I'll See You In Hell Costanza

The Florida GOP issued a statement saying they do not want President Obama addressing the school children of that state because the president does not reflect their values. Katie Gordon, press secretary for the Florida Republican Party, then went on to state that President Obama's address to school children was an attempt "to indoctrinate young Americans into supporting his socialist agenda."

Let's get a couple things right out on the table here. The current Republican governor of Florida is gay. He is the leading elected Republican official in the state. He is for a lack of a better term, their leader. He has been fully endorsed by the same organization that is now calling President Obama a socialist and morally decrepit.

It is truly a disservice to an entire generation of Americans that the minority opposition party in America-- a mainstream national party-- is using as a "serious" opposing view that the President of the United States is so un-American and morally void that he's not fit to give an address to school children.

We've been through this before. Nothing has changed since the 90s. Clinton was treated the exact same way. The GOP prides itself on a self-indulging notion that they are morally and patriotically superior to everyone else. Eight solid years of deficit budgets, endless war, scandal after scandal and entire government takeovers of private industry by a Republican administration has deterred them none at all. There's no reason they should be let off the hook on this. Make them own it.

*Update:

Steven Benen has found some good comparables of Republican presidents addressing school children, which would fly in the face everything the GOP is currently fear-mongering about, if they didn't live in a Fantasy World that is.

• 1988- Reagan addressed school children nationwide via satellite where he spoke about gun control and fiscal resonsibility.
• More recently George W. Bush urged school children to join the USA Freedom Corp as way for children to support invading foreign countries (i.e., endless war).
• Bush also offered to school children a "Freedom Timeline" that sought to link the attacks of 9/11 with Iraq and to other American wars. As we all know, Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 and the American public was widely lied to in order to justify the invasion.

None of that then was viewed by the GOP as indoctrination. Oh no, they saw it as Great American Patriotism. Only Republican presidents can talk to school children about gun control and outright lies of Freedom Bombs and invading other countries just for the smell of it and it not be morally wrong. Can anyone possibly imagine what the GOP would be saying if Barack Obama went live via satellite to school children to talk about gun control????

It is insane the Republican Party is allowed to spread such vicious and outright lies all the while cheering along Republican presidents who are knowingly rewriting history. As Benen makes note, Bush's educational material listed on the White House website urged children to study the war in Iraq and how it relates to other American efforts at spreading Freedom! It also urged children to study the biographies of Bush and Cheney. What else can you call that other than indoctrination?

This national Republican circle jerk where they sit around bumping peter heads and slapping nut sacks, talking about how Great and Patriotic they are while simultaneously questioning everyone else's patriotism even that of our current president must come to an end. This whole thing is as sadistically wrong as anything has ever been in America. President Obama is not a socialist. He was not born in Kenya. He is not planning a government takeover of health care. He is not building concentration camps to intern conservatives and Christians. He is not attempting to indoctrinate our youth to gain support for a socialist agenda. I'll tell y'all right now, you can kiss my ass. There's no reason people should sit by and let this continue. Enough is enough!