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Obama Unscripted: The Q & A With Students
By Jeffrey Weiss - Politics DailyAre we all sick unto exhaustion with the Obama speech to students? Surely the text was just as innocuous as Melinda's "eat your peas" characterization a few days back. But then there was the Q & A after the speech, with 9th graders at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Va., where Obama spoke.The White House had the transcript out not long after the event was over. And it shows that Obama wandered into territory that went beyond "go to school and study hard." ...
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By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyNow that President Obama has actually delivered his pep talk to the students of Wakefield High School in Arlington, Va., one can only suppose that conservative Republicans who raised a fuss in advance of the speech are, out of sheer embarrassment, looking for places to hide. "As the father of four children, I am absolutely appalled that taxpayer dollars are being used to spread President Obama's socialist ideology," Florida Republican Party Chairman Jim Greer said prior to the speech. "I do not support using our children as tools to spread liberal propaganda." Yeah, Jim, that was some wacky ...
Obama Nailed It; Were You Listening, Cuz?
By Helena Andrews - Politics DailySometimes I surprise myself by how conservative I can be. (Shhhh.) When the controversy over President Obama's supposedly subversive speech to schoolchildren first hit the fan last week, I thought to my single-with-no-kids self, "Well, shouldn't parents know what the most influential man in America might say to their highly impressionable mini-me's? Doesn't something or other begin at home?" Then on Sunday I went to my cousin's wedding. I come from a sprawling family that made its way to middle-class Compton, Calif., by way of Arkansas and Alabama during the 1930s and '40s. My grandfather ...
Newt Gingrich, Laura Bush Back Obama's Back-to-School Pep Talk
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyNewt Gingrich and former First Lady Laura Bush bolstered President Obama on Tuesday, saying a president should be able to make a back-to-school speech to the nation's students without critics kicking up a fuss. ...
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