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Last Wednesday, President Obama gave a long overdue speech about his health-care reform goals. The speech helped clear up many uncertainties that have surfaced over the last couple of months around health-care reform. From tales of death panels to myths about covering illegal immigrants, rumors have spread among Americans and polarized the debate. Some have even come to fear reform and perceive the proposal as a government hijacking of their health. Therefore, we were pleased to hear Obama debunk these rumors and clearly articulate his vision for health-care reform. Obama assured us that no death panels will...
...whole, the president’s back-to-school speech on Tuesday was rather innocuous. It merely asked children to work hard, do their homework, pay attention in class, and wash their hands regularly...
...This is not to say there weren’t grounds for parents’ concerns—the language used by the Department of Education in the preparatory materials was not the wisest selection—but the speech wasn’t the grand oratory of progressive principles many conservatives feared. And it certainly wasn’t the Democratic equivalent of President Reagan’s 1988 back-to-school speech, which unabashedly preached the virtues of free enterprise, low taxes, and free trade...
...President Obama’s speech was roughly equivalent to that of former President George H.W. Bush in 1991. Both speeches focused on themes of personal responsibility and controlling one’s own destiny. Few people seem to remember, however, that immediately after President Bush’s speech was given, a Democrat-controlled Congress ordered a General Accounting Office investigation, convened hearings, and summoned senior Bush officials to Capitol Hill to testify...
...wouldn’t have known it at the debate the Harvard College Vegetarian Society organized this afternoon between Wesley N. Hopkin ’11, a social studies concentrator and member of the Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society, and Bruce G. Friedrich, vice president of policy and government affairs for PETA...