President Obama, accompanied by Education Secretary Arne Duncan, delivers his back-to-school speech at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School in Washington
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President Barack Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan talk in a hold area before the President delivers his third annual back-to-school speech at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School in Washington, D.C. Sept. 28, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Thanks for the heads up Chips. C-SPAN ONE is showing the speech live and looks like MSNBC will be carrying the speech live so they can pay lip service to their education nation program.
Allright so I wrote to those democrats that are at the bottom of “contact congress” and told them 4 things passing the AJA will do for the people of minnesota and that they should also look forward to their own states recieving a good shot in the arm from PBO’s AJA. there was one though i couldn’t email. didn’t want me to if i wasn’t a member of their state.
I always find a zipcode and make up a fake address…then I blast them for not allowing out of District comments and tell them they vote on laws that effect all of us, not just those in their Districts.
What a relief that the kids in southwest Florida won’t have to listen to President Obama urging them to be the best student they can be and to continue their education beyond high school. They’re so fortunate that their Collier Co. school board is looking out for them by being small-minded and putting hateful political considerations above their best interests.
Those kids deprived of listening to inspiring messages from the President, but awarded with nonsense messages from Joe Walsh (who was given unrestricted access to some school kids to parade his deadbeat message) will be the ones in the future who are struggling to get along with others, or begging for low-wage jobs. Their parents and other bigoted adults are doing them a great disservice.
How can anyone find anything wrong with any of the back-to-school speeches from this President – especially when one looks at how great his own kids are turning out. It’s a shame that parents do this to their own kids – and teach them not to respect the office of the President of the United States. Shameful.
Did you also notice how the young men behind the President looked “nice” as befitting the occasion? Look how many are wearing ties, for goodness sake. 😆 Has the President single-handedly brought back the old-fashioned idea of levels of (male) dress?
Hi vcprezofan2. I noticed that also, and it brought tears of joy to my heart to see the young men wearing ties. I think that is also showing respect to the President as well. You are so correct in your beautiful thought about the President bringing back the “old-fashioned idea of levels of (male) dress.” Beautiful.
Did you see her quote from yesterday? Another word salad which made Perry look like the greatest orator of all time. Rambling on about her fear that jumping into the presidential race would be too “shackley” for a great maverick like herself. She likes to go rogue, you know, and she doesn’t need a “title” in order to bravely save the world. A title? Isn’t that for beauty pageants? The presidency is a job, Miz Sarah. But then she’s not keen on the job thing. That’s hard work. She quits when it becomes too hard.
I’m so glad I’m completely oblivious to the happenings in palin-world. Did she finally say she wasn’t going to run for President? She probably sees the writing on the wall that Christie is more favorite than she is – with the Koch brothers, that is.
The Grizzled Mama, drops her facade, and virtually admits that she has NO intention of running for President in 2012. That wailing sound you hear are little hearts breaking over at the Sea O’Pee.
thank gawd some of the greatest writers are long dead.I can imagine Skakespeare;Camus;Gide;Sartre;Austen;Dickinson. and Ralph Waldo Emerson that comes to mind actually hanging themselves watching that lady butcher a language like that 🙄
I really can’t believe that school districts are still sending permission notes to parents about this back to school speech. This is the handy work of of the unhinged and deranged Glenn Beck and Tea Party. It just shows how warped our political discourse has become. It’s just shameful.
Tea Baggers Terrify Schools Into Not Showing Obama Back To School Speech
School administrators don’t want to deal with any potential tea partier fall out, so they have come up with the opt out form/blame the teacher strategy. It is a shame that some parents have managed to take a harmless optimistic speech to students and turn it into a toxic vat of partisan hatred for the President of the United States.
I emailed the speech to my sister so she and my 14 year old nephew can watch it together at home after work and school. I don’t want him to miss out on the words of encouragement from our President.
😀 LUCKY YOU!!!!! OMG why is he so f**king HOT!!!!!! I blame it on the weather!?! Next time yell to him at the top of your voice “P LOVES YOU MR PRESIDENT!” 😉
CollegeK, I’m going to have to think seriously about hurting you. You’ve had too many up close visits/handshakes/sightings of my President and I haven’t yet had ONE! Nor am I likely to, living outside of the USA as I do. 😦 Maybe if you promise to do the next handshake on my behalf, I’ll reconsider my stance.
If you listened to PBO’s speech, he encouraged students to be independent thinkers, not cookie cutter robots. He mentioned “coloring outside the lines” sometimes. Ummm, wonder how that statement got a pass. LOL
@theo67, indeed the wisdom is ageless. But these so-called Libertarians who espouse freedom and such are the very ones who scream about PBO addressing their kids.
The bigots just self-identify themselves when they pull these shenanigans. They will always be part of the the dark undercurrent of our society until people have the courage and the vision to rise up against them and call them out. PBO knows all about them and has their number. He also knows that hundreds of thousands of other children will hear his message and some of them will be inspired by them and remember them all their lives. He always focuses on the larger picture. So to the people with narrow, hate-filled minds, go stew in your own ugly juices. Your little minds and hearts condemn you to a limited future. The rest of us have a brilliant message to treasure from our president and big possibilities to contemplate.
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Hello Chips, I clicked on leave a comment , at the top of this page, and here I am. So good to be back among the living 🙂
Hiya Luci, great to have you back! I’m still waiting to hear back from WordPress about the email problems, I wish they’d get a move on!
Thanks for the heads up Chips. C-SPAN ONE is showing the speech live and looks like MSNBC will be carrying the speech live so they can pay lip service to their education nation program.
That made me smile (and frown!). You nailed it!
Tuning in on whitehouse.gov 🙂
Allright so I wrote to those democrats that are at the bottom of “contact congress” and told them 4 things passing the AJA will do for the people of minnesota and that they should also look forward to their own states recieving a good shot in the arm from PBO’s AJA. there was one though i couldn’t email. didn’t want me to if i wasn’t a member of their state.
so yay. now i gotta go look busy ;-p
l8r
I always find a zipcode and make up a fake address…then I blast them for not allowing out of District comments and tell them they vote on laws that effect all of us, not just those in their Districts.
ha! that’s good! 🙂
That is a fantastic idea.
I do the same thing.
What a relief that the kids in southwest Florida won’t have to listen to President Obama urging them to be the best student they can be and to continue their education beyond high school. They’re so fortunate that their Collier Co. school board is looking out for them by being small-minded and putting hateful political considerations above their best interests.
Those kids deprived of listening to inspiring messages from the President, but awarded with nonsense messages from Joe Walsh (who was given unrestricted access to some school kids to parade his deadbeat message) will be the ones in the future who are struggling to get along with others, or begging for low-wage jobs. Their parents and other bigoted adults are doing them a great disservice.
How can anyone find anything wrong with any of the back-to-school speeches from this President – especially when one looks at how great his own kids are turning out. It’s a shame that parents do this to their own kids – and teach them not to respect the office of the President of the United States. Shameful.
*Shallow moment here*: May I just say Mr. President; another snazzy tie 😉
Did you also notice how the young men behind the President looked “nice” as befitting the occasion? Look how many are wearing ties, for goodness sake. 😆 Has the President single-handedly brought back the old-fashioned idea of levels of (male) dress?
Hi vcprezofan2. I noticed that also, and it brought tears of joy to my heart to see the young men wearing ties. I think that is also showing respect to the President as well. You are so correct in your beautiful thought about the President bringing back the “old-fashioned idea of levels of (male) dress.” Beautiful.
With her history and the history of her children how could the half term governor ever give a speech on education?
Did you see her quote from yesterday? Another word salad which made Perry look like the greatest orator of all time. Rambling on about her fear that jumping into the presidential race would be too “shackley” for a great maverick like herself. She likes to go rogue, you know, and she doesn’t need a “title” in order to bravely save the world. A title? Isn’t that for beauty pageants? The presidency is a job, Miz Sarah. But then she’s not keen on the job thing. That’s hard work. She quits when it becomes too hard.
I’m so glad I’m completely oblivious to the happenings in palin-world. Did she finally say she wasn’t going to run for President? She probably sees the writing on the wall that Christie is more favorite than she is – with the Koch brothers, that is.
The Grizzled Mama, drops her facade, and virtually admits that she has NO intention of running for President in 2012. That wailing sound you hear are little hearts breaking over at the Sea O’Pee.
http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/
I read it for fun…the blog owner is great !
I’d frankly forgotten about her. then she thrusts herself on the national stage again by saying that the Presidency is a “title”. God.
All these presidential wanna-bes say they can do a better job, yet they are too afraid to run. Palin, Chris Chrispy, S-Trump-et, Daniels, etc.,
thank gawd some of the greatest writers are long dead.I can imagine Skakespeare;Camus;Gide;Sartre;Austen;Dickinson. and Ralph Waldo Emerson that comes to mind actually hanging themselves watching that lady butcher a language like that 🙄
Love this 😀
I really can’t believe that school districts are still sending permission notes to parents about this back to school speech. This is the handy work of of the unhinged and deranged Glenn Beck and Tea Party. It just shows how warped our political discourse has become. It’s just shameful.
Tea Baggers Terrify Schools Into Not Showing Obama Back To School Speech
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School administrators don’t want to deal with any potential tea partier fall out, so they have come up with the opt out form/blame the teacher strategy. It is a shame that some parents have managed to take a harmless optimistic speech to students and turn it into a toxic vat of partisan hatred for the President of the United States.
http://www.politicususa.com/en/obama-back-to-school-teabag-terror
It will be interesting to see whether the next – ahem – non Black president will have to deal with this or not.
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Joe Walsh spoke to students, without permission slips.
THIS
thank you!
theo67, I guess Walsh encourage the men not to pay their child support. Hay look at me, I’m a deadbeat Dad and I’m in Congress.
I emailed the speech to my sister so she and my 14 year old nephew can watch it together at home after work and school. I don’t want him to miss out on the words of encouragement from our President.
Yoooo I just saw him. His motorcade left by my dorm.
WOOOOOT!!
Collegekay are you at Howard?
Yep!!
I grew up in NW DC so when you said “passed your dorm” that was my big clue. 🙂
Cool, Howard in the House Representing. Both my daughters are Morgan State University Alumni
😀 LUCKY YOU!!!!! OMG why is he so f**king HOT!!!!!! I blame it on the weather!?! Next time yell to him at the top of your voice “P LOVES YOU MR PRESIDENT!” 😉
CollegeK, I’m going to have to think seriously about hurting you. You’ve had too many up close visits/handshakes/sightings of my President and I haven’t yet had ONE! Nor am I likely to, living outside of the USA as I do. 😦 Maybe if you promise to do the next handshake on my behalf, I’ll reconsider my stance.
Where’s SueMinnesota? I’m missing her!
Me, too!!
I haven’t seen her here in over a week. I’ll send her an email message and tell her everyone is asking about her.
please and thank you Donna
Thank you, donnadem. Tell her Ametia in Minnesota is missing her too!
Me too. i’ve been thinking that all day while doing my chores.
When I asked for her last week, Desertflower seemed to think she had indicated she was going on vacation.
If you listened to PBO’s speech, he encouraged students to be independent thinkers, not cookie cutter robots. He mentioned “coloring outside the lines” sometimes. Ummm, wonder how that statement got a pass. LOL
Those words of wisdom could be applied at any age, really.
@theo67, indeed the wisdom is ageless. But these so-called Libertarians who espouse freedom and such are the very ones who scream about PBO addressing their kids.
How long will it be before we hear the cries about subterfuge and nefarious “subliminal messaging”. It’s coming, you betcha.
Great speech!!!!!!
Darn, he’s hawt!
Chips, could you remove my email and just add xtine? Not sure what happened. Many thanks
Done, Xtine! I’m going to have to find a fix for these dark comment boxes – soon!
The bigots just self-identify themselves when they pull these shenanigans. They will always be part of the the dark undercurrent of our society until people have the courage and the vision to rise up against them and call them out. PBO knows all about them and has their number. He also knows that hundreds of thousands of other children will hear his message and some of them will be inspired by them and remember them all their lives. He always focuses on the larger picture. So to the people with narrow, hate-filled minds, go stew in your own ugly juices. Your little minds and hearts condemn you to a limited future. The rest of us have a brilliant message to treasure from our president and big possibilities to contemplate.