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I was horribly saddened today
« on: September 09, 2009, 08:27:20 PM »
Thou Shalt NOT Disrespect the President.  Ever.  Not for any reason.  No matter who it is.


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I was horribly saddened today
   
My granddaughter is 6. We live in a red county, she attends a very red school. Obviously, they didn't show his speech yesterday.
We try not to burden the kids with politics. They are too young to be part of this horrificly partisan brawl that is politics today. I never badmouthed Bush or McCain while they were in the limelight in her presence. It is difficult to teach tolerance when you are intolerant.
So tonight, I sit down to watch the speech.
My granddaughter comes running into the living room, looks at the TV, puts her fingers in her ears and starts screaming "LALALALALALA".
I was mortified of course.
I asked her what she was doing?
She told me she didn't want to hear HIM speak.
The first thing I did was make her say his name respectfully and told her we didn't tolerate anything else.
I asked her where she heard and saw that behavior. Of course she didn't say, but I know in my heart it came from the little school full of intolerant redneck's kids. :(
I am hoping that she didn't hear it from adults because I told her that we respect the President and we listen to what he has to say, whether we agree or not and I would not tolerate the behavior she exhibited.
I also told her that ANYONE that told her to act like I just witnessed was nothing but a "crazy".
I hope I don't get a call from her teacher tomorrow...


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Re: I was horribly saddened today
« Reply #1 on: September 09, 2009, 08:31:34 PM »
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I never badmouthed Bush or McCain while they were in the limelight in her presence.

I asked her where she heard and saw that behavior. Of course she didn't say, but I know in my heart it came from the little school full of intolerant redneck's kids.

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Re: I was horribly saddened today
« Reply #2 on: September 09, 2009, 08:32:59 PM »
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1. You did right, and your granddaughter's teacher would be way out of line to attack you for it   Updated at 8:48 PM
   
In these times, progressive families are, in some cases, the only defense on right wing lies.
   
 
MsLeopard Donating Member (574 posts)
Wed Sep-09-09 08:56 PM

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2. Good on you
   
It might be okay if you did hear from her teacher tomorrow - you may well teach her a thing or two. :cheers:
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Wed Sep-09-09 08:58 PM

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3. Don't wait for the call. YOU CALL.
   
YOU ask what kind of unpatriotic disrespect is being taught in those classrooms. YOU DO IT.

How dare they send a child home with that attitude.
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Wed Sep-09-09 08:58 PM

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4. I hope you do so you can tell him/her that such actions will not tolerated
   
If it came from your granddaughter's classroom, the behavior should have been stopped by the teacher, regardless of political leanings. You need to find out just what happened yesterday. That was just plain rude and disrepectful of the office of the Presidency.
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Wed Sep-09-09 09:18 PM

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5. Well done, grandmother.
   
:applause:

I always told my kids, some people may choose to act that way, but WE don't. We are better than that. And today, they are both very centered, very fair young adults. My other favorite phrase, and it also worked with my fifth grade boys when I was teaching special ed.: "There's no honor in that." They knew instinctively what it meant. It took the smirk right off their faces.

Just talk and comment occasionally to her in a general way about good behavior and respect for all people as you and she watch tv or movies. She may never know she is being "nudged". She is showing a typical behavior, and just needs some gentle, consistent guidance. Books work well, too. Ask your librarian for age appropriate stories about the qualities you want to reinforce. If you are reading to her, her listening level should be beyond her reading level.

Again, kudos. :)
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Wed Sep-09-09 09:21 PM

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6. You know what to do, Grandma
   
She will listen to you and I have faith you will guide her to a fair assessment of her president.
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Wed Sep-09-09 09:22 PM

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7. Is there any chance she got it from her parents?
   
Not implying anything but it does sound like the kind of thing a kid would get from mom or dad...
   

That's the whole thread.  Anyone who is able to do a good search wanna see what some of these had to say about the kids in school during a real President's term's?

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Re: I was horribly saddened today
« Reply #3 on: September 09, 2009, 10:14:55 PM »
Thou Shalt NOT Disrespect the President.  Ever.  Not for any reason.  No matter who it is.


Anyone who can search wanna post a few uglies that Whore With No Shame has posted about school kids and President Bush?  Hmmm .... anyone?

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Re: I was horribly saddened today
« Reply #4 on: September 09, 2009, 10:20:52 PM »
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My granddaughter comes running into the living room, looks at the TV, puts her fingers in her ears and starts screaming "LALALALALALA".

Now that's hilarious! 


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Re: I was horribly saddened today
« Reply #5 on: September 09, 2009, 11:23:00 PM »
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The first thing I did was make her say his name respectfully and told her we didn't tolerate anything else.

i am absolutely amazed by the sudden respect dummies have for the office of the president of the united states, after witnessing their behavior for the last eight years.

let me guess, horse...  you never indulged in * or chimp or mccokespoon?  never disrespected the presidential office in any way?  you always listened with respect to the speeches of president bush?

always said his name respectfully and tolerated nothing else?  heh.  right...


if this child disrespected the president, i'm sure it was just a natural expression of her experience of living with dummies all of her life.   now horse comes down hard on the child.   poor child.  i feel for you, child.

no wonder the children of dummies are so confused.


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Re: I was horribly saddened today
« Reply #6 on: September 10, 2009, 04:05:03 AM »
A real quick search found this...

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Re: I was horribly saddened today
« Reply #7 on: September 10, 2009, 04:16:04 AM »
Ms. Ed, the unappellated eohippus, was a major Bush-basher on Skins's island during the previous presidential administration.  I've been watching Ms. Ed since the beginning (probably because of the screen-name).  She gave an "opus" and took a short hiatus from Skins's island shortly after the Democrat presidential primaries last year; her candidate had apparently been John Edwards, and she supported Bo with about the same enthusiasm as many of us supported John McCain.

Ms. Ed is allegedly 44 or (now) 45 years old, allegedly born and raised in southern Oklahoma, now allegedly living in northern Texas, somewhere around Dallas-Fort Worth (but not in Dallas-Fort Worth), allegedly a registered nurse or possibly a keyboardist at a hospital or clinic, whichever position is most likely to pay $24,000 a year, her alleged salary with overtime.

Ms. Ed is undeniably the biggest liar on Skins's island.  What makes her this, unlike the lying tits primitive, is that she lies about the most harmless, innocuous, little things--things that one can be truthful about, without being vulnerable--and so her lies get overlooked.

Ms. Ed is a sui generis primitive, a one-of-a-kind.  While she hates George Bush with the same passion and intensity as the other primitives, she hates George Bush less than she loves abortion.  Ms. Ed loves abortion with all her heart and soul, and always leads the charge when there's a news story, for example, about a woman who chose to let her infant live, rather than killing it.
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Re: I was horribly saddened today
« Reply #8 on: September 10, 2009, 10:57:27 AM »
The "kiddie" prolly seen the fingers in the ears hollerin LaLaLaLaLa on a cartoon....Why in the hell should a 6 yr old want to watch the President anyways?
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Re: I was horribly saddened today
« Reply #9 on: September 10, 2009, 11:06:09 AM »
My 2.5 year old, whenever you ask her how she feels about Barack Obama, sticks her tongue out and blows a raspberry. My dad (a liberal) doesn't like that, but my in-laws find it hysterical.

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Re: I was horribly saddened today
« Reply #10 on: September 10, 2009, 11:22:35 AM »
So she doesn't want to burden her granddaughter with politics so when she runs in acting like a typical 6 year old, instead of ignoring her, she gave her a lecture. Wonder if the same thing would've happened if horsey was listening to Bush the little girl would be given the same reprimand. My guess, she would've run bragging to DU about how smart the little girl was and how she didn't have the heart to correct her.

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Re: I was horribly saddened today
« Reply #11 on: September 10, 2009, 11:27:04 AM »
By the way, I'm wondering something.

Ms. Ed is either 44 or 45 years old now.

This is a 6-year-old granddaughter she described.

Do they marry early down south or something?
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Re: I was horribly saddened today
« Reply #12 on: September 10, 2009, 11:41:52 AM »
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I was horribly saddened today


Well, how unfortunate that you couldn't have been more pleasantly saddened.

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Re: I was horribly saddened today
« Reply #13 on: September 10, 2009, 03:37:23 PM »
Frank, probably something about an out-of-wedlock situation, a surprise in the younger years, occuring to her or her kid.  Maybe that's why she's so pro-abortion.  Her kid turned out to be horrible, an inconvenience, and she's been bitter and resentful ever since.  She is one of the biggest bitches on the island, and I hope her grandchild turns into a little Freeper. 

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Re: I was horribly saddened today
« Reply #14 on: September 10, 2009, 03:41:57 PM »
That reminds me of a true story.  When I was in elementary school, I lived outside DC, and we wrote President Ford letters, that he responded to, with an autographed picture.  I thought for sure, it was real, as in he wrote me a letter back, and signed it himself.  We had recently visited the White House too, and I fell in love with it and it's history.  I remember vividly Carter winning the election, and announcing to my family, that President Ford was MY president, and boycotting peanut products.  When we would go into DC, I would close my eyes when we would pass the White House, because I was afraid it turned into a peanut.  To this day, I have not eaten peanut, or peanut butter in any form. Ha. 
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Re: I was horribly saddened today
« Reply #15 on: September 10, 2009, 07:35:17 PM »
By the way, I'm wondering something.

Ms. Ed is either 44 or 45 years old now.

This is a 6-year-old granddaughter she described.

Do they marry early down south or something?
Wow, that's terrible!!!!!!11!11!  

(Um, I just turned 50, and my oldest grandchild will be 9 in December...and was born to my second child, not my oldest.)  :uhsure:  :-)
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Re: I was horribly saddened today
« Reply #16 on: September 10, 2009, 07:43:10 PM »
Wow, that's terrible!!!!!!11!11! 

(Um, I just turned 50, and my oldest grandchild will be 9 in December...and was born to my second child, not my oldest.)  :uhsure:  :-)

Nothing wrong with that Mrs. S.

I did have to do a double take when I saw a Facebook update the other day.  A HS classmate posted that she just became a grandmother, and she's 39.
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Re: I was horribly saddened today
« Reply #17 on: September 10, 2009, 07:46:41 PM »
Nothing wrong with that Mrs. S.

I did have to do a double take when I saw a Facebook update the other day.  A HS classmate posted that she just became a grandmother, and she's 39.
Well, you know, 16 + 16 is 32...so anything later than that can't be too bad.   :lmao: :lmao:

Frank does have a point though...why does any "self-respecting lib" have grandkids so early?  Abortion has been available for long enough to take care of that "problem."   ::)
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Re: I was horribly saddened today
« Reply #18 on: September 10, 2009, 08:04:51 PM »
Well, you know, 16 + 16 is 32...so anything later than that can't be too bad.   :lmao: :lmao:

Frank does have a point though...why does any "self-respecting lib" have grandkids so early?  Abortion has been available for long enough to take care of that "problem."   ::)

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Re: I was horribly saddened today
« Reply #19 on: September 10, 2009, 08:06:03 PM »
That reminds me of a true story.  When I was in elementary school, I lived outside DC, and we wrote President Ford letters, that he responded to, with an autographed picture.  I thought for sure, it was real, as in he wrote me a letter back, and signed it himself.  We had recently visited the White House too, and I fell in love with it and it's history.  I remember vividly Carter winning the election, and announcing to my family, that President Ford was MY president, and boycotting peanut products.  When we would go into DC, I would close my eyes when we would pass the White House, because I was afraid it turned into a peanut.  To this day, I have not eaten peanut, or peanut butter in any form. Ha. 


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« Reply #20 on: September 10, 2009, 08:32:04 PM »

My father owned a liquor store in 1976 when Jimmy Carter was elected.  He refused to sell Billy Beer.  

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Re: I was horribly saddened today
« Reply #21 on: September 11, 2009, 04:22:45 AM »
Well, you know, 16 + 16 is 32...so anything later than that can't be too bad.   :lmao: :lmao:

Frank does have a point though...why does any "self-respecting lib" have grandkids so early?  Abortion has been available for long enough to take care of that "problem."   ::)

Well, when said "self-respecting libs" let their kids sleep with whomever they want at age 14, eventually one's going to get through the goalie . . .
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Re: I was horribly saddened today
« Reply #22 on: September 11, 2009, 09:06:16 AM »
Y'know, you can give kids the tools to make choices, but ultimately some of those choices will be bad ones.  On top of that some of us have made some bad choices as youngsters ourselves.  We shouldn't be throwing any stones over that age thing, which is not such an unheard-of thing in the first place.
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« Reply #23 on: September 11, 2009, 09:13:19 AM »
Y'know, you can give kids the tools to make choices, but ultimately some of those choices will be bad ones.  On top of that some of us have made some bad choices as youngsters ourselves.  We shouldn't be throwing any stones over that age thing, which is not such an unheard-of thing in the first place.

I suppose it's a matter of basing perception upon experience, and I'm aware that bias exists in myself, having been born of older parents, at the tail end of a big family--I have the image of grandparents as being very old, even when one was a child, monstrously old, and so it still blows me away when hearing of a person who's a grandparent already when the person is only in his or her 40s, which is about the same time my mother bore myself and my younger brother.
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