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Racism Behind Calls To Boycott President Obama's Speech To Kids (Saw this one coming)
American Chronicle ^ | September 6, 2009 | Robert Paul Reyes

Posted on 09/06/2009 5:49:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

This has been the summer of the town hall meeting trolls. This Astroturf movement has been whipping up hysteria -- warning that health care reform is the first step in Obama's master plan to set up a socialist government.

These right-wing nutjobs have a vendetta against Obama, they depict the president as a socialist who is against Mom, apple pie and democracy.

Obama is a wonky intellectual who speaks in calm and measured tones, and I find it difficult to understand how anybody could possibly mistake him for a dangerous radical.

But I guess I'm not a racist who sees only Obama's black skin, and overlooks his eloquence, intelligence and bipartisan spirit.

Now these same conservative crazies are apoplectic over Obama's plan to speak to schoolchildren this coming Tuesday.

"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 co ntroversy now raging over President Obama's plan to del iver 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.'" Tim Tutten/LA Times

Obama is seeking to motivate students "to work hard, set educational goals and take responsibility for their learning." Don't those goals perfectly encapsulate the conservative Republican ethic? Then why are the Republicans calling for parents not to let their children listen to the president's speech?

In 1991 President George HW Bush made a similar speech to schoolchildren:

"I was intrigued by the links to a Washington Post story about George H.W. Bush speaking to school children on October 1, 1991. My daughter was in school then and I didn't remember hearing about her watching any such event.

On WESTLAW, I looked up other news stories about the speech. It was reported as 10 minutes in some reports and 12 minutes in others. It was carried live on CNN, PBS, and [the NBC] and Mutual radio [networks]. The Secretary of Education sent a letter urging schools to have their students watch, but I didn't find any evidence of how many schools followed that recommendation. And most striking: Bush laid out goals - to increase the graduation rate, improve student competency and better prepare students for entering school - and said, 'Let me know how you're doing. Write me a letter. I'm serious about this one. Write me a letter about ways you can help us achieve our goals.'"

http://volokh.com/posts/1252117357.shtml

Conservatives didn't mind when President George HW Bush and President Reagan addressed our schoolchildren, but they are in a tizzy over Obama's speech to students.

Obama is the President of the United States for God's sake, why all the controversy and paranoia over his speech to students? The birthers, tea baggers, pro-life zealots, gun nuts, Palin sycophants, and town hall meeting trolls have managed to convince many Republicans that Obama is a dangerous radical with a secret agenda to indoctrinate our children into socialism.

If Obama weren't black none of the crazy accusations that have been hurled at him would stick. Unfortunately it's very easy for some of these ignorant conservatives to believe that a black president is trying to undermine our democracy.

It's time for prominent Republicans to speak out against the tea baggers and town hall trolls who have inaccurately and unfairly depicted Obama as a dangerous radical. All good Americans (Republicans and Democrats) should unite in defending Obama against these scurrilous accusations.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: angrymob; dnctalkingpoints; education; healthcare; liberalfascism; obama; obamacare; propaganda; racism; thisisjuststupid; townhalls
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To: SkyPilot

With this in mind and in our daily view it is becoming a thing of race very quickly.


41 posted on 09/06/2009 6:37:46 PM PDT by tiger63
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To: sniper63

It’s not that his skin is black but that his policies are RED !I don’t think anyone here has a problem with Justice Thomas ,Thomas Sowell,or Dr.Walter Williams anyone of which I would be proud to support and who I might add have not only have reached the top of their profession but inspire all Americans by their excellence.


42 posted on 09/06/2009 6:37:54 PM PDT by bonehead4freedom (Republicans=Whigs 2009)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Playing the racism card with Obama is the latest symbol of cowardliness. They can’t debate the issue so they resort to the race card.


43 posted on 09/06/2009 6:39:30 PM PDT by Jeff Gordon (Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I find it difficult to understand how anybody could possibly mistake him for a dangerous radical.

Funny, but more than 1/2 the population has no trouble with it.

44 posted on 09/06/2009 6:40:12 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: FreedomGuru
Our elementary schools have sent home a message that they just can't fit Mr. Obama’s speech into the busy schedule. they gave 5 reasons. Two reasons were, 1. It is grandparents day so the children are already distracted. and 2. the speech would be at 12 noon and they did not want to (let anything ruin the children's lunch.) No actually, they said that they have tried lunch hour stuff before but the kids just do not listen, so it would be a waste of time. The administration said that if an individual teacher felt her/his class needed to see this that they could, but the students could opt out.
45 posted on 09/06/2009 6:47:20 PM PDT by cotton
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To: cotton
Freeper parent alert:
SEPTEMBER 8, 2009 “KEEP YOUR KIDS AT HOME DAY”
for any and all parents of school age children in the U.S. Public School System.
46 posted on 09/06/2009 6:50:12 PM PDT by Mr. Wright
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

....town hall trolls....

Does that refer to the SEIU and ACORN thugs who beat up seniors and intimidated the families of ex-Marines and fathers of cerebral palsy patients who DARED to make effective comments at TownHalls?

Here’s what’s REALLY motivating parents to keep their children home from school on Tuesday:

Love for their children
Love of God (not wanting to substitute worship of Dear Leader for worship of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit)
Love of their country (not wanting our America to become a Third World dictatorship).
Fear and anger at obama’s “health care” program, which will mandate age-based rationing and stick its tentacles into every doctor’s office in America, all while raising costs and lowering quality for all patients.

I don’t see “racism” as much (if any) of a factor at all!


47 posted on 09/06/2009 6:51:37 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The problem is that Obama’s past makes people wary of him. Not without some reason.


48 posted on 09/06/2009 7:03:05 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Yes, we disagree - no, we won't shut up - no, we won't quit.)
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To: blam
For example: "Did you see that accident yesterday? Yup, it was racist."

Did you see that the Piggly Wiggly had Oreos on sale? Yup, it was racist.

49 posted on 09/06/2009 7:03:05 PM PDT by Free State Four
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sorry Reyes but we don’t want our great Country changed and we are fighting to keep it. Out with the communists - I don’t give a damn what color they are.


50 posted on 09/06/2009 7:04:37 PM PDT by jersey117
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Whatever. Red is so 1960.


51 posted on 09/06/2009 7:16:20 PM PDT by madison10
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To: beelzepug; 2ndDivisionVet
obama is NOT a wonk. Mike Dukakis is a wonk. I'm a wonk.

Take away obama's teleprompter and you'll see that he is no intellectual. He is a blithering idiot!!!! But that does not make him any less dangerous.

52 posted on 09/06/2009 7:27:55 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sorry...NOT! Your racism card has been revoked due to misuse.


53 posted on 09/06/2009 7:29:42 PM PDT by Curious George1978
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It isn’t racism you ignorant lefty jerks. We just don’t want a commie preaching to our kids, no matter what color he is.


54 posted on 09/06/2009 7:33:55 PM PDT by BuffaloJack (Obama's New New Deal = The Raw Deal)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama is more of Arabian ancestry if a person were to look at his genealogy.

I am not hesitant to be racist to Arabians, especially after 9/11.


55 posted on 09/06/2009 7:40:01 PM PDT by Eye of Unk ("If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." T. Paine)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think we’re in a flat out cultural war and soon to be a race war or revolution.


56 posted on 09/06/2009 7:40:58 PM PDT by garyhope ( It's world war IV, right here, right now, courtesy of Islamofascism.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Surprised it took them this long.”

Exactly! The libs showed what they were made of in the way they trashed Condi Rice and any other black person they didn’t agree with. They are nothing but hypocrites and I could care less what they say or think. If they think they can shut us up and steal our country by screaming racist at every turn they are in for a rude awakening.


57 posted on 09/06/2009 7:58:41 PM PDT by jim35 (A racist is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“It’s time for prominent Republicans to speak out against the tea baggers and town hall trolls ... “

Hey, the Chronicle forgot the “right wing domestic terrorists” smear! Paging
Messrs. McCain and Bush: please pick up the white discourtesy phone!


58 posted on 09/06/2009 7:59:30 PM PDT by tumblindice (Bienvenidos a Estados Unidos! Now, up against the wall left=wing putos.)
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To: blam

“For example: “Did you see that accident yesterday? Yup, it was racist.”

Lol!


59 posted on 09/06/2009 7:59:42 PM PDT by jim35 (A racist is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.)
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To: Free State Four
"Did you see that the Piggly Wiggly had Oreos on sale? Yup, it was racist. "

You get it.

But, that's because you're racist. lol.

60 posted on 09/06/2009 8:07:56 PM PDT by blam
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