Arlington District Cancels Bush Speech Trip

[oligarhy]

This is the one that we have been hearing about, they weren't going to show the Presidential address to school kids, but were going to bus 600 students to a bush speech.

Not anymore.

[rurallib]

1. No doubt the crazies will go berserk on this also.

[Better Today]

5. I think you miss the point, this time it was folks like us that got it changed.

We're starting to learn how to get things changed without having to act like complete assholes. Caught them in their own web.

Well done, I say.

[rurallib]

11. But the crazies will be up in arms screaming that there preciou prodigies

won't be graced with the wisdom of W.
That was all I meant. They will miss the subtle nuance that if they ban Obama therefore Bush shouldn't be favored. The faithful will have pitchforks to skewer the supr.
I know it was at least a small and possibly lonely victory for sanity.

[Better Today]

2. Cool!

[TransitJohn]

3. I'm glad they're cancelling the trip.

You know what really jumped out at me in the linked article, though?

Obama addressed students for about 20 minutes to emphasis the importance of education and personal responsibility. Many conservatives rallied against the speech when it was first announced and accused the president of planning to use the opportunity to politically indoctrinate children.

What passes for the "right" in American political discourse. They literally speak batshit crazy platitudes, and the media dutifully reports it as though it were "serious business."

[KansDem]

9. I find this annoying as hell as well...

They literally speak batshit crazy platitudes, and the media dutifully reports it as though it were "serious business."

If they were just ignored, they'd eventually disappear. But with the media's complicity, their rantings and ravings are treated as "news."

It's like Chicken Little appearing on the evening news, every evening...

[Celebration]

4. understatement of the year

“In retrospect, I can see how the district's decisions concerning these two events could be seen as favoring one event over another,” McCullough said.

:rofl: No shit?

The truth is, both events should have been accommodated. Or,(and they CHOSE this) NONE.

There is just no end to stupid.

[oligarhy]

7. I agree that both events

should have been attended by the students. They are both educational events, IMO.

[DCKit]

12. "They are both educational events...." You're kidding, right?

Average intelligence dropped a point nationwide every time Dumbya* got on the TeeVee. If his lips are moving, he's lying. What do you find educational about that? Granted, kids are generally excellent bullshit detectors, but I think their time would be better spend in school - not necessarily a Texas school (from what I've heard of the current curriculum), but still better than the waste of time and resources this trip would have been.

These children have been saved. May they grow wise enough to know it.

[jfkraus]

8. Actually, I'm glad they canceled Bush...

The kids would have been dumber for having listened to it.

[TransitJohn]

10. I'm glad they cancelled the trip to see the

promotional event for Jerry's World (new Dallas Cowboys stadium) Super Bowl-hosting community outreach more than I'm glad they cancelled it to see a former President*.

[keepthemhonest]

6. They had no choice at tha point or it would have been blatant

racism.Although is still obvious it is racist.