Attention Mentally Ill Right-Wing Extremists

[Hissyspit]

Below is reproduced a comment post in response to the good and funny article at this link:

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/09/04/protecting-our-kids-from-obamas-subversive-eat-your-peas-mes/?icid=main%7Chtmlws-main%7Cdl1%7Clink4%7Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.politicsdaily.com%2F2009%2F09%2F04%2Fprotecting-our-kids-from-obamas-subversive-eat-your-peas-#addcomments

prestit56
12:25PM Sep 4th 2009

ATTENTION MENTALLY ILL RIGHT WING EXTREMISTS

President George H.W. Bush gave an address to schools nationwide in 1991, from a junior high school in Washington, D.C. News reports from the time said the White House hoped that the address would be shown at schools nationwide, and Bush began his remarks by saying he was talking to "millions" of students "in classrooms all across the country."

You can read Bush's complete remarks via the Web site of his presidential library. Here's an excerpt:

"When it comes to your own education, what I'm saying is take control. Don't say school is boring and blame it on your teachers. Make your teachers work hard. Tell them you want a first-class education. Tell them that you're here to learn. Block out the kids who think it's not cool to be smart. I can't understand for the life of me what's so great about being stupid. ...

"If you don't work hard, who gets hurt? If you cheat, who pays the price? If you cut corners, if you hunt for the easy A, who comes up short? Easy answer to that one: You do. You're in control, but you are not alone. People want you to succeed. They want to help you succeed."

We also found that Ronald Reagan took questions from high school students at the White House in 1986, and the question-and-answer session was broadcast nationally.

Reagan urged the students to stay in school and say no to drugs, but he also discussed overtly political matters, such as national defense funding, nuclear disarmament and -- in suprising policy detail -- taxes.

"When we came into office, the top personal tax rate that the federal government could put on your income was 70 percent," Reagan said in his opening remarks. "Now, you can understand, I think, that if you were getting up in those brackets -- there were 14 different tax brackets, depending on the amount of money in each bracket you earned. And when you could look and say, 'If I earn another dollar, I only get to keep 30 cents out of it,' you can imagine the lack of incentive there. Well, we lowered it to 50 percent, and the economy really took off."

Later in the session, a student asked Reagan what he considered his greatest achievement as president. Reagan said it was that the House and Senate had separately passed legislation cutting taxes, and he was looking forward to seeing the legislation finalized and become law.

[Catshrink]

1. You don't get it.

Reagan and Bush were/are White, Obama is Black. The RW doesn't want their children forced to listen to a Black man and they sure don't want young Black children to listen to him. He might give them ideas.

[RagAss]

2. They just don't get it, do they?

To me racism is the easiest thing to detect.

[Catshrink]

14. Yeah -- I hope my sarcasm came off.

Now that I reread my post of last night, I wonder if HissySpit saw that. I should never post in GD after 2 beers.

:spank:

[Historic NY]

5. What do these people do if a teacher is black?

[troubledamerican]

12. Networked shunning, intimidation, and finally run them out of town.

Happens here on DU as well. Lookin' at you, Skinner.

[Catshrink]

13. Good question...

They might keep the kid in the class as long as everything goes okay, convincing themselves that they aren't racists because "Hey, my kid has a Black teacher." (Similar to "some of my best friends are Black.")

If an issue does arise during the school year, the first words out the their mouths to the principal will be "It's not because she's Black, you know" which of course means it is exactly that.

Or just pull the kid out of the class or school if they're overt about it.

[givemebackmycountry]

3. Sounds like he was talking about one of his sons. You know, the "special one"

"If you don't work hard, who gets hurt? If you cheat, who pays the price? If you cut corners, if you hunt for the easy A, who comes up short? Easy answer to that one: You do".

[Hissyspit]

6. Ha!

:D

[butterfly77]

4. Where was bush on 911..

everybody sing!

[Triana]

7. Isn't that redundant?

;)

[RC]

8. Triplely so.

[brewens]

9. They don't want their kids to see they've been lying to them

If their parents only watch Cluster Fox News and tell them how horrible Obama is they can't have them seeing what he's really like.

[checks-n-balances]

15. "Cluster Fox News"! The perfect moniker!!

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[brewens]

16. That's one of Keiths. n/t

[jmondine]

10. Damn. Beat me to it.

[JustGinger]

11. The 'Speech'

The only thing I have heard anyone from my neck of the woods say about the speech is in the homework. The one question -What can I do to help President Obama- Many here thought it should have been -What can I do to help my country 'America'- And even then it was just slight. No one here seems to mind much. And I live in solid red country. So I think those that are being very vocal are just looking for something to gripe about.

[DCKit]

17. I'm readin' the words and thinking "Bush?... Bush?" then I see it's from 1991.

Remember folks, in 2001, the kids were reading TO the Bush in the corner of their classroom. The one who found it difficult to uproot himself when he was told the country was under attack.

Seriously Babs, we all understand cravings during pregnancy, but Cuervo, and THAT much? Just think what you could've accomplished by limiting your intake to a fifth a day.