The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[Alex]

I said this before the details of the video were known:

Originally Posted by Alex

I haven't either. And I'll be happy to say up front that if it turns out to actually be a school music class at a public school that I'll agree with you it is almost certainly* inappropriate.

Now that the details are pretty much known I am of the opinion that it wasn't really appropriate. Is it the most inappropriate thing ever done on school grounds? Not at all. Should heads roll? Not at all.

Was it inappropriate? Yes. Should it not be done again? Yes.

Can you find hypocrisy in people being upset now that weren't when roughly correlating things happened in the past to people of the opposite party? Yes. Can you find hypocrisy in people not being upset now that were (or would have been had they known of it) when roughly correlating things happened in the past to people of the opposite? Does that type of hypocrisy pretty much define political discourse for most people? I'd say the long history of this thread says yes. Everybody thinks their farts smell like flowers, as I say frequently.

[Strangler Lewis]

Originally Posted by Alex

Everybody thinks their farts smell like flowers, as I say frequently.

Interesting conversational gambit.

But if you listen closely, you can hear the children singing:

"Bush sent soldiers to their tomb.
Obama farts, and flowers bloom.
Kill the white man.
Kill the white man."

[Alex]

Oh, I thought they were being indoctrinated. But so long as they were simply singing the truth...

[scaeagles]

Please show me where I was angry when I pointed this video out. The reason I pointed it out, as I did with another video I posted a while back, was to show that it perhaps wasn't so paranoid as many here accuse me of being in saying that educators, when given the chance, often time project their own political leanings onto students.

And WB, you sure sound a lot angrier than I do.

[JWBear]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

...perhaps wasn't so paranoid as many here accuse me of being in saying that educators, when given the chance, often time project their own political leanings onto students.

An individual educator projecting his or her political leanings does not mean there is a plot by Obama to create a brainwashed army of American school children. I reserve the right to still refer to that bit of delusion as "paranoia".

[wendybeth]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

Please show me where I was angry when I pointed this video out. The reason I pointed it out, as I did with another video I posted a while back, was to show that it perhaps wasn't so paranoid as many here accuse me of being in saying that educators, when given the chance, often time project their own political leanings onto students.

And WB, you sure sound a lot angrier than I do.

Damned right I am. When the President is insulted by a member of Congress in an entirely disrespectful, embarrassing and defamatory manner, I get pissed. I get pissed when children sing 'Assassinate Obama' on a school bus, and politicians start talking about seceding from the Union. (Which is treason, btw). I get pissed when people say "there's just something about him I don't like/trust/respect, without having any examples to back their stance up. (It's NOT racism, though- just.........something, something so apparantly intangible they can't put it to words, but the vehemence with which they proclaim their dislike is telling enough). As far the educators leaning left- I know plenty who don't. However, many realize that any funding they're going to get to relieve the drain on their own pocket books (and every teacher pays for stuff out of pocket, because the parents and districts can't or won't, but the kids still need the supplies, etc) is going to be more of a priority for the liberal lawmakers. Most of all, I get pissed at all the lies. If the truth doesn't work, spread lies. Throw enough mud, and it will stick. Guess what, Scaeagles? The Right aren't the only ones capable of getting angry. They've ruined this country, and all they can do is bitch about things that either haven't happened, are blown out of proportion, or are flat-out misrepresentations.

I'm also pissed off at a lot of religious groups, but that's for another vent.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

Please show me where I was angry when I pointed this video out. The reason I pointed it out, as I did with another video I posted a while back, was to show that it perhaps wasn't so paranoid as many here accuse me of being in saying that educators, when given the chance, often time project their own political leanings onto students.

"Often"? Nope, still paranoid.

[JWBear]

Don't worry, WB. It's a dying party, and won't be around much longer. We just need to make sure they don't do any more damage until that happens.

[scaeagles]

Be angry then, WB. But get the hell off the back of others that are angry about the health care plan, 787 billion dollar spending bills, 1.6 trillion dollar deficits, and whatever else, and being called racist because of it.

And JW, I'd be willing to guess that the republicans pick up a whole lot fo seats in 2010. It is the norm, and even the dems are sweating how many they'll lose.

[wendybeth]

Scaeagles, you pull something off of Drudge you know is going to be inflammatory, then act all 'who said I was angry?' about it. You're being disingenuous, and you know it. That is what sets me off- you put something out there designed to help prove your idea that America's schoolchildren are being brainwashed into a Maoist cult (which is ridiculous, IMHO) and then out comes the righteous indignation.........sigh. I give up- we should rename this thread 'Groundhog Day', because it's the same runaround time and time again.

I'm with Flippy- wake me up when intelligent discourse makes an appearance around here.