[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I couldn’t fail to notice that among the aspirations of the Obama scholars, mathematician, engineer and physicist did not come up.

I guess there’s little harm in trying to motivate kids, better they should believe in themselves. But do they expect to get by on affirmative action or by dint of real effort? I wonder how many of them are going to go home and try do their math homework. (My guess: 0).

[Nepeta]

I couldn’t fail to notice that among the aspirations of the Obama scholars, mathematician, engineer and physicist did not come up.

Technical competency requires real work. You have to actually learn math beyond long division, and apply it to problems to find real solutions! This is not the same thing as BSing one's way through Obama Studies. Obama Scholars, like their idol, will declare themselves intellectual overachievers while providing no evidence of such.

[ronnyquest]

"...mathematician, engineer and physicist..."

Nor, indeed, soldier, sailor, marine, or airman.

I noticed that, with the exception firefighter and, arguably, lawyer, nothing that required a lot of real physical or mental rigor and discipline came up in the list. Why was business owner not in the list? Why was farmer not in the list? Right, right, those jobs take work. You can plumb us by our language; easy to tell what these urbanites consider worthwhile.

Indoctrinating these highly-impressionable children into the Obama group-think with its pseudo-religious mantra is damaging. I'm sure these kids will soon be issued uniforms and funny hats to help "unify" them and help them to "identify" with one another. Or to identify those who are not one of them.

Welcome to national socialism. Keep your powder dry. And hidden.