when there are plenty of LEGITIMATE gripes to take up. Why don’t we put the hammer down on the issue of domestic spying? Why not focus on our coming escalation of Afghanistan?

Oh yeah…because the right and their hero Dubya supported those things too. Actually–having said that–I really don’t understand why parents are flipping out. Bush wages war in Iraq, Obama wages war in Afghanistan. Bush gives banks billions of dollars, Obama gives banks billions of dollars. Bush starts a major domestic spying program, Obama *expands* upon it.

So wait–WHY are parents flipping out about this? It can’t really be an ideological thing, because Bush and Obama really aren’t all that different.

By: mzmullerz

mzmullerz — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:54:54 +0000

thanks, rachel. i, for one, am happy to have the president “come after my child” with a much needed, positive message about the benefits of staying in school, studying hard, and setting educational goals. it is
disheartening to me that adults — no matter their political views or party affiliation – cannot agree on these simple principles for the betterment of our children.

By: TfT

TfT — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:01:03 +0000

Dick Gephart threw a hissy fit when GHW Bush addressed students — hmmmmm.

John Harwood, MSNBC, said the following:

“…the biggest danger to kids in this whole thing is that a lot of the parents complaining aren’t smart enough to raise them very effectively.”

Parent aren’t smart enough to raise their own children…..that is the position of MSNBC and you wonder why folks are concerned about this whole thing?

If the message had been stay in school, study hard, etc…..fine. But it wasn’t. Furthermore, if Obama is so proud of his own educational background where are his own college records? (Oh yea, hidden from the public).