Planned Obama Speech To Schools Stirs Up Controversy
Published: September 3, 2009
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia schools are fielding questions about a speech President Obama plans to make to students after conservative columnists and talk-radio personalities roundly criticized what they’re calling an attempt to indoctrinate children.
Virginia Department of Education spokesman Charles Pyle said Thursday that a number of school divisions asked the agency for
guidance this week after local officials heard from parents concerned about the address.
The department says it’s up to districts to determine whether a school or class views the address, and teachers who choose to
incorporate the president’s speech into their lessons are also free to develop their own classroom activities.
Obama plans to speak directly to school-age children via a broadcast from Arlington on Tuesday as part of an attempt to highlight the importance of taking responsibility for their education and staying in school.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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yeah CS those 1.7 MORE GREEN jobs will have to wait till they can find someone strong enpugh to stand up to BIG OIL, GAS, COAL AND POWER PLANT OWNERS.
The New Power Grid planning will have to wait too.
Even T. Boone Pickens with all his money could not fight them and get Power Lines from his Wind Farms !!!
As a former educator, I think it’s wonderful that a sitting president would address students about the importance of an education. He is a prime example of what hard work and discipline in school can produce. This regions’ reaction does not surprise me. We can only look back at the previous administration to see how one behaves without a solid education. We have long overlooked truth to justify irrational behavior. Now that we have an administration that communicates effectively, everyone is afraid. Educate yourselves. Look beyond the outer appearance of the man and learn what he desires for this nation and its future.
Thanks for the compliment commonsense!As long as no one ever accuses me of being a crazy,wild-eyed,right wing nut…..I know I’m good…....
wuzzright
Why didn’t Bill Clinton go aftet Bin Laden when he knew he was responsible for bombing the USS Cole?
Perhaps he was otherwise occupied in the Oval Office?
You are as crazy as Van Jones, my friend…
And what’s the problem with signing a petition demanding another investigation into 9/11?Who created, trained and funded the Al Qaeda Network? What is the relationship between Bin Laden, his family and the Bush family and the Carlyle Group? Why were no fighter planes dispatched to intercept the four hijacked planes on September 11h , in violation of standard procedures? Who actually was in control of the “hijacked planes”? What is the U.S. relationship with Pakistan, and especially with its intelligence service, the ISI? Why did the then director of the ISI have $100,000 transferred to the man whom the FBI now calls the ringleader of the Sept. 11th attacks, and why does the U.S. not pursue this question? Did the CIA have foreknowledge of the attack, who tried to profit with put options on American, United, Merrill Lynch stock just before the attack? Why were the FBI told to not investigate the Bin Laden family links in the US? If the CIA met with Bin Laden last July, why didn’t they try to arrest him? If the US is serious about ridding the world of terrorism, why do we continue to fund and train terrorists? Why are we bombing Afghanistan, when none of the alleged bombers actually came from there, could there be another reason for our presence in that region, like oil? Is the war against Afghanistan illegal? What are Bush’s, Cheney’s and Rice’s connections to the oil industry? What are Bush’s and Cheney’s connections to the drug industry? Why is the evidence being destroyed when an investigation of the World Trade Center collapse is needed? Why seal Presidential records? Why intimidate professors from speaking out against this war? Why has the U.S. military been establishing working relations with the Uzbek military for several years? What other military involvement does the U.S. have in the Central Asian Republics? Why are U.S. military personnel or material assistance going to the Philippines, Indonesia, and Colombia as well? What relationship did various U.S. agencies and their contractors have with the Taliban, either directly or through Pakistani or Saudi agencies or contractors? Why does the U.S. overlook Pakistani drug lords who refine and export half to two-thirds of the world,s heroin despite its avowed determination to rid the world of drugs? Why has the Dept. of Justice stopped its investigation of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International despite its admitted heavy involvement in laundering drug money?
Well. maybe- just maybe, he can convince the children that Van Jones should remain in his Green Jobs ‘job’.
Yuk !
The office finally does have someone in it worthy of respect,our President Barack Hussein Obama.True,he does upset the innumerable rightwingnut,christian-hypocrite racists,we have here in East Tennessee.I do not worship Rupert Murdoch as god,nor FUX news as my bible,nor all your teabagger lying,wing-nut,lamebrained talkshow hosts as the apostles.You all manifest your unfathomable ignorance of history everytime you stupidly compare our President to Hitler.You don’t know nothin’ about Hitler.This country,for the most part,is fed up with the conservative crap we’ve been fed since the father of all lies (Ronald Reagan)became president.Yea,trickle down my a—.Talk about idiots needing an education.If you don’t like this country-get the h—- out.Go find you a right wing nut dictatorshipto live in.
“If our children do not learn to respect the highest office in the country, what can we expect them to respect?“
If the office had someone to respect it would be a different.
There are better people in TN jails than some this man has put in his cabinet and some people call Obama President. No He doesn’t need to be taking any class time. We need them to get educated to replace the idiots that we have now.
Hmm…Adolph Hitler reached out to the impressionable young minds when he indoctrinated them with his insanity before WW2… yes, let’s give the big O the floor so he can tell the impressionable young minds all sorts of liberal nonsense encouraging socialism and whatnot…..
Oh. My. God.
People really are losing their minds over our great President. I love it!


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