Plus We Have a Motorcade [Thursday, January 30, 2014, 1st period]

[professor-lyman.livejournal.com]

"Good morning, everyone!" Josh said, shaking his head to get rid of the vision of an Asian girl dressed in a wine barrel, tube socks, and a beret in the back of his class. On her it looked good, though. Weird. She disappeared after a few minutes.

"Today we'll watch portions of President Obama's State of the Union and play State of the Union Bingo while you finish up the speeches that are due today and you have undoubtedly forgotten about until right this moment. Then we'll hear your speeches and probably stop playing State of the Union Bingo by then. But it's pretty fun--" if you were a policy nerd like Josh anyway, "--and when you're old enough to go into bars without getting me arrested for abetting a minor, I'll teach you the drinking game part."

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Re: Give your Speech!

[nobloodymessiah.livejournal.com]

Eleanor swallowed down as many of her nerves as possible before approaching the podium. She wasn't even from this country, and she hadn't followed most of the speech, either, but she wasn't going to let this class intimidate her.

"My fellow Americans," she began, because that was how the gentleman on videotape had started. From there, she winged it. Her speech focused on a few core issues, such as the need to stop medical experimentation, the importance of educating those in retirement, and several name-drops of Medicaid.

She wasn't sure who or what Medicaid was, or whether it was good or bad, but she stressed the importance of remembering that Medicaid was one of her administration's top priorities, and promising to keep a watch over it.

She waxed poetic on the troubles of those whose unions were immigrating to other cities, having grasped that both "unions" and "immigration" were somehow important, and hoped that her big sib mentor Raven wouldn't mind that she pointed in her direction when talking about Melissa Holloway, a girl whose union had left town, and of course something something Medicaid.

Under her plan, people like Professor Lyman would have a path to citizenship to enjoy the great spirit of this wonderful and unique country. In closing, social security, and Medicaid. Always Medicaid.