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To: dead
Wow. That's a misread of the situation. Of course the speech was changed, with one intent being the ability of the left to say "See! Conservatives went crazy over nothing!" But, present company excepted, I haven't seen anybody fall for that lame spin.

It doesn't matter if the speech was changed. Folks will judge conservatives' stridency against the speech actually given. And we'll end up looking silly -- which, in politics, is a deadly disease.

38 posted on 09/08/2009 10:35:18 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: r9etb
Folks will judge conservatives' stridency against the speech actually given. And we'll end up looking silly -- which, in politics, is a deadly disease.

Sorry, just see it completely differently.

Myself, and everybody I know who objected to the speech, couldn't care less about the content of the speech.

We objected to the idea that a politician should direct the government-run educational apparatus to force our children into being an unwilling audience for his speechifying.

He could have read Dr. Suess or the bible, it wouldn't have mattered to me. I don't want him talking to my child without my participation and agreement.

That was the what the controversy was, and is, about. It was never about content.

39 posted on 09/08/2009 10:40:33 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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