Posted on 09/08/2009 7:13:28 AM PDT by edpc
WASHINGTON – Take responsibility for your education. Go to class and listen. Don't let failures define you.
That's the advice President Barack Obama will give schoolchildren Tuesday in a speech that drew fire even before he delivered it.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
The speech that sparked an uproar turns out to have a straightforward and nonpartisan message.
Problem is....it wasn't the speech that caused the uproar. The student activities where they wrote the President finding ways to support his agenda was. I'm positive you'll see all kinds of spin toward the "innocuous" speech content where everyone wonders what the big deal was all about. The effort to paint opponents of this administration as a hysterical, unhinged, irrational mob will continue. I expect "innocuous" and "benign" to be the buzzwords and talking points when pundits discuss the issue over the next couple of days.
So students can blame Bush for their poor grades?
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“No Obama For You!
Our local elementary school in rural Illinois has opted out of Obamas speech because it is not “historical in nature”. The speech will be available to all on CD if so desired.
They’re leaving the “lesson planning” up to the teachers but by all accounts, they can’t afford to take time away from existing daily requirements to endulge Obama’s curriculum.
Pretty reasonable way to handle it.”
http://exposingtheleft.blogspot.com/2009/09/no-obama-for-you.html
“Don’t forget to wash your hands and wipe your butt. And don’t pick your nose.”
And we know that the speech given today is the original speech he intended to give before the controversy erupted?
I don't trust a damn thing these people do and I am willing to bet this speech was toned down considerably.
His responsibility voting present dozens of times ducking difficult issues, now being a tyrant.
Will he practice what he preaches? Naaaa....
I think the original curriculum sent out to schools proves that the original speech included more than stay in school, don’t do drugs, take responsibility, etc.
This has become a set-up for the next speech next year.
Now, the next one will sail thru without all the srcutiny of this one.
Now that we raised a fuss - the speech will be squeaky clean. It wouldn’t have been that way if we had stayed quiet.
“Don’t forget to wash your hands and wipe your butt. And don’t pick your nose.”
I’ve told my kids the exact same thing, can I be President now?
Silly me, I thought, because I was told so,
that the words “personal responsibility”
were racist code words.
I don't see why not. I'll vote for you, and I know more about you than 53% of the population that voted for Pres. Zero. By virtue of being here, I know you are a conservative.
After a week of seeing the fallout from the proposal, Obama has finally given out the text to the speech. It is in fact non-partisan, but we only see it after he was able to test the waters.
What would the text look like had he just appeared today without warning?
My thoughts exactly. Naturally it has been properly sanitized. Why wasn’t the speech included with the lesson plan on the Dept. of Ed. website? Wouldn’t that have helped the teachers plan their discussions? Yeah, right.
“Lord loves a working man...and don’t trust Whitey.”
I doubt that he would have released a copy before actually talking to the rugrats tomorrow if he didn't have a lot of pressure put on him. It would have probably leaned more to governmental responsibility for health care as a adjunct to personal responsibility so it would blend in seamlessly to Wednesday night's speech.
The question to ask is: if it hadn’t been for the uproar, would the “speech” have been the same?
I think not.
I don’t agree that the speech is straightforward and has a nonpartisan message. In sections the speech is outright partisan, and the whole speech is a political stunt by Obambi, making the whole affair partisan.
In particular, this section of the speech is trash:
“You’ll need the knowledge and problem-solving skills you learn in science and math to cure diseases like cancer and AIDS, and to develop new energy technologies and protect our environment. You’ll need the insights and critical thinking skills you gain in history and social studies to fight poverty and homelessness, crime and discrimination, and make our nation more fair and more free.”
Umm, yeah. AIDS is not on the list of the 15 leading causes of death in the United States (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr57/nvsr57_14.pdf). AIDS is a serious disease and one that certainly needs research, but the issues surrounding it are controversial and have been highly politicized and AIDS was chosen here for that reason. No mention of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, liver disease, or influenza, all of which cause more death in the United States than HIV and are “straightforward” enemies of humankind.
He talks about protecting the environment. Liberals like Obambi are all “do what I say, not what I do” on this issue and really are using their environmental agenda to strip away freedom. It is dangerous and I don’t want these people planting in my children’s minds that the environment is in some kind of catastrophic trouble. That’s a tool of the left.
I don’t believe discrimination is a big problem in the United States. To insinuate that it is a slap at his fellow Americans. Poverty and homelessness are tragic and we (not the government) must aid these people, but these problems will mostly be eradicated through individuals making changes in their lives, not through magical social studies.
Finally “the more fair and more free” clause takes the cake. Our county is (or at least was) the most fair and freest country that ever existed in the course of human history. The United States pretty much founded fair and free. But, you see, these are code words for the Marxist belief that we need more redistribution of wealth and more government control in order to be “fair and free.”
Don’t tell me his speech is nonpartisan.
The uproar began when we saw the accompanying lesson plans to follow the speech:
President Obama's plan to inspire the nation's schoolchildren with a video address next week erupted into controversy Wednesday, forcing the White House to pull out its eraser and rewrite a government recommendation that teachers nationwide assign students a paper on how to "help the president."
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