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Posted on 09/05/2009 1:06:10 AM PDT by Schnucki
President Obama has been accused of trying to build a personality cult and indoctrinate America’s schoolchildren with a speech to be beamed into the nation’s classrooms next week.
Not a word of the speech has been published but it has been seized on by his opponents because of lesson plans for teachers issued by the White House to encourage discussion of the speech. Until they were hastily revised yesterday, the plans suggested that pupils write letters to themselves on what inspired them about Mr Obama and how they could help to achieve his goals.
Mr Obama will go ahead with the speech but it will be released a day early so that it can be vetted by wary parents, weary teachers and a gleeful Florida Republican who likes to call the President “Pied Piper Obama”.
Following in a tradition established by Presidents Reagan and Bush Sr, the speech will be broadcast live from a Virginia high school as public schools open and the country returns to work after Labor Day next Tuesday.
The address and accompanying talking points were “tools to spread liberal propaganda”, according to Jim Greer, chairman of the Republican Party in Florida, where activists and some parents were advocating a “national skip school day” to avoid exposure to what the President has to say.
Several Texas school districts have made alternative plans for children whose parents do not want them to hear the speech, and school officials from California to South Carolina have reported fielding calls from parents concerned about Mr Obama’s message and his use of tax dollars to stream it into classrooms.
“This is not civics education,” Steve Russell, an Oklahoma state senator, said. “This is something you’d expect to see in North Korea or Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.”
The pre-emptive reaction has been shrill but
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
They got caught pushing an agenda and need someone to blame.
He's lost the public's trust, and the more we learn about his socialist plans, his big-government grab of our freedoms, and his wacky, anti-American "czars," the less we trust him.
The comments to the article are funny: mostly lib loonies, of course, and most complaining that the article refers to him as "Mr." rather than "President." Presidents are usually referred to as "Mr." after the initial reference as "President."
Totalitarians ALWAYS go after the children!
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The speech will be quite innocuous. The real indoctrination will come from the NEA after the speech.
I took nearly a month to read British newspaper coverage of Hitler's rise to power (many years ago). The Times and other papers almost never reported in weak phrases like, "Chancellor Hitler has been accused of trying to build a personality cult ..." I miss Great Britain.
Has anyone suggested that O’Reilly’s dumbass Parade article might have given Hussein the idea for this speech?
It seems a bit too coincidental.
Someone should ask the FCC to look into this lopsidedness.
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