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Response to Reply #188
192. And it's a vast minority of people too! n/t
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  -Schools refused to air Obama's speech but will bus kids to hear Bush speak live mystieus  Sep-08-09 10:33 PM   #0 
  - I'll explain the differences, Ms. McKissic  Skittles   Sep-08-09 10:35 PM   #1 
  - BRAVO SKITTLES  saigon68   Sep-09-09 05:55 AM   #34 
  - WHO SERVED WITH BUSH IN MILITARY?????????????  HowHasItComeToThis   Sep-09-09 11:30 AM   #128 
  - BUSH CORRUPTS ALL HE TOUCHES  HowHasItComeToThis   Sep-09-09 11:32 AM   #129 
  - Yep and they brung 'em on too didn't they  madokie   Sep-09-09 03:58 PM   #185 
  - I'm with Skittles on this....  blm   Sep-09-09 08:24 AM   #54 
  - You got that right, Skittles.  Joe Bacon   Sep-09-09 08:27 AM   #55 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Sep-09-09 10:15 AM   #97 
  - I guess I have been lucky  Skittles   Sep-09-09 03:32 PM   #172 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Sep-09-09 10:14 AM   #96 
  - LOL, exactly! Thanks for the morning laugh!!  nightrain   Sep-09-09 11:01 AM   #118 
  - what you said  Old Codger   Sep-09-09 11:46 AM   #132 
  - Yep - that, and the fact that Texas is 50th(!) in percentage of people that finished high school  Zorra   Sep-09-09 02:07 PM   #152 
  - Will that state just secede already.  humbled_opinion   Sep-09-09 02:33 PM   #159 
     - keep in mind there are people like me in, er, "that state"  Skittles   Sep-09-09 03:32 PM   #174 
        - LOL...  humbled_opinion   Sep-09-09 06:20 PM   #198 
  - perhaps parents can get a refund in local tax as compensation  Rosa Luxemburg   Sep-08-09 10:36 PM   #2 
  - Typical  Solly Mack   Sep-08-09 10:37 PM   #3 
  - Obama's speech was free and they are going to pay for the busses to see Bush  proud2BlibKansan   Sep-08-09 10:43 PM   #4 
  - so somebody is making money on this  xxqqqzme   Sep-09-09 11:52 AM   #133 
     - Only the bus company  proud2BlibKansan   Sep-09-09 04:31 PM   #191 
  - Well, that is the sort of event I'd expect to require a permission slip . . .  MrModerate   Sep-08-09 10:43 PM   #5 
  - Fucking unbelievable.  grytpype   Sep-08-09 10:48 PM   #6 
  - Here my former high school that invited Bush to speak, prohibited the Obama speech  EndElectoral   Sep-08-09 10:48 PM   #7 
  - Here's what Google yielded:  pnorman   Sep-09-09 03:35 AM   #22 
  - Eh, you're being too optimistic  durablend   Sep-09-09 04:39 AM   #25 
     - No, I'll stick with my prediction.  pnorman   Sep-09-09 05:10 AM   #28 
     - THE BORED UGIN XTIANS ARE OUT IN FORCE  HowHasItComeToThis   Sep-09-09 11:35 AM   #130 
  - That would explain all the confederate flags I see around here.  Altoid_Cyclist   Sep-09-09 05:35 AM   #29 
  - I had a similar experience in south-central PA  RufusTFirefly   Sep-09-09 09:58 AM   #88 
     - I get the feeling that some people around here have never heard of the Mason-Dixon line.  Altoid_Cyclist   Sep-09-09 10:25 AM   #100 
     - Pa is redneck central  Richard58   Sep-09-09 10:58 PM   #205 
        - My sister was visiting us two years ago.  Altoid_Cyclist   Sep-10-09 06:57 AM   #208 
     - our local grocery store . . .  DollyM   Sep-09-09 12:37 PM   #138 
     - Damn those Southern states like PA!!!!  AlbertCat   Sep-09-09 01:03 PM   #141 
     - You know what they say . . .  MountainLaurel   Sep-09-09 02:25 PM   #156 
  - Pennsyltucky  bc3000   Sep-09-09 10:00 AM   #89 
  - Kentucky didn't secede either  AlbertCat   Sep-09-09 01:06 PM   #142 
  - ACLU where are you?  goclark   Sep-09-09 10:14 AM   #95 
  - Off with their heads again. I am sick of these racists!  RedCloud   Sep-09-09 02:24 PM   #154 
  - Ugh. These people are just so f*cking dense.  chollybocker   Sep-08-09 10:57 PM   #8 
  - is this why they had laura bush give "her" opinion defending Obama's speech?  Algorem   Sep-08-09 11:18 PM   #9 
  - Exactly !!!!  SlingBlade   Sep-09-09 08:20 AM   #53 
  - Of course, she "defended" it much too late to make a lick of difference.  beac   Sep-09-09 08:44 AM   #62 
  - Pickles ain't stupid. Just married to it. n/t  msanthrope   Sep-09-09 09:14 AM   #76 
     - If she isn't stupid (which I think she is) she is still worthless.  LiberalFighter   Sep-09-09 09:44 AM   #83 
  - "I do not understand the duplicity in this situation,"  Mythbuster   Sep-08-09 11:35 PM   #10 
  - read the above post from pennsylvania n/t  Tunkamerica   Sep-09-09 12:56 AM   #16 
  - Sounds like something that would happen here in Tx. n/t  Mythbuster   Sep-09-09 01:10 AM   #17 
  - Texas  BabbaTam   Sep-09-09 08:47 AM   #65 
  - People forget that the cities in red states are often blue  treestar   Sep-09-09 10:02 AM   #90 
  - Arlington, however, is not one of them.  crispini   Sep-09-09 11:04 AM   #121 
  - LOL!  tammywammy   Sep-09-09 12:46 PM   #139 
     - I don't think I knew you lived in Arlington!  crispini   Sep-09-09 01:49 PM   #151 
     - Yeah, I think I met you at a meet-up many moons ago  tammywammy   Sep-09-09 02:35 PM   #160 
     - What's Grand Prairie like, do you know?  moonbatmax   Sep-09-09 02:57 PM   #165 
        - It's kinda run down  tammywammy   Sep-09-09 03:00 PM   #166 
           - Wow!  moonbatmax   Sep-09-09 06:39 PM   #199 
              - Oh yeah, they finally tore down Forum 303  tammywammy   Sep-09-09 11:01 PM   #206 
                 - Yeah, I read about it  moonbatmax   Sep-11-09 04:19 PM   #220 
  - Texas can be made blue yet.  AlbertCat   Sep-09-09 01:12 PM   #143 
     - There's a plan for secession?  tammywammy   Sep-09-09 02:38 PM   #162 
        - God, why don't I know about it, since I live here and all.  AlbertCat   Sep-09-09 03:54 PM   #183 
           - So he's proposed secession to the state congress  tammywammy   Sep-09-09 04:13 PM   #187 
              - One dumbass governor  Mythbuster   Sep-09-09 04:19 PM   #188 
                 - And it's a vast minority of people too! n/t  tammywammy   Sep-09-09 04:35 PM   #192 
  - I think the only way Texas will ever go blue  Mythbuster   Sep-09-09 04:29 PM   #190 
  - It isn't now called texASS for nothin - they've EARNED that name!!!  TankLV   Sep-09-09 09:04 AM   #72 
  - These are the same people who love their country so much that they want to secede from it. nt.  mistertrickster   Sep-09-09 09:37 AM   #81 
  - That's the way to indoctrinate kids...  GoddessOfGuinness   Sep-08-09 11:43 PM   #11 
  - Rev Dwight McKissic is an anti-gay preacher  tammywammy   Sep-08-09 11:50 PM   #12 
  - Oppressing Gays Is the One Thing Republicans and Democrats Alike Can Agree Upon  Toasterlad   Sep-09-09 08:40 AM   #60 
     - Yeah, but they're are a lot of Dems  Cha   Sep-09-09 10:12 AM   #94 
     - Rev McKissic isn't one of those  tammywammy   Sep-09-09 10:58 AM   #115 
     - Bi-partisan hatred, bringing America together.  AlbertCat   Sep-09-09 01:15 PM   #144 
  - Infuriating.  SpankMe   Sep-08-09 11:52 PM   #13 
  - Wow, misleading headline. Maybe you'll still get your wish and make the Greatest. N/t  newtothegame   Sep-09-09 12:07 AM   #14 
  - How is it misleading? Did you even bother to read the article title, clown  mystieus   Sep-09-09 12:21 AM   #15 
  - I'll tell you how it's misleading...  Techn0Girl   Sep-09-09 02:08 AM   #19 
     - I posted the article title. If you have a problem take it up with the source  mystieus   Sep-09-09 04:12 AM   #24 
     - That's not quite correct is it....  Techn0Girl   Sep-09-09 04:46 AM   #26 
     - First of all, you give the identical link that was in the OP  muriel_volestrangler   Sep-09-09 06:55 AM   #38 
     - and  Aragorn   Sep-09-09 08:11 AM   #50 
     - Deleted message  Name removed   Sep-09-09 08:49 AM   #67 
     - Good lesson, teach..  Cha   Sep-09-09 10:27 AM   #101 
     - Gutted her real good, but who's going to clean up that mess. nt  Jakes Progress   Sep-09-09 10:51 AM   #109 
     - Deleted message  Name removed   Sep-09-09 08:42 AM   #61 
     - Deleted message  Name removed   Sep-09-09 08:54 AM   #69 
     - Deleted message  Name removed   Sep-09-09 08:44 AM   #63 
     - Deleted message  Name removed   Sep-09-09 09:18 AM   #79 
     - Deleted message  Name removed   Sep-09-09 09:07 AM   #74 
     - Posting it is different from airing it.  caseymoz   Sep-09-09 04:50 PM   #194 
     - how dare you post this! don't you know this is inflammatory!!!  Divine Discontent   Sep-09-09 05:37 AM   #30 
     - Speaking of the thread title police, I guess they are everywhere on DU.  DainBramaged   Sep-09-09 07:31 AM   #39 
     - A president, or even former fraudulent WH occupant like * never "just happens" to be on the roster  bread_and_roses   Sep-09-09 05:04 AM   #27 
     - It isn't just a happenstnace but it did happen after the school agreed to send the class  dsc   Sep-09-09 05:38 AM   #33 
     - Deleted message  Name removed   Sep-09-09 05:37 AM   #31 
     - You lost. Get over it. n/t  Ian David   Sep-09-09 06:26 AM   #36 
     - A recently ex-President just doesn't "happen" to be speak anywhere.  caseymoz   Sep-09-09 07:50 AM   #43 
     - We'll have to monitor that  Cha   Sep-09-09 10:30 AM   #102 
     - do you really think  Aragorn   Sep-09-09 08:09 AM   #48 
     - Deleted message  Name removed   Sep-09-09 08:40 AM   #59 
     - That doesn't negate the argument  Canuckistanian   Sep-09-09 10:05 AM   #92 
     - Yeah right.  Cha   Sep-09-09 10:32 AM   #103 
     - Deleted message  Name removed   Sep-09-09 11:11 AM   #125 
     - Bush just happens to be speaking there.  AlbertCat   Sep-09-09 01:19 PM   #145 
     - You apparently have strong feelings about this topic.  Quantess   Sep-09-09 02:37 PM   #161 
     - I <3 you  Dramarama   Sep-09-09 03:18 PM   #169 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Sep-09-09 05:38 AM   #32 
  - lol...  fascisthunter   Sep-09-09 10:32 AM   #104 
  - Do parents have the right to opt out?  Joanne98   Sep-09-09 01:25 AM   #18 
  - It's not a school-wide event  Techn0Girl   Sep-09-09 02:12 AM   #20 
  - Well that's even worse. Parents should demand that the kids stay in school, not have their learning  Raschel   Sep-09-09 09:15 AM   #77 
  - Yes, it's a field trip and parents have to give permission to go n/t  tammywammy   Sep-09-09 06:32 AM   #37 
  - Black & White Rev McKissic, no shades of grey here to try to sort out  BR_Parkway   Sep-09-09 03:17 AM   #21 
  - Literally...  polmaven   Sep-09-09 03:47 PM   #179 
  - Wow! Can They Get Any More Fair & Balanced?  Anakin Skywalker   Sep-09-09 03:53 AM   #23 
  - It's okay, he has athletes there to "sell" the Bush brand just in case.  caseymoz   Sep-09-09 07:53 AM   #44 
  - Come to think of it, I recall the same thing happening  liberal N proud   Sep-09-09 06:07 AM   #35 
  - Understandable given the gentrification that's occurred since I graduated in 1973.  Doremus   Sep-09-09 09:09 AM   #75 
  - You know this place very well  liberal N proud   Sep-09-09 10:04 AM   #91 
     - I know where all the bodies are buried and can name names. ;-)  Doremus   Sep-09-09 10:55 AM   #112 
  - The school district is Westlake Ohio.  AlbertCat   Sep-09-09 01:24 PM   #147 
  - i applaud The Arlington Independent School District on their  Soylent Brice   Sep-09-09 07:36 AM   #40 
  - Why? Isn't there a zoo closer?  TheCowsCameHome   Sep-09-09 07:37 AM   #41 
  - Reading? Trying hard in school? Hand washing?  Deep13   Sep-09-09 07:41 AM   #42 
  - This just shows the DEEP polarity....  orbitalman   Sep-09-09 07:56 AM   #45 
  - I truly hope there isn't a war.  NOLALady   Sep-09-09 10:41 AM   #107 
  - Now THAT'S Naziism  Doctor_J   Sep-09-09 08:02 AM   #46 
  - We are all going to have to work together to change this.  The Backlash Cometh   Sep-09-09 08:03 AM   #47 
  - I'd like to say I am surprised  Wetzelbill   Sep-09-09 08:09 AM   #49 
  - Well that also explains why Pickles was  SlingBlade   Sep-09-09 08:17 AM   #51 
  - Hypocrisy rears it's ugly head. Again.  Bluzmann57   Sep-09-09 08:17 AM   #52 
  - They want to play politics with the children. Welcome to Politics!  Wizard777   Sep-09-09 08:31 AM   #56 
  - I've already started calling the school district  derby378   Sep-09-09 08:32 AM   #57 
  - 682-867-7344 For The Super. Can't find a Comm. Dept. on their website.  Ranting_Wacko   Sep-09-09 09:57 AM   #87 
     - Yes, a number is helpful!  Cha   Sep-09-09 10:36 AM   #105 
  - Notice something missing through all this?  scentopine   Sep-09-09 08:37 AM   #58 
  - So the school made obamas speech available, but not mandatory  JonQ   Sep-09-09 08:46 AM   #64 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Sep-09-09 09:17 AM   #78 
     - Yes, how dare I be from a different state and gender than you  JonQ   Sep-09-09 10:22 AM   #99 
        - Made available on the school's website?  Cha   Sep-09-09 10:41 AM   #106 
        - Right, not good enough  JonQ   Sep-09-09 10:44 AM   #108 
           - The kids liked the speech and I  Cha   Sep-09-09 11:03 AM   #120 
              - Some kids did, some didn't  JonQ   Sep-09-09 11:11 AM   #124 
                 - Deleted message  Name removed   Sep-09-09 11:16 AM   #127 
                 - Deleted message  Name removed   Sep-09-09 12:26 PM   #136 
                 - what do you really think this accomplished besides distracting public attention  AlbertCat   Sep-09-09 01:36 PM   #148 
                    - Again, baseless accuasations of racism  JonQ   Sep-09-09 03:32 PM   #173 
                       - baseless accuasations of racism  AlbertCat   Sep-09-09 04:05 PM   #186 
                          - Few whites  JonQ   Sep-10-09 08:42 AM   #213 
        - That's not at all the same thing  JerseygirlCT   Sep-09-09 02:26 PM   #157 
           - Do you really think making it mandatory would make that much of a difference?  JonQ   Sep-09-09 03:34 PM   #175 
              - I think for many it was a very important moment  JerseygirlCT   Sep-09-09 07:20 PM   #202 
                 - The complaint I was responding to  JonQ   Sep-10-09 08:39 AM   #212 
                    - Really, what an assinine response  JerseygirlCT   Sep-10-09 08:45 AM   #214 
                       - Not really  JonQ   Sep-10-09 08:51 AM   #215 
  - one word: outrageous (but I'm not surprised by the TX clowns)  wordpix   Sep-09-09 08:48 AM   #66 
  - don t let them go....he ll turn them into war criminals!!!  scarface2004   Sep-09-09 08:53 AM   #68 
  - I think the message is clear enough here.  ScottLand   Sep-09-09 08:54 AM   #70 
  - Hank Hill  boomerbust   Sep-09-09 09:02 AM   #71 
  - They took high school kids out of school to blow up balloons for the Repub. Nat. Conven.  Raschel   Sep-09-09 09:06 AM   #73 
  - HYPOCRITES!!!!!!  Patchuli   Sep-09-09 09:29 AM   #80 
  - and our soldiers are forced to hear rush on radio  samsingh   Sep-09-09 09:40 AM   #82 
  - I'm not surprised.  Ranting_Wacko   Sep-09-09 09:54 AM   #84 
  - I really feel sorry for all their brainwashed  Cha   Sep-09-09 10:53 AM   #110 
  - Poor Texas.  asdjrocky   Sep-09-09 09:55 AM   #85 
  - I'd rather you didn't...  derby378   Sep-09-09 10:09 AM   #93 
     - Wow! Thanks for telling us the good  Cha   Sep-09-09 10:56 AM   #113 
        - Yes they had a choice to watch it and many did  sonias   Sep-09-09 01:37 PM   #149 
  - Could somebody sue the effing school district? nt  raccoon   Sep-09-09 09:57 AM   #86 
  - Here's the district's contact info...everyone should call and complain.  Infinite Hope   Sep-09-09 10:20 AM   #98 
  - Yeah, it was a stupid  Cha   Sep-09-09 10:58 AM   #114 
  - I called the Arlington Chamber of Commerce  Jakes Progress   Sep-09-09 10:55 AM   #111 
  - What can I say?  Cha   Sep-09-09 10:59 AM   #116 
  - Um, the Chamber of Commerce isn't the School Board n/t  tammywammy   Sep-09-09 10:59 AM   #117 
     - Um. Naive.  Jakes Progress   Sep-09-09 11:11 AM   #123 
  - Racists ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !  L0oniX   Sep-09-09 11:02 AM   #119 
  - Really? Are people still going that route?  JonQ   Sep-09-09 11:15 AM   #126 
     - What other reason can there be underlying Teabagger lunacy?  stubtoe   Sep-09-09 12:36 PM   #137 
     - socialist = black guy in the whitehouse  JonQ   Sep-09-09 03:31 PM   #171 
     - Would Bill Clinton have had to defend his birth certificate...over and over and over?  MUAD_DIB   Sep-09-09 02:25 PM   #155 
     - Change of subject, but I'll bite  JonQ   Sep-09-09 03:38 PM   #177 
        - keep your head in the sand  noiretextatique   Sep-09-09 03:53 PM   #182 
           - Sure thing buddy  JonQ   Sep-10-09 08:38 AM   #211 
     - there are other possible reasons  noiretextatique   Sep-09-09 03:50 PM   #180 
        - Based on your opinion  JonQ   Sep-09-09 03:52 PM   #181 
           - what fucking polls?  noiretextatique   Sep-09-09 03:56 PM   #184 
              - Ah, a perfect set up then  JonQ   Sep-10-09 08:35 AM   #209 
  - It's just more "Hey you! Get to the back of the bus." people exercising freedom of ugly speech.  Kablooie   Sep-09-09 11:04 AM   #122 
  - It's just more "Go back to where you came from!" That's why they want to prove he was born in Africa  Raschel   Sep-09-09 11:42 AM   #131 
  - I guess the bad guys usually win on "Arlington Road"...  cascadiance   Sep-09-09 11:54 AM   #134 
  - WHAAA......?  Can of Whoop-ass   Sep-09-09 12:20 PM   #135 
  - good for the pastor! eom  ellenfl   Sep-09-09 12:51 PM   #140 
  - Was this a private school?  Old Studentka   Sep-09-09 01:24 PM   #146 
  - Just another embarrassing stain on Texas.  Imalittleteapot   Sep-09-09 01:39 PM   #150 
  - Off with their heads! Enough of this racist bs.  RedCloud   Sep-09-09 02:23 PM   #153 
  - Bow to your Monkey God of Death and Destruction Republicans!  aint_no_life_nowhere   Sep-09-09 02:27 PM   #158 
  - The Stadium, Texas, and y'all.  shagsak   Sep-09-09 02:44 PM   #163 
  - Well, there's also  tammywammy   Sep-09-09 03:03 PM   #168 
  - Are you saying the actions of a tiny minority  JonQ   Sep-09-09 03:43 PM   #178 
  - Stereotypes  AlbertCat   Sep-09-09 05:05 PM   #195 
  - Yay for stereotypes  JonQ   Sep-10-09 08:37 AM   #210 
  - None are "perfectly" acceptable  shagsak   Sep-10-09 12:24 PM   #216 
     - I know you weren't arguing that  JonQ   Sep-10-09 01:04 PM   #217 
  - share that energy with the schools who censored Obama  scentopine   Sep-09-09 10:19 PM   #204 
  - Embarrassing  GMC   Sep-09-09 02:46 PM   #164 
  - well put. Welcome to DU  onethatcares   Sep-09-09 04:40 PM   #193 
  - This is the best arguement for homeschooling I've ever heard.  rucky   Sep-09-09 03:01 PM   #167 
  - Hypocrisy!  ObamaKerryDem   Sep-09-09 03:29 PM   #170 
  - I am not surprised  zinnisking   Sep-09-09 03:36 PM   #176 
  - Typical  Ikkru   Sep-09-09 04:21 PM   #189 
  - it's because they're a bunch of racist hypocrite paranoids. Next question? n/t  progressivebydesign   Sep-09-09 05:37 PM   #196 
  - This is such bullshit. These people are nothing a but a bunch of racist.  Geek_Girl   Sep-09-09 06:09 PM   #197 
  - LIKE THIS?  saigon68   Sep-11-09 04:15 AM   #218 
     - And This?  saigon68   Sep-11-09 04:23 AM   #219 
  - No doubt, a part of the state of Texas that wants to secede n/t  AntiFascist   Sep-09-09 06:47 PM   #200 
  - As a white male I will say it: RACISM knr/nt  wroberts189   Sep-09-09 07:08 PM   #201 
  - Can't really say anything more that WTF! & Is that tax payer funded?  pam4water   Sep-09-09 08:04 PM   #203 
  - That is why every last puke needs removed from ANY public office  and-justice-for-all   Sep-10-09 12:32 AM   #207 
 

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