Posted on 09/08/2009 4:14:44 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The start of school has been moved ahead a day, so our kids will miss some hard-earned wisdom from the man who proved anyone really can grow up to be President.
They will also miss a perfect opportunity to discuss why nut-job conservatives got into such a tizzy over President Obama's back-to-school speech Tuesday to students across the country about the importance of assuming responsibility for their education.
Why did people who thought it was fine for the first President George Bush to address millions of schoolkids decide it was an outrage for Obama to do the same?
Are these the same people who are the most vocal against his efforts to institute universal health care?
Does their vehemence really arise from their objections to Obama's politics?
Do they really just dislike Obama himself?
And is this dislike related less to his politics than his race?
Is the supposedly political opposition really just a cover for people afraid to say they can't accept a black man in the White House?
If that is so, if they are (barely) secret racists, do they become particularly unhinged at the thought of a black President addressing their children?
Or do the nut jobs honestly believe what they say?
Do they actually think schoolkids are endangered by hearing their President say, "Now, I know it's not always easy to do well in school. I know a lot of you have challenges in your lives right now that can make it hard to focus on your schoolwork. I get it. I know what that's like. My father left my family when I was 2 years old, and I was raised by a single mother who struggled at times to pay the bills and wasn't always able to give us things the other kids had. There were times when I missed having a father in my life. There were times when I was lonely and felt like I didn't fit in."
Do the conservatives really think kids should not hear the President go on to say, "But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life - what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you've got going on at home - that's no excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude. That's no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of school. That's no excuse for not trying."
What parent would not want the President to tell kids, "You can't let your failures define you - you have to let them teach you. You have to let them show you what to do differently next time. If you get in trouble, that doesn't mean you're a troublemaker, it means you need to try harder to behave. If you get a bad grade, that doesn't mean you're stupid, it just means you need to spend more time studying. No one's born being good at things. You become good at things through hard work."
How can any American not be glad for the President to further counsel kids, "And even when you're struggling, even when you're discouraged, and you feel like other people have given up on you - don't ever give up on yourself. Because when you give up on yourself, you give up on your country. The story of America isn't about people who quit when things got tough. It's about people who kept going, who tried harder, who loved their country too much to do anything less than their best."
What American would not cheer when the President says, "I expect you to get serious this year. I expect you to put your best effort into everything you do. I expect great things from each of you. So don't let us down - don't let your family or your country or yourself down. Make us all proud."
Our own kids would have started the year with those words, but deals between the city and the teachers and principals unions moved the start of classes from today to tomorrow.
And no kid can be expected to come in from playing to tune the TV past the Disney Channel to a message from the President, even one so profoundly and historically cool as Obama.
Tomorrow, partly in answer to the nut jobs, more for the sake ofour kids, every school in the city should begin by playing Obama's message.
A discussion should immediately follow as to why anybody would not want them to hear it.
Perhaps because George Bush is a patriot who loves America.
Why did people who thought it was fine for the first President George Bush to address millions of schoolkids decide it was an outrage for Obama to do the same?
Maybe because George Bush wasnt a Communist?
I don’t care if they play Obummers speech. I also don’t need him to tell my kids to do their best. They get that pep talk from their mom and dad on a regular basis.
Maybe because it’s that Obama surrounds himself with racist, white hating, American hating, anti-establishment, anti capitalist communists and socialists?
Hey dimwit...maybe we're in such a "tizzy" because people like you consider people like us "nutjobs" and want to indoctrinate our kids accordingly.
I’d be more interested to know how 0bama could be the on the Harvard Law Review and not have one single publication to his name. Hey kids, its easy to go to Harvard on affirmative action and some weed, a little cocaine when you can afford it, but no heroin!
Remember, every chance you get you must denigrate western civilization; you must denounce capitalism in every form and forum; learn to hate the founders of this country; learn to hate white people as I have! I bring you the change and hope of Communist control over your pathetic lives.
Always view yourself as a victim of the successful people in society; steal from the rich so that you can give to me! Experience the beauty of soacialistic control as you awaken each day miserable, whining, complaining, depressed about you moronic meaningless life. It is the way of the Democrat party. It is how we live each day, hating everything and everyone who achieves in life!
And always obey your marxist teachers who obey my every command! They, and the other easily manipulated unions in Amerika are my lying, marching, thug armies doing my bidding!
Allah Akbar! Barry Barack Hussein Hitler Stalin Obama
I don't believe "the first President George Bush" surrounded himself with the radicals that surround Obama. I don't believe any past president surrounded himself with so many radicals. I wouldn't want anyone to whom Saul Alinsky was a guru addressing my kids regards of race, creed or present position of power.
I read somewhere or will read somewhere: "If you lay down with dogs, you'll get up with fleas".
Marxist poser piece of crap about sums up how I feel about this “magic negro “.
I wouldn’t let him walk my dog.
Because President Bush didn't issue orders to the department of "edu-ma-cation" to distribute lesson plans on socialist indoctrination equivilant to a "pledge of allegiance to the President" himself rather than the country.
Yes, that’s right, we want the president to deliver messages to students not only occasionally but every school day. Heck, have them take home pre-recorded Obama speeches to study in their spare times. The Fearless Leader must be in every home as well as every school. What could be wrong with that? (smirk)
Obama has no wisdom. Look at the racist haters and cult of death people he surrounds himself with.
Obama is a cunning crooked politician who uses speeches to make people believe his intentions are good when they are not.
I wouldn’t want Van Jones, Jeremiah Wright, or Ezekiel Emmanuel talking to my kids.
These people spew poison from their mouths.
0bama’s wisdom is the same as Ted Kennedy’s morals.
His wisdom gleaned from running community bake sales?
Or the wisdon he learned from 20 years of mentoring by Jeremiah Wright?
Here’s some lies he will be telling about his poor struggling to pay the bills deprived fatherless childhood:
1) Woke up at 4:30 to do lessons because the school was lacking in Indonesia. Whatever.
2) Father left family when 2 yo – Parents never lived together. Ann was in Seattle in Aug. 1961 to about Christmas 1963. She didn’t go back to Hawaii until after Senior left for Harvard on June 22, 1962.
3) Raised by his mom – Grandparents raised him.
4) Mom single – Ann and Senior were supposedly married in Feb. 2, 1961 on Maui and filed for divorce Jan. 27, 1964. Married Lolo Soetoro, a government relations officer of an American oil company and later executive, when he was 5-6. Ann filed for divorce in 1970.
5) Mom struggled to pay bills – Ann was an anthropologist (Phd.) and married to well off Soetoro. She worked for USAID, Asian Development Bank and trained the Mobile Credit Officers of the Agricultural Bank, a program officer for “Women and Employment” at the “Regional Southeast Asia Office of the Ford Foundation in Jakarta. and Women’s World Bank establishing micro-credit loans in developing countries.
Back in Hawaii with his grandparents, in 1972, he attended Punahou School, a elite private academy. Grandmother was vice president of the Bank of Hawaii. Grandfather worked at a furniture store.
6) He missed having a father – Grandfather and step father.
Our Kids Get The Truth.
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