Help me understand: ROTC can go on campus, American corporate sports...

[bridgit]

can pull people right out of class, 'young republicans' can spew their filth to the four corners of the quad canvassed with Pepsi products SnowBalls and DingDongs; but Obama cannot address the importance of receiving good grades in school, staying the course, and becoming a vibrant part of America; while Reagan can preach his idiot, googley eyed voodoo love-child-shit about Grover Norquist's life of eternal libertarian me-isms brimming with ever-lower taxes? Is that right? Cause that's not right

Conservative media take note: Reagan preached tax cut gospel to America’s students

Putting aside possible ulterior motives, the conservative freak-out over President Obama’s planned speech to students urging them to stay in school and work hard is due to fears that Obama will use his platform as an opportunity to push his agenda on unsuspecting students. Ironically, that’s exactly what President Reagan did two decades ago.

On November 14, 1988, Reagan addressed and took questions from students from four area middle schools in the Old Executive Office Building. According to press secretary Marlin Fitzwater, the speech was broadcast live and rebroadcast by C-Span, and Instructional Television Network fed the program “t o schools nationwide on three different days.” Much of Reagan’s speech that day covered the American “vision of self-government” and the need “to keep faith with the unfinished vision of the greatness and wonder of America” but in the middle of the speech, the president went off on a tangent about the importance of low taxes:

http://mediamatters.org/blog/200909030020

[NoPasaran]

1. Getting good grades is elitist

Real Americans want their kids to grow up lazy, unemployable, living at home sleeping on that old sofa in the basement.

[Common Sense Party]

2. You got a sofa???!!?

Where's mine?

[krabigirl]

3. They just hat Obama, and they are ignorant, crazy, racist scumbags.

I'm done being nice to any of them, either.

[MrModerate]

4. Their fear is both real and justifiable . . .

If their children pay attention and work hard in school, before long they will be able to look at their parents and say: "What a bunch of chumps. You can't tell me I'm genetically linked to these throwbacks." And parents across America (but mostly in the deep south) will lose all control of their children.

Ironically, their children would say the same thing about the time they reach 14 *anyway* so there's no escaping it (happens to the children of progressives, too, believe me). But they're trying to hold back the tide.

And that always works.

[drmeow]

7. Worse, their kids will be

inspired and validated by and will look up to a (GASP) BLACK MAN! (Athletes don't count)

[704wipes]

5. really, CofC can indoctrinate with Junior Achievement, right ?

Military can indoctrinate with ROTC.
Some schools still have cooperative education where the high school kid actually goes out and works the last few hours of school in a business.

But, the Democratic President can't be seen to tell kids to stay in school to 'take advantage' of this?

I guess I can't explain it, Bridgit.

[bridgit]

6. It's messed up huh? I can't see how their circle of mediocrity can exist *without* being broken...