Posted on 09/05/2009 12:01:23 AM PDT by John Semmens
Amidst widespread concern among parents that the President’s address to school children this coming week is an attempt at indoctrination, the President’s Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs, derided them as “silly.”
“The President is all about the future,” Gibbs said. “It’s imperative that he reach young minds before they are calcified by the ideas of their parents. The speech and accompanying lesson plan are aimed at avoiding this calcification and energizing the momentum for change in the upcoming generation.”
Critics contend that their concern isn’t over the speech itself. President Bush addressed school children in 1991. It’s the “accompanying lesson plan” that has raised eyebrows. One of the exercises in the lesson plan asks students to make a list of things they can do to “serve President Obama.”
Gibbs defended the personalization in the lesson plan. “Kids can’t be expected to grasp an abstract concept like ‘serving the nation,’” Gibbs argued. “Asking them to serve the President puts the ideas into a framework they can understand. It’s like a parent asking a child to help with household chores. The child trusts the parent to have his best interests at heart and has faith that the parent will look out for him. Conveying the message that the President is the ‘father of the American family’ is an analogy that will help facilitate the needed compliance on the part of the students.”
The Press Secretary countered the observation that this sort of “personality cult” resembles that used by tyrants. “Why should we leave this powerful tool to the sole use of the world’s bad guys?” Gibbs asked. “Doesn’t it make sense to build a strong sense of loyalty toward the leader of the free world in our own children?”
In related news, ABC News journalist and former Democratic Party apparatchik, George Stephanopoulos urged President Obama “to use this address to intimidate his opponents. The President’s enemies must be made to understand that opposition will have consequences they won’t like.”
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LOL! Good one, John!
Normally I wait for the replies to see what kind of fish you’ve hooked.
But, it’s late...and I’m calling SATIRE a bit early.
Okay...I’m a spoil sport. ;o)
As I keep saying, I’m all for it. I can’t wait, three years from now, to see them encouraging the kids to think of ways to help President Cheney achieve his goals.
Only if BHO’s address is itself silly. Perhaps he will read “My Pet Goat”?
You nailed it! Thanks for all you do.
Love the satire!
And he probably doesn't even realize that he just confirmed the parent's fears....
a tad too close to the truth to be very funny IMHO
Thanks for the morning laugh. I’m sure Obama’s speechwriters (Van Jones?) are wracking their brains trying to put a little propaganda in the address.
Looks like we got one at post #10...lol
When I first saw this I thought it was legit, though I just clicked the thread and went to another tab on Firefox for 10 minutes.
Are you sure this hasn’t really happened (yet)?
You hit another one out of the park John.
There have been so many of these “speech” threads that it is a bit difficult to keep up with them all. Most of them include inquiries from anxious parents to their respective schools and, although the responses that I’ve seen have been for the most part reassuring, a couple of the responses from administrators have been essentially what you write.
Most people are only viewing this in the immediate sense of another dust-up that will pass to the next thing. They aren’t taking it in for the implications that it represents.
In my informal readings I cannot find reference to another administration that has so fouled it’s own nest in such a short time. Although leftists are naturally defensive about this micro-issue, they aren’t seeing (or perhaps not acknowledging) it for the warning it sends. Fully half of the American population is demonstratively wary of our sitting president and do not want him anywhere near their children.
Drink it in because it is breathtaking. This man and his ideas are so disturbing that I fear for our future and my childrens present.
There are those who claim that “all the presidents did it”. This is false. The only other president that I can find who resorted to naked indoctrination of the public was FDR. It is common fact that he dictated what would be allowed on the airwaves and regularly stifled dissent.
There may be a grain of altruism in what O’Bummer wants to impart, but I do not trust him and that is because he as proven himself untrustworthy.
Hey!
O’Bummer!
Leave those kids alone!
Good one John. We still got angry knowing it was satire LOL.
I knew we’d get a nibble. ;o)
Thanks John. Although, I think this satire hits much closer to the truth than we realize.
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