Students learned one important lesson from the speech and it is an unintended one as far as politicians on both side are concerned. The dissonance between what the Republicans claimed would be in the speech and the speech that was given will forever have these students questioning whether anything the Republican Party and its politicians and pundits say is true or yet another fantastic lie. In these children's formative years, Republican officials have proven to them that they are liars and like most human beings, once an entity has proven itself to be a liar, it will be hard to trust them ever again.
This will be a serious setback for a Republican Party that depends on twisting or making up facts as a matter of course in debates on the most important issues. An entire generation growing up that has experience with catching the GOP at telling lies will scrutinize everything that Republicans tell them going forward.
What I now wonder is whether adults will take a cue from these students and wake up to the fact that Republican politicians are serial liars. Now, many folks might be reading this and saying to themselves, all politicians lie. I disagree. There is certainly a fair amount of creative framing that goes on, but where Republicans are concerned, they go much farther than that, particularly when we are talking about anything Obama has done or has proposed. Virtually everything that Republicans and conservatives have said regarding the stimulus and health care reform has been a lie. Perhaps this overreach with the GOP's protests regarding Obama's speech to students will be at long last the catalyst for the US public to have more skepticism with regards to Republican assertions.
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