She should have worn a t-shirt with a mushroom cloud instead. Would have made a lot of people here happy.

Maybe Ms. Obama just wants peace on earth? I know I'd like that.

HOW DARE HER! That's a political message and THAT'S BAD BAD BAD! :roll:

:rotfl::rotfl:

Well, it's a message at the very least. Political? I dunno, maybe if she said that we'd have to do X or Y to create peace on earth.

In any case, this has become much bigger than it should be, by far.

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A California mom says her public school administrators violated her daughter's First Amendment rights when they ordered the seventh-grader to take off her pro-life T-shirt.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,530284,00.html?mep

Hm, now that is worse...girl should be allowed to wear the shirt if it's her own political view, right?

Just pointing out the hypocrisy is all :up:

Not a very good analogy. World peace is not a controversial political idea. Abortion is.

World peace is not a political idea :hmmm:

Good point. You might be called naïve to believe in world peace, but certainly not for praying about it.

If war is a poltical continuance, then it would stand to reason that it's antithesis, peace, would be one as well. That would only be logical.

Poltical continuance equals = men making decisions for us ... decisions we can agree or disagree with, right?

Vietnam war comes to mind :yep:

If that's true, then a shirt with a peace symbol isn't expressing a political idea and so Obama isn't using his daughter as a political puppet as the OP claimed.

I honestly think it's hilarious that people would see it as that. Why would Obama need to make his daughter to be the poster of his world peace intentions? If I was a politician with such influence as Obama, then I'd preach for peace, and I think few would condemn me for it. Since when is it shameful to wish for peace?

I think here it is that we come to the nature of the beast. Politics is the system of discourse that the few utilize to manage the many.

You forgot the "controversial" part.:03:

And as far as all this is concerned, it's just mountains made from molehills.

If that story was pointing out the hypocrisy then you should be able to relate the two events with some relevence.
Since the only possible link is that they both involved t-shirts it is a rubbish attempt.

I know I shouldn't do this as I'm only hindering the thread to slip down the first page, BUT: This is still going on? Not that it isn't amusing to read, but really as Stealth Hunter said: mountains out of molehills.

All this discussion brings the question to mind of what should she wear that's OK? A suit, cloths with no writing or recognizable brands, a burqa? I'd be more offended by a smiley face than a peace sign. Peace is a noble goal at least! Too bad humanity isn't up to the task yet, but peace is way harder than war.

Buddahaid