07 September 2009

The importance of education


Via Miss Cellania.

Addendum: Full text of the speech here.

10 comments:

  1. Awesome Cartoon,
    I couldn't agree more.
    Wing-nuts on the right are really embarrassing sometimes.

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  2. These people drive me up a tree too, but the more we snigger at them and make fun of them and insult them, the more we drive them into the arms of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. I don't know what the answer is, but I find myself increasingly cringing when I see this kind of mockery, on target though it may be.

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  3. Why are there so many people who can't think? It scares me that they seem to listen to the people who rant the loudest, and then parrot what they hear.

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  4. Anybody know the address of the White House off the top of their head? I want to write our president a letter. Despite all the crazies out there, every time Barack Obama opens his mouth, he makes me proud.

    I feel like it's just the same kind of resistance and polarization that went on during the civil rights movement, or the Vietnam War, or any other time when lots of things are changing and it makes people nervous. But Barack Obama is handling it all with such style and grace that if you didn't read the newspaper or watch TV, you'd never know that there were all those crazies out there. And hopefully, as time passes, his words and intentions are what will remain, not theirs.

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  5. I may not have voted for him, but he's our president, and the behavior of some sure is embarrassing. Of course, we had the "wing-nuts" on the other side during the previous presidency who were just as sure he was evil incarnate.

    If we look back through history it becomes obvious that things never change-- many people can easily be influenced by a few to believe some crazy things. The polarization of the United States over the past 5-7 years has some frighteningly similar historical parallels. I worry about the next few years.

    On the bright side, it looks like it will be a good speech. Too bad it has become such a lightning rod for controversy.

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  6. When Bush spoke to students, Democrats investigated, held hearings

    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.

    http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/When-Bush-spoke-to-students-Democrats-investigated-held-hearings-57694347.html

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  7. Buffalo- Were they calling him a socialist and comparing him to Hitler?

    I rest my case.

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  8. The democrats were wrong when they made a major deal over Bush's speech, and the media was wrong to stir a controversy up over Obama's.

    By the way, I sat and watched the speech today with my home-schooled daughter. It was pretty good.

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  9. Fantastic cartoon.

    I agree that the democrats made the same deal about Bush. Theres just hypocrisy on all sides - and its just about politics.

    The more reason for well-rounded education. Critical thinking and the like.

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  10. @ Megan-

    The physical address is
    1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW
    Washington, DC 20500-0004
    or you can contact the President directly at
    http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/.

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