Chuck Todd Can't Figure Out Why Hissy Fits Succeed
Dishonest morons motivated purely by ideology have decided to throw a scream-fest over a proposed "stay in school" speech from the President to children.
President Obama wants to deliver a message to students next week emphasizing hard work, encouraging young people to do their best in school. The temper tantrum the right is throwing in response only helps reinforce how far gone 21st-century conservatives really are.
This is no small, isolated fit, thrown by random nutjobs. The New York Times, Washington Post,LA Times, AP, and others all ran stories this morning about the coordinated national effort to either keep children at home so they can't hear their president's pro-education message, or demanding that local schools block the message altogether.
The people organizing this protest and the people mad about the President daring to "indoctrinate" their children are the people who said nothing when Ronald Reagan talked favorably about tax cuts to schoolkids, when George Bush sat in a classroom on 9/11, and when they waged a campaign to put PRAYER in American schools. It's OK, then, to indoctrinate your children to almighty God, but not for them to hear a speech about hard work from the elected President of the United States. Conservatives have waged war on respect.
But the award for lack of self-awareness has to go to NBC News, which asks today:
Finally, here’s one more thought about the entire controversy over Obama’s education speech on Tuesday: Since the White House has said the text of the speech will be available for 24 hours before he delivers it and since they altered the lesson plan language, why is this still a controversy? The ability of the conservative media machine to generate a controversy for this White House is amazing. In fact, this is an example of a story that percolates where it becomes harder and harder for some to claim there's some knee-jerk liberal media bias. (Does anyone remember these kinds of controversies in the summer of 2001?) The ability of some conservatives to create media firestorms is still much greater than liberals these days.
Now, at least they admit that it's impossible to claim liberal media bias, meaning they understand who's to blame here. But do they really have to say "The ability of the conservative media machine to generate a controversy for this White House is amazing"? Isn't the answer that the non-conservative media will simply blindly follow whatever conservative media decides to gun up? Don't media types privilege conservative mini-controversies and hissy fits? Isn't there literally no way they could lay off something like this? Isn't that the problem?
Conservatives have cracked the code: yell real loud about some invented outrage, and watch the media chase the soccer ball. They actually don't have to cover it.
Top O' the world, Ma, top of the world!
Oh yeah, the media sucks.
What are they afraid of; that their kids will start imitating a black man whose pants fit?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Couldn't resist...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ncw70Hw1ffs
Chuck can't figure out why he said what he just said.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Chuck couldn't find his ass with both hands.
Chuck just found out he is suppose to be a reporter
...he uses big words like 'particularly' and 'delicatessen.' -- Jack
Whut nonconservative media ya talking about?
The Nation?
That's pretty much it for America.
Disney, "New" Viacom and its former parent CBS Corporation, Time Warner, News Corporation, and General Electric together own more than 90% of the media holdings in the United States.
Just bought Marvel comics as well - expect craptacular things to follow. Good thing I'm a DC guy...
I heard an NPR analysis of the acquisition. One of the questions the host ask was "What's in it for Marvel?". Some bogus answer followed but there's going to be nothing in it for Marvel since they were BOUGHT and their needs cease to exist independent of their purchaser!
4 Billion dollars. Yes, billion. Art is dead, my friend, commerce rules.
Past few days I've been thinking that they ought to get Avi Arad and Stan Lee of Marvel comics to handle DC's next Superman movie.
The last one succckkkeeed.
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what works and what does not...Who said what and when or what it might mean...He and Tapper need to be replaced!
Another corrupt crook?
Corporate masters are lining up his replacement as we speak.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rTCf7kvE8Oo/SUdArxj...
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
I just gotta tell you this. Remember the question you asked me yesterday about when god made olives and you said where you had searched for information? I showed your comment to my husband last night and he laughed as much when he read it as I did when I read it. Thanks to you, we had a really good laugh. Those two books of the bible that you made up will be in our conversations for a long time.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
down and missed the compliment. Actually making up stuff about the Bible is about as old as the Good Book itself.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Just say thank you and don't belittle yourself or the person making the compliment. My grandmother taught me that. :)
She was good at teachin' me stuff.
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or that you were able to remember anything beside that old wives tale.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
It's easier to just show over and over crazy people screaming at town hall meetings and crazy people threatening to keep their kids home instead of allowing them to hear a message from the president, than to cover important stories like people suffering due to lack of health insurance. And people in financial agony due to medical cost for someone in their family. Yeah, instead of covering and showing the serious side of this matter, just sit back and watch the freakin' sideshow.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
don't pay attention to the Big Players in Armani Suits buying off Congress and rewriting the rules to their favor then pitch it as "Dems willing to Compromise".
The Media is hideous-diabolical.
Forgot about the word "diabolical" - that's a good one. It reeks of evildoing...
generator here today was Glenn Beck's art show.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Beck's are show was comedy gold! That was too funny to let slide. Just imagine how Jon Stewart and Colbert feel being on vacation and missing this gold mine.
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So, the rightwing whackjobs think Obama is "brainwashing" and indoctrinating 3rd graders to do...what? They're too young to own guns and "rise up" against the establishment. By the time these elementary school children are old enough to vote, Obama will have FINISHED his 2nd term (thanks, in no small part, to knee-jerk Rethuglicans). Just what is he brainwashing them to do?
I think the R's are going to punch themselves out. Obama's been in office less than 7 months, and they've criticized everything from his jeans and what his WIFE wears, and called him a Socialist/Nationalist/Fascist/Marxist and a major-league Dr. Kevorkian! Pace yourself, conserva-dudes; it's going to be a long 8 years if you don't!
and it's working. Even Dems are starting to have doubts.
Dems are having doubts because of legitimate concerns about the promised healthcare reform not because of "his jeans and what his WIFE wears, and called him a Socialist/Nationalist/Fascist/Marxist and a major-league Dr. Kevorkian!"
reform people are concerned about.
Things like torture, two illegal occupations, mercenary armies, banker rip-off artists, illegal spying, government secrecy, and on and on...
But these doubts have nothing to do with the influence of right wing media.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
The concerns are about serious issues NOT the stupid shit the wingnuts and their media are pushing.
yeah, stupid pet tricks work on EVERYONE.
Any problems I have with Obama result from a disconnect between what he said and what he's doing. I decide on my own. Anything those morons say means that I will assume the opposite is true.
If Obama keeps compromising, getting lovey with the Blue Dogs & Republicans, and forgetting the progressives while trying to find the elusive "center"....he won't pull off a second term. I'm pretty disillusioned with the guy.
look forward to other then more talk and delaying of the inevitable.
If I knew back when I was in school that it was this easy to cry and get out of a program, I would have thrown a fit like this during the Presidential Physical Fitness test. Why did Reagan want me to do all of those damn sit-ups anyway?!
and Adult Views and concerns aren't a part of it anyway.
It's not what the president is doing that is pissing off the idiot wing of the republican party, it's anything he does that pisses them off. If he sneezed on camera, they would raise hell. Any excuse is good enough for them, no matter how petty and insane it makes them look. They think the new patriotic way to act is bat shit crazy.
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Critics here will say he is not controlling the message.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
The only way to control some of these people and their message is with a big dog catchers net and a straitjacket.
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for the new master race... the one where "rich" has been added to Aryan as a condition of membership.
what is being tossed around is that obama is going to have a special presentation to the schoolchildren pitching his healthcare reform plan.
Message to Children:
If you don't get your way, take your toys and go home.
love that Family Values crowd
These people have gone over the deep end. This may be the straw that breaks the camel's back. I hope they keep it up until the Obama indoctrination on Sept. 8. This is more insane that Beck calling Obama a fascist and calling Rockefeller a communist.
Reslugs just sit around picking their noses and scratching their dumb asses while thinking up racist ways of obstructing our President, but in the most childish, assinine ways.
I support what one republican said recently. The congress should be investigated by the press to see which ones are unamerican. Let's start with Bachmann, Boehner, McConnel Grassley and Hoekstra and continue until we get all of them exposed. They will not vote for anything that will benefit the American public.
Thank you posting this with the inclusion of St. Ronnie & Bush the first being beamed into schools. Many articles omit that point.
At the corner store this morning, a man was ranting to the clerk about his daughter being forced to listen to a "black man" telling her what to do. His exact line, "No black is going to tell my daughter what she should do!", blew me away. The clerk chuckled and said, "They know they have to get 'em young." (I have no idea who 'they' is)
I said that Obama wasn't 'some black guy', he was POTUS. And since when can't the POTUS address students? The discussion quickly devolved from there.
Red-neck guy: He is not my president.
Me: Fair enough, GWB wasn't mine, but I would not object to him speaking to students.
Clerk: Well, Bush wasn't trying to brainwash our kids.
Me: Neither is Obama, I see most events as an educational opportunity, regardless of my personal feelings.
Red-neck guy: Oh, you're a touchy-feely liberal, that's why you don't worry about the kids. (WTF does that mean!)
Me: OK, we're done.
I would call the interaction a comedy of errors, if I thought it was funny. Made me sad.
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America, and to the republic which it established, one nation from many peoples, promising liberty and justice for all
Oh how I wish I could have an encounter like that.
Your reserve is much stronger than mine. I'm personally done trying to talk sense to these aholes... "touchy-feely" - really? That's why you don't worry about the kids?? Makes no sense - was he slobbering on himself??
I know me. It would not have been pretty. My temper goes, and I struggle to get it back! I am working on avoiding profanity.
"Where Zen ends, ass-kicking begins" Hyde (That 70s Show)
I didn't think either one was making sense.
I probably lost a few IQ points.
;o}
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America, and to the republic which it established, one nation from many peoples, promising liberty and justice for all
nice town
Actually, unincorporated Hillsborough County, Florida.
The store marks the boundry between the Hispanic Gang area, and the red-neck reserve to the north. No joke.
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America, and to the republic which it established, one nation from many peoples, promising liberty and justice for all
do u have a wal mart there? that name sounds familiar... i think i saw that on http://peopleofwalmart.com (my current fav site)
There are at least 7 Wal Marts in Hillsborough County.
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America, and to the republic which it established, one nation from many peoples, promising liberty and justice for all
but I don't see how you can get seven Wal Mats on or off the top of your head.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Guess what Wal-Mart sez:
1. Palm Harbor, FL 34684
2. New Port Richey, FL 34655
3. Oldsmar, FL 34677
4. Port Richey, FL 34668
5. Clearwater, FL 33755
6. Clearwater, FL 33765
7. Hudson, FL 34667
8. Tampa, FL 33615
9. Tampa, FL 33625
10. Tampa, FL 33634
11. Largo, FL 33770
12. Tampa, FL 33618
13. Tampa, FL 33614
14. Land O'Lakes, FL 34639
15. Largo, FL 33774 Now Open
16. Tampa, FL 33604
17. Tampa, FL 33607
18. Pinellas Park, FL 33781
19. Pinellas Park, FL 33781
20. St Petersburg, FL 33709
Good for you. You took the high road and didn't let them bring you down to their level.
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"... since when can't the POTUS address students?"THE ANSWER: Ta Ta. anytime the right wing says he can't. they have the power to dictate and they exercise this power all the time, so get used to it. Obama, if you can't address our nation's students as POTUS, then get used to it. as prez, they respect your intellect your rhetoric but they also recognize that you are weak and those who would back you nancy and harry are also weak. they would run and attempt to apologize for the last eight years rather than fight. they represent us and will continue to do so until we get angry enough and throw their sorry arses out of office. how does that strike you.
i am having a bit of political-hypocrisy-whiplash from the the GOP's cult-like executive-worship from when bush was in office to the hatred and fear of anything from the current admin
They must not have enough integrity to feel shame.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
They learn this at Pop Warner Football and Wrestling. You cheer your team and boo the other. The current affair is a continuation of their conduct during Clinton which reached a crescendo with the Florida recount, was reversed after the Supreme Court decision, and resumed after Obama cleaned McCain's clock.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
couldn't find his a** with both hands. I'll congratulate the media when they say flat out, "This is the latest example of virulent strain of racism that lurks just beneath the surface of political discourse on the right wing.'
>"couldn't find his a** with both hands"
Should read: couldn't find his a** with both hands in a hall of mirrors.
Addendum should be: or pour pi$$ out of a boot with the instructions on the heel.
Thanks, I'll be weak all here.
whats going on in your country would make for good theatre if it wasn't so pathetic. By that I mean I am watching peoples reactions and they are flying totally off the handle.Last time I looked Obama won your election, why can't people deal with it and move on?
Either that, or he's lying. These hissy fits succeed because his industry allows them to succeed. It is the media that is adding fuel to the fire by providing 24-7 coverage of this idiocy.
There was a time I feared growing old too soon and dying, but no longer. Somedays, I can't wait. I don't want to see how this all turns out.
Remember the lady in the wheel chair who was boo-ed down at that one town hall meeting? She was just interviewed on msnbc. She said that crowd that yelled over her came fired up and prepared to be sure that no ideas were exchanged at the meeting.
This is what they are doing, they are yelling and screaming to create a firewall to keep any relevant information from being heard.
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Dude, take your finger off the shift key and back away slowly from the keyboard.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
to freeze. I don't mind. I like "shouting."
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
The site monitors don't favor yelling typing. Just trying to give the guy or lady a clue before it's too late.
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what is all caps in bold? And how do we type for the deaf and hearing impaired.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
All caps and bold is the quickest way to find the delete button for the monitors. Don't worry about the deaf and hearing impaired, they don't pay any attention to us any way.
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I think a reference to Adam, Ann, and Apple works faster. And I proved it.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
god bless e.e. cummings.
I much prefer archie and mehitabel.
I wonder if mehitabel ever yelled, "ooh ahhhrrrchhhie...you're home!!!"
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Never mind
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
She ruined the weekend for many a horny lad, let me tell you.
We cannot have the flower of southern womanhood exposed to this freed
son of Ham.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
And if Ham was objectionable, is Bacon still OK? (I'm only 2 degrees from Bacon;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9n0HbicZto
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
This is 007.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoCRgcKqb8M
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Who can ever forget the picture of Dopey sitting,immobilized with fear, in front of a classroom full of kids, while this country was under attack?
Are you referring to the most ignoratn President wwe have ever had? Even his parents gave up on him...history will be the judge and the judge will not be too leniant on him I am sure!
They have the emotional maturity of two year olds. The media is creating a generation of spoiled children.
I wrote much the same thing on my blog, yesterday.
schwabbed yesterday. It wasn't brilliant. It was painful. Hope Blue Cross covers it.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Your comment is brilliant, and I was about to make the same comment so that makes me brilliant too.
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olives. I was going to make an eleven inch tall joke, but I rarely make fun of your dog.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
He appreciates your respect for him. He feels rarely is better than always. Funny thing is, I think his IQ is higher than most of these people at the town hall meetings, and trust me, his IQ probably equals his height.
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old guy the trouble if he had been the one at the town hall meeting to bite the pinkie off. He would have just swallowed it on the spot.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Martini would say, "Snacks? For me?"
Hell, a human finger would feed him for days. He only eats an eighth of a cup of food twice a day.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Like Frank who wrote:
You should maybe post a response to Throckmorton pointing out that St. Ronnie emptied the mental health facilities.
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America, and to the republic which it established, one nation from many peoples, promising liberty and justice for all
Argumentum ad Ignorantiam
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Since Obama has two kids. Regardless of what Chuck thinks ...
Hissy fits work because you pay attention to them. Any parent knows that when you start ignoring them, they escalate a little then start to decrease.
When will Obama stop soothing and appeasing the far right every time it lays down on its back in the middle of the aisle and kicks, screams and wails for something it is not going to get?
My grown children still talk about me ignoring and stepping over the one on the floor kicking and screaming.
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America, and to the republic which it established, one nation from many peoples, promising liberty and justice for all
... ah Chuck Todd couldn't figure out how to pour piss out of a boot if the instruction were written on the bottom of the heel!
for my 7th grade daughter to be allowed to watch the speech.
Ludicrous!
I completely agree. I heard a mother on tv complaining because her kid's school didn't send home permission slips. She had decided to keep her kid home that day. In our local paper this morning it said the school board was trying to come up with something for students to do who didn't want to listen to the speech or whose parents wouldn't allow them.
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In quite this context.
I'm glad I home school (in the south), my son is free to watch it! I wonder if it will be on the web?
C-span will have it on their site.
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We can't watch it live. My home schooled kid and I will be driving down to meet our Congress Rep.'s office at that time. Since my son is a teen, it will be hands-on social studies.
I suspect it will just be with a random staff member, but I intend to ask if he plans to sign on with the Progressive caucus. It's a Democrat, that's not a blue dog, but also won't commit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJeZe50ut5A&fe...
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These whiney,white rednecks are so stoked-up that a black man is in the White House,now are worried that their precious white snowflakes are going to have to listen to Obama fill them with propaganda, and ask them to serve him!
Check this out about how serving Bush was so important that:
Wasn't too long ago that the top DOJ offical charged with interviewing and hiring prospective hires, asked this question to them "What is it about George W. Bush that makes you want to serve him?" Prior to testifying before the House Judiciary Committee about screening of prospective DOJ hires making certain that they were sufficently DEVOTED to serving George Bush,--- shared with a Justice Dept. offical this vow, "All I ever wanted to do was SERVE this President!"
It's not about Obama talking to their fat,overweight,lard-arses and whiney,spoiled rotten,snot-nosed kids, it's because a black man President Obama put a whipping on them and the Republican Party that all the Ajax in the world, couldn't scrub off! Being as devastated as a racist can get, they just can't handle the truth about themselves or their party so now they're using their own flesh and blood (even if their snowflakes are a result of marrying their own brother or sister) to project their hate! That's all it"s about, a black man in the White House!
I love it!
That's the American Redneck Way, using their evil spawn as pawns to hate the black man in the White House!
You people are simple!
republicanism is a mental illness!
Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't George W. Bush addressing school kids on the morning of the 9-11 attacks ? Where was the "outrage" and public "outcry" that day ? Like it or not, Barack Obama is our ELECTED President and those people who scream and carry on every time he does anything (even swatting a fly during a recent interview)need to start putting all that negative energy into positive work that can make for real change in this country. They all act like "It is my WAY....or MY WAY". If their old ideas are so effective and right, then how come our country is in the deepest recession since the Great Depression ? Think back,that happened on their watch !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You are so right! Their attention span is that of a fly! they forget all that stuff cuz they ahve gone mad!
No one objected when the incompetent George W. Bush tried to read to students, or Reagan, even wife Nancy just saying no didn't draw a breath.
Really- making this much fuss over the President of The United States making a public address to the students. Harry S. Truman did it. So did Dwight D. Eisenhower and Jimmy Carter.
Be it so those parents who ban their students from hearing President Obama address the youth of our nation will only miss a part of living history.
It is obviously doubtful their kids would be likely to retain much if any of the information that the President will convey in his talk to students. Not any more that is than their parents would if they were ever a responsible enough citizen to watch a State of the Union Address.
These kids won’t be taught the lesson of what it is to be concerned with issues and learning the necessity of becoming an involved citizen rather than just running home and hiding when serious issues hit the fan.
So other than removing the distracters from the classrooms so the other students will be able to concentrate on what needs to be heard...and possibly learned...I think those parents with the mentality to withdraw their little juveniles from the classroom on that day is an excellent choice! Perhaps it’s not that big of deal after all.
It is then when they grow up we know who will be the ones that know when and how to be an informed voter, responsible citizen and be independent enough to decide a choice without a talking head telling them how to think, talk and which hair-do's are appropriate for the day!
... if these non-stories didn't get published, or put on page 10? You know, the way News used to be. The important stuff on the front page -- the less-so in the back?
And home schooling! 99% of home schooled kids have imbeciles for teachers. Why do they get such a mouthpiece today? And for those kids IN public school, whose parents will keep them home on Wednesday, what's the story? Millions of kids will hear the president's talk ... no big deal. Why give the front page to the lunatics?
"And home schooling! 99% of home schooled kids have imbeciles for teachers."
As a self-professed home schooler a few posts up, flattery will get you everywhere.
There definitely is a problem crowd, but many of us home school children with disabilities (often severe).
"Yell real loud about some invented outrage, and watch the media chase the soccer ball. "
It's like playing with a cat using one of those laser pointer thingys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8BKSTWn4zY
"The ability of the conservative media machine to generate a controversy for this White House is amazing"?
It's the audience.
If you're preaching to uneducated, ignorant, backwoods hillbillies, it's easy to create a controversy. Just tell them that a black man is coming to take their guns and their bibles, raise their taxes, and abort their children. Done....
loves the image reflected at him from the lens of the TV camera. Also, could he please drop the ubiquitous pen-between-fingers when 'lecturing'. Please!
You accurately write: "Conservatives have cracked the code: yell real loud about some invented outrage, and watch the media chase the soccer ball. They actually don't have to cover it."
One has to remember that everything in the USA is done for money and profit. The 'news' organisations too - just like the health care industry. So why would their profit-driven behaviour be any different?
I regularly watch The News Hour with Jim Lehrer. What a difference a non-profit news gathering outfit makes. I can sure see where the passion for news and reporting lie. It is not on the side of the commercial, for-profit networks.
Ehh, they just want to shut him down so he is not able to influence their children with his ideals. I don't see what is the problem with encouraging young people to stay in school and work hard. Some children don't have responsible enough parents to do that for them, which would make his reasons for doing it all the more noble. There is nothing sneaky or underhanded about that. A president is SUPPOSED TO use his power to influence the public in a positive way. Telling people what to believe and telling people why it is beneficial to do something are two different things. I think the president deserves a chance
If Glen beck is some one you suport then you are a crazy as he is......he truly belongs in an institution...Just stop for a minute and really listen to him.
You said it all and very well I might add. I am a white female over 65 American and I am proud to say I grew up in the days when many battles were fought and won. The people who hate will always hate the fact that we have a brilliant Black man and brilliant black woman in the white house. The POUS is smart enough to know that and you just have to pray that he will overcome!
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