A new low for Drudge. Now he is bashing Obama based on Republican HS Students' opinions of Obama

[TeamJordan23]

STUDENTS QUESTION OBAMA'S PLAN
Thu Feb 19 2009 09:46:55 ET

EAST VALLEY TRIBUNE
Tim Hacker

A Dobson High School Advanced Placement government class with strong opinions about Barack Obama watched the president's speech Wednesday on a small, grainy TV in the corner of their classroom.

Some of the students attentively watched the speech, giving questioning looks and comments, shaking their heads and laughing at some of Obama's words. Other students listened, occasion ally glancing up to watch, while texting on their cell phones, reading a book or finishing school work.

The gymnasium's events were shown simultaneously in rooms throughout the Mesa school, and teachers were given discretion on whether to show the speech, the students said. The students in the class were hopeful things will work out but questioned whether Obama's plan would actually work to dig the country out of its economic woes. They also expected a longer speech.

Senior Syna Daudfar took some notes during the speech and was among the most vocally opposed to Obama's words.

At one point, when he talked about the costs of his stimulus plan, senior Maaike Albach and Daudfar looked at each other and said, "uh-oh."

"Overall I think it's a good idea, but he's not addressing the issues of the economic crisis," said Daudfar, a John McCain supporter who added he leans more toward being a moderate conservative. "The spending bill he just passed is just progressing the Democratic agenda rather than addressing the economic issues in the country."

Daudfar thinks Obama's plan is backward and deals with the "less important stuff" first. "Bailing out businesses" and "providing better regulatory systems for giving out money to businesses" should have been first, he said.

"If businesses can't afford to hire people, then people won't be able to work and pay off their mortgages," he said. "It's kind of like putting money into a funnel." Albach, who is also a Republican, said Obama's plan sounds good but questioned how Obama can want to rely on "people's responsibility" when that is "what got us in this economic crisis in the first place."

"This puts us more into debt," said Albach, 18. "It's a horrible situation we're in."

Senior Brandon Miller wore a shirt with the words, "Hitler gave great speeches, too" above a picture of Obama.

Miller said he had been an Obama supporter "because of his speeches," but after debating the issues in this class and looking more into Obama's policies, his vote was swayed toward McCain.

http://www.drudgereport.com/flashosk.htm

[Connie_Corleone]

1. Dumbasses who have rightwing dumbasses for parents.

[emulatorloo]

2. Those kids are mainlining the Hannity and Limbaugh shows.

And oh, by the way:

"Senior Brandon Miller wore a shirt with the words, "Hitler gave great speeches, too" above a picture of Obama."

Why the hell doesn't the principal get that shirt banned from campus?

[snake in the grass]

15. I don't think it should be banned.

I'd rather see a picture of Prescott Bush and Hitler with the title "business partners" or simply a picture of Rumsfeld shaking Saddam's hand. How about the deranged, simian-like face of W. with powdered lips and the title 'got coke?'. I'd love to see a t-shirt picturing W. pulling the lever on an electric chair while the condemned shudders in agony. The title: Texas BBQ.

Things like that would get people talking. We won't convert them all as some are too far gone to be saved, but if we can plant a seed of doubt, then that could open up some minds. As for the Obama t-shirt, I would have confronted a fellow student and forced him to explain it. Then I would have picked his arguments apart with a smile.

[Hugabear]

3. What do you expect from Drudge

He's never even tried to hide his rethug bias.

[bluestateguy]

4. It's not patriotic to go against the President of the United States in these times

We have troops in the field, and he has inherited a major crisis.

Now is the time for all good Americans to rally around the president AND his policies.

[TechBear_Seattle]

11. True, if you are morally treasonable

The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. (emphasis added) Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.

President Theodore Roosevelt, Editorial to the Kansas City Star, May 7, 1918 (note the date)

[Renew Deal]

5. Someone should point out to Albach that if people can't afford to buy things, businesses won't need

to hire people.

[Frustratedlady]

6. Why didn't they ask who was in office when we got into this mess...

and why didn't they get us out?

This is a good example of stupid raising stupid. I'm beginning to think the Repub party consists of old John Birch Society members. They don't have a clue and are passing it down the line.

I agree! Why didn't they make that kid take off the Hitler tee? They would have been expelled without argument around here.

[samplegirl]

7. Well were talking Arizona here...............

enough said.

[poverlay]

9. I'm not sure whether to be more amazed by the ignorance, or the offensiveness of that statement.

It was most certainly both.

[Drunken Irishman]

8. I am so f'n tired of the bullshit line, "Hitler gave great speeches..."

WTF?

Are you honestly going to marginalize the death of millions of Jews to score a cheap political point? What a tool and I wish someone would dump his ass in the trashcan where it belongs.

[lxlxlxl]

10. Going to the kids for the GOP's ideas

When they resort to looking to children for answers its a sign of desperation

[pipi_k]

13. You have to admit it's a big improvement...

During the Bush regime, they got all their best ideas from these guys:

[DeeDeeNY]

12. There's a reason he needed to get quotes from ignorant high schoolers

Joe the Plumber must have been busy.

:crazy:

[Hello_Kitty]

14. Boy that Brandon Miller is a ray of sunshine isn't he?

Senior Brandon Miller wore a shirt with the words, "Hitler gave great speeches, too" above a picture of Obama.

:puke:

[Kalyke]

17. My honor student son - who's also no slouch in the muscle department -

probably would have punched that guy in the nose after school. :)

[jefferson_dem]

16. Sludge has grown more and more desperate in his efforts to discredit Obama.

As if he wasn't a bottom-feeder before...

[Life Long Dem]

18. Revenge piece by Drudge.

Obama spoke about foreclosure's in McCain's home state.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090219/ts_nm/us_obama

[Still Sensible]

19. Just spouting the claptrap they have absorbed in their

right wing homes their entire lives. Mesa is a particularly conservative city. Tempe next door and Phoenix proper is more progressive. Scottsdale to the north is also conservative, but not nearly as right wing as Mesa.