Obama school speech transcript and text at september 8
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Former first lady Laura Bush is defending President Obama’s decision to address the nation’s school children, telling CNN Monday that it is “really important for everyone to respect the President of the United States.”
“I think that there is a place for the President of the United States to talk to school children and encourage school children, and I think there are a lot of people that should do the same,” she told CNN’s Zain Verjee, in an interview set to air Monday on The Situation Room. “And that is encourage their own children to stay in school and to study hard and to try to achieve the dream that they have.”
The former first lady said she believed criticism of the speech had arisen because of the accompanying lesson plans. If parents are opposed to the address, said Bush, “That’s their right. You know that certainly is the right of parents to choose what they want their children to hear in school… (But) I think it’s also really important for everyone to respect the President of the United States.”
Does she think it’s fair to criticize Obama, as some have, by labeling him a socialist? “I’d have no idea whether it’s fair, do you think I thought it was fair when President Bush was criticized — not really. So, I guess not,” she responded.
Obama school speech transcript and text at september 8
Bush said that she thought “really safe congressional districts” had contributed to political polarization. “That’s just a fact of life in American politics and …I’m sure President Obama didn’t expect it to be that way. But you know — it is that way, and I think all of us need to do what we can to come together on issues.”
The former first lady added that she thought both Obama and her successor, Michelle Obama, had done good jobs since moving into the White House.
But she also said former Vice President Cheney, who has been an outspoken critic of the Obama administration’s security policy, “has every right to speak out, and I appreciate that he is defending the Bush administration and his administration.”
“But George as a former president chose not to speak out,” she added. “He thinks the president deserves the respect and the no second-guessing on the part of the former president… he didn’t like it when he was criticized by former presidents and that’s what he has chosen to do.”
She said her husband and his former vice president still speak “occasionally.”
Both Bushes have been working on their memoirs. Bush said her husband has also spent a lot of time mountain biking.
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