Unfortunately this journalist seems to have misspelled Speaker Boner's name.
Boehner disses presidency, and Obama takes it (click title to entry - thank you)
By LZ Granderson, CNN Contributor
September 1, 2011 11:16 a.m. EDT
(CNN) -- The way I see it, House Speaker John Boehner's eloquent letter to President Obama requesting he push back his address really could have been summed up in two words-- screw you.
We're all adults here, right?
We can pretend security logistics -- Boehner's "reason" -- require more time; we can pretend getting everyone where they need to be with just a week's notice is a scheduling nightmare; we can certainly call out Obama for being transparent in his attempt to upstage Republicans in the first place by scheduling his address on the same day as a GOP debate….
Q: Why is it I value a speech by the President more than the first day of football season when it means watching millionaires running around on a field owned by billionaires?
A: I put country first.
Q: Why is it I value a speech by the President more than the first day of football season when it means watching millionaires running around on a field owned by billionaires?
A: I put country first.