Posted on 09/10/2009 7:26:36 PM PDT by GVnana
Flying home from London, where the subject of formal debate on the 70th anniversary of World War II had been whether Winston Churchill was a liability or asset to the Free World, one arrives in the middle of a far more acrimonious national debate right here in the United States.
At issue: Should Barack Obama be allowed to address tens of millions of American children, inside their classrooms, during school hours?
Conservative talk-show hosts saw a White House scheme to turn public schools into indoctrination centers where the socialist ideology of Obama would be spoon-fed to captive audiences of children forced to listen to Big Brother -- and then do assignments on his sermon.
The liberal commentariat raged about right-wing paranoia.
Yet Byron York of the Washington Examiner dug back to 1991 to discover that, when George H.W. Bush went to Alice Deal Junior High to speak to America's school kids, the left lost it.
"The White House turned a Northwest Washington junior high classroom into a television studio and its students into props," railed the Washington Post. Education Secretary Lamar Alexander was called before a House committee. The National Education Association denounced Bush. And Congress ordered the General Accounting Office to investigate.
Obama's actual speech proved about as controversial as a Nancy Reagan appeal to eighth-graders to "Just say no!" to drugs.
Yet, the episode reveals the poisoned character of our politics.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
It sure is a fascinating "What If" game; forecasting how one's nation is going to go kablooey.
Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota and Wyoming.
What part of California do you live?
“As usual, Pat is late and short.”
Uh, Pat was about 25 years ahead of the curve on virtually all of this, and was called a whacko for projecting all of it back then.
What makes you think he wants to hold the 50 or in his view 57 states together?
My only thought after finishing the column was “We will NOT live under a tyrant!”
Where’s our Margaret Thatcher? We need one.
From the article
...the birth rate falls ,,,
Americans! We know how to solve THAT
Do It.
Go Pat Go
Alternatively, America is being torn up by an attempt to turn it into Yugoslavia.
One must ask why this topic is a serious question. To that, the most liberal and un-American POTUS in our modern history has gained office and is pushing a radical, socialist agenda that barely half in his own party can stomach.
We live in a center-right country. That has not changed. The wounds will begin to be healed 2010. Regardless of anything that happens, Obaba will have a less friendly Congress after the mid-terms.
We are, as a nation re-disocovering ourselves. As much as I regret Obama’s win, he is doing more to sink and sallow the “Left” in our country than I could ever have dreamed. At this point, Hillary seems like a great option with a 50/50 Congress.
In the end, nothing this Congress or POTUS imposes upon us will hold up. It will be undone by succeding Congresses and Admins. It’s impossible as the public is against it and will make sure to elect people pledging to undo it.
BTTT
I don’t think it’s going to come so easy, but yes. If you look at the country overall, the voting patterns, it’s going to be a rural v. urban split — not so clean as regional boundaries. Things are going to get ugly.
You already are.
Call me when you;re about to storm the White House. I need time to get the popcorn popping.
Pat has a ton of weird quirks, but when it comes to the culture he is usually spot on. They lambasted him for his 92’ speech, but he was spot on. Again he is seeing what many here and in our social circles have. And that is we are being divided by issues that may break us apart. The question begs, is it unrepairable....
Until you give birth to the next generation. The differences may be so slight that it won't be obvious, but by the time the second and third generations come, they will, until finally, you're right back where you started...At each others throats.
There's more going on here than just culture and nature....
Yes, the Republican Party is truly in the grasps for fools and has been for years. The GOP will be blamed for the collapse of America because of its “can’t we just get along” mantra.”
The question is, does that center-right represent reason or passion. With regard to reason, I think we're center-right, but with regard to passion, I think we're center left...and the politicians know how to tap into both of those to make the needle tilt whichever way they want.
So true. And the invisible GOP leadership is responsible for reigning in Joe Wilson and failing to put forward a full-court press on zer0's lies.
Feckless.
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