Posted on 10/02/2015 8:51:01 AM PDT by Biggirl
Columnist Charles Krauthammer criticized President Obama’s statement on the Umpqua Community College as a “100% knee-jerk” statement while “the bodies are still warm” on Thursday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel.
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"KRAUTHAMMER: OBAMA’S STATEMENT ON OREGON SHOOTING "100% KNEE-JERK" WHILE ‘THE BODIES ARE STILL WARM"
It sure didn’t take Barry long to put on his dancing shoes and get out there dancing and splashing in the blood with his “media” toads. Lots of happy liberal partying going on right now.
MORE LIKE “100% jerk”
Obama said we are all “collectively responsible”. If you start a business, you didn’t build that but you are responsible for deaths by a crazy person. His logic escapes me.
That so-called "liberal/progressive" movement intentionally diminished the role of parents and schools in teaching students about their Creator-endowed rights and responsibilities, their individual role as citizens in their communities, and the character training which once was the goal and aim of education in America
Do older readers of this thread remember when such character training was a part of the school day? Do any now retired teachers remember when the National Education Association provided booklets and other materials based on Biblical teachings and America's founding documents in order to teach children their rights and responsibilities as good citizens?
Perhaps an examination of this web site may refresh the minds of such teachers. Or, perhaps a reading of this factual account of NEA publications may enlighten others who are younger to understand the degree to which the "progressive" control of education in America may have contributed to our current dilemma.
"Ideas have consequences." - Weaver
“...Lots of happy liberal partying going on right now....”
Yeah, and where is their “partying” over the BLACK homicide rates in Chicago, DC, NYC, etc??? Those deaths don’t count?? Gee, I thought BLACK LIVES MATTER..??? Oh, I forgot that these cities have laws...that are always BROKEN. But we need more of these laws...that criminals will continue to break and not be HEAVILY punished for.
It is not knee jerk...it is called deflection.
Just Bammy acting stupidly, yet again.
Rather than offering up sympathy for the families, 0bozo comes out with the standard gun control law nonsense.
POS Obama couldn’t care less about people being shot. POS Obama is beside himself that law abiding Americans have guns to protect themselves and their families.
You are absolutely correct and have identified the crux. That’s why home schooling has become more and more popular. There is also a movement to restore classical principles to education, affirming the benefits and beauty of Western Civilation.
Never let a good Crisis go to waste...
Especially if people now see you sans clothes and any real value
In business we call them Empty Suits
And yet Fox News likely went to LIVE coverage of the Marxist Moslem’s ranting speech, right?
Obama does give a rats ass if Americans get shot.
He only cares that Americans have the ability to defend themselves from those who would attack them.
He wants us to be helpless for some strange reason I can’t figure out, hmmmm, what could that reason be Mr. Obama...
Jumping in front of the media circus and not letting an opportunity slip away.
He is unconcerned about the 56 million babies murdered since 1973 (black, white and Christian) and insists we taxpayers subsidize that mass killing.
He is unconcerned with drive-by shootings by drug gangs in ghetto neighborhoods and all the other depraved killings by perverts and punks with guns.
As we say on FR - guns don’t kill people - savages do.
It’s pretty obvious that if one is going to survive in Obama’s ‘fundamentally transformed’ America, they are going to have to make sure that they are well armed and well trained with firearms.
The "progressive" program, coercively imposed on the school children of America was a long time in the planning and execution therof.
The following "Lesson," which accompanied promotion of a 1987 Bicentennial of the Constitution volume, contrasts the Founders' Ideas of Liberty" which were to be taught to rising generations, with the Counterfeit Ideas being promoted in the so-called "public schools" of America for decades.
“The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.” (Jefferson - 1774)
“Statesmen may plan and speculate for Liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone which can establish the principles upon which Freedom can securely stand.” (John Adams - 1775)
“The Sacred Rights of Mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the Hand of the Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.” (Alexander Hamilton)
“Without God, there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first and the most basic expression of Americanism. Thus the founding fathers saw it, and thus, with God’s help, it will continue to be.” (Dwight Eisenhower)
“The same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe, the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.” (John F. Kennedy - 1961 Inaugural)
“…it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly implore His protection and favor….”(George Washington)
“Now the virtue which had been infused into the Constitution…and was to give it…the stability and duration to which it was destined, was no other than…those abstract principles…proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence—namely, the self-evident truths of the…unalienable rights of man…the…sovereignty of the people, always subordinate to a rule of right and wrong, and always responsible to the Supreme Ruler of the universe for the rightful exercise of that sovereign…power.” (John Quincy Adams, on the occasion of The Jubilee of the Constitution - 1839)
"Today, across our nation, we see consequences of decades of gross neglect and outright censorship of the Founders’ ideas from textbooks and from our public discourse. We have allowed counterfeit ideas to dominate the public square, and the Founders’ principles have been crowded out. Unwittingly, many teachers and other unknowing officials have participated in the agenda of an unelected mind-controlling elite whose tyrannical actions have robbed generations of Americans from reading or studying the ideas that made America free. Like termites, they have eroded our foundations as effectively as if they had burned the books. Yet, not once have they been willing to call it by its rightful name—censorship. Once, in America, stifling ideas about the Creator and Creator-endowed liberty was considered unthinkable. . . .
"The ideas of liberty must be passed on from generation to generation if liberty is to survive. These ideas, when they are allowed to be examined freely, will prevail, because their appeal is to reason and to the love for liberty that is deep in the human heart. John Adams warned: “The people of America now have the best opportunity and the greatest trust in their hands, that Providence ever committed to so small a number…if they betray their trust, their guilt will merit even greater punishment than other nations have suffered, and the indignation of Heaven.”
“The idea of God is the keystone of a perverted society. The true root of liberty, equality and culture is atheism.” (Karl Marx)
Our thinking is enlightened “in the degree in which we cease to depend upon belief in the supernatural.” (John Dewey, father of ‘progressive education’ and 1st President of American Humanist Society)
“…democracy is a human faith and movement, unencumbered by supernatural preconceptions.” (John Childs, a protégé of John Dewey at Columbia)
“…the majority of our youth still hold the values of their parents, and if we do not alter this pattern, if we do not resocialize ourselves to accept change, our society may decay.” (John Goodlad, 1971 Report to President, Schooling for the Future)
“As in 1933, humanists still believe that traditional theism, especially a faith in the prayer-hearing God, who is assumed to love and care for persons, to hear and understand their prayers, and be able to do something about them, is an unproved and outmoded faith.” (Humanist Manifesto II, 1973)
“…the most important factor moving us toward a secular society has been the educational factor. Our schools may not teach Johnny to read properly, but the fact that Johnny is in school until he is sixteen tends to lead toward elimination of religious superstition.” (Paul Blanshard, The Humanist, March-April, 1976)
“It [the Nat’l. Education Association’s publication list] includes the delegitimizing of all authority save that of the state, the degradation of traditional morality and the encouragement of citizens in general and children in particular to despise the rules and customs that make their society a functional democracy. The NEA is drifting into exceedingly dangerous waters, and probably carrying more than a few teachers and pupils with it.” (Chester E. Finn, Jr., Ass’t. Sec. Of Education & Prof. Of Education & Public Policy, Vanderbilt Univ., 1982)
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“Now, my countrymen, if you have been taught doctrines which conflict with the great landmarks of the Declaration of Independence…let me entreat you to come back. Return to the fountains whose waters spring close to the blood of the Revolution.” (Abraham Lincoln)
Wrong, Krauthammer! Obama attacks law abiding American gun owners every chance he gets; especially when he can use a tragedy and loss of life as a political tool. There’s nothing knee-jerk about it.
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