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[dandy-dustmite.livejournal.com]

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_53/]

Yup :)

[malasadas.livejournal.com]

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[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

Ah, Glengarry Glen Ross

[malasadas.livejournal.com]

Good reference -- you're still a one-note ass, though.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

???

Wow man. How long before you start writing that on walls with your own poop?

[real-live-troll.livejournal.com]

I think I'm in love.

[petdance.livejournal.com]

Which kids are these?

[http://users.livejournal.com/gaburieru_/]

him.

[dr-pepper-spray.livejournal.com]

You know.. Yeah. I think those might just be fighting words.

[xladymissiex.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure every other child passed kindergarten.

[camac.livejournal.com]

Let me guess, you dropped out of school in the first grade?

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

SO, surrounded by privilege your whole life. Explains a lot.

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

And your peers at school?

[new-wave-witch.livejournal.com]

"Unlike liberals"? My parents are liberal. They did the exact same thing.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

LOL x100,000 @ the suggestion liberals don't believe in personal sacrifice. Plus points for suggestion liberals don't ever drive crappy cars. Have not ever seen a Hummer or an Escalade or a Navigator with a liberal in it. Ever. You do not live in the world the rest of us do. Get a life. Wake up. Stop listening to Sean Hannity.

[wight1984.livejournal.com]

I remember a British MP suggesting that every parent could send their child to private school if they just made sacrifices like not buying a new car.

It's impressive how much privilege it must take to make people not realise that not everyone can afford a new or even a good car even if they wanted to

You can't sacrifice what you don't have.

My parents made a lot of sacrifices for me (seriously, I have great parents) but there was no way I was ever going to private school.

[paintmeamovie.livejournal.com]

DAMN. You going full out classist now huh?

[xforge.livejournal.com]

My parents loved me too. They brought me up to think for myself.

[jblaque.livejournal.com]

http://www.bvblackspin.com/2009/09/05/republican-presidents-long-history-of-talking-to-school-kids/#comments

Hurr.

[jblaque.livejournal.com]

A preview of the president's speech comes out on Monday. I guess we'll see what sort on "indoctrination" language is included then, eh?

[jblaque.livejournal.com]

Nor did I say that you did (although your blog entry makes it pretty clear you believe the "leftist" public school system is in the indoctrination business - an absolute absurdity in its own right).

But let's cut through the semantic smokescreen here for just a moment, if we might: If, in fact, you don't believe that Obama's address to schoolchildren constitutes indoctrination (pending a review of the actual text on Monday, of course), what, exactly, is your objection to the POTUS speaking directly to young people, urging them to stay in school and make the most out the opportunity to get an education? After all, is he not merely following in the footsteps of Teddy Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush? Given the opportunity to speak to the nation's kids yourself, would your message be any different?

[jblaque.livejournal.com]

The alternative to public schools being what, exactly? Strictly home-schooling for parents who can't afford to send their kids to a private school? And what if those parents have to work every day to keep the mortgage paid and put food on the table? Who should pick up the ball from there?

Please share your vision for educating the children of this country. This I've got to hear.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

You're trying to prove something by posting a link to your own narrowminded dumbfuck alternate-universe blog?

[syndicalist.livejournal.com]

lol

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Ah, never mind about the deleted-comment thing. I seem to be having cache issues.

[spencer-mato.livejournal.com]

This is one of the claims that makes me cringe the most. That a president can't make a speech at schools anymore without being seen as indoctrinating. When I was in elementry school, Bill Clinton came and gave us a speech. I shook his fucking hand. I can't even remember what he told us, but I think there was a "When I was young" story in there somewhere. These kids probably won't even remember what Obama says 2 days after he says it.

Some crazy times we're living in.

[rawbery79.livejournal.com]

You're so right, they are kids...they won't care after a day or two, max.

Hai....

[ariel72.livejournal.com]

I just hope that whatever happens, it's all right. I'm concerned but not insane.

[dwer.livejournal.com]

If Glenn Beck cannot be held up as a warning of what happens if you don't get a good education, I don't know what can.

[schnoozles.livejournal.com]

score!

[camac.livejournal.com]

If they are so worried about socialist propaganda why not just get their kids out of our socialized public schools permanently in the first place?

[jamie-miller.livejournal.com]

I don't think that word means what you think it means.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/socialist
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/551569/socialism

Just because conservatives sometimes advocate massive government spending and intervention does NOT make them socialist.

[http://users.livejournal.com/gaburieru_/]

the first one is too fucking true nowadays.

#1

[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

Why is that guy protesting Will Smith?

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[real-live-troll.livejournal.com]

He doesn't want the children exposed to all those terrible movies.

Re: #1

[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

Ah, makes sense... Must be at the Hancock premiere.