Posted on 11/15/2010 10:22:04 AM PST by Nachum
President Obama's picture book for kids, Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters (Knopf, $17.99), pays tribute to 13 Americans whose traits he sees in his own children.
The 31-page book, for kids ages 3 and up, is filled with lyrical questions for Malia, 12, and Sasha, 9, opening with, "Have I told you lately how wonderful you are?"
The book, out Tuesday, is illustrated with Loren Long's paintings of the Obama girls and their dog, Bo, as well as the 13 famous Americans as kids and grown-ups.
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Good point. He should have been ordered to stay away from Indians unless it was an all-out battle where they needed his courageous war-fighting skills. Sensitive politics and restraint were beyond Custer's comprehension.
Read “My Life on the Prairie” by Custer and you get a really good picture of the man.
Highlights:
He positively hated the Bureau of Indian Affairs. A Bureau that should have been ended 150 years ago.
And the stupid bastrich who thought it was terrible when women and kids were killed on his side, but just fine when done to the Indians. Kindly note that the “Battle of Wounded Knee” was also the 7th following the example of their former leader. (Not that Indians were considered citizens back then. Nope. Foreign nationals.)
As another poster noted, good and bad on both sides. AFAIK, I have no Indian blood, but I recognize that they got a rotten deal. Custer wasn't the best representative of our forces. Probably not the worst, either.
That's good; I was thinking "Dances With Teleprompters"...
Didn’t Custer hold the brevet or temporary rank of Brigadier General during the Civil War (War between the States, War of Northern Agression) and was reduced to his permanent rank of Lt. Colonel after the war?
“Another salute to NObama’s unknown & hidden ‘education’.
He doesn’t even know the details about Custer.
I went to a one-room school thru 7th grade. I knew Custer was NOT a General.”
IIRC, it’s customary to refer to a deceased military person by their highest rank held. General would be correct, socially anyway, even though IIRC he was a Lieutenant Colonel when he died.
And for what it’s worth: I love Adam Beach!
Not bad - and certainly true.
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Say what?
Not so much for the Lakota.
I believe the important point is that Obama (or more accurately his ghost writer) did their best to find a character that would cast the U. S. in a bad light.
No, Custer wasn’t the sort of person we should herald. Still, as a president, do you loft our worst to encourage others, or do you loft the best we have had to lift up our children?
This man (Obama) is an egotistical nightmare. And if Custer is so damned bad for being precisely the same thing, only and idiot like Obama would raise the issue oblivious to the obvious comparisons.
I have a hard time reading a thread like this, only to find some Conservatives as oblivious as Obama on the subject.
What three to ten year old kid is going to understand the lessons of Custer? This is nothing but a trashing of the U. S. in children’s eyes. It’s “Learning to Hate America - 101”. Obama gets his foot in the door early, on destroying respect for our nation.
Well, I’m living on land that was stolen from Cherokees, and I’m not hypocrite enough to wish death on US Cavalrymen, even if, IMHO, they were in the wrong.
And I was in the Cav, too (11 ACR).
Colonel Sanders?
Arrogant, his name, if it was given to him by Indians, would be “He who reads floating words” or “He who sees words in the air”.
The one thing that everyone who was there seemed to agree on was that it was a very strange affair. Whatever Custer's real tactical intentions were, a massacre wasn't one of them. Custer did have his vainglorious tendencies but completely discarding his intelligence information as he did was not typical behavior. And numerous spoken histories on the part of the Sioux contained a sincere disbelief that he could have committed the series of blunders that placed him three-quarters of the way up a poorly defensible ridge.
Much of the mythology that surrounds the event is a function of Custer's wife, who tactfully omitted certain particulars (his Native American mistress, for one), and of Buffalo Bill's show, that sensationalized the battle and turned it into a media event. Both Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse strike me as rather admirable men, and so, for all his faults, does Custer, whose career paralleled Crazy Horse's in some very interesting ways. But of them, Sitting Bull was by far the superior strategist. IMHO.
I just stated what I thought...
Peace........
What is your question?
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