A time and a Place

If you were going to hear a speaker for a non-political group, open to smart people, and also were going to attend a luncheon hosted by a politician, whose speech would you expect to be the most partisan? If you said the politician, well my friend, today you would be so very wrong. I just had to sit through a former professor of education talk politics. Now, I have nothing against what his central theme was, there is a lot of bad stuff in society, but focusing on the Moral Majority and Christian fundamentalists is not exactly what I would have in mind. And his whole thing about being pro-life only on abortion while being pro-death penalty would make that person a hypocrite, I guess I could say the same thing to pro-choice people. Where are they when we ask for school choice? (For the record, there is no moral dilemma about being pro-life and pro-death penalty. You see, an unborn child is truly an innocent, we can't ask for anymore. A convicted murder, that person is not innocent at all and they will have 7 bloody years to try to change the court's mind.) I could also very easily say that fundamentalist atheists have taken over the ACLU and the media. What kind of influence do they have? You see, I can make anything political (much to the chagrin of most of you, I'm sure), but this guy wasn't speaking to a political group. No, he was speaking to smart people. At least he shouldn't have pissed off all the business students (as this is open to ALL majors and disciplines). He honestly should be required to take a basic economics class. Dang, even liberal economics and finance professors say burying money in the back yard is stupid. I guess what I am trying to say, although it is very difficult, is there is a time and a place for politics. (Ok, let me hear everyone shout "hypocrite" on the count of three.) But seriously, I was seriously tempted to walk out. A speech about common courtesy, well, if the US is half and half, you know he pissed off half the dang audience. Where is the common courtesy there? If I wanted a political lecture, I would take a poli sci class or attend a political rally. Keep politics out of an induction ceremony. Thank God I didn't invite my mom. I can just hear her, while this guy is rambling on about politics, just start laughing thinking of me. Hehe. Actually, that might have been funny, embarrassing, but funny.