[pabianice]

"I’ve talked a lot about your government’s responsibility for setting high standards, supporting teachers and principals, and turning around schools that aren’t working where students aren’t getting the opportunities they deserve." Funny. I thought that was the responsibility of parents and the local school committee.

It gets worse.

[mylife]

I(diot) and M(uslim)E(mpathizer)

[cbkaty]

All through the day, I me mine, I me mine, I me mine.....

---------George Harrison

[buccaneer81]

We counted 56 times on another thread.

[bray]

I know that feeling. When I was young, my family lived in Indonesia for a few years, and my mother didn’t have the money to send me where all the American kids went to school. So she decided to teach me extra lessons herself, Monday through Friday – at 4:30 in the morning. Now I wasn’t too happy about getting up that early. A lot of times, I’d fall asleep right there at the kitchen table. But whenever I’d complain, my mother would just give me one of those looks and say, "This is no picnic for me either, buster."

He went to a Medrassa in his early education. This makes it sound like she homeschooled him rather than sending him to a Mooselip school. Wonder why, is he lying here or in his book?

Pray for America

[ElayneJ]

“Your families, your teachers, and I are doing everything we can to make sure you have the education you need to answer these questions.”

Rather Big Brotherish, isnt’t it?

[Steely Tom]

Obama's 8 Sept School Broadcast -- says "I" 32 times.

That was the subject of the speech, wasn't it?

[mc5cents]

Thank God my school district has no plans to show this crap.

Below is an e-mail I received for my inquiry.

Dear Mr. ,

I appreciate your email inquiry regarding the address President Obama will be making to all students across the United States on September 8th. As a school district, we do not have any special plans in place to show the students this presentation. Our teachers are aware of the address and have the capability to view it with their students. Should you have any further questions, please feel free to call my office (677-3103) or any of our building principals. Again, thank you for using our website to present your question.

Sincerely,

Brandon Wiley

Brandon Wiley
Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum & Instruction West Seneca Central School District
1397 Orchard Park Road
West Seneca, New York 14224
(716) 677 - 3103
Fax - 674-0522

[deport]

Houston we have a problem. The counting mechanism is off track it seems.

TEXT of Obama School Speech: USES THE WORD "I" 56 TIMES. IT'S ABOUT HIM

[9YearLurker]

He used the word ‘hard’ something like 13 times, as well. Wonder if that was tested first.

[Tennessee Nana]

my mother would just give me one of those looks and say, “This is no picnic for me either, buster.”
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Such a loving sacrificing mother...

[mc5cents]

Jeez! I lost count of all the personal pronouns he used, I, me, my etc. He is truly a narcissist.

[Tennessee Nana]

. My father left my family when I was two years old,
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What a big fat lie...

Obama never lived with Stanley Ann and little Barry...

Stanley Ann took Barry to Wahington state when he was a new baby...

[the invisib1e hand]

i scanned this, saw nothing overly objectionable.

[Laserman]

I think some of it is aimed at the parents and the general public and not at the students. That part should be stricken. The rest, that deals with working hard in school and achieving is OK by me, and I really don’t like Obama. His personal story is overdone it the speech. It clearly serves to try and rescue him from a bad summer, but as the sitting president, I guess some things like this come with the territory.

I think it would be better if it were given by Bush and Obama together. That would remove all the politics from the idea of Obama giving the speech, and suggest that Obama is serious about being bi-partisan.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

"I’m working hard to fix up your classrooms and get you the books, equipment and computers you need to learn."

Was fine with it until I got to the part where he took credit for what taxpayers, workmen and mainly state officials are doing.

[Tennessee Nana]

I was raised by a single mother who struggled at times to pay the bills and wasn’t always able to give us things the other kids had
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Another set of lies...

His mother wasnt always single..only from age 2 till 4 and from age 10 he lived with his grandparents...

When he lived with Lolo in Indonesia he lived well...

For a poor disadvantaged boy he managed to go to a private school in Indonesia, Punahou in Hawaii, Columbia University and Harvard...

One thing right...other kids didnt have those advantages...

He talks like Mom lived in low income housing when in reality she was a globe trotting free spirit who lived very well...where did that money come from ???

Poor kids in the US usually dont get to travel all over like Barry did, starting at the age of 2 weeks...

Stanley Ann didnt stuggle to pay bills..Lolo and her parents might have but she had no worries of her own...

[Tennessee Nana]

protect our environment.
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Once the kid can read Do Not Litter, why does he need a college education ???

[Tennessee Nana]

protect our environment.
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Those are not just high school drop outs that throw rubbish out of speeding car windows..

or drop plastic bags off their yachts...

[NonValueAdded]

At least this time he wasn’t advising students to aim low

[Gene Eric]

>> If you get a bad grade, that doesn’t mean you’re stupid, it just means you need to spend more time studying.

That statement is foolish.

What if the kid’s already spending an abundance of time studying??? It’s only logical to then follow OB’s statement and conclude the student is stupid.

There are ways to address poor grades - looping in the notion of stupidity is not one of them.