Blisstree » george w. bush http://www.blisstree.com Family, Health, Home and Lifestyles Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:47:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Obama/Bush Speeches – Double Standard? http://www.blisstree.com/articles/obamabush-speeches-double-standard/ http://www.blisstree.com/articles/obamabush-speeches-double-standard/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:49:19 +0000 Jennifer Walker-Journey http://www.blisstree.com/?p=111254 Post from: Blisstree

Obama/Bush Speeches – Double Standard?

]]> How about the school district in Arlington, Texas. It refused to allow students the opportunity to hear President Obama’s speech to students Tuesday because it didn’t want to interfere with lessons. Yet the same school district sees no problem in interrupting classes to bus 500 of its students to attend a Super Bowl-related event later this month where former president George W. Bush will speak. Sound like a double standard to you?

obamaThe school makes this distinction: “…it’s a field trip that parents have to grant permission for students to attend.”

Let’s see, current president Obama spoke about the importance of education and to not give up on school. Arlington schools did not broadcast the speech in its schools but did allow students to check out of school to watch it at a local church with parental permission. That is, if they could find transportation to get them to the church and back to school in a reasonable amount of time.

Former president Bush is speaking September 21st at a North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee event at Cowboys Stadium in support of the Super Bowl’s new education program. Twenty-eight fifth-grade classes, or about 500 students, will be bussed there. Parents will have to sign the usual “field trip” permission slips so their children can attend.

Sound biased to you?

Source: Star-Telegram
Photo, Flickr, marcn

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Obama/Bush Speeches – Double Standard?

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Election Flashback

]]> Four years ago, during the Presidential Election we were faced with a choice between a white male who was a little too stiff (Al Gore) and a white male who was a little too cowboy (George W. Bush).

First we got Al, then we got George, then we got Al, then we got George – then we didn’t know who we got due to a bunch of hanging chads in another Bush’s state – then it went to the supreme court and we ended up with George W.

Both men went on to change the world in their own unique ways.

Gore went on to write an Inconvenient Truth and galvanized to make the world a greener place, less reliant on oil.

Bush went to war and proceeded to make $50,000 feel an awful lot like $30,000. Both with oil and the price of it. Conveniently (or Inconveniently depending who you are), also the source of his family’s fortune. Now, that’s a thing that makes me say Humm.

Now, we’re here again, as is our way in America. This time I’m a little happier.

First there’s more diversity this election: We’ve seen the first woman (Hillary Clinton), the first black man (Barack Obama), the first hispanic (Bill Richardson), and the first Mormon (Mitt Romney) candidates. Have there been other Baptist preachers (Huckabee)? I dunno. Other Ob/Gyns (Ron Paul)? I doubt it.

Happily, none of the candidates appear to have a personal financial stake in oil.

Please, no hanging chads this year.

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Election Flashback

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