Posted on 09/08/2009 12:29:30 PM PDT by Lou Budvis
In his past incarnation as the president of the conservative Club for Growth, Pat Toomey would have been hard-pressed to praise any speech from President Obama – no less one that’s been maligned by conservative activists.
But as he seeks to win over independents and moderates in his Pennsylvania Senate campaign, Toomey is taking a markedly different approach: Even as conservative critics accused the president of trying to indoctrinate students with a back-to-school speech, Toomey called the president’s speech to high school students “inspiring” and “moving.”
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Please, correct me if I am wrong.
Wasn’t it this group that was caught charging money for being for or against certain public policy and officials?
“Wash your hands” is moving?
I liked the part where Obama pulled out his birth certificate and showed the kids...
Absolutely. It was nice speech and I think Toomey & Limbaugh are being deviously smart here. We can totally freak out the media & his rad-left supporters here, by very heartily & very publicly welcoming Barack Obama to "our side".
It'd sure be fun to see how well his base support manages to hold up under a barrage of love bombs from the right! LOL!
one big lie to embellish his image as a po’ boy with a “single Mom”.
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“Huh? My story? Okay. It was never easy for me. I was born a poor black child. I remember the days, sittin’ on the porch with my family, singin’ and dancin’ down in Mississippi.”
Steve Martin, as Navin R. Johnson in The Jerk
Why Liberals can hammer Conservatives relentlessly and win elections and conservatives feel they have to play nice to win elections is beyond me.
PEOPLE RESPECT CONVICTION even though they may disagree with aspects of it. GEEEEEEEEEEZ!!!
I liked the part where Obama pulled out his birth certificate and showed the kids...
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Did that part start with him tearing open a Cracker Jack box and rooting around for the surprise?
Why Liberals can hammer Conservatives relentlessly and win elections and conservatives feel they have to play nice to win elections is beyond me.
PEOPLE RESPECT CONVICTION even though they may disagree with aspects of it. GEEEEEEEEEEZ!!!
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I sure hope someone has a talk with Mr. Toomey..
I won’t vote for Toomey, Sestak of Sphincter. I’ll be throwing away my vote on a third party or writing in someone.
....I do think it would be basically viewed as inspiration speech and to lambaste it would be for Toomey to put himself in front of a train of criticism that would definitely not be worth it.
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Why not just say nothing?
Josh is such a liar. He knows that we were protesting the entire event, and that we had never even SEEN the speech.
And he knows that, once the speech was published, many conservatives, even those who objected to the event, were saying that Obama had responded to the concerns and had written a much better speech than the one he clearly meant to give to go with the absurd Education Department “lesson plan”.
why the hell 4:30 in the am?
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You aren’t one of those ‘alarm clock-ers’ are you? Do you have tin foil hats in your entry way?
I’m going to start a billboard campaign:
“Where’s the Alarm Clock?”
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A young middle schooler who heard the speech made an interesting comment.
She thought it would be best if students got to hear the speech in person rather than have their parents opinion of Obama.
It was about indoctrination and this black student knew it!!
“Wash your hands” is moving?
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Sure moved me when I wanted to eat. :)
Well I’ll not argue with you on that.
Like other commenters have stated, he’s probably trying to woo over a few “moderates” by looking all noble about the speech.
One never knows with moderates, basically a person with no ability to take a firm position by my definition. Most anything might push them one way or the other.
By me I’d have said nothing. Why encourage this would-be dictator...er Dear Leader?
She thought it would be best if students got to hear the speech in person rather than have their parents opinion of Obama.
It was about indoctrination and this black student knew it!!
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Bammy and his team can arrange that - through a series of hologram speeches...
I like it.
Good points.
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