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Scrutiny rises over NJ kids singing Obama song
AP via Breitbart ^ | September 25, 2009 | By GEOFF MULVIHILL

Posted on 09/25/2009 10:27:35 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar

A school for kindergartners through second-graders in a comfortable Philadelphia suburb has become the latest target of accusations by conservatives that schoolchildren are being indoctrinated to idolize President Barack Obama.

The controversy grows out of a school assembly during Black History Month in February, when gripes about the freshly inaugurated president were still mostly hushed.

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The notion that schoolchildren are being subjected to partisan politics rather than taught civics emerged earlier this month before an Obama speech to students was played in thousands of schools.

By then, unlike February, there was broader mistrust of Obama, particularly over his health insurance overhaul plans. Concerns that he would use his speech to students as a political tool grew partly because the White House initially released a lesson plan encouraging students to "help the president."

The plan was revised and the message to students was not overtly political.

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There wasn't much protest, though. One man, Chris Concannon, from nearby Magnolia, was outside hoping to speak with school officials about what happened.

"It's just like the Hitler Youth all over again," said Concannon, an unemployed 26-year-old former National Guardsman. "They should be learning history, but instead they're being taught to worship the president."

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


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To: dianed

Mega Barf! Video

What stupid people who inhabit Hollyweird.


21 posted on 09/25/2009 10:52:40 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may. -Sam Houston)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Give it a year. If we have not thrown him out yet, this will be the show before each one of his speeches.


22 posted on 09/25/2009 10:52:52 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: Pravious
“I can remember when class rooms were not allowed to even put a picture of GW on a wall.

They were allowed, only if they put of a picture of Bush looking like a chimpanzee.


23 posted on 09/25/2009 10:58:25 PM PDT by hedgetrimmer
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To: Pravious
Gosh... that’s true. I remember that now. Some !@(*# “teacher” didn’t want to “politicize” the classroom by hanging up a picture of GWB.

You are right they did not want "politics" in the classroom.

Liberals are such incredible hypocrites... it’s amazing any of them can live with themselves.

They are going to have to live with themselves, because we sure can't live with them.

24 posted on 09/25/2009 11:03:02 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: Jet Jaguar
We had something similar going on when I went to elementary school in Southern California back in the '70s.

There was some hippie lady who came to school occasionally with her hippie guitar and sang 'One Tin Soldier' and made the little girls cry after explaining the lyrics. She looked just like Lorraine Newman and treated us kids to all sorts of folk music crap about racial injustice in the South and all the rest of the songs that Woodie Guthrie cranked out. 'Una Paloma Blanco' and all that crap.

She was best friends with my third grade teacher who was ultra liberal and forbade the boys from talking about the TV show 'Baa Baa Black Sheep' on Wednesday morning because it was 'violent discussion'. She was a real twit. One weekend, she invited the whole class to visit her house to walk around her garden. For whatever reason, she got into an argument with her husband out of earshot while us kids were walking around looking at her weeds and flowers with a few of our parents in tow. I don't recall knowing what it was about, but that was the end of the visit to her house.

She made some sort of apology to our class the next Monday morning at school... but what did we know? We were third graders and didn't understand a whole lot.

25 posted on 09/25/2009 11:05:33 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: Jet Jaguar

Actually I’m just as angry at this AP story. They finally cover the story but only to insinuate that conservatives are mean,silly and paranoid. CBS finally covered the story with the angle that the RNC was using the story to raise money.


26 posted on 09/25/2009 11:15:47 PM PDT by willk
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To: Dick Bachert

VERY powerful....thank you!


27 posted on 09/25/2009 11:22:27 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (BG x 2 (and a heartbeat was heard today....))
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To: hedgetrimmer

Hmm! Hmm! Hmm! Juan Pedro McCain! ;-)


28 posted on 09/25/2009 11:29:28 PM PDT by Frantzie (Do we want ACORN running America's healthcare?)
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To: Irish Eyes

Me either.


29 posted on 09/25/2009 11:40:11 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: The KG9 Kid
LOL! I had the same sh*t with a music teacher in the 3rd or 4th grade (?).

I think she was into Joan Baez garbage.

She tried to explain the inner meaning of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vita or maybe In The Year 2525.
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1388

It was some horrific and cheezy song from the era. Most American bands from that era were a major fail except maybe The Byrds.

It is weird but I still remember it and I must have been a clever kid because at the time - I realized how laughable it was and how pathetic she was. I only wish I had had the prescience of mind to tell her that “Vietnam was JFK & LBJ's war.”

I think if I had been a little kid in that group with the Obama song - I would have told the teacher that it was foolish. I was a conservative at age 7.

30 posted on 09/25/2009 11:43:19 PM PDT by Frantzie (Do we want ACORN running America's healthcare?)
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To: Jet Jaguar

The only thing new about this is that it is being reported. Indoctrination of children in public schools is what those schools are about.


31 posted on 09/25/2009 11:53:59 PM PDT by SkipW
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To: SkipW

“The only thing new about this is that it is being reported. Indoctrination of children in public schools is what those schools are about.”

Scary isn’t it. It’s why Obama was so easily elected. Imagine, we’ve elected a hard-core freakin Marxist to the WH. And the funniest thing about it is most were not even aware they were doing it. They just piped these mantras during the campaign and lo and behold Obama had these people in a trance. Most of them still are. Just look what the “0” has done in 8 months. Imagine forward 3 years. Elections have consequences.


32 posted on 09/26/2009 1:08:14 AM PDT by awaken2spirit (When one fornicates with ignorance, the result of that union is chaos.)
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To: The KG9 Kid

he didn’t want you kids finding his cannabis plants.


33 posted on 09/26/2009 1:13:58 AM PDT by wiggen (Never in the history of our great country have the people had less representation than they do today)
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To: Jet Jaguar; pissant; markomalley; TinaJeannes; DogBarkTree; Schnucki; freespeechzones; Pyro7480; ...
When democRATS defend this type of indoctrination and "leadership worship", would someone please ask them this question:

Why do our laws forbid us from putting pictures of our presidents on our money until 25 year after they are DEAD?

34 posted on 09/26/2009 5:27:59 AM PDT by Future Useless Eater (Chicago politics = corrupted capitalism = takeover by COMMUNity-ISM)
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To: Future Useless Eater
Why do our laws forbid us from putting pictures of our presidents on our money until 25 year after they are DEAD?

Is this true? I thought I remembered the Kennedy half dollar coming out long before that long of a time had passed. Or did they make an exception because he was a democrat?

35 posted on 09/26/2009 5:45:36 AM PDT by PalmettoMason (Barack Hussein 0bama--- Half Honkey.....ALL Donkey!)
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To: Jet Jaguar

I kind of sense a Pattern here ,First the Video Pledging allgiance to Obama ,Then the video dumping on our system of Govt ,The chanting of the Great and powerful Obama,when will people wake up from this trance and see this Fraud who is really Dangerous


36 posted on 09/26/2009 6:03:09 AM PDT by ballplayer
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To: willk

CNN had a trio of opinionistas on yesterday, all agreeing that this is just silly, and the hymn to 0bama is no big deal.
Yet it was big enough to devote several minutes of airtime to unanimous approval of it.


37 posted on 09/26/2009 6:03:26 AM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast ( If you have kids, you have no right of privacy that the govt can't flick off your shoulder.)
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To: PalmettoMason

Thank you, I will stand corrected. I cannot find that as law, I thought that was true from long ago in my memory.

I can see now there was a drive to put Ronald Reagan on the $10 bill after his death.

I have also read today that it is only tradition, not law, to ONLY put dead presidents on money or coins.


38 posted on 09/26/2009 9:37:34 AM PDT by Future Useless Eater (Chicago politics = corrupted capitalism = takeover by COMMUNity-ISM)
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To: Jet Jaguar; Clintonfatigued; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aqMTD5UFmU

Puke. Love those public schools.


39 posted on 09/27/2009 3:39:01 AM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN | NO "INDIVIDUAL MANDATE"!!!!!!!)
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To: Pravious

I wonder if schools are “encouraged” to hang a picture of mmm, mmm, mmm Barack Hussein Obama in their classrooms now.


40 posted on 09/27/2009 3:43:47 AM PDT by uncitizen
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