Posted on 09/13/2009 6:45:31 PM PDT by rhema
The mainstream media seem dumbfounded that any thinking person could object to President Obama's speech to schoolchildren on Sept. 8. The president simply told kids to work hard and stay in school, right?
The controversy is just more proof, the media seem to have concluded, that Obama's critics are kooks and yahoos -- you know, the sort of foaming-at-the-mouth folks who show up for tea parties or town hall meetings, or seem compelled to lie reflexively about Obama's health care reform proposals.
Why are the mainstream media so clueless about the anger and disillusionment growing among independents and conservatives?
The controversy over Obama's education speech provides a clue. Contrary to most news reports, objections didn't center on the speech itself. The fracas erupted over the accompanying lesson plans, or "menu of classroom activities," assembled by the White House and the federal Department of Education.
One particularly blatant proposed activity did get some press -- an assignment instructing kids to "write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president." But the White House dropped that after a public outcry, so what's the big deal?
Here's the problem: The letter was only one of many examples of Obama-worship in the lesson plans, whose tone and focus came straight from the "Dear Leader" playbook. The plans included few references to citizenship and responsibility. Instead, suggested classroom activities revolved around Obama himself -- his thoughts, his desires, his admonitions, the lessons we can all learn from this great man.
For example, the lesson plan for prekindergarten through grade six suggests that teachers prepare young children for Obama's speech not by discussing personal responsibility, but by studying Obama himself. Teachers can "build background knowledge about the President ... and his speech by reading books about presidents and Barack Obama."
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
Nancy Pelosi knows that Barack Obama is not eligible to be president. They had to redo the Official Certification of Nomination and remove the constitutional requirements wording from the original document. The state of Hawaii has both versions sent to them from the RAT convention in Aug 2008.
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/14583
The MSM knows who Obama is and what he stands for, and not only do they not care, they support it and him. They know exactly what is going on, and they are doing their best to aid and abet it.
Nails it.
Great post. Too bad the MSM will totally ignore it. They’re too busy searching for a tea party member that fit’s their paranoid version of a conservative...
Great post. Too bad the MSM will totally ignore it. They’re too busy searching for a tea party member that fit’s their paranoid version of a conservative... Whoa - sorry bout that - turn out this WAS in a real newspaper - hats off to a brave paper...
The article is great, but the comments are full of what passes for “logic” to libtards for the most part.
This doesn't pass for liberal "logic" - it's blatant bias... by the Washington Post. Nice to see that some newspapers are getting it. The young woman who wrote this is in my prayers. The narcissist in Washington are not going to be pleased.
Sort of like that spooky, Hollywood-produced, “Obama’s going to change the world”-song with the adoring kiddies.
SPOOKY AND BECKONING THE KOOL-AIDE.
Jim Jones was also a wierdo “multicultural” Marxist, as you probably know. I was living in San Francisco near his People’s Temple when he got his start. He was basically a radical “community activist” with a bizarre Pentecostal religious manner, sort of a white Rev. Wright, and he particularly exploited black people.
He also had a cult of personality like nobody’s business. He took advantage of this to sleep with the younger women in his flock, and he raked in money like mad from both government agencies and trusting black grannies. One of the reasons that he finally left San Francisco is that some of the government agencies, even back in that heyday of government giveaways, were beginning to get suspicious.
The libs are always so offended that the Minneapolis Star Tribune would have the temerity to run even one conservative columnist. How dare the DFL house organ sully its pages with the likes of Kersten?
oh, yeah! And one of his key allies at the time was Diane Feinstein, who has never really owned up to any of this and avoids the topic like the plague.
About 2 years ago on KGO I heard a very detailed interview ith one of the survivors —a hippie Jewish girl who at the time was very young, was one of his followers, and was entrusted to go squirrel away a lot of this filthy loot in Europe —she could speak a number of European languages.
To this day she lives in the Oakland hills, although I can’t recall her giving her name over the air, for obvious reasons.
I think she got out the day before on the request of Jones, who probably knew what was coming and wanted her to attend to some important financial matter.
Then they have the kids do this:
More Obama Indoctrination going on in schools
And then there's the books they might read...
Sept 8th: Here are two of the books on Obama your kids are expected to read [get your children OUT!]
No, no cult of personality there, no agenda there at all. /s
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