Posted on 09/03/2009 5:34:40 PM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton
NOREEN: It's easy to see who is scared by Obama speech BARRY NOREEN barry.noreen@gazette.com 2009-09-03 16:17:57
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Because on Tuesday, President Barack Obama will address students on a national television hook-up and webcast (www.whitehouse.gov/live/) exhorting them to make an effort to study hard, complete school and learn as much as they can.
Our right-wing talking heads are telling us not to be fooled, that Obama’s real motive is the traditional lefty conspiracy to use “kids in public schools as guinea pigs and as junior lobbyists for their social liberal agenda.”
That’s not made-up. It’s straight from commentator Michelle Malkin.
Sean Hannity, one of the most rabid, doctrinaire conservatives on television, declared the president’s tactic is “very close to indoctrination.”
Holly McCutcheon, whose daughter attends Sabin Middle School, e-mailed The Gazette Thursday, saying, “Most parents probably do not know of this agenda being pushed into our schools and affecting our students. Isn’t this what happened in Germany, starting in 1929 and continued until almost an entire race was eradicated?”
Wow. Obama is Hitler now?
In a follow-up phone interview, McCutcheon added, “and Stalin did the same thing in Russia.”
“There’s a lot more to it than just saying ‘stay in school,’ ” McCutcheon said. “He’s trying to influence them in an eloquent speech and persona that he’s a great guy. I don’t want him to broadcast to my kid. Ninety-nine percent of those kids can be persuaded because that’s the way he is.”
McCutcheon, whose sentiments echoed numerous online commenters at gazette.com on Thursday, acknowledged that she allows her daughter to watch Obama and political commentators at home. She said “the difference is it is in her school.”
Watching television in one place or the other doesn’t seem to be too much of a difference, does it?
“My child will not go to school that day if there is a broadcast,” McCutcheon said. “I’m really furious.”
As other media already have reported, President George Herbert Walker Bush was the first president to do what Obama is going to do. Some liberals didn’t like it at the time, but they stopped far short of comparing the president to murdering dictators.
In 2006, President George W. Bush (see my blog) used a visit to an elementary school to make a political speech about the No Child Left Behind Act. There was no outrage at that.
FDR was the first president to master mass media with his Fireside Chats. Ronald Reagan was a wonderful communicator. Obama is a gifted speaker, too.
What all three have in common is that their political opponents grumbled about how effective they could be, even when delivering a benign message.
It’s easy to see who’s afraid. Who’s very afraid.
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Read my blog updates at gazette.com/blogs/barrysblog
I’m all for letting President O have his little chat with the kids, as long as Noreen is OK with President Cheney doing the same thing 3 years from now.
Actually, in all seriousness, its a shame that we should have a president in the White House that we can’t trust to address school kids for fear that he’s going to pull some kind of duplicitous crap.
But I’m all for starting this as a tradition, as long as the teachers promise to be as enthusiastic when Cheney’s turn comes around. Or President Palin.
Yes the Politicians have done SO MUCH to earn our trust.
If the party of Chappaquiddick, the former impeached Pres and double digit unemployment has earned your trust Barry, I have another bridge to sell you.
It will really come home to these misguided columnists when their children are recruited in their public schools for mandatory community service. On the other hand, with all the fall out from the current debacle, perhaps the administration will wise up and decide not to implement it.
I bet that goes down a treat in Colorado Springs.
Obama is >not< a gifted speaker. He hems and haws, speaks in a jerky rhythm ....
Of course the leftists moonbats can't see any difference in George Bush speaking at one school to Obama forcing himself into every classroom nationwide. They can't see the difference because to them, Obama is the leader of the Reich. They can't conceive of being deprived of their universal right to make all the rules.
The comparisons to fascists are right on the money.
Isn’t this a clear violation of the tenth amendment? Local schools paying for this from state money. Not mandated Federal money for this school time.
Oh, please!
Gifted speaker, my butt. I’d rather listen to Mr. Ed. I guess if people say this enough, others will believe it.
WTF? Where was this guy for the past eight years?
I'd rather Mr. Ed be president, at least he would have horse sense.
No, we knew he had a Fascist mindset long before this. I'm just surprised it took this lefty stooge so long to figure it out. < /sarc>
Well NOREEN,
Let me tell you the difference. I hope you read this. Of all of the other American presidents you mentioned, it seems to me that they realy liked thier country, perhaps even loved it. To this day, as much of a lunatic as I may have thought Jimmy Carter was, I still don’t think he dislikes his country.
Obama does. The man gives absolutely NO indication that he so-much as even likes the nation he presides over. In fact he derides it and treats it with distain. He apologizes for it and only sees a country that needs “change” with no other redeeming qualities. He should not have become our President.
Obama surrounds himself with people who want to destroy what we’ve all built. His minions work hard every day to divide us. They call Americans who disagree with his ludicrous policies “terrorists” and “astroturf”.
The reason we don’t feel confortable with Obama talking to our kids is because we don’t trust him to keep it non-political. I, for one, don’t trust the average school teacher to balance his rhetoric, being that they’ve bcome nothing but slaves to the Teacher’s Union. Of course, there are exceptions. But for most, to get into the classrooms of America, many have foresaken their own country through the liberal professors who taught them how to think.
It might surprise your twisted liberal mind to know, I would have let my daughter watch Obama at school. I also would have watched it. If he didn’t bend logic, and did his level best to kept it on topic. I would’ve said so. If not, I would have walked my daughter through the speech point by point. I would’ve explained where I disagree. Then I would’ve scrutinized every word that her teacher spouted off before, during and after the presentation.
Why? Because, as a conservative, I believe that the President, you, and my daughter’s teacher are capable of using our kids to push your political vision. I come very close to hating you for it. If you don’t understand, then I ask you to have your child attend a few history lessons that I would teach. Perhaps you should have your kids listen to a few speeches by Sara Palin, or even Glen Beck..
But no...you think your brand of indoctrination is “good” or “pure”. Well, screw you. Get used to the fact that you have opposition. My family will never buy what you’re selling. You’re a circus freak to us. We don’t trust you or your messenger, and we never will.
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