Posted on 09/07/2009 12:51:47 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Parents do not trust the Educator-in-Chief and his "comrades." You can take Obama from the radicals in Chicago. But you can't take the Chicago radicalism out of Obama. – Michelle Malkin
On Tuesday the President of the United States will speak to school children across the nation in a television address. A large number of parents will keep their children home in the belief that this is an inappropriate use of the bully pulpit. But what did they expect from a community organizer whose playbook is Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky? (To understand Rules for Radicals, see my previous op-ed.)
Barack Obama is a relentless self-promoter who requires hours of face time to feed his narcissism. He has had more prime-time news conferences aired in his first seven months in office and more images on front pages of magazines than most modern presidents have had in four years.
In trying to ram his agenda down American’s throats, he plays the front man. Never mind that the expensive, overreaching bills recently enacted by Congress are not his own, they fit nicely into his vision for a changed America. Channeling Billy Mays, Obama merely pitches the product.
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that Obama views us as rubes willing to pay a dime to see the freak show providing the pitch is properly delivered. It’s no surprise that grown ups across the nations are becoming leery. So let’s get the kids on board.
The other day my nephew announced that the polar bears are an endangered species. I did some research about polar bears when I was teaching. Polar bears are at the pinnacle of the North American food chain. They are smart, adaptable, omnivores (able to eat almost anything) and have no natural predators. A polar bear can swim 25 miles without breaking a sweat. There are about 20 distinct polar bear populations representing about 22,000 individuals worldwide. Ten regional populations, approximately 45% of the total number are stable. Another two populations, about 14% of the population, are increasing. The status of the remaining six populations is unknown. Therefore it is difficult to argue that polar bears are in any way endangered.
Where did my nephew learn about the polar bear’s eventual demise? He saw the slide of the frightened bear sitting on the melting ice flow far from shore, surrounded by nothing but open water in grade school. (He wasn’t told that the photo was taken in summer time when ice tends to melt.) It’s easy to manipulate children into believing just about anything.
Before his election, Obama launched a plan to build a citizen service corps that is as well funded and as powerful as the military. He has more corps organizations than people to fill them. Some of his corps include: Classroom Corps; Health Corps; Clean Energy Corps; Veterans Corps; Homeland Security Corps; Peace Corps; Global Energy Corps; AmeriCorps VISTA; Experience Corps; Senior Corps and Green Job Corps.
Under Obama’s vision, these corps would be manned primarily by Kool-Aid drinking adults. But Americans are finally beginning to see the big picture and it scares the bejeezus out of them. So Obama has to rely on students to drive his agenda: Kids; children with heads full of mush. It will take a little longer, but an army of well indoctrinated children can eventually accomplish anything their handlers ask of them.
Obama’s school address to America’s students on September 8 will be innocuous enough, with only a few nuances that will seem innocent on the surface to disarm concerned parents. See, there wasn’t much to it. Nothing to worry about.
Not yet.
Schools have been using students as lobbyists for just about everything of interest to the left including illegal immigration, gay marriage, anti-war activism, environmentalism and global warming. The lesson plans submitted to principals and teachers regarding Obama’s address this week tell the whole story.
Teachers are being instructed to ask questions like, “What is the President asking us to do?” and “How can we, as students, accomplish what the President asks us?” Students are also being encouraged to write to the Whitehouse describing how they would support the President. Not a single school board or parent was consulted about the lessons.
The radical agenda is sure to come later, after Obama has the hearts and minds of the kids under his control and a virtual army of enabling liberal teachers to promote his master plan.
Many of us weren't looking for change let alone asking for it.
What did they expect?
Peace, love, dope!
And everything is free!
(oh yeah, and “STICK IT TO THE MAN!)
Nothing.
Only insisting.
You and I weren't, but let's face the facts.
A large majority of the people who voted expected some sort of "change", whatever that meant to the individual.
And let's not forget to give credit to the apathetic voters, many of them parents of the 60's, who were too busy to raise their kids the way my parents did.
With a hug and a kind word of encouragement when we did well, and a hard lesson when we did not follow through with the lessons we all knew we understood to be S.O.P.
Schools have become skools, Christianity has become looked down upon as a backward cult, and political correctness has forced the vast majority to cower (mostly with no fight) to the sick and depraved social norms of the perverted left.
End of rant...
And properly indoctrinated kids will grow up to be adults who will think its perfectly all right to drive Mom and Dad to the Green Hills Termination Center for “the common good.” Parents who don’t teach their children to be wary of government will have only themselves to blame when it turns out badly for them.
A large portion of the population bought the ginned up Bush hate. Hate easily blinds people into doing things they may not otherwise do.
“And the people of the government, by the government, and for the government will not prosper on the earth.”
Not by a long shot my FRiend!
And those people I am targeting. I ask them, “All the hate you had for Bush, and you give Obama a pass for the same things (and worse). Either explain why Obama gets a pass or promise me you will start paying more attention to politics and spread the word to your (liberal) friends that you were wrong, and that Obama must be stopped.
I get a lot of “I know what you're saying. I'll think about it.” I'm making progress getting through to them!
My Democrat friends are really shook up about the direction he's taking us all. All but one. Bruce drank the Kool-Aid and I see little hope for him.
But I have fun proving him wrong in crowds!!
At first this is what these folks I was talking about did. Now they won’t even talk about it. Been duped and they know it.
On Tuesday the President of the United States will speak to school children across the nation in a television address
Well maybe.
First many of the largest cities school systems will not be open by that date.
Second,many,many schools district will not be showing the Obama feedinstead psoting it on the schools website.
Third many parenst are insisting that their children not be forced to watch a blatantly poltical speech.
Fouth,many parents will keeptheir children home from school.
Good job Obama. Way to get our children educated...........
It's not about Democrats or Republicans.
It's about saving the Republic and getting back to the intent that the Founding Fathers had when they wrote the Constitution.
The poeple I know who voted Obama have stopped talking. Tacit admission that I told you so.
So now I need to strike up conversation with complete strangers. That’s going well, I usually start with how is the hopey changey treating you.
What state are you in?
Starting a conversation like that in some places will get you in trouble (or shot!)
Florida
Obama will clean out the jails and put former inmates in charge of his civilian security force. He, on the other hand, is still looking for a church to go to on Sunday.
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