Comments on: President Obama’s Address to Students http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2009/09/04/president-obamas-address-to-students/ JFK: ''we choose to go to the ...'' Wed, 23 May 2012 00:41:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Nicole http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2009/09/04/president-obamas-address-to-students/#comment-25082 Nicole Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:11:08 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2009/09/04/president-obamas-address-to-students/#comment-25082 I agree, it really doesn't matter what he does or says, there will be a contingency of whackaloons that will twist it into something horrible Obama: We should all love our mothers Wackaloon : Obama is promoting incest you get the idea I agree, it really doesn’t matter what he does or says, there will be a contingency of whackaloons that will twist it into something horrible

Obama: We should all love our mothers

Wackaloon : Obama is promoting incest

you get the idea

]]> By: firedmyass http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2009/09/04/president-obamas-address-to-students/#comment-25081 firedmyass Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:00:50 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2009/09/04/president-obamas-address-to-students/#comment-25081 Fried wrote: "...it all could have been managed better by the WH when they announced it to begin with." It is impossible to anticipate the behavior of lunatics -- wouldn't have made one bit of difference. Fried wrote: “…it all could have been managed better by the WH when they announced it to begin with.”

It is impossible to anticipate the behavior of lunatics — wouldn’t have made one bit of difference.

]]> By: Fried http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2009/09/04/president-obamas-address-to-students/#comment-25054 Fried Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:03:33 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2009/09/04/president-obamas-address-to-students/#comment-25054 I understand that the controversy arose when the initial WH descriptions described the speech as the Prez asking the students to get behind him and help him. That lead to questioning of "help him do what?" with the answer being imprecise. like "meet his goals". Now that the speech is posted concerns have been largely addresses as to the motivation of the speech, and the only ones opposing it now are far righties and the media which loves it when radical right expose themselves. My take is that it all could have been managed better by the WH when they announced it to begin with. I understand that the controversy arose when the initial WH descriptions described the speech as the Prez asking the students to get behind him and help him. That lead to questioning of “help him do what?” with the answer being imprecise. like “meet his goals”. Now that the speech is posted concerns have been largely addresses as to the motivation of the speech, and the only ones opposing it now are far righties and the media which loves it when radical right expose themselves.

My take is that it all could have been managed better by the WH when they announced it to begin with.

]]> By: Nicole http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2009/09/04/president-obamas-address-to-students/#comment-25040 Nicole Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:47:26 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2009/09/04/president-obamas-address-to-students/#comment-25040 Did you hear about this in the liberal press ? http://horsesass.org/?p=20016 cause I didn't Did you hear about this in the liberal press ?

http://horsesass.org/?p=20016

cause I didn’t

]]> By: Nicole http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2009/09/04/president-obamas-address-to-students/#comment-25039 Nicole Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:44:58 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2009/09/04/president-obamas-address-to-students/#comment-25039 Finally ... the truth about Obama's address to school children http://zaiusnation.blogspot.com/2009/09/hypnobama.html Thank goodness for the internet Finally … the truth about Obama’s address to school children

http://zaiusnation.blogspot.com/2009/09/hypnobama.html

Thank goodness for the internet

]]> By: Lola http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2009/09/04/president-obamas-address-to-students/#comment-25030 Lola Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:33:48 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2009/09/04/president-obamas-address-to-students/#comment-25030 Having now seen the text of the speech, the religious right will definitely have a problem with this. It espouses that if the students get a good education they might find a cure for, among other things, AIDS, which is a plague sent by their deity specifically to cleanse the world of homosexuals and other ungodly folks so therefore would be an attempt to thwart god's will. Better the children remain ignorant than to risk such scarilege. Having now seen the text of the speech, the religious right will definitely have a problem with this. It espouses that if the students get a good education they might find a cure for, among other things, AIDS, which is a plague sent by their deity specifically to cleanse the world of homosexuals and other ungodly folks so therefore would be an attempt to thwart god’s will. Better the children remain ignorant than to risk such scarilege.

]]> By: Keera http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2009/09/04/president-obamas-address-to-students/#comment-25029 Keera Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:58:14 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2009/09/04/president-obamas-address-to-students/#comment-25029 Nicole, thanks for that link. I cannot understand any parent who doesn't want their child to hear this speech. I wish someone had talked to me like that when I was in high school. Nicole, thanks for that link. I cannot understand any parent who doesn’t want their child to hear this speech. I wish someone had talked to me like that when I was in high school.

]]> By: Winter Wallaby http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2009/09/04/president-obamas-address-to-students/#comment-25021 Winter Wallaby Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:52:36 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2009/09/04/president-obamas-address-to-students/#comment-25021 Flying Fish, I ask for a liberal media commentator who criticized Bush with the level of made-up craziness and huge audience of Glenn Beck, and your answer is Michael Moore and Cindy Sheehan? This fails badly on both counts. Glenn Beck has regular radio and television shows that tens of millions of conservatives listen to and repeat daily. On the other hand, Michael Moore came out with a book or movie about once every two years, and Cindy Sheehan got some intermittent media coverage. And if your example to show that liberals made crazy things up out of thin air, too, is that Michael Moore praised Cuba's health care system, I have to say that while I disagree with Moore about that, I can't see how anyone can say that's comparable to claims that Obama is a a secret Kenyan who plans set up death panels. Praising Cuba's health care system isn't even a false claim, it's just a bad judgment. Your examples just show how weak these attempts to equate left-wing hatred of Bush and right-wing hatred of Obama are. And yes, well before the 2000 election, many liberals really hated Bush. No one's arguing about that. The question is, what are the fantastical, completely made-up stories that they hated him for, comparable to the Kenyan/Muslim/communist/death panel stories? The only thing that I can think of are the 9-11 conspiracy theories, which had nowhere near the broad base that these Glenn Beck theories did (e.g. I can't think of any commentator on any major news network that espoused 9-11 conspiracy theories). Flying Fish, I ask for a liberal media commentator who criticized Bush with the level of made-up craziness and huge audience of Glenn Beck, and your answer is Michael Moore and Cindy Sheehan? This fails badly on both counts. Glenn Beck has regular radio and television shows that tens of millions of conservatives listen to and repeat daily. On the other hand, Michael Moore came out with a book or movie about once every two years, and Cindy Sheehan got some intermittent media coverage. And if your example to show that liberals made crazy things up out of thin air, too, is that Michael Moore praised Cuba’s health care system, I have to say that while I disagree with Moore about that, I can’t see how anyone can say that’s comparable to claims that Obama is a a secret Kenyan who plans set up death panels. Praising Cuba’s health care system isn’t even a false claim, it’s just a bad judgment. Your examples just show how weak these attempts to equate left-wing hatred of Bush and right-wing hatred of Obama are.

And yes, well before the 2000 election, many liberals really hated Bush. No one’s arguing about that. The question is, what are the fantastical, completely made-up stories that they hated him for, comparable to the Kenyan/Muslim/communist/death panel stories? The only thing that I can think of are the 9-11 conspiracy theories, which had nowhere near the broad base that these Glenn Beck theories did (e.g. I can’t think of any commentator on any major news network that espoused 9-11 conspiracy theories).

]]> By: Mitch4 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2009/09/04/president-obamas-address-to-students/#comment-25018 Mitch4 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:13:47 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2009/09/04/president-obamas-address-to-students/#comment-25018 I think he's often a very good speaker, and I try to keep up with his official weekly podcasts or vidcasts. But I have to say, one thing he's not is <em>concise.</em> I think he’s often a very good speaker, and I try to keep up with his official weekly podcasts or vidcasts. But I have to say, one thing he’s not is concise.

]]> By: Nicole http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2009/09/04/president-obamas-address-to-students/#comment-25017 Nicole Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:08:41 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2009/09/04/president-obamas-address-to-students/#comment-25017 So ... this is waht the fuss is all about -- you can read the text of the entire speech right here http://www.whitehouse.gov/MediaResources/PreparedSchoolRemarks/ As the bard himself once said -- much ado about nothing So … this is waht the fuss is all about — you can read the text of the entire speech right here

http://www.whitehouse.gov/MediaResources/PreparedSchoolRemarks/

As the bard himself once said — much ado about nothing

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