Posted on 09/10/2009 7:26:36 PM PDT by GVnana
Flying home from London, where the subject of formal debate on the 70th anniversary of World War II had been whether Winston Churchill was a liability or asset to the Free World, one arrives in the middle of a far more acrimonious national debate right here in the United States.
At issue: Should Barack Obama be allowed to address tens of millions of American children, inside their classrooms, during school hours?
Conservative talk-show hosts saw a White House scheme to turn public schools into indoctrination centers where the socialist ideology of Obama would be spoon-fed to captive audiences of children forced to listen to Big Brother -- and then do assignments on his sermon.
The liberal commentariat raged about right-wing paranoia.
Yet Byron York of the Washington Examiner dug back to 1991 to discover that, when George H.W. Bush went to Alice Deal Junior High to speak to America's school kids, the left lost it.
"The White House turned a Northwest Washington junior high classroom into a television studio and its students into props," railed the Washington Post. Education Secretary Lamar Alexander was called before a House committee. The National Education Association denounced Bush. And Congress ordered the General Accounting Office to investigate.
Obama's actual speech proved about as controversial as a Nancy Reagan appeal to eighth-graders to "Just say no!" to drugs.
Yet, the episode reveals the poisoned character of our politics.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Let me guess, you don’t live in the ‘East’? Including Miami, Atlanta, DC, NY, Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Boston in a quarte of the division is packing in a lot.
Manners and etiquette are merely a subset of our society's de-emphasis on religion and morality in general. The classic archetype of Americans as "rugged individuals" acknowledged the value of each and every American and we generally dealt with each other on respectful terms. As we've moved to a collectivist view, each individual is viewed merely as a cog in a bigger machine and by devaluing the sanctity of each individual, we treat each other in an accordingly dismissive manner.
Chicago and Cleveland are generally considered the Midwest and I said earlier the Midwest is up for grabs.
You won’t be there...likely in a re-education camp by then.
In all due respect...what universe are you living in?
Where do you live?
More likely dead by then.
Was talking about you and the popcorn thing
Please do us a favor and just leave this website. You are one of the most consistently smug and classless characters on FR.
Amen.
Thanks. It’s good to see that I am not alone in my feelings for steve-b.
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