Obama Speech to Kids Sets Off Parent Furor

A groundswell of parent opposition to President Barack Obama's speech next week to students on the importance of education has forced many North Texas school districts to question whether to air it live in classrooms.

Obama announced the speech weeks ago, but opposition and concerns spread rapidly Wednesday morning through conservative social networking Web sites and radio talk shows.

By midday, local school districts say, they were inundated with hundreds of phone calls from parents urging them to not show Obama's speech at school.

Some parents threatened to keep their children home from school if the video was aired.

"We had no idea that there would be a public outcry," said Laura Jobe, a Mesquite ISD spokeswoman. "It caught us by surprise."

Cody Cunningham of the McKinney ISD said: "We rarely hear of parents pulling children out of history or government classes where they're studying the politics or historical significance of a previous president."

... We just received an email from him that the Obama’s message will not be shown in the Dublin Ohio school district, although electronic copies will be available for parents that ask.

Who is making and paying for those electronic copies? If the White House considers it to be so important, why not just put it on its own web site?

"When it comes to teaching children about personal responsibility and life goals, parents are far better teachers than a politician who has chosen to surround himself with known anarchists, communists, and terrorists."

We gotta get that on a tee shirt.

This is about a sitting POTUS spewing political propaganda to children without consent from their parents, and co-opting state-controlled schools as willing dupes. It's completely innapropriate and unheard of. If Obammy is so concerned with children's education he should put his parasitic, useless wife, and her tax-paid staff of 27 handlers, to work on a national PSA campaign.

A-m-e-n. Nice take.

A president has the bully pulpit to manipulate public opinion, and Obo has the calulating Rahm Emanuel ordering up his moves.

Obo hid-out.........while the townhalls and Tea Parties were zooming ahead.....and Obo's numbers dropped faster than Clinton's pants.

Obo then went into seclusion at Camp David after his vacation. The Rahm/Obo team were clearly off their game...... seems that after Obo bombed in NH, they simply did not know what to do.

Then Rahm came up with this cockamamie plan to proselytize schoolkids.......... which enraged parents. Opinions have strengthened and hardened.

The Rahm/Obo act is pathetic.

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