Tampa Bay area kids respond to President Obama's speech. PRICELESS MUST READ!!!

[stevenleser]

http://www.tampabay.com/features/article1034344.ece

Justin Jones, 16, Chamberlain senior

Obama's speech was just dripping with socialist values, especially when he told kids "I hope you'll all wash your hands a lot, and stay home from school when you don't feel well, so we can keep people from getting the flu this fall and winter."

Oh, and the part about students setting goals for their education and asking for help when they worry they won't succeed? He is stealing the words right out of Karl Marx's mouth.

Parents are accusing President Barack Obama of spreading socialist propaganda to the youth of the nation, terrified by the assumption that Obama might be corrupting their children with his political views.

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Fellow DUers, much more at the above link! ;-)

[derby378]

1. Sounds like a good crop of kids down in Tampa Bay

Hope they keep it up!

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

26. Unfortunately, some of them will attend the University of Florida...

and I will be forced to despise them.





....did I mention that I went to Ohio State?

[Cha]

2. Wow, that senior seems

like a bright young man.

[Botany]

3. Obama "the Red Devil who is linked to Al Capone's Chicago Gang" is slick ....

OMG look what those poor brainwashed kids are saying.


"The speech had no socialist agenda and only the best of intentions: getting students to
realize that the circumstances of their life are no excuse for not trying in school."

Tori Creighton, 17, St. Petersburg High senior

[rockymountaindem]

4. I liked this one's remark about the "doomed generation"

Rachel Lubitz, 17, Countryside High senior

We have heard about this speech for a long time, way too long in my opinion, and the consensus is in. Yes conservatives, you can come out of your bunkers in Wyoming and send little Jimmy back to school because there are no socialist agenda fist-pounding moments and no brain-sucking Marxist remarks. There is just one man — the President — giving a speech about staying in school. It is the same mumbo-jumbo we've heard since we started the horrible saga which is schooling in America.

This doomed generation should be proud that they had something to do with electing a President who cares about the quality of schooling and knows how to spell it too. He tries to make it clear that he wants us to succeed the best way we can, any way we can. The speech has nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with health care, nothing to do with immigration, nothing to do with anything but staying in school.

Despite all the overused lingo, Obama does try. He has tried to grab our attention and even get us out of the usual school grind for 15 minutes. For this, many students will be grateful. His relating to Jazmin Perez, a girl who couldn't speak English in the beginning but ended up at Brown University on a scholarship, shows that he is really not just a bobble head politico but a man who is touch with humankind. The over usage of words like succeed and try and try again may leave us all questioning the quality of his speech writers, but he gets his point across.

What I would most like to applaud President Obama on is taking the time to look at this new generation from ages 5 to 18 and letting us know that he cares. The last time a President has gathered up the courage to do a thing like this was in the '80s with the first George Bush. Obama was also able to make the right wing news media whine and moan on for weeks and weeks about a speech about staying in school and succeeding. He made them look like overreacting schoolgirls jealous of the cheerleader with the quarterback boyfriend, and anyone who can do that has a friend in me.

[Jennicut]

6. This line had me cracking up.

"Obama was also able to make the right wing news media whine and moan on for weeks and weeks about a speech about staying in school and succeeding. He made them look like overreacting schoolgirls jealous of the cheerleader with the quarterback boyfriend, and anyone who can do that has a friend in me."

Has there been a better description of the RW loons then that?

:rofl:

[Odin2005]

27. LOL, that is genius!

:rofl:

[AspenRose]

5. Hope for the future

"People need to get over their dumb nonsense and realize yes, we do have a black president, yes, he is going to be in office for three and a half more years, and yes, he is smart, nice, handsome, and will help our country recover."

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. Couple of wingers jumped in there with no relevant points, only

regurgitated talking points. Seriously, if they think only they have anything to do with defending this nation, they are very wrong. My dad served and so have a lot of other good liberals, including quite a few on this site.

[Jo March]

8. Some of the comments are the usual vile ramblings of the crazies

Egads, I get sick of these right-wing whack jobs.

Good on the students for being open-minded, intelligent, and thoughtful.

[trueblue2007]

9. Those kids are SO smart. It's the WACKJOBS in the comments who need to be sent to the moon

UES THAT IS RIGHT. Send ALL stupid, hateful GOPs to the moon. Let them establish a little colony of creeps up there.

[SPedigrees]

10. These kids are very well spoken.

It is encouraging to know these bright young kids are among those leading this country in just a few short years. My faith in our educational system just took a jump upwards.

[dalaigh lllama]

11. Here's a typical twisted conservative comment afterwards:

"I am a conserative to the highest degree because, ya know what, I like my freedom. I like that I have the choice to pull the plug on my dying family member and Barack HUSSEIN Obama doesn't have that choice."

Yup, that's the first thing that pops in my head when I think of American freedom -- not control over my own demise, but control over my family members. Hope his family all have their living wills made out...

[reggie the dog]

15. that is probably a rude boy or punk

talking tounge in cheek. that has to be a comment to make conservatives look like assholes, not to actually agree with them.

[dalaigh lllama]

17. Was a time I would have agreed with you and thought he was being sarcastic.

But this past year has shown me there's no limit to how far they'll steep themselves in "teh stupid."

[tblue37]

21. According to the Terry Schiavo case, the Republicans would not

allow him to pull the plug on his dying family member, even if she happened to be brain dead anyway.

[mikiturner]

12. Absolutely priceless nt

[Phx_Dem]

13. ROLF. Not surprisingly, high school students are too smart for the GOP!

And now the GOP lunatics are being called out and made the butt of jokes by high schoolers!! You just can't make this shit up.

:rofl:

[Phx_Dem]

14. It's unfortunate that most GOPers won't be able to understand

half of what these kids are saying because they used big words like "ludicrous," "relatable," and "the."

The punctuation probably throws them off too because they don't recognize those "socialistic symbols" that don't make any sense.

[KT2000]

16. Impressive students

give this one a :kick:

[santamargarita]

18. Is Florida really that fucked up?

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[Colobo]

19. It's encouraging to see smart kids telling it like it is.

[sonias]

20. Smart kids!

Loved this one:

Rachel Lubitz, 17, Countryside High senior
We have heard about this speech for a long time, way too long in my opinion, and the consensus is in. Yes conservatives, you can come out of your bunkers in Wyoming and send little Jimmy back to school because there are no socialist agenda fist-pounding moments and no brain-sucking Marxist remarks. There is just one man — the President — giving a speech about staying in school. It is the same mumbo-jumbo we've heard since we started the horrible saga which is schooling in America.

Bravo Rachel! :applause:

"yes conservatives - come out of your bunkers now" :rofl: Oh my, I think they're really, really smart already!


Sonia

[Window]

22. What a breath of fresh air that was listening to those young people!

Thanks for sharing.

I even read all of the comments following. Most were great and appreciative. Others were, well, just plumb ignorant.

[DonCoquixote]

23. I am going to cry. K & R

Normally when Tampa Bay hits the news, it is to show how well the assault on the mind of this state has worked. This article actually makes me PROUD to be in Tampa Bay!

Obama, you have a way of reviving old hopes, don;t blow it all tomorrow night.

[DonCoquixote]

24. To all those who hate Florida

Please, please please, when you make your jokes about letting the South secede, these are the children you will be throwing to the wolves.

Perhaps if these kids grow up to be the leaders, we can rip those Confederate flags down.

[and-justice-for-all]

25. Whats the sound??

Oh, its pukes heads exploding because their plan was foiled!! HAHA...fuckers.

Obama gave a successful speech and all they got was backlash.