Right wing mother cries on CNNÂ (video: The Gayly Show at YouTube)
The parody above — shamelessly swiped from Towleroad — is even more amusing if you read the innocuous pep talk President Obama actually delivered to American students. Ed Brayton links to the full text of the President’s address, but Brayton also has excerpts from a 1986 speech made by then-President Ronald Reagan that is tumescent with the level of partisan propaganda the wingnuts, birthers and teabaggers expected to hear from President Obama.
Here’s Reagan rappin’ with American high schoolers in 1986:
Only five years ago our economy suffered from high inflation, high interest rates, mushrooming government spending, and steadily increasing unemployment. A lot of people couldn’t find jobs, and people on fixed incomes were finding it harder to buy the basics, such as food and shelter. Well, we got inflation down, interest rates down, and our economy created over 1 1/2 million new jobs just last year alone. The poor are now increasingly able to dig themselves out of poverty, and that’s been good economic news.
The good news in defense is that our Armed Forces, which were suffering from neglect and low funding, have now made a comeback. Morale is up in the services, and the quality of our men and women in uniform has never been better — and I mean never. As a matter of fact, we have the highest percentage of high school graduates in uniform today than we’ve ever had in the history of our nation, even back when we had the compulsory draft. In addition, our nation has encouraged a more realistic sense of defense needs.
In foreign affairs we’ve kept our friends close and the lines of communication with our adversaries open. We’ve tried to give the world the sense that the United States has a coherent and logical foreign policy that reflects our respect for freedom and our opposition to tyranny…
Oi! The wingers need to get back on their meds.
(tip: Andy Towle, Ed Brayton)
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