“This is how urban legends get started. Look at all the Freepers who aren’t bothering to wonder if it’s true.
Might be true, might not. Certainly gets people excited, though, don’t it?”
<<<Sadly, after seeing the outright worship at the inauguration, this story is not impossible to believe. I hope it is not true; but if it is, I hope parents bring it to school board and sue district.
Stuff like this is likely going on in different ways throughout the country unknown to the parents—ex. my own daughter...
My daughter’s entire school watched the inauguration on big-screen tvs. I do not think there were any notices sent home...Many students were uncomfortable watching, yet were even less comfortable formally opting out to a study hall. We live in a fairly affluent republican county. The school had never done this for Bush...said it was historic. (I was raised to be color-blind, Martin Luther King “Do not judge a man by the color of his skin but by the content of his character,” etc. Therefore, I found this particularly disturbing.)
I don’t know if the story is true or not. I hope, for my Country’s sake, it is not true. I’m a natural skeptic, so I always wonder if anything odd or outrageous is true, and look for evidence that it is (or is not). So far, I haven’t seen anything except anonymous blog posts, including the apparent original blog comment that got the whole thing started.
"It will not be easy for President B. Hussein Obama. More than half the country voted for him, and yet our newspapers are brimming with snippy remarks at every little aspect of his inauguration.
Here's a small sampling of the churlishness in just The New York Times:
-- The American public is bemused by the tasteless show-biz extravaganza surrounding Barack Obama's inauguration today. -- There is something to be said for some showiness in an inauguration. But one felt discomfited all the same. -- This is an inauguration, not a coronation. -- Is there a parallel between Mrs. Obama's jewel-toned outfit and somebody else's glass slippers? Why limousines and not shank's mare? -- It is still unclear whether we are supposed to shout 'Whoopee!' or 'Shame!' about the new elegance the Obamas are bringing to Washington. Boy, talk about raining on somebody's parade!These were not, of course, comments about the inauguration of the angel Obama; they are (slightly edited) comments about the inauguration of another historic president, Ronald Reagan, in January 1981. Obama's inaugural address tracked much of Reagan's first inaugural address -- minus the substance.... Obama was also not as fulsome in his praise of his predecessor as Reagan was.
To appreciate how remarkable this is, recall that Reagan's predecessor was Jimmy Carter. Under Carter, more than 50 Americans were held hostage by a two-bit terrorist Iranian regime for 444 days -- released the day of Reagan's inauguration.
Under Bush, there has not been another terrorist attack since Sept. 11, 2001. But I gather that if Obama had uttered anything more than the briefest allusion to Bush, that would have provoked yet more booing from the Hope-and-Change crowd, which moments earlier had showered Bush with boos when he walked onto the stage. That must be the new tone we've been hearing so much about. So maybe liberals can stop acting as if the entire nation could at last come together in a 'unity of purpose' if only conservatives would stop fomenting 'conflict and discord' -- as Obama suggested in his inaugural address.
We're not the ones who booed a departing president. ... Liberals always have to play the victim, acting as if they merely want to bring the nation together in hope and unity in the face of petulant, stick-in-the-mud conservatives.
Meanwhile, they are the ones booing, heckling and publicly fantasizing about the assassination of those who disagree with them on policy matters.
Hope and unity, apparently, can only be achieved if conservatives would just go away -- and perhaps have the decency to kill themselves. Republicans are not the ones who need to be told that 'the time has come to set aside childish things' -- as Obama said of his own assumption of the presidency. Remember? We're the ones who managed to gaze upon Carter at the conclusion of his abomination of a presidency without booing."
Yeah, last night I saw that MLK quote on a bookmark, next to a picture of BHO. I was scratching my head for a while...