Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Remember Jim Greer, the...

...chairman of the Florida Republican Party, who didn't want President Obama to speak to schoolchildren about the "importance of education?" In 2009, Greer wrote (my emphasis):

As the father of four children, I am absolutely appalled that taxpayer dollars are being used to spread President Obama's socialist ideology. The idea that school children across our nation will be forced to watch the President justify his plans for government-run health care, banks, and automobile companies, increasing taxes on those who create jobs, and racking up more debt than any other President, is not only infuriating, but goes against beliefs of the majority of Americans, while bypassing American parents through an invasive abuse of power.

While I support educating our children to respect both the office of the American President and the value of community service, I do not support using our children as tools to spread liberal propaganda. The address scheduled for September 8, 2009, does not allow for healthy debate on the President's agenda, but rather obligates the youngest children in our public school system to agree with our President's initiatives or be ostracized by their teachers and classmates.


Remember that guy? He pled guilty yesterday to grand theft and money laundering charges and is expected to face prison time.

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