This sounds like the guy people thought they voted for:
The story of America isn’t about people who quit when things got tough. It’s about people who kept going, who tried harder, who loved their country too much to do anything less than their best.
It’s the story of students who sat where you sit 250 years ago, and went on to wage a revolution and found this nation. Students who sat where you sit 75 years ago who overcame a Depression and won a world war; who fought for civil rights and put a man on the moon. Students who sat where you sit 20 years ago who founded Google, Twitter and Facebook and changed the way we communicate with each other.
So today, I want to ask you, what’s your contribution going to be? What problems are you going to solve? What discoveries will you make? What will a president who comes here in twenty or fifty or one hundred years say about what all of you did for this country?
The White House could’ve saved itself an awful lot of grief except for the mishandling of the address he will be giving this morning to America’s school children.
In fact, read the whole thing and ask yourself if the President doesn't sound like some sort of personal-responsibility scold. Take that, you right-wingers!
Posts
5 comments:
Jeeze Louise, that thing is long! I scrolled through it and decided I didn't have 15 minutes to waste reading it. Somewhere around minute 4, the kids are going to be fidgeting and throwing things.
Someone has a very inflated opinion of his speechifying abilities.
A link is on the way in a post later today.
Hehe, already have had to argue in three different places that it's probably not the speech he wanted to give in the first place.....
How many of the Twitter/Google/Facebook set went to public school though?
Foxie, that's a good point. I think there was some last minute scrambling that coincided with the scrubbing of the "lesson plan".
Harrison, not all of our public schools suck. And our public schools didn't used to be this bad. How are those for some rallying cries?
Post a Comment