"NotNow" wrote in message
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JustWait wrote:
In article ,
says...
Personally, I think the president should speak to students in support of
studying and staying in school. What I can't stomach is all the
hypocrisy coming from the White House and Congress. For example:

http://tinyurl.com/l5zqje

Well, isn't this interesting:

snip
The controversy over President Obama's speech to the nation's
schoolchildren will likely be over shortly after Obama speaks today at
Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia. But when President George
H.W. Bush delivered a similar speech on October 1, 1991, from Alice Deal
Junior High School in Washington DC, the controversy was just beginning.
Democrats, then the majority party in Congress, not only denounced Bush's
speech -- they also ordered the General Accounting Office to investigate
its production and later summoned top Bush administration officials to
Capitol Hill for an extensive hearing on the issue.
/snip

Sure makes a few people here seem pretty uninformed (being nice),
especially the ones who suggested other presidents have not had any
problems addressing students.. Hummmm. Makes you wonder what other
"facts" and justifications they might have just "assumed" without basis
in fact... snerk


The difference is in CONTENT, plain and simple. Both Bush's and Reagan's
speeches were CLEARLY political in nature. That doesn't seem to bother
you, but Obama's speech clearly talking about success and succeeding, has
you in a twit.

I'm not "in a twit". You Dims act as though you can do no wrong and the Cons
can do no right. The reality is that both factions play a constant game of
trying to destroy each other while the country goes to hell in a hand
basket. Imagine how much greatness can be accomplished if it doesn't matter
who gets the credit.