This is just a sad sad thing. And we wonder why parents had issues with Obama’s speech… Funny how the speech comes out now after every one was concerned… I wonder it if was re-written from what was originally planned. But none the less, the NEA has some real blame here. Trusting the President is one thing, but when you can’t even trust the NEA (ie the teachers association) to teach our kids is another. Just look:
This was in response to President George H.W. Bush doing a similar speech; October 10, 1991 — the National Education Association said it could not “endorse a president who spends $26,000 dollars of taxpayers’ money on a staged media event… while cutting school lunch funds for our neediest youngsters.”
Now what do they say? September 6, 2009 — the NEA wrote: “We applaud President Obama for delivering this message to students.” Wow,,,, what a change of heart… How different were the messages? Stay in school…. Do your best…. Etc…
Guess we know that the NEA isn’t neutral…. Too bad… No wonder people opt for the home school… NEA is teaching our kids… They should be NEUTRAL…. Shouldn’t they… Aren’t they suppose to be educating our children, not influencing their ideas… I sure have a hard time trusting them with my kids… Guess who will be watching them now…
Oh, I wonder if we will ever see how much President Obama spent…
Wonder, will the NY Times, CNN, NBC make people aware of the NEA’s stance? I will count the days… Glad I have a calculator that goes up in the 10s of digits.
Titles do not tell the story… The story tells the story… Just an FYI for those skimmers out there…
If I was a democrat senator going to a town home meeting and having “heated” debates and then see Obama taking a vacation for a whole week… I would feel a little jilted.
Oh I thought we were in a crisis?
Oh, and didn’t Bush get riticuled for taking vacations by the main stream press…. But they say nothing now??? Where are they… Seems like the same rules don’t apply to Obama as they did Bush…
Mr Brashaw has a radio program where he asks for others with different point of view to email, text, etc their comments to him. When he repeats them over the air, he re-writes what they have said, changing the wording, to support his point or to convert the person sending in the comment, a wacko, off base, etc…. And also, when you have a good point, it majically never gets shared with the public.
It is his show, he can do what ever he wants with it, but do not ask people to contribute and then present those people as wackos by changing what they say. Or just letting the wackos on the air. Either tell your story your way without other input. Or make sure they trully have a voice… So far I know I haven’t… And I know I am not the only one…
In the last program I had dialog with him, he would not read all of this. It was in regards to his comment that Obama has an open hand and has asked the republicans to work with him. And it is the republicans at fault for not working with Obama. Not Obama… Mr Bradshaw attacked my message and my self, by pointing out that the GOP lost the election, and they don’t have an equal voice. Equality of voice was not the issue/point,. The annology was which was never read. Nor did he repeat the message word for word. And the context of message was changed. My message sent was:
Also, I heard you talk about how Obama has held out his hand to the GOP and had it slapped away. You state that, but you leave out the facts. I would like to share an anonology that best summerizes it. The people of the US elected him president because he atleast implied he would reach out a hand to the GOP and work things out like you would with your Spouse. But his way of working things out, is more like. Hey honey lets buy a car, oh by the way, it is going to be a Ford Pickup, Crew Cab, 4 wheel drive, you can pick out the color…. Do that to you wife and see how she responds. If he truly wants a health care plan that is bi-partisan just as he claimed he would open his hand out to. Why not do a lock in. take top democrats and top GOPs and who ever else should be. Lock them in until they come out with a plan that they will ALL sign… I bet that would be the best for everyone… Don’t you think???
Some day, maybe his position can stand up on its own by its merits and not by twisting things to his side… And maybe he can look at the intent, instead of attacking a person over a mispelling, or something else, and not the point at hand. It is a common technique, when you can’t argue with the main point, attack the author on something else.
Back in the Bush era when there was protesters, you said they were expressing their legal rights. But when people protest Obama’s Health care plan, you call the “Domestic Terrorists”
Really, who is more dangerous, a News Source calling american people terrorist if they don’t agree with their view point or people excerising their right to free speech.
Are you really that dumb to think that there has to be something wrong with someone if they don’t agree with you???? Really???? Come on NBC/MSNBC maybe these people speak for the populous and not what you think people should think.