Olbermann Calls Young Scholars Heroes (Torture Letter to Bush) MUST-SEE

[Hissyspit]

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JUNE 27, 2007 edition of Countdown - "...we can be heroes..."

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[lazyriver]

1. Pleased to offer this clip its first rec....nt

[NastyDiaper]

9. :applause:

:applause:

[PDJane]

2. Cheering, whistling, and stamping my feet...........

How absolutely wonderful, and what beautiful, bright kids! A hope for the future, right there!

[Hissyspit]

3. It made me tear up. Going into the original Bowie version of 'Herores'

[Benhurst]

4. Recommended #4

:kick:

[jojo54]

5. K & R.

There's hope for these young'uns yet!!!!!

[Moochy]

6. Excellent Clip

50/150 felt brave enough to write this letter!

QUESTION AUTHORITY!

[peace13]

7. So many adults could take a lesson from these fine young people

Standing tall and brave in front of the worlds worst mass murderer and telling him to knock off the bad behavior! How wonderful. I am proud of these true Americans! Their courage will not go unrewarded as each of us stand up beside them. Peace, Kim

[insanad]

10. Future Taxpayers and Leaders

I'm the mother of three of the future leaders and taxpayers of our nation. Sometimes I think they are sleeping through all the things that will effect them in the political realm and then I remember being equally clueless and disinterested when Reagan was spending our economy into a tailspin of pointless Cold-War "Defense". When I see such involvement by the youth of America I realize they are as upset and frustrated by the current administration as I am.

I'll read the illiterate rantings on the net and am left with a sense of disgust at the ignorance and stupidity that is so abundant but I realize that those naive and ill-informed comments are not a true representation of the future leaders of America. There ARE intelligent and capable young people out there with visionary ideas, values, and worthwhile plans. My own children have so much to offer but they are still in the un-cured foundation stage of such things and the definition and clarity that comes with experience has not yet manifested itself in their opinions and ideals. I was not that different at their ages.

I'm very proud of those kids and hope we all can get brave, loud, and organized enough to expel this administration and replace it with people and leaders who represent "WE THE PEOPLE".

[peace13]

13. I know what you are saying about the kids.

My son is 23 and there have been times over the past six years that his eyes have rolled if I talked politics while his fiends sat in my home eating my food. Now we don't worry about things like that. I do feel sorry for the young people here and around the world. Peace to you and welcome to DU, Kim

[insanad]

16. Teenage affluentia

When I was about 12 years old I remember the hoopla over President Nixon. I'm sure I rolled my eyes then, but I've never forgotten the shame that people felt in having to impeach someone so corrupt that the majority of Americans had supposedly elected democratically. The shame of Americans who've elected Bush and his henchmen is somewhat on all of us, even if the first election was rigged, the second one could have been won by a much better margin if more had been involved.

For my own kids who seem to lean very much to the right in spite of much liberal exposure and teaching them tolerance, I can only hope that they will recognize the folly of their parents generation and not repeat history in their own future. Here it is, only 30 years or so since the fall of Nixon and we've managed to bring in someone far worse, more corrupt, more vulgar, more delusional, more sinister and evil than even Richard M. Nixon. I hope I can encourage my kids to research and vote with an informed and well thought out decision rather than some random scratch on a ballot out of obligation.

When I read much of what is on the net I'm really disgusted and annoyed at the ignorance, naivety, and absolute stupidity that so many teens and youth exhibit in regards to things they clearly know nothing about. They reflect a broken educational system, an apathy for character or values, and often an incomprehensible illiteracy that seems rampant. Yet these same teens with access to all the information in the world that the net and our modern media provides are even less informed, less verbally skilled, seemingly incapable of forming a full thought, sentence or even whole word than their parents were at their ages. Perhaps they have so much to choose from that they have the attention spans of fleas, flitting from one topic to the next without any concentration of thought or flow of ideas.

I know opinions make me sound like a fuddy duddy old woman standing with a hose on my lawn ready to hose anything that isn't 35 or older, but it seems to be the exception rather than the norm to find a literate teen with more than an emoticon vocabulary. Even my son who is a math genius seems to prefer to acronym or abbreviate everything. How hard is it to write a whole word? Why does this catch on and consume the airways of written words? With all the time they seem to have to surf the net you'd think they'd be able to learn to spell or even use spell check.

Ok, off my soapbox. I'm glad to meet someone who knows how to write.

[Hissyspit]

15. Welcome to DU!

:patriot: :patriot: :patriot:

:toast:

[liberal N proud]

8. Round of applause for those heros

:patriot:
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[atreides1]

11. Hope for the future

But he still lied to them!!!

[matthewf]

12. these kids are ALRIGHT!!!

:headbang:

[Dollface]

14. They may help restore honor to the title of "President"

[blogslut]

17. Man, I wish my DSL wasn't down

I'm missing some good clips. First, Elizabeth Edwards taking down Ann Coulter and now this. Sigh.

[Hissyspit]

18. It's only 60 seconds, if that helps.

Funny. My DSL was down, today, too.

[Hissyspit]

19. one last kick n/t

[Wetzelbill]

20. that was effing awesome! too bad I missed it the other day

because I would have been honred to vote for it.