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Originally posted by enlightenment06
is it just me or did Bush he say he was proposing $23 million to drug test kids in school? Whatever happened to smaller government, staying out of our personal lives? 4th Amendment? Why doesn't he use that $23 million in a committment to end child hunger in the United States?
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Or even just put that money towards drug education in early grades. I mean, what are you going to do with the drug testing? Kick the kid out of school if he tests positive and put him in juvie? Because yeah, having more uneducated kids who have been in and out of juvie three times before they're 18 is really going to cut back on the drug problem.
I agree that many many aspects of the speech just showed how out of touch Bush is and how simplistic his worldview can be. The whole No Child Left Behind thing? The drug testing? The abstinence stuff? BLAH. The speech sounded fine but the amount of truth contained therein was arguable.
Anyway here are some of my favorite parts of the speech/the accompianing Wisconsin kid chat:
(1) When the Democrats applauded for the Patriot Act's expiration
(2) How angry the military members in the audience looked
(3) Ted Kennedy
(4) Bush: "Too many kids turn to drugs these days because they are lacking positive role models . . ."
Kath: "'Like me, you know, with that whole coke-snorting thing!'"
(5) Bush: "Abstinence is the only sureproof way to prevent STDs."
Kath: "No it's not. Not sleeping with dirty people is the only sureproof way to prevent STDs."
me: "Like Blaine."
Dirty Blaine: "Yeah, don't sleep with me if you don't want STDs."
At least he admits it.
(6) That whole completely ignoring the first amendment thing, not so cool
(7) When my mom laughed at me as I was chugging away from my Nalgene bottle after Bush said "Iraq," "terror" and alluded to weapons of mass destruction three times in one sentence
(8) How Bush looked like he was trying so hard not to laugh through the entire speech
(9) How cute Tom Daschle is. Damn. I mean for an old guy.
There was something about gay steroid-abusing Muslims too . . .
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