Can We Please Get Back to Reality? by George Ziemann -- September 4, 2009 Obama is going to give a speech to schoolchildren next week, urging them to work hard and stay in school. Of course, this pisses off some people who are morons. At the heart of all this is the right-wing media, which uses bullshit like barbeque sauce to flavor all of their fairly unbalanced offerings. We've heard Obama called a Muslim, communist, Nazi and liberal, and that's just on Glenn Beck's show last Friday. I agree with what AdamThinks. This crowd is extremely anti-government. But they really, really like the military or anything else that lets them shoot guns. So we spend the majority of our tax dollars funding an ongoing war. End the war? Do you realize what that would do to the unemployment rate? It might help the music business a little, but more likely the gaming sector will benefit. I can understand people being against something just because it doesn't feel right to them. But "work hard and stay in school"? Presidents have been talking to students as long as I remember, and I remember when John F. Kennedy said, "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." What I do not recall is a previous movement to protect students from the "liberal propaganda" of the sitting president. The anti-gubmint people don't want socialized medicine, either; they're worried about what it will do to Medicare, apparently oblivious to the fact that Medicare is a socialized, government-run health care system. I tried to watch that GB episode I mentioned above, but could only handle about 15 minutes of it. I'll skip any pointless narrative, but let's just say that when the Bushmeister was The Decider, Bush was the one trying to tell us the scary story. The whole point is obviously just to prevent progress of any sort while Obama is president. But when Bush created "free speech zones," he violated the First Amendment. He then proceeded to move down the list, rejecting the ones he didn't like. Our anti-gubmint crowd didn't see anything wrong with that. When "work hard and stay in school" threatens you as some sort of liberal or socialist message, perhaps you should start with a dictionary so you know what you're talking about and don't look quite so foolish.