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• Monday, September 7, 2009 09:58 PM

  @ Surrey

  I agree. I think the blowup about Obama's speech to students is about race. Many comment boards like this have been filled with people who don't want the president's speech broadcast in school and who also say it's not about race.

  Fears of leftist indoctrination? -- A common stated point of opposition by the no-speech-in-school crowd. Since when has the American left ever been skilled enough with indoctrination to stimulate fear of their abilities? The left's one prevailing effort of national-scale youth indoctrination I can think of is civil rights and racial tolerance.

  A waste of school time? An inappropriately political use of the presidential bully pulpit? -- Won't even dignify these.

  So I don't care whether they say it's not about race. At the bottom of it -- maybe so far down it's hidden even to the people who say it's not about race -- it's about race.

  Apropos this sidetrack and the main knucklehead column, TWO QUOTES from former senator (and non-knucklehead) Alan Simpson, R-Wyoming:

  “Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.”

  “In your country club, your church and business, about 15 percent of the people are screwballs, lightweights and boobs and you would not want those people unrepresented in Congress.”

  —bhameans Read bhameans's other letters
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