Posted on 09/08/2009 3:44:45 AM PDT by EricTheRed_VocalMinority
OK, so its a lovely, fairly innocuous speech. So, were conservatives justified in opposing this presentation?
Perhaps not, but I cant help but wonderbased on all we know about Obamas past with radical educators who have openly expressed their belief that the schoolchildren is where the revolutions are sownwhat the speech looked like before the Right started complaining about it.
What am I saying? That there was an original speech that was much different than this original one? Well, I dont have proof, but yes, I do.
There seems to be a repeating pattern: The Obama administration and/or Democrat Congress goes too far pushing their radical leftist agenda, the Right adamantly objects, and they have to pull things back. Consider the health (s)care bill: The Dems first fill it chock full of nightmarish regulations, unconstitutional governmental overreach, and privacy violations. Then after a summers worth of passionate town halls and a few choice words by that supposed idiot Sarah Palin, the Dems have to water it down.
Another example is this green czar Van Jones who just resigned over the weekend under pressure from the Right. Talk show host Glenn Beck, who held the administrations feet to the fire on that one, is really in the crosshairs of the Obamedia right now!
So, yes, I think Obamas original speech was filled with socialist rhetoric and indoctrination and that conservatives were perfectly justified in crying foul. We know Obama too well. The current version of the speech is so un-Obama. It doesnt crap on America, its foundings, or its economic system. It doesnt apologize on behalf
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The whole concept of any US president giving a speech directed at school children, complete with lesson plans based on that speech and resolutions to be made after it, is offensive and unAmerican, no matter what he says.
He only toned it down because he was forced to do so, but Dear Leader still says “I” 32 times.
The problem from the beginning was not just the speech. It was what the Department of Education (Re-Education) had planned for the after speech activities.
Yes, he toned down the speech because of the furor. Now, what did the school Administrators do about the add-on’s from the Department of Education? This came directly from the Federal Department of Education to the local Administrators. Did not go through any of the State level administration or the local school boards.
More evidence that the Department of Education at the Federal level should be dissolved. It serves no useful purpose and should never have been created.
Or, it's simply pure narcissism once again. He just simply can't help making everyone listen to his horrible voice.
All we have to do is look at the “lesson plan”. The original speech had answers to those questions. It’s that simple.
--that he was a poor boy growing up (as a young child up to ages five or six he wouldn't have even been able to think of rich versus poor or of how his life differed materially from that of others; he was either with a well-to-do adoptive father in Indonesia and attending private school or with his grandfather and grandmother who was a vice-president of a bank in Hawaii and attending an exclusive private school)In other words, since he was a poor, fatherless child like so many of his audience, he knows just what it's like to be them and if they want to grow up to be well-to-do and powerful like him they should pay attention to whatever he tells them, details to follow in upcoming schoolside chats.
--that he had no father or father figure in his life (he had his grandfather from birth, then Lolo Soetoro, then his grandfather again as well as Frank Marshall Davis)
--that he was too poor to go to school where the other "American kids" went to school (because at that point A. he was no longer American, having been adopted by an Indonesian, B. he was attending a private school that offered Islamic religious instruction, something most "American kids" didn't have any use for).
Why does Obama still think he can affect Limbaugh’s audience by holding his daytime addresses around the same time as the start of Rush’s show?
anyone that believes this is the speech he originally intended to deliver is either a fool or has guzzled the Obama kool-aid.
YOU NAILED IT!!!!!!!! SEND THAT COMMENT TO GLEN BECK
How is ABCNNBCMSNBCPBS reporting the Van Jones case? Considering they didnt find it newsworthy BEFORE he resigned, how are they explaining to their listeners (both of them) that he had to quit?
Had a debate with a local DJ about this. Did the typical liberal “yes, Obama is going to harm our children with a speech on staying in school. I can see how the right would be soooo threatened” (sarcastically of course).
I said “It’s not about the speech, it’s about the lesson plan that required young children to write on how they could help OBAMA, not AMERICA, but specifically Obama”
He replied, “Well, they knew it was wrong and they changed it”.
My reply “So then you admit the right was correct to complain”.
Nothing. Chirping crickets. Finally a sputter or two and next topic...
OK, so its a lovely, fairly innocuous speech. So, were conservatives justified in opposing this presentation?
Citizens, especially parents, were justified in opposing this political intrusion into the school system. Every problem that our education system has today comes from politics and politicians attmepting to take over control of children away from the parents. NO politicians belong in the shools.
PIng!
Good post.
Excellent point!
The interesting thing is that the White House Counsel is letting it leak out that they had problems with his National Security clearance (DUH..) and he was hired anyway.
Are they trying to save their own skin, bring Obama down, or both.
Remember, children don't concentrate well on an empty stomach.
That was good, lol!
The part of the speech I like is where he talks about his mother getting up at 4:30 am to give him supplemental instruction while living in Indonesia because she was poor and his father had left him at age 2.
Can we get some fact checkers on this?
He is using NLP on our kids. Some of them will be eligible to vote in 2012.
From what I’ve read, his mother instructed him in English (as it was not taught in the Indonesian school) and he had to get up before the morning Islamic prayers which were at 5:00 am.
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