re: #269 doubter4444

Since the quite a few of posters here repeatedly say over and over “if Bush did this he’d be vilified”, I want to know, how many honestly would give a rats ass if Bush spoke to kids to wish them well?

How many would be up in arms against it?

Leave out the crazy “he’s got a communist agenda”, or “he’s brain washing our youths” for a moment, because if you really believe that, you forfeit any vote by your ODS.

This is a good luck, study hard message, just what the fuck is wrong with that?
Really, truly, if Bush (or any Republican President) did this would you care?

This issue, of all the bullshit ones that the wing-nuts have advanced, disgusts me to my core, it is base pandering to a degree that makes me sooo angry.
It’s beyond disrespectful, it’s trash.
That legitimate republicans spout this nonsense is beyond the pale.
This is birther or Creationist territory, only worse, as it attracts the intuition of the president directly, and for no reason.
I will not forget this, neither will many other moderates, and over this I think, the lines are drawn.
I will not support anyone who believes this is a correct course of action, and I will not respect anyone’s future opinions who thinks so, on this blog or in the real world.
If you believe this, then literally nothing he will ever say (short of “I resign”) will be seen as an objective appraisal of the situation at hand, but rather, another opportunity to bash or “prove” his dishonesty, and nothing someone who believes this crap can ever be seen except through the prism of their hated of Obama, and as a result, any comment by them on complex issues that face us are skewed, and irreverent.

Fuck Paulenty, and the pig he rode in on.

I’m a fourth generation Democrat. If George W. Bush had wanted to go on TV and tell my hypothetical kids to work hard and follow their dreams, I would have been entirely fine with it. His father likewise, Reagan likewise.

If Reagan had thrown in one of those weird not-quite-with-it anti-drug messages I would have been mildly annoyed.