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Obama hopes to embarrass GOP with toned-down "school" speech
PDOP ^ | 09/05/09 | J Brown

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 ...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: communism; education; obama; obamaeducation; schools
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To: wintertime
I thought about it and decided that simply keeping my high school age son out of school isn't the best solution. I have to prepare him to identify and neutralize these threats on his own so that when he's no longer living under my roof he can safely navigate life without falling into a trap.

So I've used it as an opportunity to teach him about how dictators acquire and maintain power by monopolizing the media and manipulating their public image to create a cult of personality. He "gets it" because I have taught him what to look for. I have allowed him to make a choice whether to go to school on Tuesday. So far, he is choosing to go. At this point I don't mind if he goes because it will merely serve to reinforce the point of the lesson.

We have also discussed the strong likelihood that the speech that will be given will be dramatically different from the speech that was planned, that the "new and improved" speech will be designed to allay overt concerns while inferentially painting protesting parents as thoughtless reactionaries and racists.

But my son knows that whatever the verbal message, it is the "presence" message of Big Brother omnipresence and power, unspoken, that Obama is really anxious to serve up. My son is now reading Orwell's 1984 to understand the broader context of dictatorial psychological control over everyday citizens.

If he does go, we'll discuss it further when he returns.

61 posted on 09/05/2009 7:58:58 AM PDT by behzinlea
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To: devolve
Good summation of Obamas propaganda intent with his freebie speech to Americas children next week. A picture worth a thousand words for sure. Thanks for posting it.
62 posted on 09/05/2009 8:02:15 AM PDT by mountainfolk ( God bless America and our Republic)
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To: Theodore R.

I agree... there are always going to be the diehard obamabots..... my brother in indy is one of them... they have the mass of humanity, but serious doubt many have the will or the courage to fight for their convictions...


63 posted on 09/05/2009 8:04:20 AM PDT by Americanwolf ("Mary Jo Kopechne finally gets to face Ted, on her ground")
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To: hinckley buzzard
"If Obama has any sense at all, he has someone in the White House charged with the responsibility of keeping tabs on the real political atmosphere."

The problem is those that are tabbed to keep a check on the pulse of the real political atmosphere are such psychophants to obama they dare not tell him anything but what the anointed one wants to hear.

64 posted on 09/05/2009 8:08:29 AM PDT by Americanwolf ("Mary Jo Kopechne finally gets to face Ted, on her ground")
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To: behzinlea

I’m impressed - good for you.

It’s a shame that at least half of the households in the US have no clue. Products of the public school system, I imagine.


65 posted on 09/05/2009 8:11:56 AM PDT by khnyny (Barack Obama and Chauncey Gardiner: separated at birth)
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To: Jabrown

If he does that, then the protests will have had the correct effect.

There is nothing wrong with a President recording a message to students. The problem was that it was clear this president could not be trusted to keep politics out of it.

Not only do we have his entire history of making everything political, but we have the official Education department web site which told teachers to have students provide a goal of how they would “help the President” with his agenda.

The department of course got rid of that, but it’s existance proves that the original plan was to politicize this.


66 posted on 09/05/2009 8:52:10 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: behzinlea

Personally, I won’t infect my child with small pox just so he would get immunity.


67 posted on 09/05/2009 9:41:00 AM PDT by wintertime (People are not stupid! Good ideas win!)
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To: All

Laughable...
His magic is gone...
No one is giving him the benefit of the doubt anymore...
Those “independants” are running away in droves....
You are a lame duck, Mr. Resident...(Please credit me, Maverick with obama’s new nickname...)


68 posted on 09/05/2009 9:43:05 AM PDT by Maverick68 (w)
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To: Jabrown
Photobucket Indoctrinate the children and they will sing and dance for you.
69 posted on 09/05/2009 9:50:27 AM PDT by RetSignman (Townhalls ..."We have seen the Patriots and they are us")
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To: Americanwolf

My thoughts are this: He will likely take the main point to the Ohio gathering that he wishes to increase pell grant, or federal loans to college students further. However, this approach is striking the branches instead of the root: That the tuition costs are rising, and perhaps pressure needs to be put on individual schools to try and reduce their costs a little, and perhaps, some sort of demand should be on less cost to the course materials, of course, as predictable as it is, the promise will be presented as additional loans handed out to make it through school.


70 posted on 08/21/2012 2:39:58 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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