Comments on Obama school speech are flying; here’s what some of you are saying

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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You can vote in my poll here on whether you think President Obama’s speech on Tuesday should be shown in local schools. Meantime, the comments on the post are rolling in. Here’s some of what you’re saying:

Obama has already proven he cannot be trusted with our children, our safety, our tax money, or even our morals. 

Thank GOD one of his Communist friends got the axe regardless of what you say about Van Jones resigning.

Say, how many of our schools are practicing the Communist like activity of throwing all school supplies, personal & school owned, into a pile and allowing the children to come forward and pick their own supplies out of the pile? This is becoming a common occurrance at our schools and is nothing short of training our kids in Communism.

I urge any parent whose child’s school supplies they bring from home are confiscated and used in this manner to file a police report for theft of personal property.

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Where were these wacko “the president should be censored” idiots’ complaints when Presidents Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush made their speeches to school children?

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The poll has been hijacked. How else could you explain such a swing in yes and no votes from yesterday to today. Looks like the conservatives are at it again.

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Dick Gephardt blasted Bush I for doing this. The Left has always used the ‘NAZI’ and other epithets as slurs to hide their own Marxist and Socialist agendas. I went to public schools and never did any president speak to us.

President Bush went to a school to inspire the kids, that is different from beaming the signal and interrupting the day. 

The conservatives are at it again? perhaps, but maybe you finally are hearing what you don’t want to hear. Another side of the coin. That’s what the Left never gets: that there are many millions of opinions that differ greatly from theirs. When you devalue those opinions, you marginalize people, when you marginalize people you act superior and when you act on that superiority, those that don’t like being told what to do respond. 

There is no RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY as there is no BLACK AMERICA or LATINO AMERICA. etc. There are millions of individuals that share needs and desires that those tend to create movements. The Left always misjudges its power because it is the product of a selfish generation, and most Americans have to produce something to survive. The Left just manages things. They produce nothing of any great value other than their own sense of worth. 

Let this conservative response show you that you live in a fish bowl and you are the fist. The American people will not tolerate being told what to do.

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“Where were these wacko “the president should be censored” idiots’ complaints when Presidents Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush made their speeches to school children? “

What about Dems battle cry of “Dissent is patriotic”? And no Protesting Bush is not a requirement to speak about against ANY president.

“The poll has been hijacked. How else could you explain such a swing in yes and no votes from yesterday to today. Looks like the conservatives are at it again.” 

Hijacked or actually showing how people feel? Denial is a terrible thing.

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Why would any parent or school hate their children so much as to subject them to Communist propoganda? Obama has yet to make a speech that doesn’t promote his radical socialist agenda, so why allow him to poison the minds of our children?

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Of course the children should hear the President’s words of encouragement. Any thought otherwise is ridiculous. Take a look at yourselves folks?

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Wingnut reaction to Obama’s upcoming speech to kids with the radical idea to stay in school would be funny if it wasn’t so damn tragic. But I guess those of us on the even keel simply didn’t get the memo. We should all know by now that anytime the President even smiles at a child that it’s nothing more than a subliminal socialist message and that it can only be comprehended as such by the K-6 Weekly Reader demographic.

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What is wrong with the President of the United States addressing school children to encourage them to stay in school and study hard? How can this be perceived as political? Or maybe some people could care less about the children and only their narrow minded politcal agenda. Maybe that’s what it is.