But Abraham was a Republican
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Heard on "Best of Glenn Beck", 2009-11-30: caller phones and, after relating a number of unreferenced/unconnected facts about school text books, begins telling a story about how his daughter had to do this project for school wherein said daughter produced a "Visit Illinois" pamphlet in which the self-same daughter included the fact that Abraham Lincoln and Barack Obama are from Illinois.[notes 1] The climax of the story comes when the caller tells Glenn how at the parent-teacher conference he confronted the teacher with this bombshell: "Why wasn't Ronald Reagan, who was also from Illinois mentioned?" Of course, the teacher had no answer for stumper.
The Absentee-but-Self-Righteous-Father and Glenn then congratulate each other on how Clever and Righteous they are.
First, if extolling RR above all other presidents is so important, why didn't the father educate the daughter himself? Isn't "Oh, I should get involved" the far more effective and worthwhile conclusion here? Take control of your own life. It's really quite childish and lacks any sense of scale or responsibility to put this incident down to "the liberal conspiracy."
Seriously. You may not like Obama, but he is the sitting president, and Lincoln is regarded by many as the greatest president of all time. Is it really so nefarious that your daughter, sans your own guiding instructions, happens to think of them before Reagan? Who's dead and, aside from being around when the Cold War ended really didn't do much of note.
What's absolutely ludicrous, though, is implying some kind of liberal agenda here when one of the two mentioned in the project is a conservative Republican. Is the implication that rational, proper education in the US should actively exclude mention of important Democrats?
I personally don't think Reagan was anything special, but I do understand those that think he was exceptional. But seeing some kind of conspiracy here goes beyond a question of "who was the best president" and takes a special kind of selfish and introverted mind.
Notes
- ↑ Neither was born, but both served as Senators of Illinois.
