CNBC's Harwood on "clowns' " attacks on Obama schools speech: "The stupidest thing that I've ever seen"

AMEN!!!

This kind of ridiculous nonsense is what turned me away from the idiots. It's just STUPID!

So the president wants to tell our kids to stay in school, and the Campaign for Obama to Fail again kicks into overdrive with paranoid comparisons to tyrannical despots who indocrinate a nation's youth to their cause.

Meanwhile...

Journalist David Goodman writes in the new issue of Mother Jones "Using data mining, stealth websites, career tests, and sophisticated marketing software, the Pentagon is harvesting and analyzing information on everything from high school students' GPAs and SAT scores to which video games they play. Before an Army recruiter even picks up the phone to call a prospect, the soldier may know more about the kid's habits than do his own parents."

Front page news? Not in this political climate.

Joblessness is a real problem, and it affects real Americans. Harwood is absolutely correct that those who are making a big deal out of Obama talking to school kids nationwide after two previous presidents (both Republican) did the exact same thing are in fact clowns. I might normally dismiss this as hyperbole, but considering the ongoing, chronic, sometimes life and death problems we face, to waste time over something so inconsequential and harmless is foolishness.

It reminds me of the Religious Right, who are usually too busy yelling about abortion and gay marriage to actually read their Bible and find out what Christians are actually supposed to do. Namely, visit widows and orphans, and those in prison, and give aid to the homeless and poor, feed the hungry, and comfort those who mourn. The problem with all that stuff, as good as it sounds, is that it would mean they would have to serve their fellow man, when what they really REALLY want to do is RULE their fellow man. In doing so, they give all Christians a bad name. Of course, that's true of any sufficiently extremist group within a major religion.

Harwood: "The stupidest thing I have ever seen in 25 years of covering Washington."

Now I don't feel so bad about this bogus contaversey, because for two days I have been absolutely stunned at the stupidity of the Republican outrage. I've seen the Repubs foment a lot of outrage, but I just couldn't believe this one. I mean, really, I have been just amazed. If the Repubs can generate outrage over something as innocuous as the president giving a speech on students to stay in school, then they will generate outrage over anything. I mean that almost anything--I can imagine them getting outraged about the his seeing a certain movie, for example.

I couldn't agree more.

He is absolutely right!!! This whole issue is about hate! Hatred for a president who is black and would dare to tell white students what they should and should not do. How any of the lunatics at Faux News or any other Repub can call this an indoctrination is beyond stupid....it is pure hatred for a man who won an election by majority vote...racism is alive and well, unfortunately, in the republican camp. And if you are a republican posting on here, have the guts to stand up and call this attack on Obama what it is...stupid and racist!

Harwood should be asking why the "clowns" at NBC are covering these idiots as if they were newsworthy. The real failure is not those dopes taken in by Republicans who are using them for political purposes (how many Republican members of Congress have publicly renounced their own personal government supported health care?).

The "news" media is covering these people as if:

1. They represent a substantial number of citizens and
2. Their position makes sense.

Harwood should be turning around in his chair (on camera) and pointing out the people around him as those responsible for broadcasting this display of extreme stupidity.