Seriously, Conservatives, Your Kids Will Survive Hearing Obama Give a Speech

North Star Writers Group ^ | September 3, 2009 | Dan Calabrese

[Severino]

The president is addressing kids. Big deal. I can remember Gerald Ford asking kids to tell their parents to turn off the lights when we left a room because we all needed to conserve energy or something. We were all supposed to write letters to the president telling him what we were going to do about this. I wrote one. Got a reply, even! It wasn’t from Ford himself, but from some dunderhead who worked for him. Said dunderhead probably sent the same letter to millions of kids.

It took me years to figure that out, though. I thought the guy sat down and wrote this letter especially to me. I was pretty pumped. Somehow it didn’t prevent me from deciding, years later, that Ford was a pretty mediocre president – even though you’re not supposed to think that where I live.

[longtermmemmory]

will the public schools show one hour of Glen Beck?

will the public schools show one hour of Rush Limbaugh?

will the public schools show one hour of hitler speaking to the hitler youth and compare and contrast that to Obama speaking to the youth? (barakopolis rally to 1930’s germany...)

[boxerblues]

Republicans were outraged before they even knew about the lesson plan.

That was one of the first reasons for objecting to this. >

Second he bypassed most BOE's and went straight to the schools to get this information out, another big no-no.>

I have written to my local school board and have heard back from several of the elementary schools principals. All have stated in some form that they will either not be showing it or will after review by the teachers & PTO's of each school for appropriate content. >

Terrified of our children becoming Obama Youth you bet. Parents are losing more and more control over what is taught as it is, thats why so many are opting for homeschooling.

[Severino]

I don’t think there’s any indication he will speak about health reform. the Department of Education’s website says he will speak about the education only and will suggest that kids study hard.

[DesertSapper]

"Your Kids Will Survive Hearing Obama Give a Speech"

So? They'd probably survive a gunshot to the foot too. What does survival have to do with it?