Obama School Speech-Sanitized For Your Protection

I don't for a moment believe that this is the speech that the president originally intended to give. I also don't believe in Santa, the Great Pumpkin or any desire to negotiate on the part of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

I got a comment on the previous post asking me if I was upset about President George H.W. Bush asking the school kids to write letters. Since I was a young, single road comic then and not the father of a middle school kid it didn't really bother me. I also explained that I wasn't a huge fan of GHWB so it probably would have if I did have a school-aged child at the time. (For the record, my favorite people with the last name Bush from the past 20 years are Barbara, Laura and that dude who sells the baked beans on TV.)

Anyone who bothers to pay attention will know that I'm a pretty big "keep the federal government the f**k out of my life as much as possible" kind of guy. I don't really care which party is in charge. It's like a trip to the dentist for me: I want the minimum done to keep things moving along smoothly.

Mostly a good message

My take is it's mostly a good lie. That bit about Jazmin is insulting. Jazmin and her illegal alien parents stole tax payers' money that could have been used to help pay for American children's education and you can bet she got that scholarship because she was illegal and her parents didn't have a college education. Too bad an American student who's parents paid school taxes for 18 years didn't get the scholarship. Hussein is lying the school children about his childhood: 1. I don't believe a word of it much less that he got up at 4:30 to do lessons. I'm surprised he didn't say he walked to school, 4 miles, up hill both ways in the snow in his bare feet. 2. And what's this about his father leaving the family when he was two? That's a lie. Evidence shows his parents didn't live together so how could he have left them? Ann was in Seattle days after the birth and didn't go back to Hawaii until after Senior left for Harvard on June 22, 1962. 3. He says he was raised by a single mom. No, his grandparents raised him. 4. He says his mom was single. Someone is lying. Michelle says Ann was "very much single" but Hussein says Ann and Senior were maybe sort of maybe married on Maui but she did file for divorce in '64. In '67 when he was 6, she married Soetoro. 5. He missed having a father. The Soetoros were married for eight years but of course he wasn't with them all that time because Ann dumped him back on the grandparents in '72. For most of his life he had a father figure in his grandfather which is much more than the kids he claims to identify with.

Mostly a good message

Hussein is lying the school children about his childhood:

1. I don't believe a word of it much less that he got up at 4:30 to do lessons. I'm surprised he didn't say he walked to school, 4 miles, up hill both ways in the snow in his bare feet.

2. And what's this about his father leaving the family when he was two? That's a lie. Evidence shows his parents didn't live together so how could he have left them? Ann was in Seattle days after the birth and didn't go back to Hawaii until after Senior left for Harvard on June 22, 1962.

3. He says he was raised by a single mom. No, his grandparents raised him.

4. He says his mom was single. Someone is lying. Michelle says Ann was "very much single" but Hussein says Ann and Senior were maybe sort of maybe married on Maui but she did file for divorce in '64. In '67 when he was 6, she married Soetoro.

5. He missed having a father. The Soetoros were married for eight years but of course he wasn't with them all that time because Ann dumped him back on the grandparents in '72. For most of his life he had a father figure in his grandfather which is much more than the kids he claims to identify with.

also from Michelle’s site.....a response to a hit-Michelle-and-the-Right screed written by “Tunku Varadarajan”......The response deserves posting ABOVE the screed:

On September 7th, 2009 at 11:57 am, englishqueen01 said:

You know what kids need a “lesson or two” on those virtues, sir? The ones in the inner city – the ones raised by single mothers who never know their fathers, the ones where black culture often tells them getting a good education is “acting white”, the ones where violence is a way of life and rap music provides the soundtrack. The ones where teenagers already have lengthy rap sheets.

The ones who, by and large, don’t go to school on a regular basis to begin with and the ones who – when conservatives try to reform education – are defended by liberals such as yourself from supposedly “racist” policies and “racist” criticism.

I’ve seen enough of the goings on in my local public school system to know it’s a black hole of mismanagement and overspending that disenfranchises inner city youth for the sake of political correctness and gain.

But those aren’t the people you’re talking about, is it?

No – your comment is directed at parents who actually parent and who have a problem (after spending a summer being vilified by their government as “Nazis” and “terrorists” and “stupid”) with the president of the United States (who surrounds himself with uber-liberal radical activists) spending some quality time with our children.

Because these parents don’t buy the liberal pogrom hook, line, and sinker they aren’t good enough for you and don’t instill those “virtues” you deem so important in your children.

the screed:
Too Many Kooks
Tunku Varadarajan, 09.07.09, 12:00 AM EDT
Obama’s school speech drives the right crazy.

The Silly Season ceases to be “silly” when what passes for political debate in America turns not merely stupid or witless, but certifiably demented.

I write of the kooky reaction of many conservatives–politicians, citizens and commentators in the media–to the plan by President Obama to address the nation’s schoolchildren tomorrow.

Obama will, as we all know, address our kids–plenty of whom need a lesson or two on the subject, since they clearly don’t get it from their parents–on the virtues of study, education and hard work. According to a White House spokesman, the aim of the speech is “to challenge students to work hard in school, to not drop out and to meet short-term goals like behaving in class, [and] doing their homework …” If anyone thinks that’s unpalatable, subversive, Commie and un-American, I’d like to meet for a duel at dawn by the skating rink at New York’s Central Park. (Pick your weapon, Michelle Malkin and Glenn Beck …)

Obama’s original “lesson plan” had been to ask students auditing him to write letters to themselves outlining ways in which they could “help the president.” This seemingly earnest proposal provoked a reaction so vitriolic from sections on the political right that I began to wonder whether I was missing a point–to wonder, in fact, that I, as a recent immigrant to this country, had failed to integrate well enough to grasp the nuances of American political debate.
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/09/07/i-repeat-its-not-the-speech-its-the-subtext/

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