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also from Michelle’s site.....a response to a hit-Michelle-and-the-Right screed written by “Tunku Varadarajan”......The response deserves posting ABOVE the screed:

On September 7th, 2009 at 11:57 am, englishqueen01 said:

You know what kids need a “lesson or two” on those virtues, sir? The ones in the inner city – the ones raised by single mothers who never know their fathers, the ones where black culture often tells them getting a good education is “acting white”, the ones where violence is a way of life and rap music provides the soundtrack. The ones where teenagers already have lengthy rap sheets.

The ones who, by and large, don’t go to school on a regular basis to begin with and the ones who – when conservatives try to reform education – are defended by liberals such as yourself from supposedly “racist” policies and “racist” criticism.

I’ve seen enough of the goings on in my local public school system to know it’s a black hole of mismanagement and overspending that disenfranchises inner city youth for the sake of political correctness and gain.

But those aren’t the people you’re talking about, is it?

No – your comment is directed at parents who actually parent and who have a problem (after spending a summer being vilified by their government as “Nazis” and “terrorists” and “stupid”) with the president of the United States (who surrounds himself with uber-liberal radical activists) spending some quality time with our children.

Because these parents don’t buy the liberal pogrom hook, line, and sinker they aren’t good enough for you and don’t instill those “virtues” you deem so important in your children.

the screed:
Too Many Kooks
Tunku Varadarajan, 09.07.09, 12:00 AM EDT
Obama’s school speech drives the right crazy.

The Silly Season ceases to be “silly” when what passes for political debate in America turns not merely stupid or witless, but certifiably demented.

I write of the kooky reaction of many conservatives–politicians, citizens and commentators in the media–to the plan by President Obama to address the nation’s schoolchildren tomorrow.

Obama will, as we all know, address our kids–plenty of whom need a lesson or two on the subject, since they clearly don’t get it from their parents–on the virtues of study, education and hard work. According to a White House spokesman, the aim of the speech is “to challenge students to work hard in school, to not drop out and to meet short-term goals like behaving in class, [and] doing their homework …” If anyone thinks that’s unpalatable, subversive, Commie and un-American, I’d like to meet for a duel at dawn by the skating rink at New York’s Central Park. (Pick your weapon, Michelle Malkin and Glenn Beck …)

Obama’s original “lesson plan” had been to ask students auditing him to write letters to themselves outlining ways in which they could “help the president.” This seemingly earnest proposal provoked a reaction so vitriolic from sections on the political right that I began to wonder whether I was missing a point–to wonder, in fact, that I, as a recent immigrant to this country, had failed to integrate well enough to grasp the nuances of American political debate.
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/09/07/i-repeat-its-not-the-speech-its-the-subtext/