Obscanity: You'll know it when you see it

When I first heard about this so-called “controversy,” I thought, “What could he possibly have said to enrage these people so much?” Now I find out – it’s not so much WHAT he said, because he hasn’t yet said anything. They’re concerned about the mere fact that Obama will address school children at all. I guess when you teach your children that black people are uneducated and unworthy, you don’t want them picking up newfangled ideas at school.

“Thinking about my kids in school having to listen to that just really upsets me,” suburban Colorado mother Shanneen Barron told CNN Denver affiliate KMGH. “I’m an American. They are Americans, and I don’t feel that’s OK. I feel very scared to be in this country with our leadership right now.”

Yes. How dare schools expose AMERICAN children to… um, the President of their nation?

Uneducated wingnuts never fail to amaze me.

Incidentally, both Reagan and Bush addressed schoolchildren as well. Neither address sparked such a ridiculous backlash. Then again, neither of those Presidents had dark skin and a foreign sounding name. Also, they weren’t liberals. Therefore, their addresses were entirely appropriate.

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