Cause, that is, to voice objections to the Obama address to kids. Hot Air's Ed Morrisey lays out the quite reasonable case in the course of responding to liberal writer E.J. Dione's lambast at Republicans for having concerns:
" Barely had the last electron shifted position after the speech, Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne blogged that Republicans had jumped to conclusions without any evidence of wrongdoing...
EJD: "But when Obama proposed to do just that (advance education goals for kids) on the first day of school, the far right — without asking any questions or seeking any information — decided to pounce, on the theory that everything Obama did should be attacked relentlessly as part of some secret and dangerous ideological agenda.
EM: "That’s simply not true, and it undermines the entirety of Dionne’s argument. The basis for the eruption of criticism came from the study guide provided to school districts a week ago, which contained a curious instruction to teachers: “Write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the President. These would get collected and redistributed at an appropriate later date by the teacher to make students accountable to their goals.”
EM: "First, there’s a question of incompetence in this study guide. Who produces a study guide for a document or lesson that has yet to be created? Had the White House included the speech with the study guide, a lot of the criticism could have been avoided right from the beginning. It took six days for the White House to produce the speech after releasing the study guide and creating the firestorm of criticism. Help the President do what, exactly? Without the speech, who knew?"....
Read the rest: http://hotair.com/archives/2009/09/08/e-j-dionne-republicans-pounced-without-evidence/
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