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[5 Sep 2009 | Comments | ]
Theodore Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush went straight to the kids

The best antidote to the fear induced, mass amnesia afflicting so many of our brothers and sisters on the far right is truth. So I’ve written a post over at AOL BlackSpin that reminds that Republican presidents have made direct appeals to our nation’s children for help with meeting White House goals. Sure there was push back from Democrats, most notably to the address President Bush gave in October 1991, on the eve of the 1992 presidential campaign. Still, I don’t recall and cannot find any evidence of lefty parents …