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Prepared text of Obama's speech to school students
The Associated Press (hosted on Google) ^ | September 8, 2009

Posted on 09/07/2009 7:34:02 PM PDT by myknowledge

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To: HIDEK6

“I think the guy comes off smarmy and dishonest.”

Got to agree, he giggles up to the mike like an Elvis impersonator, then looks for the prompter. If this be oratorical excellence in our time; all is lost.

Rab


41 posted on 09/07/2009 8:28:45 PM PDT by Rabin
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To: Salvation

Most of it sounds like what most parents tell their kids on a consistant basis.

Parents that love and care for their kids.

Why does Obama feel he needs to tell All American Kids/teens what they here at home anyway or from the foster parents/care providers who are subbing for parents.

Waste of time.
He is going to do in one speech what parents do on a daily basis in some form.

I guess the only difference is as parents we dont say I /I /I /Yie Yah Yie we say you/you/you to the child.


42 posted on 09/07/2009 8:31:22 PM PDT by Global2010 (Strange We Can Believe In)
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To: myknowledge

Okay, read the text of the speech....a little free thought here....

First, what a self indulgent piece of crap. I suffered through this and that, I am going to fix your school and such....he stops just short of telling how he’s going to defeat Lex Luthor and save the world.

Second, according to his speech, what a pig stye we live in, huh? Crime, discrimination, unfairness....he’s never even heard of anything about America other than problems. Now, he is going to try to fix it all, but you kids d@mn well better study, or this ramshackle experiment known as western civ might just go off the tracks. Seriously kiddies, cyanide capsules are available in the back of the class for those of you who want to skip the pain and end it all.

I’m not going to take my kid out of school tomorrow. I dont know that I would encourage anyone to do that. This seems to me to be more of a teachable moment. I have briefed my daughter to be respectful, but to remember that just because he is the President, scrutinize everything he says. Tomorrow night, we will read and discuss President Reagans speech to the nation’s schoochidren (spelling intended) and note the differences in tone and message. America is a great place, not a cesspool....our future is bright, not full of pain and suffering. Hopefully, I can teach her to spot BS when she hears it....as she will until at least 2012 in heaping mounds.


43 posted on 09/07/2009 8:34:11 PM PDT by SoCalTransplant (Old and Busted: Republican or Democrat? New Hotness: American or World Citizen?)
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To: Global2010

I heard a caller on Hannity’s radio program who identified himself as a school Superintendent. He said it is the responsibility of the parents, not the schools or Obama, to give this kind of guidance to their children. He said Obama should have said he was going to give this kind of speech and ask that parents and their children gather together to listen and then discuss it afterwards as a family.


44 posted on 09/07/2009 8:37:45 PM PDT by Fu-fu2
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To: GOPrincess

LOL it was kinda of a pity poor me downer in parts.

My son (now 30) never felt lonely being a only child with one parent.

We adapted and did the Church/teachers/comminty extended family.

Just not the same Marxist types he grew up with...I lived a life with those type of mentors as he did and ran like hell when I hit a legal age.

Warned my son from those wolves and he turned out to be the geekiest/ coolist/ social loving/ Conservative Catholic I know.
(I may be prejudice regarding my son)


45 posted on 09/07/2009 8:40:51 PM PDT by Global2010 (Strange We Can Believe In)
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To: myknowledge

I didn’t ask Mr. Obama, that friend of terrorists bombers, that follower of racists American hating preachers, to talk to my children! The Public Schools are not his personal forum for bypassing parents. Of course we all knew this was the intention all along of the teacher unions to indoctrinate our children. I don’t care if he is the President, no Communist loving President is going to smile in my children’s face and soften them up to his ways. Who the hell does he think he is! If he knocked on my door and asked to talk to my children, I would wish him a good day and then close the door in his face.


46 posted on 09/07/2009 8:47:12 PM PDT by discipler (How's that 'hope and change' working for 'ya? - RL)
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To: Salvation

Yeh, where’s the part where he’s informs everyon how he’s ending the school voucher program for poor DC school children???


47 posted on 09/07/2009 8:55:49 PM PDT by Hammerhead
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To: Hammerhead

He seems to have left that little tidbit out, huh?


48 posted on 09/07/2009 9:01:33 PM PDT by Salvation (With God all things are possible.)
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To: myknowledge
He reminds us of Adolf Hitler, for he was an excellent orator.

I've seen Hitler's speeches and 0bama is no Hitler. Speechwise anyway. Hitler didn't have a teleprompter either.

49 posted on 09/07/2009 9:13:08 PM PDT by Graybeard58 ( Selah.)
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To: B-Chan
but in my opinion this was a good speech.

Don't you think it was drastically revised after the uproar?

50 posted on 09/07/2009 9:16:30 PM PDT by Graybeard58 ( Selah.)
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To: AUsome Joy
He is very self centered and it would be easy to name ten better speakers than him. He is barely a average speaker.
51 posted on 09/07/2009 9:23:31 PM PDT by Big Horn (Rebuild the GOP to a conservative party)
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To: myknowledge

Well, if that is verbatim what he will say, I have no problem with it. The overall message is to work hard, learn and overcome your adversities. Probably couldn’t have written a beter speech myself. I mightn have used different diction in at least one place, but if I dissagree with BHO over a word or two, we are practically in agreement. Good positive speech, without any of the “Working toward a common goal, Supporting your comrades” stuff.
I still think he is a sheep in wolfs clothing acting like a sheep in foreign affairs and a wolf in sheeps clothing domesticly, and I doubt this was the speech he intended. That is, until the microscope came down and he had a deadline to perform to.


52 posted on 09/07/2009 9:51:08 PM PDT by When do we get liberated? (STATE CONTROLLED ECONOMIES SUCK ! LONG LIVE AMERICA.)
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To: B-Chan
I know that feeling. When I was young, my family lived in Indonesia for a few years, and my mother didn’t have the money to send me where all the American kids went to school.

the first thing that struck me when I read that sentence is that in the same circumstance I would have said “my mother didn’t have the money to send me where all the OTHER American kids went to school. I don't think he thinks of himself as an American kid.

53 posted on 09/07/2009 9:55:13 PM PDT by calljack (Sometimes your worst nightmare is just a start.)
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To: Big Horn

Obama said, “Students who sat where you sit 20 years ago who founded Google, Twitter and Facebook and changed the way we communicate with each other”

I broke out laughing when I got to this part. The American Revolution, civil rights, man on the moon, Twitter - something there just doesn’t belong. Clearly an attempt by Obama to sound hip and cool.


54 posted on 09/07/2009 9:59:59 PM PDT by Elyse (I refuse to feed the crocodile.)
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55 posted on 09/07/2009 10:36:07 PM PDT by myknowledge (F-22 Raptor: World's Largest Distributor of Sukhoi parts!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Or his Fascist One World Government Kingdom of Antichrist agenda.


56 posted on 09/07/2009 10:38:03 PM PDT by myknowledge (F-22 Raptor: World's Largest Distributor of Sukhoi parts!)
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To: svcw

Self-centered self-worship. Me first, you last.


57 posted on 09/07/2009 10:44:39 PM PDT by myknowledge (F-22 Raptor: World's Largest Distributor of Sukhoi parts!)
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To: nmh

Effective because Satan provided Hitler with the gift of oratory skills, to stir up his German sheeple.


58 posted on 09/07/2009 10:51:43 PM PDT by myknowledge (F-22 Raptor: World's Largest Distributor of Sukhoi parts!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Obama's Waterloo Hx repeats itself 9/1994



59 posted on 09/07/2009 11:02:29 PM PDT by steve0 (My plan B: christianexodus.org/)
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To: myknowledge
These prepared remarks are the equivalent of the use (more widespread in the past than now) of the lab coat in commercials or the phrase "experts agree" or "four out of five doctors say that...." They are props used to gain the trust of the hearer. By telling the hearer things that are, in themselves, innocuous, he hopes to pass himself off as innocuous. They also serve the function of shilling for trust: "Wow, he told me the same things that my parents tell me. So I can trust whatever he says just like I trust my parents" or "Wow, my parents don't even bother to tell me to do well in school and that it's my responsibility. So he really does care about me and I can believe whatever he says."

The unremarkable truths also serve to help to disguise the mistruths:
--that he was a poor boy growing up (as a young child up to ages five or six he wouldn't have even been able to think of rich versus poor or of how his life differed materially from that of others; he was either with a well-to-do adoptive father in Indonesia and attending private school or with his grandfather and grandmother who was a vice-president of a bank in Hawaii and attending an exclusive private school)

--that he had no father or father figure in his life (he had his grandfather from birth, then Lolo Soetoro, then his grandfather again as well as Frank Marshall Davis)

--that he was too poor to go to school where the other "American kids" went to school (because at that point A. he was no longer American, having been adopted by an Indonesian, B. he was attending a private school that offered Islamic religious instruction, something most "American kids" didn't have any use for).
In other words, since he was a poor, fatherless child like so many of his audience, he knows just what it's like to be them and if they want to grow up to be well-to-do and powerful like him they should pay attention to whatever he tells them.
60 posted on 09/08/2009 3:05:23 AM PDT by aruanan
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