Posted on 12/19/2008 8:05:05 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
WASHINGTON - Sherry Jones was driving son Malcolm, 13, to school recently when he mentioned something about some kid he didn't like.
Something about the kid being a jerk.
Jones told him that wasn't kind. When you speak of people, she said, always speak well of them.
"Look at Barack! During the campaign, no matter what, Obama always took the high road," she told him. "During the debates when John McCain would say a dig, Barack would never react. He was always positive."
Malcolm, who likes a good debate, was, for that moment, quiet.
In that silence, Jones realized that something about her spontaneous, trapped-in-the-car lecture was working. "If my son didn't agree, he would let me know," says Jones, an accountant in suburban Silver Spring, Md. "He always has something else to say. ? Usually, he will say, `Yeah, but?' When I use Barack Obama as an example, I can see him. He's quiet. He may sit up a little straighter.
"He hasn't gotten to the point where he says, `You are right.'" But there is something to be said for his saying nothing.
Parenting can be like that. You take what you can get. Any acknowledgment of the parental lecture. Not getting the "yeah, but" can be the change a mother waits for, silent proof that her nagging isn't going in one ear and out the other. So some parents are summoning up Obama at the breakfast table to motivate a dawdling, recalcitrant child.
Get up! Do you think Obama would have slept late and not made it to school on time?
Why don't you guys share? Don't you think Obama would want you to share?
How much did you read? Obama would have finished the book by now.
Do you think Obama would sneak cigarettes? (Oops.)
(Excerpt) Read more at statesman.com ...
WWOD
So avoiding giving answers to tough questions is now called taking the high road.
“Honey, I know I was out all night and have lipstick all over me, but I’m going to take the high road on this one.”
Ah, presidential vocabulary. Clinton gave us the noun/verb “lewinsky” to mean oral sex, and now we have “the high road,” a slimy version of “no comment.”
Why don't you guys share? Don't you think Obama would want you to share?
The kids won't like Obama's version of sharing. Instead of simply sharing your toys, he'll decide who are the unerprivileged kids and permanently give them the toys belonging to the other kids.
He won't care if you've been working your butt off on a paper route or mowing lawns to buy the nicer toys, the kids who just sit in front of the TV all day get to have them.
Come to think of it, this would be a great education for the kids.
This is showing on CNN http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd5leQ5z7jY
You can get your very own Obama holy icon.
This is showing on CNN http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd5leQ5z7jY
You can get your very own Obama holy icon.
This got me to really LOL!
Sick. There is a huge sickness in the heart and souls of black people.
Who in the heck are these morons?
FACT: Obama dedicated 20 loyal years of his life to a hostile black racist organization known as Trinity United.
FACT: Obama has spent his entire life surrounding himself with known communists, criminals, anarchists and other nasty anti-American monsters. Daily Kos, Pelosi, Farrakhan, Ayers, Dohrn, Khalidi and Rezko are just a few of the scumbags that we know about. Heaven knows how many nasties are really in Obama's camp.
FACT: Obama was hailed and supported by international islamic terrorist organizations.
Oh yeah, use The Messiah as a role model!
Yes, kiddies, smoke some crack! You just might become President!
(sarcasm setting: HIGH)
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