Posted on 09/08/2009 5:22:00 AM PDT by shortstop
It’s fairly simple, really.
Tens of millions of American parents don’t trust him. The upset over this morning’s presidential address to schoolchildren isn’t about the partisan divide, it’s about the president’s arrogance.
After seven months of crammed-down-your-throat Obama agenda, half the country has had a bellyful. After seven months of being told that they don’t matter, half the country is returning the sentiment.
They don’t trust him with their children not because they’re paranoid, but because he’s not trustworthy. He has shown himself to be an enemy to their values and beliefs – to be hostile to their families and their country – and they are merely saying, “Stay the hell away from our kids.”
This isn’t about Republicans, this is about Barack Obama. Specifically, it is about a president who steamrolled and marginalized those who didn’t vote for him and who now is astounded that they won’t kiss his royal backside. He wants to be a rock star but nobody’s buying tickets.
Here’s the background.
The Department of Education sent out talking points for teachers, outlines of lesson plans intended to precede and follow a then-unannounced speech by the president to elementary school students. Troublesome in the wording was a suggested assignment that pupils be asked to write down a plan for how they could help President Obama.
That ticked people off.
But that was only part of it.
Because not only didn’t parents want their kids being drafted into the Obama army, they didn’t want this particular socialist politicizing the classroom.
When you’ve got a classroom being run by an NEA member and you’re piping in Barack Hussein Orwell, all of a sudden the home-school people don’t seem so kooky. All of a sudden it seems like an unnecessary lecture intended primarily to indoctrinate the impressionable into the cult of Big Brother.
Parents don’t so much mind the president talking to their children, but seven months have taught the country to expect propaganda, not talk.
Further, about half the country simply doesn’t trust his basic philosophy.
Like the notion that America’s children need a lecture on doing their homework from the head of the federal government.
See, the federal government isn’t in charge of my children’s education – I am. And American children don’t need the president to tell them that education is important – that’s what parents are for.
Every child in every classroom has a parent or guardian who can talk to them about doing their homework and paying attention in school. Every student in every classroom has a teacher or two who can talk to them about working hard and setting goals.
For crying out loud, even Bill Cosby is telling children about the importance of education.
We don’t need the jug-eared Marxist-in-Chief to think that the nanny government has to get in the act. And, no offense intended, but there are a bunch of us who think that “community organizer” is not exactly the role model we want our children following. For a certain portion of America, squealing for a bigger cut of other people’s tax money isn’t particularly noble and it’s not what we want our kids to grow up to do.
Further, we prefer that people who used illegal drugs not hold themselves out as teachers of the young. We are not impressed by the irony that the guy in charge of the military would be barred – by virtue of his teen-aged drug use – from enlisting in the military.
But the bottom line isn’t politics or philosophy – it’s the way he’s treated us. He has treated half the electorate like dirt and has done nothing, through the first eighth of his term, to make friends or earn himself the benefit of the doubt.
Typically, when someone wins an election, he sets out to reassure and woo the folks who didn’t vote for him. Typically, basic decency makes a politician want to show he’s serving all the people.
The Obama Administration and the Democrats who control Congress have had no such disposition. It has been an arrogance unmatched for decades as divergent views have been dismissed and mocked. Half the country feels that the president and the Congress are condescendingly dismissive of them.
He has had seven months to extend an olive branch. He has chosen not to. He has chosen instead to attack people and philosophies different from his. He has chosen to play fast and loose with American tradition and principle. He has practiced scorched-earth politics against the people whose taxes support his grand dreams. He has dismissed anyone who doesn’t agree with him.
And tens of millions of Americans don’t want a person like that talking to their children.
And I’m one of them.
Someone too irresponsible to pay their traffic fines from 30 years ago untill he was on his way to the White House shouldn't be talking about "responsibility" to kids, and parents should all give their kids a P.A.S.S. on Pres'ent DUh-bama's dictates. Instead of an "opt out", Parents school administrators as well as teachers should stand up and give him a salute...
The bus stops outside my home were practically empty this morning. I saw only two kids out of what normally would be about 35.
EXACTLY!
I opted-out my son from watching his speech. The guy doesn’t have a clue why America is free and he’s going to tell my kid to work hard and make America ‘more free’? Idiot.
From the lesson plan.
“Why is it important that we listen to the president and
other elected officials, like the mayor, senators, members
of congress, or the governor? Why is what they say important?”
“Create posters of their goals. Posters could be formatted
in quadrants, puzzle pieces, or trails marked with the
following labels: personal, academic, community, and
country.”
Why is this unimportant to you?
http://www.ed.gov/teachers/how/lessons/prek-6.pdf
Too true!! He tried so hard to convince about 50% of Americans that they were too backward and crude to MATTER that well... we finally got the drift.... We're finally convinced!!!
Take your wall-to-wall Obama and stuff it, can it or serve it up hot to the 50% who give a s^%$ but we're not having it. Remember, we don't matter!!!
Thought I would never say this, buy Hooray! My kid’s school is on Strike. His district 7,500 kids, won’t be watching Obama.
“Good morning boys and girls. I’m King Barack the Mild and I’m so pleased to be able to speak to all you little boys and girls who weren’t aborted by your Mommies”.
I’ve read bits and pieces of the “lesson plan,” including the section you quoted, here on FR.
I totally understand why many parents would/will keep their kids home today, I just don’t happen to be one of them. If I even contemplated such a move my daughter would have been all over me about it. Today’s the 1st day of school, and her 1st day in Middle School, nothing short of an act of God would have kept her away today, and I don’t blame her.
Even if they were to implement the entire “lesson plan” I would not be concerned, as she’s pretty grounded in her positions, even at 11. She put up with a lot of grief last year with her support of McCain/Palin, but stood her ground and never backed down.
Knowing her, if they do show the speech in school, it will be the very first thing she tells me when she gets home.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2334250/posts
Of course the birth certificate court case TODAY is really wouldn't be an excuse would it.
Not only is it that we don’t trust “Obeyme,” but we know from past Obama theatre, his goal is to present himself as “totally cool” to all these blank-slate young minds.
Even if he doesn’t politicize today’s speech, he’s laying the groundwork for the future evil handiwork of the Obama/Emanuel Regime.
Parents should NOT let him have this opportunity.
Lonsberry has hit it out of the ballpark!
Excellent post.
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Exactly right.
Of course, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. He's looking to "control" the evening news. No doubt in my mind.
Instead of that, maybe they could read books authored by BHO and discover what he really thinks -- or better yet, play the audio version for the class.
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