Presidents to students

The Associated Press has the text of the speech President Obama plans to give to the nation’s student today if you’re at all interested. Oddly enough, this is the first year since 1979 that we don’t have a child or grandchild in school.

Byron York at the Washington Examiner reminds us how the national media and the Democrats treated George HW Bush when he spoke to the nation’s students;

Unlike the Obama speech, in 1991 most of the controversy came after, not before, the president’s school appearance. The day after Bush spoke, the Washington Post published a front-page story suggesting the speech was carefully staged for the president’s political benefit. “The White House turned a Northwest Washington junior high classroom into a television studio and its students into props,” the Post reported.

With the Post article in hand, Democrats pounced. “The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students,” said Richard Gephardt, then the House Majority Leader. “And the president should be doing more about education than saying, ‘Lights, camera, action.'”

York, has many more quotes at the link. I respect good research – so read the article.

Funny how attitudes change with political parties, isn’t it?

Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Liberals suck, Media