{"id":14191,"date":"2009-09-08T07:17:27","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T12:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=14191"},"modified":"2009-09-08T07:17:27","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T12:17:27","slug":"presidents-to-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14191","title":{"rendered":"Presidents to students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/washington\/articles\/2009\/09\/08\/prepared_text_of_obamas_speech_to_school_students\/\">Associated Press<\/a> has the text of the speech President Obama plans to give to the nation&#8217;s student today if you&#8217;re at all interested. Oddly enough, this is the first year since 1979 that we don&#8217;t have a child or grandchild in school. <\/p>\n<p>Byron York at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/blogs\/beltway-confidential\/When-Bush-spoke-to-students-Democrats-investigated-held-hearings-57694347.html\">Washington Examiner<\/a> reminds us how the national media and the Democrats treated George HW Bush when he spoke to the nation&#8217;s students;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Unlike the Obama speech, in 1991 most of the controversy came after, not before, the president&#8217;s school appearance. The day after Bush spoke, the Washington Post published a front-page story suggesting the speech was carefully staged for the president&#8217;s political benefit. &#8220;The White House turned a Northwest Washington junior high classroom into a television studio and its students into props,&#8221; the Post reported.<\/p>\n<p>With the Post article in hand, Democrats pounced. &#8220;The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students,&#8221; said Richard Gephardt, then the House Majority Leader. &#8220;And the president should be doing more about education than saying, &#8216;Lights, camera, action.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>York, has many more quotes at the link. I respect good research &#8211; so read the article.<\/p>\n<p>Funny how attitudes change with political parties, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press has the text of the speech President Obama plans to give to the &hellip; <a title=\"Presidents to students\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14191\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Presidents to students<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,47,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-liberals-suck","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}