Well, sort of:
http://www.tonysrants.com/national/perspective-dems-slammed-george-h-w-bush-for-address-to-schools/
When I picked up my soon-to-be five year-old son this afternoon from his pre-k class, he had this with him:
Really? A permission slip to hear that? 'Cause some folks might be upset?
I’m really going to have to start taking drugs again if this shit keeps happening.
I’ll second this one without really expecting an answer. Why is the twenty minutes the bigger outrage?
That’s crazy. There should be a form required to opt out of it. Preferably with a required essay explaining why, which will then be reviewed by the schoolboard to determine if the absence will be excused.
Needing a permission slip to watch an address from the president? Crazytown.
Your profile insinuates you’re from Texas. Is that accurate? It makes it slightly more understandable, what with them wanting to secede and all.
That was linked above already. It’s more of an outrage about the money being spent than on the content. It was re-election season, and I guess people thought it would be a campaign speech.
You should write back.
“Hmmm, that sounds suspiciously like a Nazi Socialist Satan-worshipping Recruitment Event. But, sure why not.”
Thanks, wierdaaron, because I was honestly starting to feel that I was on everybody’s ignore list. I asked about that particular difference in complaint at least twice already, and haven’t gotten a reply.
Fine – that’s why I said “a lot of people” not everyone. As Sam’s cite indicates, some liberals have gotten in a twist about it before; IMO, a lot more would have been if W had done it.
Ditto. I think many, if not most, kids would have this reaction to any President.
I’ve been watching the comments on a Facebook poll on this all day. God, is it depressing.
Let’s keep in mind that Obama has been President for 8 months only and they are in a lather over it??? I mean this guy WON THE FREAKING ELECTION, why won’t they accept that???
They are a SUPERPOWER, and superpowers make their OWN reality!
I know exactly the poll you’re talking about. It’s incredibly depressing. It’s like everyone slightly to the right of George H. W. Bush has suddenly come down with a case of Teh Stoopidz. SOCIALISM! HITLER! POLITICS!
I’m glad I don’t have any working wishes…in my current state I’d be wishing to restrict the right to vote to those who can prove they’re not tinfoil-hat insane.
Think of it this way: those voting on the poll would probably be the ones who’re outraged by the whole thing. That’d be the “tinfoil-hat insane” folks. Now, those “to the of George H.W. Bush” might be upset enough by those people to vote the opposite way, but here, the numbers are at a disadvantage, because they depend on the above group in the first place!
(I hope that makes sense; I can see my point in my mind, but not how to express it.)
I thought it was implied since my advice to the kids was to to work on their homework during the speech. Consider it no longer implied.
My school just announced that our entire school will gather in the auditorium to watch the speech. On Thursday. Parents will be able to opt out with their kids, and we’ll send them to the library with an alternate project.
Sigh.
They can watch the inauguration speech!
I was thinking more along the lines of writing a paper on mass hysteria.
Seriously, you know those situations in Africa where all the men suddenly become convinced a warlock has stolen their penis? Our country is starting to feel like that.
Maybe this is exactly how it was 8 years ago, when Bush was 8 months into his term and every Democrat thought he was satan incarnate. Maybe that’s why they staged 9/11, to stop the partisan bickering over every little thing Bush did.
Looking at the calendar, maybe it’s time to stockpile duct tape again.
The thing is, when you say that some Democrats thought Bush was Satan incarnate, that’s a figure of speech. When you say some Republicans think Obama is Satan incarnate, it’s literal truth.
Mass delusion of the sort I’ve not yet seen in this country.