The country elected a President -- Not a proselytizing zealot..."Hey, [liberals] leave those kids alone."
Posted on 09/04/2009 4:12:01 PM PDT by nickcarraway
President Obama's planned Sept. 8 speech to the nation's students has sparked what I'd call an automated controversy. The controversy isn't that Obama has announced something controversial, but rather than he's announced something. Full stop. He would like to speak to children about "the need to work hard and stay in school," according the AP, and conservatives are screaming as though playing the tape backward will unveil the subliminal message "Capitalism is deeeaaddd" or "Organize your communityyyy" or something. I'm sorry, I've recently pledged to avoid offering caricatures of the opposition, but this time I'm really struggling to find an opposition that doesn't caricature itself.
Gary Bauer, American Values leader and former undersecretary of Education under Reagan, concluded in his daily email (via Dave Weigel):
Once again, the Obama Administration is using its power in unprecedented ways, this time injecting itself into the nation's classrooms. Tuesday may be a good day to sit in on your child's classes.
To do what exactly, one can only guess. Distract the children with nagging? Bauer asks what I suppose is a fair question: "How would the media have reacted if President Bush had been beamed into classrooms coast-to-coast?" If he's means the first President Bush, the answer is "They did nothing." George H. W. Bush made a similar speech to the nation's students in 1991, and all reports indicate that we withstood the agitprop.
If Bauer means the second President Bush, my guess is that liberal hosts would make some utterly predictable, somewhat off-color joke like "Isn't Bush telling kids to study hard like Barry Bonds broadcasting nationally about fair play in sports?" and then they'd move on, knowing full well that the speech wouldn't be played in most schools north of the Mason-Dixon line anyway.
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First, it’s not the speech —— it’s the commie’s lesson plans that wreak with propaganda.
the problem is that the man is an acknowledged manipulator of crowds.
They keep advancing these fallacious arguments knowing that the nore s*** the throw, the more that will stick.
They know exactly what the deal is and are using logical fallacies to counter our good arguments.
The country elected a President -- Not a proselytizing zealot..."Hey, [liberals] leave those kids alone."
KMOV TV at St. Louis talked about this topic this evening with a Wash U professor of Political Science...he said the protests were all coming from the “Tea Baggers” who don’t like Obama. They are prompting all their cohorts to protest the speech to the school children. They don’t have a clue yet, I guess.
Young children may believe him, but the rest of the world knows that nothing but lies cross his lips whenever he speaks.
A lot of illiteracy in the comments from Zero supporters. I guess education isn’t so important to him after all.
I’ll tell you what’s wrong with this speech and everyone else here knows it ,too. It’s a cult of personality, it’s indoctrination, it’s taking young minds needing academics not polemics, that’s what’s wrong.
It won’t be anything controversial but will be the beginning of a steady progression of appearances to get the kids used to him as fuhrer
That is the real danger people will say look it was nothing sinister
As long as we have people like Van Jones (and many others) in the White House, running things outside of the control of anyone other than Obama, we have every right to question everything that comes out of it.
If you Parents think the best thing to do for your children next Tuesday is to keep them home, then that is exactly what you should do, and damn anyone who says anything about it, including the Principal.
That was my point
First, he’s pretty much identified himself as a Muslim who blatently lied and is still lying about that tidbit to get elected. Secondly, he’s surrounded himself with communists and left-wing activists who proudly proclaim their mission to defeat captilism and the Constitution. Thirdly, he’s single-handedly destroyed what was left of the economy and wants to do more damage asap.
Lastly, we shouldn’t have to explain to anyone, much less to our kid’s teachers, why we don’t want our kids to have to listen to any government official. Nobody, not even their teachers, has a right to demand that our children be forced to listen to their views much less to be handed assignments reinforcing said views. The kids are supposed to be learning reading, writing, and arithmetic - not politics.
“as though playing the tape backward...”
Backward? I expect it to be that way, forward. Nothing subliminal either.
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