[squarebarb]

What did Bush 1 say to the kids? I never heard about that speech.

[Caleb1411]

The liberals, who are now touting the reasonableness of Obama's address to the kiddies, weren't singing the same tune when GHW Bush talked to the kids.

[livius]

It was your basic “study hard, go to school, etc.” speech; I think it was in the context of announcing some kind of new funding for education that Bush was going to provide.

In any case, it was broadcast live on radio and television, and not sent only to schools and was not part of a lesson plan that suggested that children read up on Bush. It was probably inappropriate, because Bush I was trying to use the backdrop of a school to show that the GOP was not ignoring domestic issues, but it was a different class of thing altogether from Obama’s Dear Leader speech.