Front page of Comcast "news" -Parents Angry at Obama

[depakid]

The White House on Friday dismissed as pointless the furor over President Barack Obama's plan to deliver a televised back-to-school speech to the nation's students.

"I think we've reached a little bit of the silly season when the president of the United States can't tell kids in school to study hard and stay in school," presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters. "I think both political parties agree that the dropout rate is something that threatens our long-term economic success."

Obama's planned address to students has prompted a surprising push-back from some quarters over what the White House sees as an important but innocuous topic.

Some conservative critics say Obama is trying to promote a political agenda and overstepping his bounds, taking the federal government too far into public school business.

Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota, a potential presidential contender in 2012, said Obama's speech is "uninvited" and that the president's move raises questions of content and motive.

Many school districts have decided not to show Obama's speech, to be delivered at 12 noon EDT Tuesday, partly in response to concerns from parents.

More (from Ron Fornier's AP): http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20090904/US.Obama.Speech.Schools/

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. It would be interesting to get a racial breakdown of those districts,

as well as their locale.

I'm thinking of a LTTE entitled "Conservatives Against Kids Studying Hard and Staying in School".

[depakid]

2. Educational achievement might also be interesting to look at...

The parents' that is....

[bushisanidiot]

3. How many of those schools that are "opting out" did the same thing

when Bush Sr. and Reagan both broadcast to their students??

hypocritical do-nothing assholes.

[Hello_Kitty]

4. 'taking the federal government too far into the public school business'? WTF?

Then those local districts who refuse to show the speech better not take a damn dime of federal money.

[Submariner]

5. I am a Comcast customer and complained

the headline now says "W.H.: Furor over Speech Is 'Silly'. I hate being held captive by a monopoly, so I got pissed when I saw your post and complained.

[depakid]

6. Excellent