Why would the President give a political speech to a group of people who can't vote?

Fuck God, there is no God... Damn you Obama for trying to push your religion on my kids!

I worked for the Bellevue School District for two years-- and it certainly loves its financial "donations" from its wealthy families (who threaten to send their children to private schools if they don't get their way). At the elementary school where I was, Teacher Appreciation Week was filled with catered fancy lunches, professional massages in the break room, and even an espresso stand set up in the teacher's lounge. Not saying teachers don't deserved to be loved, but there may be more weight given to Obama-bashing conservatives' opinions when they help make life at the school so cushy. Not to mention that every student also had a laptop to use in every classroom-- a far cry from the west side of the lake, where they sometimes don't even have lunch rooms.

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@5 There is a difference between the agenda of the right-wing, and the left-wing.

With for-profit charter schools, no child left behind, which funnels money away from the schools that need it most, opposing all tax increases, and a general hatred of anything socialist, the Republican party is dedicated to dismantling public education in this country. Also, when the people get educated, they stop voting against their best interests by voting Republican. Any president Bush speaking in a public school is equivalent to Fred Phelps getting paid speaking engagement at a gay pride parade. The only difference is that they allowed the Bushes to do it because they were Presidents.

I was livid when I got the message that the BSD had decided not to have the schools watch the Presidents speech. I had read the transcript the day prior (which was easily found on the internet, by the way) and no part of that speech had a "message inappropriate for our children". The entire message was a fantastic one to put out and I'm ashamed to be involved in any form with BSD at this moment.

You people should just be glad you don't have to deal with all the right-wing bigots in Georgia. They make your Bellevue folks look like Ted Kennedy.

Love your publication by the way.

chalk it up to the uwundbkdnsvg.

it's like last night trying to watch for free at the north seattle community college's t.v in the lunch room without a class tuition receipt.

sure, the cable companies have to share their revenue with their investors, just like the telecoms and banks have to disclose where they hide their phone numbers and wash their junkets to the offshore bank accounts.

What I'd like you to get through your head dominic, is the fact that no matter where you dial in your receipts in the future, partisan politics will always be there to re-deploy your degree.
of course, that's granting your diploma is worth the emoticon it is sent in on.

Go check their website; they had a new message that backpedaled considerably from their first. I think they got the message about how out of line they were the first time.

"GOP Losses Span Nearly All Demographic Groups"

http://www.gallup.com/poll/118528/gop-lo…

Which group went from a wash in 2001 to a 15% gap in 2009? College-educated. This group was the GOP's biggest loss of ground in the 2008 prez election.

I heard of an even higher gap among those with post-grad degrees, but I couldn't find it easily, and it's not my job to find you facts.

D'oh, sorry, that was addressed to @16, not Dominic Holden.

Wait, what? It doesn't look to me like the Bellevue School District did anything particularly wrong. It basically told the teachers that it was up to them. And honestly, are you saying that these kids are so retarded they can't YouTube something? Are you really going to give them that little credit? Quit jizzing your pants over the fact that Bellevue did something you can get after, Jeez. Try... Oh, I don't know, finding something legitimate to write about.

@21: You're joking, right? There's no difference between THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and some amorphous 'radical religious right'? Even if we coalesce that into a single role (perhaps a leader of said radical religious right) there remains the fact that one was elected by a majority of the citizens of the united states to the most important role in US government and one is an unelected, theological leader who has nothing to do with the government.

"At that time, nobody had time to research," says Oxrieder. "We just knew that people were saying it was going to be a political message. We didn't know where it was coming from." But she notes that several parents also called in support of the speech.

No time to do research? It's ten minute's on Youtube, for crying out loud. It's not hard to research. Watch it yourself, call a meeting that next morning. Show it to the other staff. Discuss. Profit!

Funny part of all of this is.... kids being kids, they would just ignore the speech like they do any other serious instruction from a distant authority figure. None of what Obama said will sink in with any of them. One of those classic cases of adults completely forgetting what it was like to be a kid.

I tried to think of instances where Carter, Reagan or Bush gave a speech to kids when I was in school, but I can't. Probably because I ignored it.

@33. Grow Up.

Actually, Sir Vic, l quite applaud that kid, both for correcting your silly dismissal, as well as for stating it like it is, and from his/her perspective. You do realize that a great number of our voters this past election were 'kids', right? And that many rejoiced at being just barely old enough to vote, while others publicly lamented not being old enough to have their votes counted?

"None of what Obama said will sink in with any of them."
When you use absolutes like these in a tone so assured it is correct, it doesn't surprise me at least one of the group you insist you know so well raises his/her voice and asks you not to speak for them. Sadly, your defensive response ignores the fact that 'Just Some Stupid Kid' (a moniker l disagree with) actually did see -and pay attention to- the speech. Unless you voted for the other guy, isn't this what you wanted? Yet here you are, busy going tete a tete with someone half your age or more...and losing. lt's quite funny, actually.

ln case you haven't noticed, things have changed since Carter, Reagan, and Daddy Bush. ln fact, l believe this is the point the kid you're talking down to is trying to make.

Obama....God.....vripper....quit ripping em, I can smell em....they're bad, rancid, and filled with the "WRATH OF GOD!!!!"......He's a bloody, muslim......PEOPLE!!! WAKE UP!!!!
HUSSEIN.....OBAMA.....BARACK....KENYA.....
He's a CLOSET MUSLIM....Are you all that desperate and snobby, not to see that he's ruining and making our country worse....2016 olympics more important than troops in afganistan....You might as well have voted in someone off the street....Why do I have the feeling that WA state will be the last to see that they were bamboozled.....oh, well, there's always a nice cup of joe....Starbuck's anyone....Oh, and shut up about Hooter's....the hot girls aren't complaining all the way to the bank, only the wish-could-be's are.....

@40: Well played, sir. My hat's off to you.