It was great to see my guy on stage giving another spectacular speech; he is the only one on the GOP side that could give the Obamessiah a run for the money in speaking talent.
I’m not a Republican because I grew up rich. I’m a Republican because I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life poor, waiting for the government to rescue me.
That should be the mantra of every conservative party platform ever created.
Barack Obama’s excellent adventure to Europe took his campaign for change to hundreds of thousands of people who don’t even vote or pay taxes here.
This screams for a Photoshop…stay tuned.
Let me to tell you about someone who understands this type of sacrifice better than anyone.
On the first day of school in 2005, Martha Cothren, a teacher at Joe T Robinson High School in Little Rock, was determined that her students would not take their education or their privilege as Americans for granted.
With the principal’s permission, she removed all the desks from her classroom on the first day of school, 2005. The students entered the empty room and asked, “Mrs Cothren, where are our desks?” “You get a desk in my classroom when you tell me how you earn it,” she replied.
“Making good grades?” asked one student.
“You ought to make good grades, but that won’t get you a desk,” Martha responded.
“I guess we get a desk when we have to behave,” offered another.
“You WILL behave in my class,” Mrs. Cothren retorted, “but that won’t get you a desk either.”
No-one in first period guessed right. Same for second period.
By lunch, the buzz was all over campus… Mrs Cothren had flipped out… wouldn’t let her students have a desk. Kids had used their cell phones and called their parents.
By early afternoon, all four of the local network TV affiliates had camera crews at the school to report on the teacher who wouldn’t let her students have a desk unless they could tell her how to earned it. By the final period, no-one had guessed correctly.
As the students filed in, Martha Cothren said, “Well, I didn’t think you would figure it out, so I’m going to tell you.”
Martha opened the door of her classroom. In walked 27 veterans, some wearing uniforms from years gone by, but each one carrying a school desk.
As they carefully and quietly arranged the desks in neat rows, Martha said, “You don’t have to earn your desks… these guys, they already did.
These brave veterans went halfway around the world, giving up their education and interrupting their careers and families so we could have the freedom we have.
No-one charged you for your desk. But it wasn’t really free. These guys bought it for you. And I hope you never ever forget it. ”
I wish we all would remember that being American is not just about the freedom we have. It’s about those who gave it to us.
Amen to that, Mr. Huckabee.
