Comments on: Why President Obama speaking to school children isn’t controversial

By: citizen

citizen — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:59:16 +0000

I try not to cross threads, it’s too confusing.
It was only a reference to my idee fixe about being called a liar.

By: Karl Uppiano

Karl Uppiano — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:08:10 +0000

Citizen,

Ah, I thought it was perhaps a veiled reference to our discussion on the other thread, but I didn’t see the connection. Perhaps it was nothing.

By: citizen

citizen — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:05:19 +0000

Dear Karl Uppiano,
They sell that elixir in bottles you can take home and swill at the keyboard!
It’s automatic inspiration.

By: Karl Uppiano

Karl Uppiano — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:47:30 +0000

Citizen, I’m puzzled by your reference to Boundary Bay, when it is not mentioned in anywhere in this thread. Is it an inside joke, or can you elucidate?

By: citizen

citizen — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:20:49 +0000

Uh, Brought to you by two pints of Boundary Bay IPA and an idee fixe.

By: Mother in New Jersey

Mother in New Jersey — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:31:52 +0000

I have been a life long Democrat but I do not support Obama. I would not send my child to school on that day for him to be stuck in a room listening to him preach. He is causing enough controversy with American’s that he needs to stay away from our Children. Whether he is doing a good thing or if people think he is my son will not be attending class on the day our “President” is prepared to speak. He had Americans blinded and now as I recall one of the latest articles I have read is he is now the most hated President. Next we will all be on a Government line to buy our milk and break. A President in my eyes is someone who leads us not tries to control us.

By: Sam Taylor

Sam Taylor — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:26:08 +0000

Citizen, I’ll be honest, your disclaimers have me chuckling this morning. A good way to start my Saturday.

By: citizen

citizen — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:12:22 +0000

In my Experience
Rude is calling a poster a liar and then slinking away and deleting all the evidence instead of manning-up and
making an apology when discovered to be wrong.
Why would a polite person ever do such a thing?
Or making accusations of personal attacks and uncivil discourse and yet not producing a shred of evidence.
But that’s a fine line of civility that I would tolerate.
Regards,
citizen

This post is an opinion based upon reality and intended to insult no-one but merely as a reminder for the hypocritical types that might find this experience useful when castigating any other writer.

This post has been Rated P for Polite and B for Blunt by Citizen’s Mom.

By: citizen

citizen — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:12:03 +0000

Dear Sweet Bellinghammer,
I would sincerely wish to respectfully disagree with your contention that I invented the racial division from which you speak of propaganda by Black Person addressing schoolchildren.
We both know better.
With regards, Citizen.
P.S. Please refrain from the faulty reasoning whereby your place your own words into the mouths of those with whom you differ as a strategy for bolstering your views.
Ohhh, that’s painful.
See, Idiots need to be addressed as idiots since nobody has
and so their lessons haven’t been learned.
It isn’t a matter of difference of opinion since nobody has the right to make up their own reality under the guise of personal preference.
And then spew out those accusations as if they meant something.
Even politely.

By: Sam Taylor

Sam Taylor — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:47:14 +0000

Todd, indeed, I appear to have been on the forefront of discussing this issue with readers. There was basically no coverage, not even in the national media, when I began discussing it except for in specific conservative commentators like Michelle Malkin.

Since then, my position actually has changed. This has gotten quite large and frankly I think at this point it’s the role of the media to cover it and to fact check and be fair about it.

Still, locally, it’s not much of an issue. There are a few people who have complained directly (I’ve not received a huge amount of contact, only two people) and those people happen to not have school-aged children. I’m not trying to discount their thoughts on it, but I haven’t heard that there is any huge fervor locally that the president of the United States is going to tell school children they should, in essence, stay committed to learning. Again, as pretty much every president always does.

By: Todd2

Todd2 — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:45:58 +0000

Obama’s presidential address to school children may not be controversial, as Sam contends.

However, I the amount of controversy surrounding President Obama’s address surely must be worthy of a story somewhere.

The amount of suspicion many people feel toward President Obama is really quite astounding.

By: alice Childs

alice Childs — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:28:12 +0000

Students in our schools no longer practice cursive.. they no longer diagram sentences.. so Michelle Makin is out of touch.. at least with the schools in Franklin County, Kentucky. I would not deny my children the opportunity to see the President speak.. whether I voted for the sitting President or not I always encourage my children to listen to their addresses. That is how we make a great America.

By: Bellinghammer

Bellinghammer — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:50:54 +0000

Citizen,

Beautiful attempt at pulling race into this issue. Your statement would have been more accurate if you had said:
liberal/progressive man speak to school kids - propaganda.
neo-con man speak to school kids - inspiration, motivation, unity.

And the reverse of the above would probably hold true for your thoughts as well.

By: citizen

citizen — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:48:33 +0000

I would also challenge you to prove any personal attacks,
AFY!! excluded since he and I kind of understand that sort of rhetoric,
that don’t speak directly to the statements made by the poster in question,
at least primarily.

By: spinnwolf

spinnwolf — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:45:34 +0000

I trusted Bush. ( A mistake where his economic policies were concerned.) Therefore I was less inclined to notice his intrusion into the schools. I do not trust Obama. Therefore I am quick to notice similar activity. This is why the Federal Government should be kept out of our schools–which ever group is in power, the other group is going to be upset by the intrusion. Best answer: keep our schools totally under local control. That government which is closest to the people (city, county) is the one they can best control.
In other words, you keep “your” president out of our schools, and I’ll keep “mine” out. Sorry I didn’t notice until it was on your watch. But that’s human nature.