Posted on 09/05/2009 6:34:29 AM PDT by Jabrown
As criticism of the President's national address builds his administration is still refusing to release the text of his comments to be made on Tuesday. As a result, it is becoming increasingly clear that the White House is likely to tone-down the contents of his speech in an attempt to embarrass President Obama's political opponents.
On Tuesday, it is likely that the President will have abandoned his original plans to inject his social agenda into the schools, by instead giving a non-controversial speech centering upon how great this nation is and how "cool" it is to study. When the speech ends, the mainstream media will publish story upon story as to how ...
(Excerpt) Read more at politicallydrunk.blogspot.com ...
note: he is going to reveal the text of the speech on national holiday MONDAY...
note again: on wednesday Obama hopes to embarrass the republicans again by “summoning them” to the joint session of congress.
Who the h*ll is obama to summon congress???
The GOP isn’t even in the fight! They surrendered long ago.
There, fixed it..
Who embarrassed who? Seems like his opponents have shamed him into backing off the propaganda. This administration seems to be totally oblivious to the ire they invoke when they do the name-calling and ridicule of Americans who don’t agree with what they are doing.
It’s not the speech stupid, it’s the big-brother “lesson plan”.
Yep, not true either, as indicated by the changes made;
White House Dismisses Furor Over Obama Speech to Students as ‘Silly Season’[Press Secretary Gibbs]
But critics objected to the language of one of the lesson plans, for students in pre-kindergarten through grade 6, that suggested that students “write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president.” Another assignment for students after hearing the speech was to discuss what “the president wants us to do.”
The suggestion about writing letters has since been changed to: “Write letters to themselves about how they can achieve their short-term and long-term education goals.
The Childrens’ Story by James Clavell (author of Shogun and Nobel House)
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/llefler/clavell.htm
heh. The GOP isn’t really upset. America’s PARENTS are upset.
Hussein misfires again.
So this speech was political all along.
Look beyond the speech, the indoctrination will start in the classroom, after the “speech”.
Too late. They can spin this all they want. Everybody knows what his origninal intention was, and he can’t back away from it now and pretend the Right is just paranoid and overreacting. We’ve got his number. He is a Hugo Chavez wanna-be. Get to the kids young, bypass the filter of the parents, and get them on your side. I am SO proud of the American people who get this, and know exactly what these people are up to. Thank God for the Internet - hey, thanks Al Gore - you have helped us find out what the hell your side is doing.
If he truly felt there was no reason to change and nothing anyone could object to then he would not have changed.
Forcing any change is an admission of guilt and a victory.
A Nation At Risk - April 1983
A Nation At Risk
All, regardless of race or class or economic status, are entitled to a fair chance and to the tools for developing their individual powers of mind and spirit to the utmost. This promise means that all children by virtue of their own efforts, competently guided, can hope to attain the mature and informed judgement needed to secure gainful employment, and to manage their own lives, thereby serving not only their own interests but also the progress of society itself. Our Nation is at risk. Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur—others are matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking, unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling, and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18 months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to renew the Nation’s commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and breadth of our land.
That we have compromised this commitment is, upon reflection, hardly surprising, given the multitude of often conflicting demands we have placed on our Nation’s schools and colleges. They are routinely called on to provide solutions to personal, social, and political problems that the home and other institutions either will not or cannot resolve. We must understand that these demands on our schools and colleges often exact an educational cost as well as a financial one.
On the occasion of the Commission’s first meeting, President Reagan noted the central importance of education in American life when he said: “Certainly there are few areas of American life as important to our society, to our people, and to our families as our schools and colleges.” This report, therefore, is as much an open letter to the American people as it is a report to the Secretary of Education. We are confident that the American people, properly informed, will do what is right for their children and for the generations to come.
In other words the protests are working.
Also the fact that so many people were outraged because they simply do not TRUST 0bama signals that we are winning!
Even if I give Obama the benefit of the doubt, and this is just a tepid “back-to-school” talk, it still shows that OBAMA HAS A TREMENDOUS CONCEIT.
To imagine that The Won has more influence on “small minds filled with mush” than their parents! To deprive these small minds of 30 minutes of teaching is deplorable.
What a waste of time.
Doesn’t matter what he says. It’s who and what he is.
WH has tried this tactic before— with no success. Gibbs has tried the “wait until something comes out before criticizing” path, and then (after changes) claims there was nothing there...
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Still though we must remember that probably 40 million misguided Americans believe “every word that proceeded from his mouth”.
Because the Left can't attack ordinary folks they have to put a face on them, and the GOP is the perfect bogeyman. Classic guilt-by-association tactics.
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