Comments on: Flashback: Stockton, California Elementary Students Forced to Hero-Worship George W. Bush in 2002 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/25/flashback-stockton-california-elementary-students-forced-to-hero-worship-george-w-bush-in-2002/ Firedoglake weblog Sat, 18 Feb 2012 02:28:18 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: MarkH http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/25/flashback-stockton-california-elementary-students-forced-to-hero-worship-george-w-bush-in-2002/#comment-1984032 MarkH Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:52:49 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/25/flashback-stockton-california-elementary-students-forced-to-hero-worship-george-w-bush-in-2002/#comment-1984032 <p>Maybe they could call it the “Boosh Skul” in honor of W’s illiteracy.</p> Maybe they could call it the “Boosh Skul” in honor of W’s illiteracy.

]]> By: MarkH http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/25/flashback-stockton-california-elementary-students-forced-to-hero-worship-george-w-bush-in-2002/#comment-1984023 MarkH Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:45:13 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/25/flashback-stockton-california-elementary-students-forced-to-hero-worship-george-w-bush-in-2002/#comment-1984023 <p>I visited Cincinnati once when they were working on the RR highway — at one point it came to a dead end with a concrete wall and there was no warning. So, traveling along a bumpy road at about 60 and then *BAM* screeching stop. Not pleasant. [ entirely true ]</p> <p>At least now I can barely remember the incident. What were we talking about? /s</p> I visited Cincinnati once when they were working on the RR highway — at one point it came to a dead end with a concrete wall and there was no warning. So, traveling along a bumpy road at about 60 and then *BAM* screeching stop. Not pleasant. [ entirely true ]

At least now I can barely remember the incident. What were we talking about? /s

]]> By: MarkH http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/25/flashback-stockton-california-elementary-students-forced-to-hero-worship-george-w-bush-in-2002/#comment-1984020 MarkH Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:42:39 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/25/flashback-stockton-california-elementary-students-forced-to-hero-worship-george-w-bush-in-2002/#comment-1984020 <blockquote><p>Well, here we go again. Obama is about to “decide” the future course of Afganistan, and lo and behold an Osama Bin Laden tape surfaces where he “orders” NATO forces out of Afganistan.</p> <p>Well, Obama no longer really has a choice now, does he???</p></blockquote> <p>Don’t forget that the Republicans and Gen. McChrystal have also been calling for us to stay in Afghanistan. It’s the same old crap. If we stay it’s probably a waste and if we go we’re somehow kowtowing to terrorists. Garbage.</p> <p>No, we always have a choice. It’s a public option see and it works like this… Seriously, it’s free will and simply not letting crazy people inform your decision-making.</p> <p>BTW, I didn’t know ObL was in the basement of the WH. I thought that was Dick Cheney’s secret place?</p>

Well, here we go again. Obama is about to “decide” the future course of Afganistan, and lo and behold an Osama Bin Laden tape surfaces where he “orders” NATO forces out of Afganistan.

Well, Obama no longer really has a choice now, does he???

Don’t forget that the Republicans and Gen. McChrystal have also been calling for us to stay in Afghanistan. It’s the same old crap. If we stay it’s probably a waste and if we go we’re somehow kowtowing to terrorists. Garbage.

No, we always have a choice. It’s a public option see and it works like this… Seriously, it’s free will and simply not letting crazy people inform your decision-making.

BTW, I didn’t know ObL was in the basement of the WH. I thought that was Dick Cheney’s secret place?

]]> By: MarkH http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/25/flashback-stockton-california-elementary-students-forced-to-hero-worship-george-w-bush-in-2002/#comment-1984012 MarkH Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:38:26 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/25/flashback-stockton-california-elementary-students-forced-to-hero-worship-george-w-bush-in-2002/#comment-1984012 <p>A friend of mine named Gary said:</p> <blockquote><p>It’s pretty amazing what one can do in a stratified society with only mud, magic and breathtaking ideals.</p> <p>America had that once…</p></blockquote> <p>Tell me again, how was Hitler’s Germany like Cuba?</p> A friend of mine named Gary said:

It’s pretty amazing what one can do in a stratified society with only mud, magic and breathtaking ideals.

America had that once…

Tell me again, how was Hitler’s Germany like Cuba?

]]> By: Adam503 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/25/flashback-stockton-california-elementary-students-forced-to-hero-worship-george-w-bush-in-2002/#comment-1983968 Adam503 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:29:34 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/25/flashback-stockton-california-elementary-students-forced-to-hero-worship-george-w-bush-in-2002/#comment-1983968 <p>A school in a city with high illiteracy with a school named after Dubya… that kinda works for me. That’s like the Stockton school board posting a huge warning sign to the rest of the world “Avoid visiting Stockton CA at all costs.” </p> <p>Kinda like when you do when you see a confederate battle flag flying over a truck stop </p> <p>What’s their mascot? The Goats? Smirking Chimps?…</p> A school in a city with high illiteracy with a school named after Dubya… that kinda works for me. That’s like the Stockton school board posting a huge warning sign to the rest of the world “Avoid visiting Stockton CA at all costs.”

Kinda like when you do when you see a confederate battle flag flying over a truck stop

What’s their mascot? The Goats? Smirking Chimps?…

]]> By: lewisclark http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/25/flashback-stockton-california-elementary-students-forced-to-hero-worship-george-w-bush-in-2002/#comment-1983965 lewisclark Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:50:20 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/25/flashback-stockton-california-elementary-students-forced-to-hero-worship-george-w-bush-in-2002/#comment-1983965 <p>Awww…<br /> I moved away long ago, but that’s the town of my birth. Stockton is actually more blue than red in terms of ordinary voters, but it’s also quite corrupt in terms of political structure, and they somehow always manage to get things wrong.</p> <p>An elementary school named after the consensus worst US President ever, yet genius native son Gil Evans remains unsung. </p> <p>tsk, tsk…</p> Awww…
I moved away long ago, but that’s the town of my birth. Stockton is actually more blue than red in terms of ordinary voters, but it’s also quite corrupt in terms of political structure, and they somehow always manage to get things wrong.

An elementary school named after the consensus worst US President ever, yet genius native son Gil Evans remains unsung.

tsk, tsk…

]]> By: Gasman http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/25/flashback-stockton-california-elementary-students-forced-to-hero-worship-george-w-bush-in-2002/#comment-1983964 Gasman Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:48:58 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/25/flashback-stockton-california-elementary-students-forced-to-hero-worship-george-w-bush-in-2002/#comment-1983964 <p>That would have been reason to pull students from school. That absolutely is subjecting children to partisan demagoguery. How is this acceptable and President Obama telling children to stay in school not?</p> <p>The conservatives are just fine if children are forced to worship at the altar of W, the torturing, lying, imbecilic war criminal.</p> That would have been reason to pull students from school. That absolutely is subjecting children to partisan demagoguery. How is this acceptable and President Obama telling children to stay in school not?

The conservatives are just fine if children are forced to worship at the altar of W, the torturing, lying, imbecilic war criminal.

]]> By: Jacques http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/25/flashback-stockton-california-elementary-students-forced-to-hero-worship-george-w-bush-in-2002/#comment-1983950 Jacques Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:13:15 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/25/flashback-stockton-california-elementary-students-forced-to-hero-worship-george-w-bush-in-2002/#comment-1983950 <p>Nope. We lost that one. I’ve been thinking about a ballot measure to rename SF’s Bush Street to Obama Way, but I doubt we could get enough qualifying signatures.</p> Nope. We lost that one. I’ve been thinking about a ballot measure to rename SF’s Bush Street to Obama Way, but I doubt we could get enough qualifying signatures.

]]> By: ucsbclassics53 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/25/flashback-stockton-california-elementary-students-forced-to-hero-worship-george-w-bush-in-2002/#comment-1983940 ucsbclassics53 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:45:26 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/25/flashback-stockton-california-elementary-students-forced-to-hero-worship-george-w-bush-in-2002/#comment-1983940 <p><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/katrina-timeline/" rel="nofollow">Who can forget</a>…</p> <p>17th — “KATRINA KIDS” SING FOR LAURA BUSH: Today at the White House Easter Egg Roll, dozens of children “from the stricken Gulf Coast region serenaded First Lady Laura Bush with a song praising the beleaguered Federal Emergency Management Agency.” To the tune of “Hey Look Me Over,” the kids from Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama sang:</p> <p>“Our country’s stood beside us<br /> People have sent us aid.<br /> Katrina could not stop us, our hopes will never fade.<br /> Congress, Bush and FEMA<br /> People across our land<br /> Together have come to rebuild us and we join them hand-in-hand!”</p> Who can forget…

17th — “KATRINA KIDS” SING FOR LAURA BUSH: Today at the White House Easter Egg Roll, dozens of children “from the stricken Gulf Coast region serenaded First Lady Laura Bush with a song praising the beleaguered Federal Emergency Management Agency.” To the tune of “Hey Look Me Over,” the kids from Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama sang:

“Our country’s stood beside us
People have sent us aid.
Katrina could not stop us, our hopes will never fade.
Congress, Bush and FEMA
People across our land
Together have come to rebuild us and we join them hand-in-hand!”

]]> By: Blub http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/25/flashback-stockton-california-elementary-students-forced-to-hero-worship-george-w-bush-in-2002/#comment-1983935 Blub Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:59:07 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/25/flashback-stockton-california-elementary-students-forced-to-hero-worship-george-w-bush-in-2002/#comment-1983935 <p>googled for a picture of the Honorable Councilman Clem Lee (he ran for council after his school board stint, I think). Now he’s running for mayor!</p> <p><a href="http://kxtv.gannett.content.mms.mavenapps.net/vote-lee1.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://kxtv.gannett.content.mm.....e-lee1.jpg</a></p> <p>He kinda looks like a shrub supporter, doesn’t he?</p> googled for a picture of the Honorable Councilman Clem Lee (he ran for council after his school board stint, I think). Now he’s running for mayor!

http://kxtv.gannett.content.mm…..e-lee1.jpg

He kinda looks like a shrub supporter, doesn’t he?

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