violently ill when exposed to self-absorbed Marxists.
Why only @ school...work...home...vacation...en route to anywhere?
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Posted on 09/04/2009 11:13:21 AM PDT by Schnucki
A BACK-TO-SCHOOL speech planned by Barack Obama has turned into an ideological battlefield, as conservative parents claim the US President wants to indoctrinate their children.
Schools from districts in six US states have refused to show students the televised speech planned for Tuesday, after complaints from parents that Mr Obama wants to spread his "socialist agenda".
The protests appear to have left the White House wrong-footed, forcing the revision of an accompanying lesson that had asked students to "write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the President".
It had been hoped Mr Obama's address - about the need for children to work hard and stay at school - would be a positive for him after the pounding he has received over proposed health reforms.
The furore was kicked off on right-wing talk-back radio after Canadian writer and political commentator Mark Steyn accused Mr Obama on Wednesday of trying to create a cult of personality.
Speaking to radio host Rush Limbaugh, Mr Steyn said that asking children to write the letters was "slightly unhealthy". He compared Mr Obama to Korean leader Kim Jong-il and Iraq's former dictator Saddam Hussein.
"It's all part of the cult of personality," Mr Steyn said.
"Obviously, we're not talking about the cult of personality on the Kim Jong-il, Saddam Hussein scale, but I don't see that it's part of American education to get grade-school kids to write letters to themselves about things they can do to help the President."
The Republican Party's chairman in Florida, Jim Greer, has since whipped up opposition, declaring he is "appalled that taxpayer dollars are being used to spread President Obama's socialist ideology".
Mr Greer described Mr Obama as a "Pied Piper", saying he would want to know what anyone from the White House intended to say
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What about these flyers for the “Obama Youth”
They had to politicize it and turn it into indoctrination. The libs know nothing else. I’d have no problem if Obama simply gave a “Keep your noses in your books, stay out of trouble, work hard” speech.
How many libs have attributed the refusal to show the speech to racism?
“The protests appear to have left the White House wrong-footed...”
And hopefully, if we keep the pressure up on every sneaky, socialist thing this guy tries to pull off, we’ll eventually cut ‘em off at the knees! :)
They are not used to this stuff...Keep it up
All of them that haven’t tried to soft-pedal the speech as a “stay in school and out of trouble” speech.
Takes a foriegn media to get the story right. U.S. media launched into calling concerned parents “nutty Americans”.
Any doubt now that media is very much part of the Marxist takeover in this country?
Leftists aren’t used to being challenged on their ideology or on their behaviors.
They also are flabbergasted that the race card isn’t working to silence opposition anymore.
My child can not attend school today because he becomes violently ill when exposed to self-absorbed Marxists.
The good news is that this administration has shown itself to be absolutely tone deaf to the core values of Americans (and thus will be defeated time and again). It’s almost like foreigners are running the country (hey...wait a minute...).
Exactly...it’s time for us to fight back. We have been silent for far too long. We became complacent and it has gotten us no where.
Why only @ school...work...home...vacation...en route to anywhere?
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I think it was more like speaking for Rush :-)
“Keep your noses in your books, stay out of trouble, work hard” speech”.
But you and I know that is not what this little propaganda bit was going to be.
What you see as complacency is just a part of our ideology - live and let live. Let the individual run his own life, don’t use government to control others, etc.
However, the other side has the totally opposite viewpoint - gov’t must be used to control everyone for the “betterment of society”. We let them incremental us up to this point, and we’ve discovered that the water is getting damned hot in this pot.
It's time to push back...
Signed Epstein’s Mother
What ideology do you yourself subscribe to?
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