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 ...
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.
Your 'RAT comrades have a huge majority in the House and a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. Yet, they are still too chicken**** to go it alone and pass their CommieCare, healthcare rationing bill without a couple token "republicans" being on board. They know that if they do, they're going to get their goatsmellin' asses kicked in upcoming elections for as far as the eye can see. I'll tell you Timmy, NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL PARANOIA.
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It's a good thing there are so many parents nationwide who want no part of this for their children, or he'd likely be sending busloads of thugs to their doorsteps to make them see it his way (his tactics are well known by now).
Naa...let's really set them off. A rebuttal by Sarah Palin.
I’m still waiting for the LA Times to release the tape of Obummer at the speech Rashid Kahlidi gave...
Wanna get REALLY creeped out?
Here is The Usurper’s poem, written at age 19, most probably with Davis as the subject (surrogate father.)
The contents of this “poem” should be a disqualifier for any contact with impressionable youth.
Pop
Sitting in his seat, a seat broad and broken
In, sprinkled with ashes,
Pop switches channels, takes another
Shot of Seagrams, neat, and asks
What to do with me, a green young man
Who fails to consider the
Flim and flam of the world, since
Things have been easy for me;
I stare hard at his face, a stare
That deflects off his brow;
Im sure hes unaware of his
Dark, watery eyes, that
Glance in different directions,
And his slow, unwelcome twitches,
Fail to pass.
I listen, nod,
Listen, open, till I cling to his pale,
Beige T-shirt, yelling,
Yelling in his ears, that hang
With heavy lobes, but hes still telling
His joke, so I ask why
Hes so unhappy, to which he replies . . .
But I dont care anymore, cause
He took too damn long, and from
Under my seat, I pull out the
Mirror Ive been saving; Im laughing,
Laughing loud, the blood rushing from his face
To mine, as he grows small,
A spot in my brain, something
That may be squeezed out, like a
Watermelon seed between
Two fingers.
Pop takes another shot, neat,
Points out the same amber
Stain on his shorts that Ive got on mine and
Makes me smell his smell, coming
From me; he switches channels, recites an old poem
He wrote before his mother died,
Stands, shouts, and asks
For a hug, as I shink, my
Arms barely reaching around
His thick, oily neck, and his broad back; cause
I see my face, framed within
Pops black-framed glasses
And know hes laughing too.
Do you want fries with that?
Wake up.
The lesson plan that accompanies the speech asks students to set goals for how they can support the President.
That’s naked politicking.
Support the president - ain’t that rich. He has these kids already in debt and now ‘how can you help ME’? He seems to forget, he’s OUR servant, our children aren’t his.
You think she’s going to let her children watch the con man?
That’s some pretty crappy writing there.
Typ[ical Fascit propaganda from a Leftie pervert on the staff od the LA Times. “It’s paranoid to be afraid of Der Bama!”
LOL. Good one.
As Robert Heinlein said: “Writing poetry is nothing to be ashamed of. Just do it in private and be sure to wash your hands afterwards.”
An older woman I worked with in the ‘70s, a real estate broker, was an immigrant from Austria who had come to the US as a teenager. At her grammar school in Austria the students were visited by a kindly leader who gave all the children a copy of his book and signed each one for them. She still had her autographed copy of Mein Kampf.
After what those kids have gone through for the past year? Their skins are tougher than Elephant hide. Nothing from the left would phase them now.
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