Obama 'Outreach' To School Kids Feels More Like Personality Cult

IBD Editorials ^ | September 4, 2009 | The great MARK STEYN

[Kaslin]

On Friday, I had the rare honor of appearing in the pages of the New York Times, apropos President Obama's plans to beam himself into every schoolhouse in the land in the peculiar belief that Generation iPod will find this an enthralling technical novelty. As Times reporters James C. McKinley Jr. and Sam Dillon wrote:

"Mark Steyn, a Canadian author and political commentator, speaking on the Rush Limbaugh show on Wednesday, accused Mr. Obama of trying to create a cult of personality, comparing him to Saddam Hussein and Kim Jong Il, the North Korean leader."

Oh, dear! "A Canadian author": Talk about damning with faint credentialization. I don't know what's crueler, the "Canadian" or the indefinite article.

As to the rest of it, well, that's one way of putting it. Here's what I said on Wednesday re dear old Saddam and Kim:

"Obviously we're not talking about the cult of personality on the Saddam Hussein/Kim Jong Il scale."

Close enough for Times work.

But, if the Times wants to play this game, bring it on. The Omnipresent Leader has traditionally been a characteristic feature of Third World basket-case dumps: The conflation of the man and the state is explicit, and ubiquitous

In 2003, motoring around western Iraq a few weeks after the regime's fall, when the schoolhouses were hastily taking down the huge portraits of Saddam that had hung on every classroom wall, I visited an elementary-school principal with a huge stack of suddenly empty picture frames piled up on his desk, and nothing to put in them.

[Kaslin]

[John123]

You can tell Obama is desperate when he is wasting time trying to convert kids that won’t be old enough to vote for him in 2012...

[doc1019]

Joseph Goebbels would approve. ;-)

[omega4179]

Some Lib called Walter today and liked Bush reading books to kids in ONE school on 9/11 to Hussein broadcasting propaganda to every Government School, lecturing them , telling them to do what their parents already told them to do.

[SonOfDarkSkies]

You can tell Obama is desperate when he is wasting time trying to convert kids that won’t be old enough to vote for him in 2012...

Think about that for a moment. It's not a waste of time if you don't plan to leave.

[Eagles6]

Mark Steyn is more American than “zero”.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

I think that’s a GREAT point.

[John123]

It's not a waste of time if you don't plan to leave.

Obama is vacating the WH... he has zero political capital left... he is gone in 2012...

[John123]

Some Lib called

He was probably smokin' crack in his parent's basement...

[Nevadan]

Mark Steyn: Brilliant as always!

[cranked]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ5SVDYBNrY

[omega4179]

Actually they called Hannity’s fill in today. They do NOT like it when we scream about their agenda and propoganda.

[Salvation]

Personality cult?

Is that the new way to spell indoctrination?

[SuziQ]

"The president's strategy on Jan. 20 was to hurl all the vast transformative spaghetti at the wall "

LOL! Oh,my, that's exactly what he's done!!

[pallis]

All Communist tyrants get into the personality cult thing. Big Brother is Watching You.

[4Liberty]

"DEAR LEADER!"

[4Liberty]

[devolve]

I'D LIKE TO TEACH THE WORLD TO SNORT

[BigEdLB]

Song for a New Day
Sung to the North Korean National Anthem

Chicago's windy streets sent you to us,
To lead us into change and make it good,
Barak the First our Dear Leader,
We'll silence those who don't want change.
We'll start with those on talk radio,
Rush, and Hannity are first to go.
And a special place for Glenn Beck, you know!
We'll make them pay for what they said.
We'll be ever true our Dear Leader ,
Hear every word that you pronounce.
The townhall people will be sent away,
And then we'll have our new day!