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.
I’m going to work at an inner city charter school next week. If I see this indoctrination plan on an office desk, it’s going in the garbage.
our first thought was to keep them home especially with the books and collateral stuf we heard about
but our school is eschewing that and we have trips lined up so chose pragmatism over ideology this time
Son just got a couple of phone calls from some of his friends at school. They heard Obama giving an intro to his speech on their morning announcements, the obama supporters were cheering, his friends left school when homeroom was over.
And exactly has the chosen one done to “fight” poverty & homelessness. I havent’ heard a single plan, proposal, bill, or anything focusing on fighting poverty & homelessness....????
I'll ask my daughter when she gets home if it came up --- I'll then ask her those questions.
I'm not afraid of what she learns in school, I'm really not.
My husband is looking forward to looking through her History text and syllabus. I'm not so sure she is looking forward to him doing that, but she does know that Daddy knows his history and will neither tolerate nor allow revisionism in this house.
Look, I perfectly understand the animosity many have against the public school system, and I am often in agreement. However, I am not and never will be in agreement with those who believe that the entire public school system is evil incarnate. In fact, I believe that people that espouse that position are extremely wrongheaded and do far more damage than good to their own positions.
I pinged wintertime to this post because I am specifically referring to her attitudes in regard to those of us who have chosen public school.
Those opposed were doing a good job of that on their own.
[[WHY WE DON’T WANT HIM TALKING TO OUR KIDS]]
Because he’s a dangerous idiot- end of story
It all depends on the school and the teachers.
Would you really be sending your children to public school if you lived in say, Berkley Ca. ?
In my experience it all depends on the school administrators and the community you live in.
Personally my children go to school to learn communication,
reading, math, spelling, writing etc.
Not to become an activist against our family values.
Ouch! That should have burned! hehe
Or crime and discrimination means racial profiling and sentence disparities between crack and powder cocaine.
Americans lose trust in their president when they are LIED to.
Obama: “I HAVE NOT SAID THAT I WAS A SINGLE PAYER SUPPORTER.”
Obama: “I HAPPEN TO BE A PROPONENT OF A SINGLE PAYER UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE PLAN.”
http://thedailychange.com/is-obama-lying-to-americans/
very well written piece. Obama thought he would use his Saul Alinsky tactics to radically create the HIVE mentality where resistance would be futile and assimilation was guranteed.
I guess he underestimated true Patriotism in this country but then all Communists do.
And the parents.
Would you really be sending your children to public school if you lived in say, Berkley Ca. ?
absolutely not. But then I wouldn't live in Berzerkley for the same reasons I wouldn't send a child to school there.
In my experience it all depends on the school administrators and the community you live in.
Same here, which is one of the reasons we live where we do as opposed to where we used to live.
Personally my children go to school to learn communication, reading, math, spelling, writing etc.
Same with my child.
Not to become an activist against our family values.
Once again, same here.
I so wish we didn't live in the middle of nowhere without broadband or better internet access. I would so love to record her "MOMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEE (or DAAAAAAAAAAAAADDEEEEEEEEEEE,) I'm not STUUUUUUUUUUUUUUPID" on youtube when we hit her with something opposite what her "friends" are telling her.
Isn't it amazing that everyone of her friends in the Talented and Gifted (TaG) program all have the same attitude she does? While they may be empathetic, to a one the majority of her TaG friends have no use for the slackers, and that is what they call them.
Interestingly enough, my freckle-faced, blue-eyed, blond daughter was a minority at Governor's school this summer. That intensive 2 week course is only open to the best of the best of the TaG students and all have to compete to get into it.
Some people can, but most people can not, understand why I am so over the racial crap. I have kids in and out of my house on a regular basis and never pay a damned bit of attention to their race. In fact the majority of kids I have banned from my house are white. I don't like sneaks and thieves..........and I'm talking about 8-12 year olds, and even a 5 year old. That's horrible,,, and definitely not racist.
a million thanks for stating the case [for me] so brilliantly!!!
Obama is stealing our childrens future in the form of overspending in the Present. Unless he wanted to talk about that with them and be HONEST with them then they don’t need to hear the Propaganda.
My 3 kids stayed home and I held a Civics lesson on the limits of government and our founders intentions.
This grandmother is so proud of you!!! Wish all parents did what you have done!!!
the home-school people don’t seem so kooky
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I never saw them as kooky. In fact, quite the opposite. I think they are smart to do so.
...”the jug-eared Marxist-in-Chief”...
ROFLMHO....
“And tens of millions of Americans don’t want a person like that talking to their children.”
Justifiably so. Every parent should share this concern, and should be familiar with the connection with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge and all its implications to indoctrination of youth at the very minimum.
This was VERY well said by Bob Lonsberry.
When he came out with those “lesson plans” and exercises for the students, THAT CONFIRMED reasons to not trust him.
By the way,
Does anyone have links or copies of the materials they sent out last week? I would love a copy.
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