5th Grader Suspended For Anti-Obama Shirt- Page 2

[romantico]

Posted: 9/24/08 at 10:35pm

Here's video of the morons.

Racism and stupidity are alive and well in this household.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48d9X9zM9No

[thetinymagic2]

Posted: 9/24/08 at 11:28pm

Not to be impolite or anything, ROMANTICO, but why is an intelligent person like you watching MYFuXNews???? Figures those douchebags at FUX would pick up a story that images the words "Obama" and "Terrorist" (in the same frame)! Their fave type of story, I guess!

Don't ya just love those caring parents who pimp out their children in school and in the media as propaganda! This kid is the next "Columbine" type shooter... I guess this IS the end of America as we know it...ha! The dumbing down to moron status.

[romantico]

Posted: 9/24/08 at 11:40pm

I don't watch FOCKS news. I was sent the clip from a co worker.

I just love it when Sean Hanity chimes in and introduces himself as "one of the good guys".

[colleen_lee]

Posted: 9/25/08 at 7:36am

pansies?

SERIOUSLY?

[Pippin]

Posted: 9/25/08 at 12:57pm

I think he meant to say pastries, because the poor thing looks like he hasn't had a bite to eat in twenty minutes.

[WindyCityActor]

Posted: 9/25/08 at 1:15pm

"Don't ya just love those caring parents who pimp out their children in school and in the media as propaganda!"

Reminds me of those parents who gave their children glasses of water to try to deliver them to Terri Schiavo, because she was thirsty.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 9/25/08 at 1:31pm

Good one, Pippin!

[Jon]

Posted: 9/25/08 at 2:07pm

You have freedom of speech - and they have the freedom to throw your ass out for breaking the rules.

You can't run down the halls yelling F*CK! F*CK! F*CK! You can't wear a t-shirt that says, "death to faggots". You can't print naked photos in the school newspaper. You don't own the school. You don't run the school.

[fflagg]

Posted: 9/25/08 at 2:26pm

This is as bad as Palin pimping out the retarded baby.

Look, the kid has the right to wear whatever he wants even though he and his family are warped white trash.

If the school merely sent a letter home to the family stating that it was in bad taste that would have ended things. Perhaps.

Freedom of speech even includes hate speech. All you can do is to wear a t-shirt that says 'love thy neighbor'.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 9/25/08 at 2:38pm

I know my high school had a rule against clothing that the administration deemed "disruptive."

But I think the best solution would be to let the kid wear his shirt, and to then hand out T-shirts that say "Daxx Dalton's Dad Is a Douche" to anyone who wants one.

[Jane2]

Posted: 9/25/08 at 2:51pm

Schools operate outside the realm of the first amendment, it seems. A school has the right to set its own rules about dress codes. I remember we were told to stay within certain parameters when I taught, even though they violated our Constitutional rights.

So-the school has the right to enforce its rules even though the kid "legally" can wear whatever he wants.

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/25/08 at 3:05pm

Schools definitely have a right to set a dress code. All businesses do, too. They have a right to refuse service to anyone, as well.

Why is that so hard to figure out? Didn't you people ever go to school, once upon a time?

[Maraclea2]

Posted: 9/25/08 at 3:10pm

Much ado about nothing.

A lot of double standards here though. Can you imagine the uproar if the shirt said something ageist against McCain?
Of course not. B/c there wouldn't be any.

[romantico]

Posted: 9/25/08 at 3:11pm

The father clearly was looking for publicity. If his son was ignored and was allowed to wear the shirt another stunt would have been orchestrated. This father's venom towards liberals in my opinion is terrifying. Can you imagine the school board sitting down with this man trying to discuss the matter? The man is exploiting his child and is desperate for some attention. He will probably be offered a job as a commentator for Fox after all of this.The man is looking for his 15 minutes and he is using his son to do it. I would hope when his son gets older he see's the abuse his father put him through for his own personal gain and ends up hating the hick.

[Maraclea2]

Posted: 9/25/08 at 3:13pm

You need some xanax and some perspective.

[Jane2]

Posted: 9/25/08 at 3:14pm

I'm sorry Romantico, but your posts sound to me as unreasonable as you think that shirt is if not more.

[romantico]

Posted: 9/25/08 at 3:20pm

Did you see the father? Did you hear him mocking Alan Colmes over nothing, just because he is a liberal? I disagree. I feel the father is the instigator, not the school.I am curious to see how the ACLU handles this, of course the father probably hates the liberal leaning ACLU....unless they side with him of course.I call em like I see them and I see the father being the problem in all of this. Sorry if no one else see's that.

Posted: 9/25/08 at 3:31pm

Welcome to politics, son. Part of living in this great country is having to accept that you have to share it with angry morons. Another part is realizing that some people will mock Alan Colmes. Personally, I think a lot more should, but that's besides the point.

I assume you're a young man and your blood pressure can take all this outrage, but still, it can't be doing you any good. Of course the father is the instigator. So what? Instigators lose if they can't get you all worked up.

[Jane2]

Posted: 9/25/08 at 3:39pm

You're carrying on because it's against Obama. I noticed they called him "friend to the terrorists" but they did not call him a terrorist. And maybe I missed the racial attack. What was it?

I have a feeling that if it were against McCain you'd love it. Double standard..

[romantico]

Posted: 9/25/08 at 3:49pm

Your wrong.If it was against McCain I would still be against it.Perhaps not as much, but I see to many accusing Obama of being Islamic or a 'friend of terrorists'.The article said there was another anti Obama shirt, but the school did not find that to offensive.There is no double standard for me here,although seeing the father come on to Fox did not help. Would he have been brave enough to go on Keith Olberman or Rachel Maddow's show? I find the Obama links to terrorism a cheap trick and more or less the only thing the RW can come up with.

Joe, I am not as worked up as I was when I first posted this but you are right, this sort of thing anger me and scares me at the same time. Alan Comes is not my favorite liberal but I thought he was very patient with the guy. This is not new. There have been kids kicked out of school for wearing gay pride shirts and other political shirts and I have mixed feelings about them. There was a Bush shirt regarding terrorist that I felt was in bad taste. As much as I despise Bush, I found the shirt distasteful.

Time will tell how this case is viewed and maybe it won't even make the news.I just felt the shirt was racist and disgusting.

Posted: 9/25/08 at 4:02pm

I'll agree with Disgusting- It looked like a XXL shirt that a truck stop fry cook wore through a double shift. My God, you could smell it through the computer screen. They should have made Hannity sit in the studio with them for the interview. I guarantee he'd be a LOT less supportive.

[Jane2]

Posted: 9/25/08 at 4:06pm

Not for nothing, romantico, but lots of conservatives feel that Obama is too lenient in his stance on terrorists. You think that shirt is disgusting, but it's symbolic of one of the biggest issues in this election. Why is it racist, because Obama is black? Do you think the conservatives would like a white man who held the same views as Obama towards terrorism?

[romantico]

Posted: 9/25/08 at 4:13pm

What I find racist is they are linking him to terrorism. Not clear if it is his name being to similar to Osama Bin Laden or not or in regards to his Islamic ties. I find his race is some of it but them hinting that anyone who practices Islam is a terrorist. Its the combination I find racist. I see your point Jane2 but I feel the father is more to blame than the kid, and the father does not even go to the school.What kids that age are into politics? The father referred to the school as 'liberals' in a very negative manner so I am seeing it as the father trying to get to the school by using his son.I would not be surprised to see the shirt auctioned off for McCain's campaign.

[Jane2]

Posted: 9/25/08 at 4:33pm

Oh we agree that the father has influenced his son. I'm not shocked at that. I'm sure that happens in all kinds of households.

Posted: 9/25/08 at 4:38pm

Conservatives are VERY careful to say that the "Obama is a terrorist's best friend" refers to his "Friendship" (Non-existent) with Bill Ayers who was a terrorist when Obama was 6 and now is pretty low-key Chicago politician who Obama served on a board with. This "terrorist" thing is all over the conservative blogs- the conservatives in my neck of the woods write in to the local paper about it all the time.