[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I have decided from the outset to get a counterpart, a titled Republican official, so that she can respond to the comments of McAuliffe on that day."

This oughta be good, now that the Patriot Act, Homeland Security, Medicare Drug Benefits, and McClown-Swinegold are the law of the land. Conservative students, plug your ears once more, please...

[danneskjold]

Tracy said Republicans, Democrats, and independents have frequently come to the school to talk to students.

"Unfortunately we don’t always have control over what people say once they are introduced," Tracy said.

Wonder how long it would take them to "control" what someone was saying if the discussion was on Christianity...

[jocon307]

"70 percent of college graduates will not be able to find a job upon graduation."

SEVENTY? This is such a preposterous number it's not even worth getting upset about. Nobody would beleive this. Even during the Great Depression unemployement was no where near 70%.

This party isn't having a crack-up, they are into full blown implosion.

It's so fun!

[fly_so_free]

Uhhhh, got news for ya- The DNC chairman is not the only one using scare tactics at school. The schools themselves, tell kids these type of things and try to scare them.

My neighbor's 18 year old son is an example. He thinks he's going to be drafted any day now, and says he won't be able to go to college,or, find a good job. He's a walking ad for the DNC. He spouts their jargon like a broken record.

I keep trying to talk to him and help him to think for himself. I ask him who told him he's going to be drafted, or can't go to college or find a good job, and he always says "someone at school", or "somebody who came to the school" told him this.

Naturally, he goes to public school.

[arasina]

Dump the principal. He's not doing his job if he allows political propaganda to be a part of the school curriculum.

[SwinneySwitch]

Why not invite RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie if they want to be fair?

http://www.rnc.org/Newsroom/Speeches/GillespieNH031203.htm

[weegee]

Aiming to ease tensions, School Board member Raimond Bowles has asked New Hampshire Republican state chairman Jayne Millerick to also speak to the social studies classes.

Why didn't they invite the head of the GOP instead of a state chairman?

[CyberAnt]

"we don’t always have control over what people say once they are introduced"

YES YOU DO! The principal should TELL THE SPEAKERS what their limitations are .. not assume the speaking will be fair and balanced.

[Tempest]

"During the presentation, McAuliffe told students that due to Bush’s mismanagement of the country, 70 percent of college graduates will not be able to find a job upon graduation. He also told students that if the war in Iraq continues as it has, there could be a reinstatement of the draft. "

*Ahem* Yep. . . there is no differene between a Republican and a Democrat. . .< /sarcasm>

[fightu4it]

"After requesting to visit the school, Terry McAuliffe was allowed by Principal Forrest Ransdell to come to teach what the principal believed to be social studies classes on democracy and the political process."

I thought that schools, if they felt the need, invited people to speak. They should have been somewhat concerned when the leader of a political party requests to speak to a bunch of impressionable kids.

What is Principal Ransdell's personal political view? Does it happen to meld with McAuliffe's?

[Pagey]

He also told students that if the war in Iraq continues as it has, there could be a reinstatement of the draft.

Typical Partisan Leftist Democratic Lies. Don Rumsfeld has categorically stated there will never be a draft as long as he is the Secretary of Defense. "We're past that" he has said on National TV. If I know this, Terry McAWFULiffe knows this too. As evidenced in this public school case, just like his partner Billy Jeff Blythe, they'll talk to anybody who will listen. Anybody!

[EricT.]

Don't discount that the kids see through this kind of crapola. Most kids are way too cynical to trust anyone who they believe to have ulterior motives. Terry McPunka$$ probably left alot of kids thinking that all Democrats are wild-eyed, overly dramatic pinheads.

[Republic]

During the presentation, McAuliffe told students that due to Bush’s mismanagement of the country, 70 percent of college graduates will not be able to find a job upon graduation. He also told students that if the war in Iraq continues as it has, there could be a reinstatement of the draft.

Beyond outrageous, sheer propaganda, driven into the heads of a captive audience of kids.

This man, like the clintons, is out of control and totally out of line. No wonder the clintons appointed him the money man, he has the scruples of a dirtbag.

[fhayek]

This has been burning me up for a few days. Can someone tell me the difference between this and what Newt Gingrich was alleged to have done with his college course? This was everything the democrats accused of Newt - only worse! The kids in this class do not have the option of walking out.