Florida GOP Chair on Obama's Speech to Students: "It's a Good Speech, I'll Let My Kids Watch"

[jefferson_dem]

Hey Greer, you dirty rotten POS ...

Florida GOP Chair on Obama's Speech to Students: "It's a Good Speech, I'll Let My Kids Watch"
September 07, 2009 3:20 PM

Steven Portnoy reports: The Florida Republican party chairman who last week accused the president of trying to “indoctrinate America’s children to his socialist agenda” now says he’ll let his children watch what he calls a “good speech,” one the president “should give.”

“It’s a good speech,” Florida GOP chairman Jim Greer said Monday. “It encourages kids to stay in school and the importance of education and I think that’s what a president should do when they’re gonna talk to students across the country.”

In a telephone interview as he headed to Tallahassee for a round of TV interviews ahead of tonight’s FSU-Miami football game, Greer said the White House made “changes” to teacher prep materials – and the speech itself – as a result of the political pressure he applied.

“The speech that’s out today is one that he should give, and I’m pleased to see that the White House has made changes to what was gonna happen.”

Despite his conciliatory tone today, Greer says he has no regrets for issuing a statement last Tuesday, in which he said he was “absolutely appalled that taxpayer dollars are being used to spread President Obama’s socialist ideology.” The statement also accused the president of “bypassing American parents through an invasive abuse of power.”

Now that he’s read the text of the speech, Greer says he’ll gladly let his own children watch it – if their school chooses to participate.

“The speech that gonna give tomorrow to students I really don’t find to be a problem. I just wish the White House had done things differently and not tried to send out lesson plans that would have pushed teachers to lead students in a direction that maybe I and many other parents would not like students to be led in.”

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http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/09/florida-gop-chair-on-obamas-speech-to-students-its-a-good-speech-ill-let-my-kids-watch.html

[still_one]

1. Mighty "Christian" of that sob. /nt

[Cha]

2. Is it me or does he sound like

an idiot?

[livetohike]

3. Lesson plans were suggestions.....these Republicans are

idiots.

[cal04]

4. he was just on CNN saying he thinks President Obama

changed the speech. She asked him if he had proof, he said no
My kids will be watching the speech I hope all kids will


What an ass

[quantass]

5. **SHOCKED** CNN asked such a follow-up?

Usually they and their bastard siblings tend to just let repubs have the final say and leave the audience to wonder if it is truth or not. Asking a followup question and calling him out is very unusual. You sure you heard right?

[cal04]

7. Suzanne Malveaux is in for Wolf

and I was kind of shocked myself

[JohnnyLib2]

6. Face-saving -- transparently.

We may hear more like this.

As my sweet old mother would say, "dumbass."

[Cass]

8. Bush Sr. asked students to write him letters about how they could help him advance his policies

when he addressed the nation's students when he was president. CNN just showed the clip in a segment about the speech. A few minutes later Greer was interviewed and I was disappointed he was not asked to comment on Bush Sr.'s speech.

Greer got what he wanted - he trashed Obama for days with no shred of evidence to back up his smears. Now, once the damage is done with many districts banning the speech, he says its all good and his kids will watch. What a slime.

[janx]

9. Will somebody please enlighten me about the Lesson Plan?

I keep reading about this on the internets; the former first lady was quoted as referring to it---what lesson plan? What is the context of this?

[CoffinEd]

10. Heads must be exploding

I wonder what's going on in the heads of all the people he worked up into a Tasmanian devil-like frenzy now that he says things are, um, cool. Then again, maybe I don't want to know.

[Froward69]

11. A Grand and mighty FUCK YOU

Jim Greer!
you rumor starting, propaganda spreading, muther fucker son of a bitch, Asshole!

the best part of you was moped up off of the interstate bus floor, you were born on.

for Whipping up the hate, I hope you drown clinging to a bar of gold painted lead.

on edit to add/ SHIT FOR BRAINS!