African American History Month Is All About George W. Bush:

Everywhere we look these days, we get glimpses into the terrifying narcissism of the Bush administration and of the President himself. Tomorrow the Rude Pundit will deal with the White House's own review of its Katrina response (preview: hey, surprise, surprise, they need to do shit differently). And, really, you can go look at any White House speech and, even in the most obviously not-about-you situations, Bush makes it all about him. Take, for instance, yesterday's "celebration" of African American History Month, just in time for the last couple of days of February.

After the usual blah-di-fuckin' blah intros, filled with anxiety-inducing tics and winks that are part and parcel of any Bush performance, the President stated the obvious, "Generations of African Americans have added to the unique character of our society. Our nation is stronger and more hopeful as a result of those contributions." Then he listed a bunch of black people who everyone's heard of, reminding us, one presumes, that Dizzy Gillespie, Jackie Robinson, and Thurgood Marshall were, indeed, black.

And then, done with the obligatory here's-some-Negroes-you-should-know educational section of the address, Bush moved on to, the Rude Pundit shits you not, all the crap he's done to make life better fer the black people. Said the President, "The reason I worked so hard for the No Child Left Behind Act is because I believe that every child can learn, and I refuse to accept a school system that doesn't teach every child," spinning the program's poor at best, destructive at worst, record into a positive.

Speaking of children, Bush generally speaks to audiences as if they're a bunch of diaper-soiling toddlers who need it all explained clearly and repeatedly, and, of course, that takes on added laugh value when it's a mostly black audience and Bush says something like, "One way to ensure the promise of America reaches all of our citizens is to encourage ownership. We want people owning something. One way to help people realize their dreams is to encourage African Americans to own their own businesses" before touting the "successes" of his Small Business Adminstration.

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then why are parents and teachers BOTH so unhappy with it?

:grr::mad:

of losing her job because of NCLB. She got her certification years ago, and now she's desperately trying to get dozens of papers and shit together to prove that she is qualified - at a time when we are losing teachers, she is in danger of being forced out.

NCLB is, and always was, designed to undermine the public schools in America. An ignorant populace is an easily controlled populace.

we desperately need good teachers that care. I knew the second shrub announced that crap it was going to have negative repurcussions for many good people.

why do we need vouchers?

ellen fl

Excellent point! :hi:

...she went to law school to become an education attorney.

My best friend is a teacher and she said NCLB is the worst. thing. ever.

We need more people like her, those that find ways to fight, even if it means a career change. I hope as an attorney she can change education for the better.

One of my good friend's was an educator, she does education consulting now. She shared with me that she's seen record numbers of her former colleagues retire since NCLB came into existence. NCLB coupled with what gov. musclehead did with our education funds--just a mess!

My heart goes out to your best friend. I hope nclb doesn't drive her from the field. :scared:

:hi: DesertedRose!

friends!! Screw everyone else.

just like Moore caught him saying in F 9/11 "...his base" when he was addressing the rich, elite.
:puke:

Everywhere, At Any Time and for All Purposes Under the Sun. This is but a characteristic of being God's messenger on Earth and subsequently the most powerful man on Earth (with kickbacks from the hundreds of billions in public funds he's given over to his "base", tactfully delayed until he leaves office perhaps, but anyway... he should also be the one of the wealthiest men on Earth... I mean, even at a 10% finders fee--by the time he's free to collect, he's gotta be two or three times the Gates' fortune?)(well, extreme wealth is but one small compensation for doing his God's will, as well as just a sign of his Special Heavenly Status (God shows His Favor by bestowing great wealth--and proportionally to His Liking--everybody (Republican) knows that).

Oh it must be something to believe you are Truly Perfect and Loved by All (except those who are Doomed to Eternal Damnation for Blasphemy and Infidelity to the One True God (of Bush; previously known as Jehovah/Jahveh (Yahweh) or the God of Isreal and Christianity).

Some of us think otherwise.

Once upon a time, we were all but a twinkle in our father's eye... except George. Knowing his mum and da, he more likely followed a twinkle in his mum's eye and steaming Tinkle in his da's face (accompanied by a life-long grimace (for oh-so-many reasons)). So, his conception.... was a truly Golden Moment and an inauspicious, portentous/ominous, even prophetic beginning (for it wouldn't be many decades later that he would be pissing away America's good fortunes and constantly urinating on the People themselves (in a way) as he had done to others throughout his youth).

As for "Bush generally speaks to audiences as if they're a bunch of diaper-soiling toddlers who need it all explained clearly and repeatedly...". Consider the Republican audience... your description of their supposed intelligence is perhaps painfully closer to the truth than you realize (and, unrelatedly, is probably a very accurate descriptive of Republicans engaging in their private romantic fantasies/foreplay).

"Speaking of children, Bush generally speaks to audiences as if they're a bunch of diaper-soiling toddlers who need it all explained clearly and repeatedly, and, of course, that takes on added laugh value when it's a mostly black audience"

No laugh value to me, I'd like to slap the piss out of him. Leaning on his elbow on the podium, acting like he's Stephen Hawking explaining to all us "little people" how everything works and he's in reality, a fricking moron who doesn't know anything about anything and probably can't even grab his ass with both hands.

Plus they show his ignorant ass everyday and then gush about how GREAT he is. In contrast, Clinton was one of the best public speakers ever as President, but they would never show anything but a 2 second snippet when he spoke. They show Bush's entire canned repeat speeches every day. He could be speaking to a hand-picked crowd of 4th graders giving the same speech he's given 25 times and they would show it without comment in its entirety, giving it the respect history deserves when the Great Bush speaks.

The freaking Liberal media is completely out of control.