Posted on 09/07/2009 9:15:27 AM PDT by buccaneer81
Edited on 09/07/2009 4:33:05 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
bump that
You can expect Owebama to use this speech as a wedge to make other speeches on a regular basis to our kids. Incrementalism at the basic level.
It is so insideous even FR members are being deceived by the oratory. I just want to get my duct tape out, my head is about to explode and blood shoot out my eyes.
From the Laura Bush thread:
Laura said, ““And that is encourage their own children to stay in school and to study hard and to try to achieve the dream that they have.”
vs.
What you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this country.
and make our nation more fair and more free.
and boost our economy
We need every single one of you
you’re quitting on your country
you give up on your country
who loved their country too much to do anything less than their best
say about what all of you did for this country?
So don’t let us down – don’t let your family or your country
Big difference than encouraging them to pursue their dreams? It is a huge difference! Why can’t folks see it? Plus add on the “lesson plan” matter and it is indoctrination.
Those critical thinking skills are not what you are considering, they are the critical thinking skills of the scholastic socialist model.
“and it is indoctrination.”
Pure and simple.
You can’t have it both ways. Read the speech. It is more than just get your act together, study, and make good grades. Kids K-12 are being told that they must fight poverty and homelessness and make America more fair and more free. At the same time this Marxist is making us less free and redistributing wealth. He is also running up a huge debt that will make our children and their children’s lives worse than ours. They will be taxed to death and the standard of living in this country will decline significantly.
“Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected with it... All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals. It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children.”
- George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 2
The message to work hard, study and help others is okay, but it should come from parents.
The use of “I” or a contraction with “I” was used about 54 times. It was used repeatedly in the first paragraph, as the first word in the sentence. His speech writer needs some work, but the basic message to work hard was evident.
Now, does this make him look like a hero to kids, the man out there
“fixing their schools?”
He said he is “working hard to fix” them, but what is he really doing?
Stimulus money used to help fix schools and buy books will eventually be paid back by these very kids.
Is this politics? Yes, pure and simple.
I still say, he should give the speech to his own children, not mine.
“Kids K-12 are being told that they must fight poverty and homelessness and make America more fair and more free.”
I didn’t read that statement in the draft copy.
Laxcoach said: “There isn’t anything about individual success. It’s all about the collective. There is only one individual in this narrative. The President. Everyone else must succeed for the good of the collective.”
You make an excellent point - i had to go back and read it again - These ideas are carefully crafted into this speech and should be pointed out in discussions.
Never let your guard down!
I won’t go on anything whitehouse.gov
Can you please post it.
Keep the kids home. Liberal nonsense, just like we said it would be.
It’s posted downthread and also on FoxNews.com.
"You’ll need the insights and critical thinking skills you gain in history and social studies to fight poverty and homelessness, crime and discrimination, and make our nation more fair and more free. You’ll need the creativity and ingenuity you develop in all your classes to build new companies that will create new jobs and boost our economy."
Notice the collectivist tone to all of this. We must study to further the interests of the state. Also in the speech,
"And this isn’t just important for your own life and your own future. What you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this country. What you’re learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the future...We need every single one of you to develop your talents, skills and intellect so you can help solve our most difficult problems. If you don’t do that – if you quit on school – you’re not just quitting on yourself, you’re quitting on your country."
"Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted. Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever."
Vladimir Lenin
42 or 43 paragraphs long and about 15 of them have “I” as the first word or in the first few words. Didn’t count all them in the whole speech.
56.
I may have missed it, but it looks like the line I saw earlier today quoted on FOX News, I think, has been scrubbed. SOmething to the effect that “you probably won’t have a career as a rapper.....or a Reality TV Star”.....
to which my first thought was, “Hey, it worked for YOU!”
Come to think of it, that pretty much describes Obama:
“Our MOST famous Reality TV Star.”
I know that sometimes, you get the sense from TV that you can be rich and successful without any hard work — that your ticket to success is through rapping or basketball or being a reality TV star, when chances are, you’re not going to be any of those things.
I couldn’t get through the whole thing. That was really boring. If he was going for “inspiring” I’m thinking he failed. All I can think of is poor little Kindergarten children having to sit through this on what may be their first day of school. *yawn* The teachers are going to have a room full of wiggling, fidgety kids.
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