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When Bush spoke to students, Democrats investigated, held hearings

• The Examiner
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. "The White House turned a Northwest Washington junior high classroom into a television studio and its students into props," the Post reported. With the Post article in hand, Democrats pounced. "The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students," said Richard Gephardt, then the House Majority Leader. "And the president should be doing more about education than saying, 'Lights, camera, action.'" Democrats did not stop with words. Rep. William Ford, then chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, ordered the General Accounting Office to investigate the cost and lega

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Comment by Lucky Red
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 No, they didn't but they should have.  Bush was a well-known cocaine user/dealer, a drunk, a draft-dodger, a liar, a cheat, a thief...who the hell would want that addressing kids? 

See, that's the different that y'all fail to see...conveniently but then again, nothing blinds  more than racism.

 



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