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.
“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.”
That line right there made me chuckle out loud- as I know many teachers and know what they think of the home-school crowd.
Hee hee!
I’m going to use a version of that on them in the future, it’ll go something like this...”wow! your communist president is even crazier than those home-schoolers you like to make fun of!”
So you dont mind if the program becomes a continuing recrutment and activist program?
I do not see how getting kids to focus upon goals and how to attain them is a bad thing. In fact it should be done more than it is. I also do not see how that particular activity can be construed as a "recruitment" program.
To be honest I'm actually surprised by the list you posted because it is encouraging kids to excel and meet their goals. So often everyone hears of how schools do not do that because it would hurt the self esteem of the underachievers.
I am all for encouraging children to do their best, but there is only one child I am responsible for and that is my own child.
I don’t know how I feel about it, but I don’t think that I would like it if I were forced to sit through a speech I didn’t want to hear.
If the message was simply to study hard, stay in school etc., Obama could have easily had a Republican join him to give that message to remove any fears of partisanship, or trying to push an agenda.
How many times have we seen former Presidents Clinton and George HW Bush, together for various causes?
This speech will be squeaky clean - and they'll try to paint us as nuts. Obama was going to use this as the start of a youth cult - but it won't be that way now. If you have doubts, there's a thread of Hollywood lame-o's "pledging allegiance to Obama".
And that's the key.
Americans pledge allegiance to the flag and what it stands for - one nation - under God. NOT to a man. We as a free people have NEVER pledged our allegiance to a King, or dear leader - or dictator - or President.
And hopefully, never will...
We must not overplay our hand - the dems will come back for our children - and we don't want this "squeaky clean" speech to lull everyone...
ROFLMAO! Excellent. Thanks for posting. :-)
“It is about a 25 minute speech and the use of the word “I” is nothing but phenomenol in it.”
Tammy Bruce was saying that the word “I” is in the speech more times than all other keywords COMBINED!
“some schools may be watching the address, but no activities would take place.”
You can bet there will be subtle Hussein-worship activities throughout the school year. NEA can’t help themselves.
Our school told the teachers to allow the talk if it pertained to a subject they had going on in class. Most said they were opting out.
And no questions along the lines the administration first suggested.
Having read the speech and my 6 and 9 year olds already being thoroughly politicized by us, we have ours ready for it
Since we are taking them out for 3 days due to trips in October to the mountains and beach and that doesn’t even count DEER SEASON!!! or DUCK SEASON!!, we decided to have them attend and give a note to the teacher to excuse them or if they couldn’t to call and we would pick them up.
No calls.
Our principal is very conservative and Christian..like us..but she can’t walk on water, she has to live under a school board which is pretty politicized like most are here and they fear being a target of the Godless like in Wilson County TN.
We shall see.
I think that keeping kids home today will be powerful for the kids. If you keep them home and tell them exactly why (THIS president does not love America, THIS president thinks the Constitution is bad, THIS president has bad friends, etc.), it’ll be an event they’ll never, ever forget. It could focus their thinking about politics throughout their lifetimes.
Obama’s address to schoolchildren,hey kids you know what time it is? it’s kool-Aid time.
It’s used 50 or 60 times - but it’ll be scrubbed out. The dems are going to use this speech to try to make us look bad. Expect the speech to be perfect and wonderful in every sense of the word. Dems won’t be able to play their games with our kids until people have quit looking. Then their paid professional trolls will sing a different tune.
I don't either.
But first I would want to know exactly whose goals they are
and specifically what they are.
“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.”
Listed are personal , academic, community, and country.
What are the community, and country
goals?
That's what I want to know.
Yes, it will be ingrained in their psyches and they will remember Mom and Dad’s convictions on this just as I remember my parents’ and grandparents’ utter disregard for FDR’s policies. At first, I thought that parents should call their kids in sick, but the more I think about it, they should be honest and take whatever punitive licks the schools hand out for unexcused absences. Might not be a bad idea for some parents to do some research about home or private schools.
Sounds like wisdom is prevailing in your school. I still say that the root of this whole charade is to push groupthink on the little mushminds. Kids don’t like to be the outcast or the only one not on board. B.O. is counting on the implied pressure that his speech will bring. Since B.O. came on the scene, schoolkids who dare speak up against him are bullied and taunted—even by teachers! I think he is capitalizing on that. Otherwise, why not just PRINT up the speech and pass it out to kids?
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