Politics: What’s Old is New Again

There are no moderate political parties in the United States.

Byron York (definitely not a friend of Democrats or the President) wrote:

"Unlike the Obama speech, in 1991 most of the controversy came after, not before, the president's school appearance. The day after Bush spoke, the Washington Post published a front-page story suggesting the speech was carefully staged for the president's political benefit."

It seems that Mr. York dispels the equality implied in Pete's one sentence article.

Whoa.

So, Congressional ordered investigations and hearings and accusations the President used funds illegally is LESS partisan, only because it was after the fact?

Even you cannot believe your own BS spin this time Steve.

There obviously is no equivalence, real or even implied. It's Obama's and the lib Dems' record this year that has generated such concern among the more intelligent and principled public. That the schools have been misused for political movements, not merely for liberalism in this or that way as a general rule, by teachers' unions, is exemplified by the appropriate reading I enjoyed this weekend, about a topic and a related political movement and its application which could be redirected toward health care or "global warming," for example, as well as to accompany the Obama cult in general:

http://www.amazon.com/Dialogue-Teaching-Guide-N...

The continued "campaign" and personality-cult exploitation by Obama this year has no Republican analogue, and while some with contempt for constitutional federalism and childish impatience want Obama and his administration to write their own bill (legislation) to substitute for the House Dems' troubled bill and related effort, they are always first and foremost to engage in highly slanted criticism of "an imperial presidency" whenever a Republican President takes any initiative or confronts a Democratic Congress. (This also lies beneath the 1980s whining and related post-1994 whining about "divided government" and a desire for "fusion of powers" under Democratic control.) This, at the same time that it has been presidents like FDR who have been the most provocative, and praised by liberals for their great achievements, and which underlies part of Obama worship that still exists now.

What similarity there is among the two parties has been the unfortunate consequence of the massive growth of Washington and centralization of it in people's minds conceptually as well as in actual power, to the point where the relationship of Washington to people is that of a caretaker or authority to children, and they look personally to the President, as well as more broadly to Washington, as their parent, and object of worship:

http://www.reason.com/news/show/126020.html

Sadly, that actual element of rare approximate equivalence among the "two sides" will remain lost.

Indeed. I was 12 at the time, and I do not recall any permission slips (or even one word being said to parents). I don't recall anyone threatening to take me out of school. The same can be said for the many times I watched President Clinton speak while in school.