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LA Times: Calls to boycott Obama's speech to kids offer a disturbing lesson in paranoia
Los Angeles Times ^ | 9/5/2009 | Tim Rutten

Posted on 09/05/2009 7:42:09 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Those who are whipping up hysteria over the president's address are playing a dangerous game with an unhinged segment of public opinion.

While it long ago crossed the borders of reason and civility, the hysteria over healthcare reform is -- at some level -- understandable, because wellness and infirmity are really just stand-ins for those most terrifying of issues, life and death.

But there is no similar way to rationalize the bizarre controversy now raging over President Obama's plan to deliver a brief televised address on Tuesday to the nation's grammar school children.

According to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Obama will "challenge students to work hard, set educational goals and take responsibility for their learning. He will also call for a shared responsibility and commitment on the part of students, parents and educators to ensure that every child in every school receives the best education possible so they can compete in the global economy for good jobs and live rewarding and productive lives as American citizens."

Sounds innocuous. Who, after all, could be against good study habits, personal responsibility and productive lives? As it turns out, quite a number of people who seem to believe that Obama intends to induct their children into -- well, it's not quite clear what they're afraid of. The Web and talk radio are abuzz with various attempts to organize a boycott of Tuesday's speech. One group is urging parents to demand that their children be excused from watching the president and be sent instead to the school library to read the Founding Fathers. (The theory, one supposes, is that a good dose of the Federalist Papers will inoculate the young against Obama's attempts to subvert the republic through good grades.)

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arneduncan; arth; bho44; bhoeducation; bhospeech; birthers; certifigate; conservatives; liberalfascism; obama; obamacare; obamaschooladdress; paranoia; speech
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To: popdonnelly

Re: “Those who are whipping up hysteria over the president’s address are playing a dangerous game”

Now the people who don’t want their kids to hear Obama’s speech are dangerous. How so? What irreparable harm is going to be done if they don’t hear the speech? What’s the big deal?”

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Agree. And one middle of the road radio host here in Los Angeles commented yesterday that if this is so important, it should be aired in the evening, around 8 p.m., so parents could watch it WITH their children if they saw fit, and comment when they felt it appropriate. The parents are raising the children, Obama is NOT raising other peoples’ children. Not today, not ever. DROP IT OBAMIE — oh, and where’s that REAL birth certificate?


101 posted on 09/05/2009 10:23:30 PM PDT by CaliforniaCon
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To: Graybeard58; Salamander; Markos33
"Even if the address were muted, I still would not want my kids to intentionally look into the face of evil."

Very perceptive. There's been a noticeable uptick in the number of people displaying discernment by their awareness of the evil apparent in The Usurper's face and, as a good FRiend has pointed out many times, the "cold, dead eyes."



"My name is Legion, for we are many." (Mark 5:9)

102 posted on 09/05/2009 10:29:55 PM PDT by shibumi (" ..... then we will fight in the shade.")
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To: Paladin2

I’d —> It’d


103 posted on 09/05/2009 11:54:15 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
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To: shibumi

I just read two of the links. I’m floored - I didn’t read his book and heard his name being mentioned but didn’t know or care who he was. Strange - how I saw ‘that’ in his poem. Trying to be a poet like Davis I guess. Now that ‘Anne’ is that supposed to be his mother?


104 posted on 09/06/2009 1:07:46 AM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: presently no screen name

If we wanted to get really Biblical, we could go into The Great Harlot, Mother of the Son of Perdition .....

But Stanley Anne was perpetually attracted to dark men, who espoused exotic, or no religion. Obama Sr., Soetoro, both Muslim, Davis, atheist.

Davis wrote about seducing an underage white girl - there is some speculation that he really was The Usurper’s father.

The mentor relationship was arranged by Grandma Dunham - perhaps she used more than just instinct in her choice.


105 posted on 09/06/2009 1:25:20 AM PDT by shibumi (" ..... then we will fight in the shade.")
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To: presently no screen name

One more to shake your grasp of the conventional “truth.”

http://astuteblogger.blogspot.com/2008/09/obamas-true-parentage-is-barack-obama.html


106 posted on 09/06/2009 1:30:55 AM PDT by shibumi (" ..... then we will fight in the shade.")
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To: SeekAndFind
Tim Rutten...Tim Rutten...Tim Rutten....nope, never heard of him. New lib on the paper who'll work cheap?

How're those circulation numbers doin' for the L.A. Slimes?

L.A. Times has 2nd largest circulation drop for Sunday papers in the nation!

Yeah, I think we know how much influence Timmy Rutten and his birdcage liner paper exerts.

107 posted on 09/06/2009 4:24:37 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: SeekAndFind

“LA Times: Calls to boycott Obama’s speech to kids offer a disturbing lesson in paranoia”

The Libs and the government media have a whole different vocabulary. Citizen queries are called “paranoia”

Van Jones called the truth a “smear campaign”.


108 posted on 09/06/2009 4:25:52 AM PDT by RoadTest ( Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols - Psalm 97:12a)
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To: shibumi

The thing that unnerves me about Frank marshall davis is that he was investigated for 19 years and had an FBI file that was 600 pages long.

Then suddenly, the investigation stops. The same year Kennedy was killed. E Howard Hunt claimed that the CIA and LBJ did it.

HOw does the son of a radical weirdo child molester with a huge FBI file end up working for the Defense Intelligence Agency?

It is quite possible that Obama was molested. Davis was a freak.

Obama writes about going to the red light district with his grandfather who went there to get away from his troubles. What troubles???
He also writes about being uncomfortable going with his grandfather to a poet’s house..I think it was to the house of Davis.

Although , that wouldn’t make sense since Davis later became his mentor.
I don’t know the years in which davis was his mentor.


109 posted on 09/06/2009 5:57:39 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: socialismislost
I believe President Reagan gave a speech in 1988 which was nationally televised to students. The difference is Reagan wasnt trying to indoctrinate the students.

The differences are stark. Obama's doing this at the beginning of his presidency in order to troll for votes. Reagan's speech was in the last year of his second term. Reagan had no cheerleading section of Hollywood and musician types pledging servanthood to him. Reagan told the kids to "ground themselves in the ideas and values of the American Revolution." Obama is claiming that he's bringing a new revolution. Reagan wasn't a socialist. Obama is a statist who has been steeped in radical, anti-American rhetoric since his youngest days.

The problem with those who say, well, Reagan gave a speech to students in 1988 and Bush gave a speech to students in 1991, so there's really nothing different about Obama giving a speech to students in 2009 is the fallacy of the undistributed middle: A is M and B is M; therefore, A is B. It just isn't so: Jets have wings. Birds have wings; therefore, jets are birds. Reagan and Bush were presidents and Obama is a president, but Obama is certainly no Reagan or Bush.
110 posted on 09/06/2009 6:08:42 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: DBrow
It’s not the speech, it’s the lesson plans

Exactly. But they are waving everyone on from that and trying to say it's paranoid racists who just don't want their kids hearing a speech by the President. Move along, nothing to see here...

111 posted on 09/06/2009 6:51:41 AM PDT by ReagansShinyHair
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To: shibumi
One more to shake your grasp of the conventional “truth.”

When he came on the scene, I knew he was a street thug. Never bought into the 'conventional truth'. Saw those Anne pixs before - never bothered checking Davis' background. BO's poem led to that. W/o all that, one could see he was not a pro-life American nor qualified in any way to be prez.

From the beginning, the guy was too obvious, IMO, to fool anyone but I was wrong there. When I heard him say 'My muslim faith' and 57 states 'slips' - I thought OK, that's it - right from his own mouth and yet the heads remained in the sand. His past associates were revealed - thought that would do it. His 'non qualifications' didn't do it, his 20 yr association w/a 'hate whitey, G*d dam America' church didn't do it but he certainly has lived up to those 'values'.
112 posted on 09/06/2009 8:25:09 AM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: aruanan

BTTT!


113 posted on 09/06/2009 8:29:50 AM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: SeekAndFind
Hey LA Times, you and your ilk taught us to be paranoid with all your Bush-bashing.

Sounds like your chickens are coming home to roost.

114 posted on 09/06/2009 8:43:27 AM PDT by pray4liberty (satisfied customer of http://www.skyangel.com)
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To: presently no screen name

Bottom Line:

This is simply not a person that any good parent would want “lecturing” their child.


115 posted on 09/06/2009 10:00:54 AM PDT by shibumi (" ..... then we will fight in the shade.")
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To: shibumi

Totally agree! It’s the kind you tell your children to stay away from. Their minds are way too impressionable right now - that’s why they go after them - and then the teachers are given the green light to speak favorably about him and who knows what will be said - but in spite of that - the child gets the impression, “He’s good”. Same thing happened to me in the 2nd grade and I still remember it - went home telling my parents who to vote for and why.

Bottom line - we know what he is up to. And they are saying it’s just the prez, other’s did it, blah, blah. Coming from the clueless that voted for him is hardly a good endorsement - they are still clueless or a commie.


116 posted on 09/06/2009 10:49:43 AM PDT by presently no screen name
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