Marjori Valburn
Posted on 09/08/2009 6:48:39 AM PDT by flowerplough
The controversy over President Obama’s school speech is mostly about race. (?!?!) And those parents are teaching their kids exactly the wrong thing.
“I don’t want our schools turned over to some socialist movement,” Brett Curtis, a parent in Texas told the New York Times last week. He said he would keep his three children home from school rather than have them listen to President Barack Obama’s speech to the nation’s school children.
Jim Greer, the Republican Party chairman in Florida, said he “was appalled that taxpayer dollars are being used to spread President Obama’s socialist ideology,” according to the Times. And a political commentator on the Rush Limbaugh show compared President Obama to Saddam Hussein and Kim Jong-il, the communist North Korean leader.
For the past few days as news outlets have reported on school districts and principals around the country being inundated with calls and e-mails from angry parents demanding that President Obama’s speech today not be broadcasted to their children, the story line has been that partisan politics was driving the controversy. What has not been as widely discussed, however, is how much the president’s race has also factored in the debate as the underlying force driving the parents’ outrage.
Not only do they oppose a supposed socialist lecturing their children, they also don’t want a black man doing it, even if he is their president.
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(And the political commentator Limbaugh's show, Mark Steyn, actually did just the opposite of what this twit-ette accuses, stating, "Obviously we're not talking about the cult of personality on the Saddam Hussein/Kim Jong Il scale.")
Throwing race into the issue is as silly as the issue itself. Having a President address students at the beginning of the school year is innocuous. Probably a waste of time, but hardly a threat to the Republic. There are plenty of threats to the Republic to be found and many of them include the O, but this isn’t one of them. The hysteria just takes away attention and importance from the real threats and makes many look silly.
What other explanation could there be??
It's not the color of his skin!
It's the color of his policies!
Until this gets through to the liberal idiots, it will always be racial.
Sa-weeeet.
Black & White and RED through and through.....
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