High School Students Forced to Attend Bush Rally

[Shallah Kali]

I got the article off Americablog ( http://americablog.blogspot.com/ )


Board will hear from Bush rally objectors
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/9613795.htm

Some Lee's Summit residents upset that Republicans were allowed to hold a Bush campaign rally at a public high school will take their objections up with the school board tonight.

The meeting was requested in a letter sent to the school district Wednesday.

President Bush and several other Republican politicians spoke at Lee's Summit High School on Tuesday morning. The by-ticket-only event was attended by 15,000 people; 2,000 were students and school staff. Only students with parental permission could opt out of attending. Nine chose not to go.

In the letter, residents complained that a partisan rally “should not have been held in a facility that was paid for and is maintained by taxpayers' dollars during student instruction time.”


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Yep lets indoctrinate them good and young so they grow up to be good Bushites :mad:

[JohnKleeb]

1. thats bs

We have to fund all our money here for young dems ourselves, we dont get a cent and they held a Bush campaign rally at theire school. God, I think I would have skipped out of that :D.

[smirkymonkey]

2. Duetscheland, Duetschland Uber Alles....

sing, everyone!!

[UdoKier]

3. Well, I doubt Bush did this,but...

If he kept his speech to general themes about what's going on in the world and refrained from campaign rhetoric, I'd have no objection.

What's wrong with High School students getting to see the "president" in their own school? There is little difference between that and his visit to Booker T Washington Elem. School on 9-11.

Seems like much ado about nothing to me.

Sorry. If Clinton did this, I'd think it was awesome.

[Diogenes2]

4. Do you think Bush

refrained from campaign rhetoric? Get a clue.

[UdoKier]

6. Even if he did a bit of stumping, I doubt it's unprecedented.

Nobody should be forced to see the bastard talk, but he is technically the president, and presidents go talk to schools.

[Shallah Kali]

8. Nope it was campaign rhetoric all right

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/politics/9603174.htm

In his 36-minute stump speech at the Lee's Summit High School, Bush offered a long and impassioned defense of his decision to go to war in Iraq, saying he tried to negotiate a settlement before sending troops in to fight.

Speaking in front of a large sign emblazoned with the single word "Leadership," Bush said America could not afford to show a lack of confidence against Saddam Hussein, who had been known to use weapons of mass destruction.


(snip)

Speaking before a crowd of thousands of Bush partisans at a ticket-only event at the sunshine-drenched high school rally, Bush said taxing rich Americans won't work because they can afford to hire accountants and lawyers to reduce their tax burdens.

"They dodge. You pay," Bush said to loud applause.

[Book Lover]

16. I understand your point, but

forbidding students to opt out on their own (ie, they had to get permission to *not* go) is bullshit. They were in practice a captive audience.

[ghostsofgiants]

5. ...

If Bush had ever showed up at my school, I'd have gone just to see how much shit I could stir up.

[ochazuke]

7. I talked to some of those parents

when I canvassed Lee's Summit for the Kerry campaign a week ago. They were sending their kids to hear the stuff coming out of Bush's mouth and report back to their parents. Many parents complained to the school board and an invite to Kerry seems to be forthcoming. Also, they want that the school not be used for partisan political purposes in future.

Most disgusting but not surprising: one student wearing a Kerry shirt was told to turn it inside out or leave.

Ain't that America? (no)

[LeighAnn]

9. Typical Lee's Summit Kids

Forced to attend a Bush rally and was there a single heckler or "incident"? Not that I know of.

Wow, until this moment I never realized I was a bigot. The words "Lee's Summit High School" caused the skin on the back of my neck to crawl. I pride myself on inclusiveness, and yet all my life I've carried around dislike for an entire alumni, based solely on the name of their school.

And how they act.

Ugly, huh? Now I know how the right-wingers must spend their days and nights. They've got so many more targets.

I'm right proud that 200 Lee's Summit parents signed that petition. But you wait... the Saturday Examiner will follow the Drudge lead and call the petition a forgery...

[Shallah Kali]

10. "students were asked to remove clothing that supported Sen. John Kerry"

Group upset by Bush's visit
http://www.examiner.net/stories/091004/new_091004009.shtml

[UdoKier]

11. That is just wrong.

As long as it's not obscene or rude, they should be able to wear what they like.

[ghostsofgiants]

12. ...

Would they have been forced to remove clothing that supported, say, Ralph Nader or David Cobb?

[drdtroit]

13. Did they hand out those nice

Brown shirts to all of the students?

[jackieforthedems]

14. I Would Have Kept My Kids

home from school that day.

[Swamp Rat]

15. This is the first time in my life that I WANTED to be in high school...

as one of many 14 year olds, for just ONE afternoon at Summit High School. My various collections of rotten eggs would be in every nook and cranny in that auditorium and so would my pubescent, impish friends.

[Cleita]

17. I remember in Catholic school being forced to kowtow

to various nabobs who were big contributors to the church and prominent in the community. My stepdaughter remembers similar affairs. If these kids are as impressed as my stepdaughter and I were, you have nothing to fear about the brainwashing. Think counter revolution instead.

[DeepModem Mom]

18. kick

[Kid_Niki]

19. I live near here and the students were pissed, according to local news....

Oh yeah, the student body was not happy with this at all! I don't blame them, thee is no place in school for these drugies..

[no_hypocrisy]

20. Ironic, isn't it? You have to sign a loyalty oath to get into a * rally

outside of a school, and here, you can't escape without a signed document.

[strategery blunder]

21. Oh, I would have taken full advantage

Believe me, I was a high school student 2 years ago...

This was a rare oppurtunity for bu$h* to be exposed to people who hadn't signed loyalty oaths...and I would have asked hard questions.

"Mr. pResident, why did you lie to the country about the threat Iraq posed?"

"Mr. pResident, why has this country lost jobs during your pResidency despite your tax cuts?"

"Mr. pResident, why didn't you do anything to warn the airlines about 9/11 while John Ashcroft was told not to fly?"

"Mr. pResident, how many soldiers have to die in Iraq before you attend one of their funerals?"

"Mr. pResident, why have we inflicted 3 9/11's on the civilians in Iraq? How many Iraqi lives does it take to equal one American life?"

And so on.

No question/answer period? I would have started a "4 More Wars!" chant. Ooooh, I could imagine the deer-in-the-headlights look on bu$h*'s face!:evilgrin::evilgrin::evilgrin:

[0007]

22. This is almost on the level of selling drugs to school children!

[Vickers]

23. Really, lmao! There should be a 2000' "politics-free" zone around schools

:thumbsup: