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Half of 8th grade class from New Jersey refuses to pose with Speaker Ryan
abc7 NY Eyewitness News ^ | Friday, May 26, 2017 11:24PM | N.J. Burkett

Posted on 05/28/2017 11:34:08 AM PDT by COBOL2Java

SOUTH ORANGE, New Jersey (WABC) -- A group of middle school students from New Jersey caused quite a flap, after half of them refused to take a picture with Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan.

It happened Thursday during a field trip to Washington.

Reaction from the students' parents are as politically divided as the country.

"It's not just a picture," said Matthew Malespina, a student.

Matthew says he couldn't go through with it.

It didn't matter that Paul Ryan is the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, or that he is third in-line to the presidency.

When he and his classmates from South Orange Middle School had the chance to take a picture with the speaker. Matthew watched from the parking lot with 100 of his fellow students.

(Excerpt) Read more at abc7ny.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: 115th; education; newjersey; paulryan; rudedems; snowflakes; snub; speakerryan
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To: COBOL2Java

Why give these snowflakes the time of day?


101 posted on 05/28/2017 2:07:54 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: COBOL2Java
Well I'm mixed on this:

We should respect the Office the person holds, but then on the other hand it depends on the person who holds the Office...

In BO’s case, I would be very upset to have them with a picture of them and him, but then again I would be upset with any of my kids being poised with a Dem. of any kind...

Speaker Ryan is a RINO, along with 99.9% of the ‘Republican House’ so I don't think I would want my kids in a picture with them either...

Now on the other hand if President Trump came and my kids wanted to be in a picture with him, I would be okay with that because I don't look at President Trump as a ‘politician’ like the rest of the ‘swamp’ is...

102 posted on 05/28/2017 3:12:56 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ( "The Force Awakens!!!"...Trump and Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: COBOL2Java

Were they singing the “Obama, mmm-mmm-mmm” song as they walked out?


103 posted on 05/28/2017 3:19:06 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: COBOL2Java

“”The point was, ‘I don’t want to be associated with him, and his policies and what he stands for,’” said Elissa Malespina, Matthew’s mother.”

Either do I!

I wouldn’t have my picture taken with that clown! I wouldn’t shake his hand either. He’d be lucky if I didn’t pull a Gianforte on him.

These kids are right for the wrong reasons.


104 posted on 05/28/2017 3:46:19 PM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: dfwgator

“See Ryan, it doesn’t matter how much you suck up to the Rats, they will only see you as a “Fascist” Republican no matter what.”

Bears repeating.


105 posted on 05/28/2017 4:10:49 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility (We need a separation of press and state!)
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To: COBOL2Java
It has to be obvious to even the casual observer by now that schools in the US think they are above it all.

Administrators have made stupid decisions supporting liberal causes while opposing conservative behavior on campus consistently.

Curricula has swayed so far left it approaches indoctrination.

Teachers are telling students what to think not teaching them how to think, and are making their grades dependent on properly reciting dogma, not facts.

Universities are total leftist activism swamps.

Clean 'em out by defunding or eliminating the department of education and returning control of schools to local communities.

106 posted on 05/28/2017 5:33:56 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: dfwgator

He’s on their side.

They should have thrown him a party.


107 posted on 05/28/2017 5:55:18 PM PDT by comebacknewt (Trump trumps Hate)
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To: COBOL2Java

The son of the principle in a local high school slipped on a Trump t-shirt aduring a Hillary event...in the high school last year...and was ordered to turn the t-shirt inside out or leave.

Could you wear a Hillary t-shirt to the Ryan event...I bet you could?

This is the teachers union.


108 posted on 05/28/2017 6:07:19 PM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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To: COBOL2Java
you know, I doubt that if you polled the average middle schooler, that none of them would know who Ryan was. So one must conclude they were taught to react like this. The question is by whom: The teachers or the parents.

I suspect the teachers.

109 posted on 05/28/2017 6:27:27 PM PDT by LadyDoc (Liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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To: COBOL2Java

maplewood and south orange are full of liberals.


110 posted on 05/28/2017 6:49:23 PM PDT by Coleus (For the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.)
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To: COBOL2Java

the south orange/maplewood school district had a full-sized, cardboard picture of obama, standing at the entrance of some of the schools in town....I never saw anything like it.


111 posted on 05/28/2017 7:34:02 PM PDT by Coleus (For the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.)
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To: meyer

Because they’re liberals.


112 posted on 05/28/2017 8:02:39 PM PDT by lionstar
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To: dfwgator

I wouldn’t want my picture taken with Paul Ryan, unless I was strangling him at the time.


113 posted on 05/28/2017 11:24:53 PM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: SecAmndmt
. . . then why not find a country which better matches their values?

No way. Places like North Korea or Zimbabwe just aren't doing socialism right. And Sweden is too cold. < / sarcasm >

114 posted on 05/29/2017 4:17:12 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: COBOL2Java

These kids would have been thrilled to pose with Obama. NJ is full of democratts & the kids were indoctrinated by their parents & teachers.


115 posted on 05/29/2017 6:01:44 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: COBOL2Java

I wouldn’t either.


116 posted on 05/29/2017 6:10:04 AM PDT by exit82 (The opposition has already been Trumped!)
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To: Ace's Dad

Where were the adults?

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Busy teaching the kids that leftist takeover of schools and inviolate union and retirement benefits are a religion.

And that the kids will be slaves unto it for all of their lives.


117 posted on 05/29/2017 6:10:46 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: meyer

It’s because their @$$hole parents have indoctrinated them. I would have never told my grandkids to NOT have a photo taken with our local RAT senator, or even with Obama. Few get the opportunity. We would discuss it later at an appropriate age.


118 posted on 05/29/2017 8:34:38 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: ColdOne

I am not a fan of Ryan but this is appalling. These adults are despicable. I bet the skulls of mush kids could not name one thing that Ryan did let alone name the state he is from.


119 posted on 05/29/2017 10:41:49 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: All

Good...Maybe now our Legislators will focus on their jobs instead of trying to be celebrities.


120 posted on 05/30/2017 9:46:34 AM PDT by Maverick68
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