This Tuesday Sept. 8th President Obama is planning to address the nation's school children DIRECTLY, through a live internet broadcast at 12 noon. If you do not want Obama to have access to your children to say whatever he wants to them during their school hours without you being there, there are a few things you can do:
-Call the school's principal to find out whether the school was planning to show the speech, and if they are, let the principal know that you feel the role of the school is to educate, not to indoctrinate, and that you do not consent to have your child spoken to directly by any politician or government official, for any reason. Maybe if enough parents call, the school will not show the speech to students.
-If the school is going ahead with plans to show the speech, you can keep your child out of school that day.
-You can write up a consent form that would allow a parent of your choice, in your community, to remove your child (and all other children whose parents consent to it) from the area where the speech is being broadcast, and for that period of time, engage the children in some alternate educational activity, such as reading the text of the Constitution, for example.
Here is the government website, with details of the event:
http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml
and a letter from Education Secretary Arne Duncan to School Principals, encouraging them to broadcast the speech, and to accompany it with other activities promoting the same agenda:
http://www.ed.gov/admins/lead/academic/bts.html
[Check out the suggested activities that are meant to accompany the speech-- I think the intention is for schools to make this a day-long event in honor of the President]
The ostensible message that students should work hard to educate themselves may seem relatively benign, but the insidious subtext is that you should work hard not for yourself and your own individual happiness, but for the country, society, the state-- to make America more competitive in the world, to raise standards of living (through redistribution, presumably) for all Americans, etc... I personally don't want my children to grow up believing that they exist to serve the state, that it is somehow normal to think this way.
But fundamentally, it doesn't really matter what it is that Obama is planning to tell American children on Tuesday. What does matter is that it is totally inappropriate for him to be addressing children directly at a time when they are away from their parents, and a captive audience in their classrooms. State indoctrination of children is a hallmark of totalitarian government. Don't let it happen here.
You guys are SO STUPID!!! Did
You guys are SO STUPID!!! Did you take one moment to learn about what was in the speech? No! You had to pull the classic "if it comes from a democrat it's cursed" thing and blame him for encouraging our youth to stay in school! That was the message! Stay in school and you'll go places!!!! God I hate people who can't listen to themselves OR other people.
On November 14, 1988,
On November 14, 1988, President Reagan addressed and took questions from students from four area middle schools in the Old Executive Office Building. The speech was broadcast live and rebroadcast by C-Span, and Instructional Television Network fed the program “to schools nationwide on three different days.”
In his speech to students and the question and answer session following Reagan
1. stressed the importance of low taxes and free trade.
2. stressed the importance of religion in our nation.
3 touted the economic achievements of his administration ,
4.put in a plug for the line item veto,
5. told the students that lowering taxes increases revenue
6. boasted of his administrations aid to Negro colleges
7. and told students that if guns were banned, burglars would be “celebrating forevermore”
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1988/111488c.htm
Two years before that Reagan again spoke to the children of America on nationwide TV .
He spends the bulk of his address touting the wonderful accomplishments of his administration in fixing the economy, restoring America's military, bolstering foreign policy. (Gee, isn't it suppose to be about the kids??)
Then he goes on to exhort the students to help make America strong by
1. studying hard (good)
2. being good citizens (wonderful)
3. staying away from drugs. (excellent)
4. and lowering the tax rates (Huh???)
Why he just couldn't help himself slip his political agenda in there again.
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1986/51386d.htm
in Oct. 1991 HW Bush senior looked into the TV camera from a classroom
"Write me a letter -- and I'm serious about this one -- write me a letter about ways you can help us achieve our goals. I think you know the address."
Interesting. I read the text
Interesting. I read the text of the Reagan speech, and concluded that I would absolutely not have wanted that one delivered to my kids during school hours either, mainly because in it Reagan implies that in order to be a good American you have to believe in God. I did like his reply to this student, although I can understand why other progressive liberal parents might not:
Q. My name is Cameron Fitzhugh, and I'm from St. Agnes School in Alexandria, Virginia. I was wondering if you think that it's possible to decrease the national debt without raising the taxes of the public?
The President (Reagan). I do. That's a big argument that's going on in government. And I definitely believe it is because one of the principal reasons that we were able to get the economy back on track and create those new jobs and all was we cut the taxes. We reduced them because, you see, the taxes can be such a penalty on people that there's no incentive for them to prosper and earn more and so forth because they have to give so much to the Government. And what we have found is that at the lower rates the Government gets more revenue. There are more people paying taxes because there are more people with jobs. And there are more people willing to earn more money because they get to keep a bigger share of it.
So, today, we're getting more revenue at the lower rates than we were at the higher. And you know something, I studied economics in college when I was young, and I learned there about a man named ibn-Khaldun, who lived 1,200 years ago in Egypt. And 1,200 years ago, he said, ``In the beginning of the empire, the rates were low. The tax rates were low, but the revenue was great.'' He said, ``In the end of the empire, when the empire was collapsing, the rates were great, and the revenue was low.'' So -- all right."
Reagan was absolutely right about this. Too bad young Barak wasn't listening and paying attention at the time.
No, Barak's speech was pretty much along the lines of what I thought it would be: a subtle endorsement of collectivism in the guise of a pep talk to motivate students, as you can see by the following:
"And this isn't just important for your own life and your own future. What you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this country. What you're learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the future." (To place too much importance on your own happiness would represent a "poverty of ambition", the collective is more important than the individual.)
"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." (Environmentalism justifies a great deal of government abuse of power) "You'll need the insights and critical thinking skills you gain in history and social studies to fight poverty and homelessness" [through redistribution], "crime and discrimination" (through affirmative action?), "and make our nation more fair" (through redistribution) "and more free" (Ha. If that's not Orwellian doublespeak, I don't know what is). "You'll need the creativity and ingenuity you develop in all your classes to build new companies that will create new jobs and boost our economy" (and to provide a steady stream of revenue to an ever growing government).
"We need every single one of you to develop your talents, skills and intellect so you can help solve our most difficult problems" (this is the answer to "What can you do to help the president": Work hard, earn lots of money and employ lots of people so that we can redistribute the resulting wealth to a population that is growing ever more dependent on government"). "If you don't do that — if you quit on school — you're not just quitting on yourself, you're quitting on your country." (your main value is as a tool of the state.)
To illustrate what he is talking about, the only 2 examples Obama gave of careers particular students chose were Jazmin Perez, who is studying "public health" and Shantell Steve, who "managed to get a job at a local health center; start a program to keep young people out of gangs; and she's on track to graduate high school with honors and go on to college."
Any entrepreneurs or businesspeople among the success stories? Of course not. That would be the class of people who is supposed to be super productive and earn lots of money, but only so they can sit quietly on the sidelines while half that money is taken away from them to finance Jazmin and Shantell and their public projects.
Oh my GOD, my children just
Oh my GOD, my children just turned into Obama zombies!!! I am stunned that you can make so much out of a simple speech about education. Since when did asking our children to work hard and perhaps think of someone besides themselves become a bad thing? You live in a scary world and I truly feel sorry for you.
Thanks for putting this up. I
Thanks for putting this up. I totally agree.
This is just phase two of
This is just phase two of them indoctrinating school kids. Have you seen kids reactions to the alarmist statements in An Inconvenient Truth? Anyone who wonders why people are upset about Obama's speech should see these kids reactions. Check it out in the Not Evil Just Wrong trailer:
http://www.noteviljustwrong.com/blog/general/190-global-warming-hysteria...
Did anyone read the GIVE act?
Did anyone read the GIVE act? Did anyone read it before they delted the part about forcing children to partake in it? Obama brain washing the youth to ensure future votes is only a part of what is to come. Americore is getting a trillion dollars of the bailout. What do you think our youth will be doing next?
Do you guys ever get tired of
Do you guys ever get tired of being wrong? Reagan and Bush spoke to children in their own classroom videos and none of us claimed that our kids were being brainwashed even though we despised both of them. We wanted our kids to be able to talk about it and discuss it rationally, something you are clearly not comfortable with. The funding bill plans to give Americorps, (NOT Americore ) $5.7 billion over 5 years, not a trillion as you claim. Beck himself corrected his mistake. The Obama speech will be only about encouraging children to take responsibility for themselves and do well in school; they plan to release a transcript of the speech ahead of time, but I imagine even when you are proven wrong you will not admit it, you will just continue on to the next lie. How about those non-existent death panels, the ones that Palin and most Republicans were actually in favor of before it became a weapon in your arsenal of lies? A proven lie meant to confuse you. Personally, am all in favor of protesting and speaking out when the government is usurping our rights or when you don't agree, but it must be based on facts, not mere opinion. You people, however, were perfectly comfortable when Bush was busy dismantling the constitution, destroying the economy and spying on innocent people while you labeled us as traitors and cowards for speaking out. I don't remember liberals calling for California to secede or for people to murder Bush as so many mainstream Republicans have. I will never call anyone who speaks from conviction a coward or traitor, just as I would never call for violence against anyone, but your leaders do it repeatedly and then deny they have done so. They are playing politics and don't give a damn about you. Stop believing the crap being fed to you by Beck and Limbaugh and O'Reilly or you only have yourselves to blame.
>>"Personally, am all in
>>"Personally, am all in favor of protesting and speaking out when the government is usurping our rights or when you don't agree"
Good. So am I. That's what I am suggesting that people do on Sept. 8. I never let Bush broadcast directly to my kids either. And I am unhappy about the way Obama is proposing to usurp my rights to liberty and property.
>>"You people, however, were perfectly comfortable when Bush was busy dismantling the constitution, destroying the economy and spying on innocent people while you labeled us as traitors and cowards for speaking out."
Not me. I don't like anyone dismantling the constitution. Another blogger had a good suggestion about how children can help President Obama: send him a copy of the text of the constitution, so he has some idea of what it is he is supposed to uphold.
I'm sure he's read the
I'm sure he's read the constitution a few thousand times and I guarantee he knows it better then you do. Exactly what, in your opinion, has he done that is unconstitutional? He wants to talk about education and responsibility but you think he's going to turn your children into communists just by listening to him. This is utterly irrational. You are practicing censorship by not allowing kids to hear this and decide for themselves if they believe it. It's fine if you don't like a president but to make up lies about what he plans to say and to make your children afraid of a man who has done nothing wrong, by inciting hatred and violence, YOU are part of the problem. He is not trying to destroy the country, he has bent over backwards to appease the wishes of Republicans and moderates and you willfully ignore this reality. That is pure ignorance. Republicans are inciting violence against him, something no liberal ever did with Bush; pastors are praying for his death! I'm sure Jesus would have approved. I assume that after his speech proves you wrong that you and Beck and all the those priests will admit to being wrong, so your children can learn how an adult does it.
Since when is it
Since when is it constitutional for the federal government to force anyone to buy a health insurance policy? Doesn't that deprive Americans of life, liberty, and property, without due process of law? Yes, Obama probably knows the constitution pretty well-- all the better to misinterpret it. Do some research on the original intent of the commerce clause, for example; it was intended to prevent government interference with commerce, not to enable it.
>>"You are practicing censorship by not allowing kids to hear this and decide for themselves if they believe it."
They're CHILDREN, John. Parents are supposed to monitor what their children are exposed to.
>>"to make up lies about what he plans to say and to make your children afraid of a man who has done nothing wrong, by inciting hatred and violence, YOU are part of the problem."
I don't claim to know what Obama is planning to say, and the purported content of the speech is not the basis of my objection anyway. My point is that I do not want any government official addressing my children directly, at a time when kids are captive audiences in their schools, away from their parents. That is the kind of thing they do in China, Venezuela, North Korea, etc... It's not appropriate in America; I don't care what the message is. The format is just not appropriate.
As it happens, my 9 year old does want to watch the speech, so we will watch it together after school, and I have my own list of questions and activities I would like to suggest to parents who are doing this:
Do you think people should do everything Barak Obama says, because he is the president? What if he told you to jump off a bridge? Would you do it?
Is President Obama any more special than anyone else? Is he more important than your parents? Than yourself?
Do you think students can understand on their own why it is important for them to work and study hard, and to behave in class?
If you work and study hard, should you be doing it so that you can help President Obama, or should you be doing it so that you can live a good life and be happy?
When you grow up and get a good job because you worked and studied hard, do you want the government to take away half of your income, to give it to other people who may not want to work as hard as you do?
When you grow up you will no doubt understand that it is good to help those who are less fortunate than you are. Will you want to be the one who decides who does or does not deserve your help, or do you want to be forced to help whoever the government decides you have to help, whether or not you agree with the government?
Activities:
Get the students to democratically elect one student to play the role of president and allow that student to spend the rest of the day telling everyone else what to do. Have the teacher enforce the student "president's" rules. At the end of the day, ask the following questions:
To the student in charge: how did it feel to have all of that power? Were you tempted to take advantage of that power?
To the other students: how did it feel to have the teacher forcing you to obey the student in charge?
To all the students: do you think unchecked democracy is a good idea?
Should there be rules and laws protecting people against any government official abusing his or her power?
Do you have fundamental unalienable rights that no one, not even the president of the United States has a right to take away?
Have the children read the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Discuss.
I am very happy that you plan
I am very happy that you plan to talk about the speech with your child. The problem is that because of the lies of pundits like Glen Beck, millions of people think that Obama is trying to control their children and turn them into socialist robots! There is a very deliberate misinformation campaign to confuse voters about the healthcare bill, then conservatives lie and say that most Americans are against a national health plan, that there are death panels, etc. This is complete and utter nonsense as well as dangerous. The reality is, yes Obama may be more important then most Americans; he is the leader of the free world and his ideas affect all of us for good or ill. I never suggest anyone to blindly follow their leaders, I was one of those leading protest in my town against the Iraq war and got a midnight call from some coward telling me to leave the country. I personally am very disappointed in him right now, he is not doing the things we elected him to do and has proven to easily cowed by conservatives. But oh yes, I would gladly jump off a bridge or kill someone if he told me to! Please, give me a break. He was elected to change the current system that is falling apart but conservative are blocking what a huge majority of voters want. They do not care about you or the voters, they want to get back in power and THEY caused the current crisis, not Obama. End of story. If you choose to believe them that is your right but put the blame where it belongs. As for forcing people to buy insurance, I think that is wrong as well and I imagine it will not be part of the final bill. That is why it should be a national system rather then have people pay for it, something he has already taken off the table.
>>"As for forcing people to
>>"As for forcing people to buy insurance, I think that is wrong as well and I imagine it will not be part of the final bill. That is why it should be a national system rather then have people pay for it, something he has already taken off the table."
As far as I know the current proposal WOULD force everyone to buy health insurance, or to pay a penalty. If it didn't, and cheap health insurance were guaranteed to anyone who wants it any time, no one would buy health insurance unless they were really sick and needed expensive treatment.
As for the single payer idea, isn't raising taxes on everyone in order to provide them with health insurance equivalent to forcing people to buy health insurance? You say forcing people to buy health insurance is wrong: what makes this idea right, then?
Single payer is a terrible idea. My mother is a GP in Canada, and she can tell you a number of horror stories about the effects of the rationing that accompanies single payer systems: shortages of doctors and equipment such as MRI machines, long waits for cancer treatment, poor outcomes for cancer patients. Most Americans are against a single payer plan, and even more would be against it if they really knew how you get treated in Canada (or Great Britain) when you have a serious illness. Look at the statistics: survival rates for all cancers are 63% in the US compared to 53% in Great Britain. Yes, life expectancy is shorter here than in other places, but that is due to the way Americans on average tend to abuse their bodies for years and years, long before they ever need treatment. No amount of "free" (taxpayer funded) health care is going to change those life-shortening behavioral patterns. If anything it will make people less responsible, because now someone else will be paying to treat your lung cancer, diabetes, AIDS or heart disease.
Actually you're wrong. About
Actually you're wrong. About 70% of Americans want some form of single payer government insurance. As for horror stories, sure all countries have them, but we currently have a system that rations health care and about 19,000 people each year die because they are denied care. Insurers currently stand between you and your doctor, telling them what services they can and cannot give you. We are rated 37 in the world for overall healthcare, a pretty dismal number. You really think it's moral for them to make a profit from you becoming ill? I don't. About one million people will go bankrupt because of health issues this year, it is the primary cause of personal bankruptcies. It is a huge problem and will only get worse. Most people in Medicare are satisfied with it, far more then American's on average are happy with our current system. ANd it's more efficient. The problem is that we DO live in a society where we all must share the risks and there are costs involved. If you currently have any insurance, you are using a socialized risk system. Another reality; in the fifties and sixties the effective tax rate was about 90% for the wealthy and EVERYTHING worked better. How do you think we got the highway system and the great schools we used to have and the internet that you are using? Oh yes, anyone who is against government spending must get off MY freeways and stop using MY internet. I would never wish that on us again but there is a price to pay for a system that works effectively. It's not just about you. Our infrastructure is falling apart because conservatives don't want to pay taxes. As for raising taxes, the reality is it will save EVERYONE money by making corporations more competitive and by cutting your health costs. Paying another $2000 a year in taxes so you don't have to pay $8000 a year for insurance is pretty basic math. And it will encourage businesses to hire people because their health costs will be less.
>>"about 19,000 people each
>>"about 19,000 people each year die because they are denied care."
This means nothing unless you compare it to the numbers of people who are denied timely care in a single payer system like Canada's. Actually outcomes are WORSE in Canada and the UK than in the US for the majority of serious illnesses.
>>"Insurers currently stand between you and your doctor, telling them what services they can and cannot give you."
I'd rather it be insurers than government bureaucrats. If you took away the regulations that currently protect insurers from too much competition, and if people were free to pick the insurer of their choice, then insurers would have to compete for who provides the best service at the best prices. Quality would go up and costs would come down. That is why I favor a free market approach-- which, incidentally, is NOT what we have at the moment.
>>"You really think it's moral for them to make a profit from you becoming ill?"
In a free market, insurers would only get clients if they provided good service (not denying coverage when you need it) at competitive prices. Unfortunately the current system is too regulated, and the big insurers have the clout to work the system in their favor and force out the competition. This government mandate to force everyone to buy health care is just another gift-wrapped delivery of millions of new clients for the insurance companies-- and if those millions choose the "public option" instead, then it is a big transfer of power to the government. Either way, the patients will lose.
>>"The problem is that we DO live in a society where we all must share the risks and there are costs involved."
Says who? I thought this was a free country. There is absolutely NO reason why the problem of health care costs couldn't be solved by vigorous competition in a free market, combined with voluntary charity for the very few people who couldn't afford care. This reform will make arriving at such a system all the more difficult than it already is, which is exactly what the big-government socialists want, incidentally.
>>"Another reality; in the fifties and sixties the effective tax rate was about 90% for the wealthy and EVERYTHING worked better."
Yes, it led to that wonderful recession in the '70s, and a anti-tax revolt by millions of angry Americans who had had enough of being taxed to the bone.
>>"How do you think we got the highway system"
By building those freeways, the government effectively created one of the biggest gas-guzzling car cultures in the world. We could have had a whole network of energy efficient inter and inner-city metros and trains had it not been for this unfair competition from free government roads. Basically the government subsidizes people for driving instead of taking the train. Seemed like a good idea at the time, maybe, but in the end these big government ideas usually end up creating very negative unforeseen consequences.
>>"and the great schools we used to have"
USED to have, yes. So what happened to public schools, in your opinion? Do you think lack of competition might have had something to do with their steady decline?
>>"Our infrastructure is falling apart because conservatives don't want to pay taxes."
Actually most conservatives would be happy to pay taxes raised at a local level for their bridges and roads. Taxation for the maintenance of common property is fine. It's taxation for the purpose of income redistribution that they object to. And, no, health care does not fit into the former category. My health is not common property. It belongs to me, so I have to take responsibility for it personally. That doesn't mean that if an uninsured person suffers a catastrophic illness that is very expensive to treat, he or she shouldn't get a lot of help from charities. In a free market system that is exactly what happens. Americans have historically been very generous with charity, because we have a free market tradition of helping the poor voluntarily, rather than through the coercion of government. Remember that if we adopted a free market approach, prices would fall to the point where a lot more people, even those who are not insured, could easily afford treatment for most illnesses.
>>"As for raising taxes, the reality is it will save EVERYONE money by making corporations more competitive and by cutting your health costs. Paying another $2000 a year in taxes so you don't have to pay $8000 a year for insurance is pretty basic math. And it will encourage businesses to hire people because their health costs will be less."
Obama is planning to tax corporations and businesses, big and small, to pay for this, which will kill many more jobs than it saves. Also this plan will drive up the cost of health care by increasing the demand for it, as many more people will now be demanding to be seen by an ever dwindling number of doctors. It will increase our deficit to the point where if we continue as projected, in 20 years every man, woman and child will owe upwards of $200 000-- at which point our overseas creditors may decide to stop lending to us, and we will be suffering immeasurably more than we are already.
Christians schools need to
Christians schools need to stick together. My child goes to a private, Christian school that will NOT be promoting Obama's propaganda....thanks be to God. I'm thankful not to have those beautiful, influencial minds indoctrinated with lies to puff up a president that associates with communists. Protect your youth from this Obamination's Hilter-style tactics!
I'm amazed at how many democrats are athiests, yet put blind faith in Obama. They aren't willing to trust God, but they are willing to trust a man that has never denounced people for calling him Messiah. Would a man of God allow himself to be called the Messiah???? You can get lists of quotes from the left online ... that refer to Obama as being Messiah or God-like. If you think God would annoint someone that believed in the killing of babies, THINK AGAIN! If you think God would bless someone that believes in the killing of the unborn, THINK AGAIN!
I pray the left wakes up. Honestly, I don't understand .... the liberals, the flower children that hated government...now wants the government to make all of its decisions???? Liberals were uncontrolable youths that used to be the antithisis of any kind of control, especially governmental control. Wake those flower children up ..... and join the right.
Pray for Jesus to show us the truth. Pray for the souls that are lost.
Honey, the "left" will never
Honey, the "left" will never wake up. I applaud you for privately schooling your precious little one.
The reason they are the way they are is a mystery... other than of course, not truly being "born again". Their way is the way of Cain and his reward is what they will reap.
I pray the elect of God will no longer be deceived.
Come quickly, Lord Jesus!
First off, every parent has a
First off, every parent has a right to be concerned about what any president says. Children should be encouraged to ask questions and debate the issues, that is what education is about. I hated Bush but would never have dreamed of telling my child's school that they could should not show one of his press conferences during school. The reason you are all so afraid of this man is that you are incapable of having a serious debate on the real issue and prefer to espouse conspiracy plots to a man who has bent over backward to be bipartisan and has done NOTHING in any way to harm this country. If you bothered to read your history, you might learn that liberal, socialist policies saved this nation during the Depression. To assume Obama is planning to control your children through his magic voodoo powers is one of the most absurd things I have ever heard. The point of the stimulus, which is clearly working according to the WSJ and most economists, is to prop up spending until the real economy kicks back in. When people go back to work, the deficit will be reduced. he reason so many states are bankrupt is not illegal immigrants it is because you people all demanded tax cuts. THEY DON"T WORK! Tax cuts lead to speculative bubbles, not real growth or job creation. Medicare, a government run program, is hugely popular and more efficient then any private system; many of those people attending anti-health care rallies were on medicare and had no idea it is a government program. So much for being informed citizens. It might help if you people read a book once in awhile and took off the tinfoil hats.
The fraudulent white house
The fraudulent white house resident is going to lecture our children? Screw Obama (aka Barry Sotero or whatever his real name is), and screw the most-sad Israeli agent Rahm Emmanuel and the rest of the power mad Jewish bankers elite scumbags.
Obama has never done anything productive or creative, he therefore has no business telling anyone how to live. Obama should resign before he makes a bigger fool out of himself, the man has no business representing America, our productive values, our freedom or anything decent or normal. Obama is a lawyer, is that clear?
He was elected as an emotional reaction against the horrible Cheney-Bush regime fascist Zionist kooks. He stood up there and just lied to everyone's face. "Change" he said over and over. Traumatized America voted him in, he's now proven to be a fraud, so hey don't listen to him, boycott his speech.
Obama is a bald face liar and thus no parent should allow their children to be lectured by this evil liar. Repeat, Obama is a LIAR.
OBAMA = LIAR
Obama should get a real job, maybe for the first time in his life. He should try being creative, maybe he ought to help Michelle out in the organic garden. Growing healthy organic food is creative and productive and is much better than being a rich lying jew wanabe lawyer.
Oh yeah, did I mention that 911 was and inside job and Cheney did it? So if Obama doesn't prosecute Cheney for 911 then Obama is aiding and abetting a known terrorist and mass murderer, right?
So that means: OBAMA = BUSH 3
I too was mesmerized by
I too was mesmerized by Obamas eloquence...his ability to put a sentence together...and the way his words(lies) fell so beautifully off his lips...I voted for "THE MAN"....watched his stylish Michelle, dress herself so well...hey was'nt she on the cover of Vague...I mean Vogue magazine...adored his darling children...ahhhh....I.. fell hard...hook ...line ...and sinker...yep...thank God I never put that nasty Obama sticker on my thrifty metro...they always leave a mark...just like he left a bad taste in my mouth...how does he keep his pearly whites so white? What is he brushing with? And I had no idea he was a smoker...had I known that he was actually a chain smoker..well, I could never vote for a chain smoker...no way in hell...HE...is the worst kind of liar...because he's good at it...how about the increase in troops in Afghanistan...i bought the chump change he was doling out...he got my heart to practically hemorrhage...so he is on my shift list....listen ...I consider love to be sacred... ...so...i did sit with my 5 year old on the couch along with my fifteen year old and I did watch his chilling acceptance speech I was all glassy eyed...I did'nt like Micheles dress by the way...it made her look fat...but I dare not say that out loud...Lord knows...back to my five year old, who watched her mothers tears roll down her cheek and taught her how to say...Barack Hussein Obama...nice pen name Barry Satore..who cares about the spelling anyway How about Berry Sorry...i like it...but he's not sorry, the bold faced liar...so no way in high heaven would I let my children be mesmerized by this political magician..I tell them the truth about these so called leaders..I remind them that they must lead by example...me...you..my children..your children...don't be left speechless...don't let them make you bite your tongue or rat on someone because their mind seems to be resistant to their propaganda and it actually has a real, creative lovely thought...with no hidden agenda...your friends...your family...your self....let them be the ones you draw inspiration from...in fact why don't we all just write down a great vision...like our founding fathers did...hold it close to our hearts...and if we choose to listen to this very small man...just remember the brown shirts...I know I would'nt let my child wear one...keep on thinking....keep on creating...keep on loving...be free
Just in case some of you have
Just in case some of you have forgotten...on 9/11, then-President Bush was talking to children in a classroom in Florida.
Was that an attempt to influence those children to vote for his party? Was that an attempt to "indoctrinate" them?
Many presidents have visited classrooms. Presumably they said what most successful adult visitors to classrooms say: study hard, stay in school, obey the law, etc. and you can also grow up to have a successful life.
What's so awful about that?
When I was in school, we listened to presidential addresses on the radio (schools had no TV access and there was no internet. Yes, I am old.) Once a president drove through town and we were let out of school to go watch...one mother I know wouldn't let her kids even look at a president from another party...which is stupid. Keeping kids ignorant is the opposite of what a parent should be doing. You don't raise good citizens in an atmosphere of fear and ignorance. You let them--no, you encourage them--to learn more and more about the world--including the views that differ from your own. Otherwise, you've just let another child grow up ignorant and ready to make a fool of himself or herself and be unable to cope with reality.
If your kids' values are so fragile that they can be corrupted by "study hard, stay in school" you have far worse problems than a president you don't like.
It's called
It's called protesting...believe me...my children are free thinkers...I object to the idea of this president coming into the schools and preaching his false message...he is a fraud...his words are very powerful to a young mind...and he is very likable...i challenge you to look a lot deeper into the Obama that comes off so slick...he had me going for a while until I educated myself...nonetheless to each his own...I don't want preachers coming into the school either...Remember...I voted for the guy...now i"m in recovery...he is infectious...I'm over my Obama fever...he knows how to spread wide appeal...that is why he's "there"...we are all in for the ride of our lives...buckle up!..Remember the brown shirts....People loved Hitler at first as well...ever been swept off your feet and thought it was love?...And realized you were only being used...?
Why does this "commendable"
Why does this "commendable" approach by the President have to be directed right to the kids when they are at school rather then when they are at home? Why can he not reach out to the parents to have them bring his words to their children? Is that not the proper way? Should not parents have the chance to verify what the President is saying before they allow their children to be exposed to such?
President Obama may have good intentions in this, but his approach is dead wrong and parents should be asking themselves if it borders upon criminal.
Thank you for alerting
Thank you for alerting parents on what they can do to prevent their children from becoming 'brown shirts'. They are now going after the next generation & that is just wrong.
Read the new, underground book on a small town revolting against government tyranny as the founding Americans did. It's great!! It's about the 2nd American Revolution & it's about your home town & you 'making your own history' to fight tyranny. That is why I'm going to the 9/12 demonstration in D.C.
www.booksbyoliver.com
Some alternate
Some alternate questions/activities for the kids:
Do you think people should do everything Barak Obama says, because he is the president? What if he told you to jump off a bridge? Would you do it?
Is President Obama any more special than anyone else? Is he more important than your parents? Than yourself?
Do you think students can understand on their own, without being told to, why it is important for them to work and study hard, and to behave in class?
If you work and study hard, should you be doing it so that you can help President Obama, or should you be doing it so that you can live a good life and be happy?
When you grow up and get a good job because you worked and studied hard, do you want the government to take away half of your income, to give it to other people who may not want to work as hard as you do?
When you grow up you will no doubt understand that it is good to help those who are less fortunate than you are. Will you want to be the one who decides who does or does not deserve your help, or do you want to be forced to help whoever the government decides you have to help, whether or not you agree with the government?
Activities:
Get the students to democratically elect one student to play the role of president and allow that student to spend the rest of the day telling everyone else what to do. Have the teacher enforce the student "president's" rules. At the end of the day, ask the following questions:
To the student in charge: how did it feel to have all of that power? Were you tempted to take advantage of that power?
To the other students: how did it feel to have the teacher forcing you to obey the student in charge?
To all the students: do you think unchecked democracy is a good idea?
Should there be rules and laws protecting people against any government official abusing his or her power?
Do you have fundamental unalienable rights that no one, not even the president of the United States has a right to take away?
Have the children read the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Discuss.
Republicans burn and rot in
Republicans burn and rot in the deepest darkest bowels of hell you hypocrite bastards.
Emily, not to worry, the
Emily, not to worry, the entire country is headed for hell. Hell does not play the right/left paradigm, hell takes all. Maybe once we are all in hell, we the people will once again become united. Until, then, keep pretending the messiah will save democrats and send republicans to hell.
Oh, BTW, Emily.....the
Oh, BTW, Emily.....the messiah has publicy stated he believes sex education should be taught to children starting at the age of 5. Here is the UN agenda which will teach 5 years about masterbation. Maybe you could send your master a few hundred bucks in support, ya know, kick the program off right.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0%2C2933%2C543203%2C00.html
I would like to commend any
I would like to commend any and all citizens who agree with the presidents proposal to speak to our children. You have taken the first step in the recovery process by acknowledging your denial. I have respect for you all by the fact you know yourselves so well that you understand you do not have the parenting skills to teach your children how to work hard, be kind to others and get a good education and require the president of the united states to handle this task for you. Kudo's for finally realizing you should never have become a parent.
Is this right? Here are some
Is this right?
Here are some questions teachers are supposed to ask/ activities theachers are supposed to conduct with/ students before and after they watch Obama's speech (caps are mine):
"Why is it important that we LISTEN TO THE PRESIDENT and other elected officials, like the mayor, senators, members of congress or the governor? Why is what they say important?"
"As students listen to the speech, they could think about the following:
What is the president trying to tell me?
What is the president asking me to do?
What new ideas and actions is the president asking me to think about?
Students could record IMPORTANT PARTS of the speech WHERE THE PRESIDENT IS ASKING THEM TO DO SOMETHING. Students might think about the following:
What SPECIFIC JOB is he asking me to do?
Is he asking anything of anyone else
Teachers, Principals, PARENTS, The American People?
Teachers could ask students (...) to discuss main ideas from the speech, such as citizenship, personal responsibility and civic duty.
Students could discuss their responses to the following questions:
What do you think the President wants us to do?
Does the speech make you want to do anything?
ARE WE ABLE TO DO WHAT PRESIDENT OBAMA IS ASKING US?
What would you like to tell the president?"
Teachers in older grades are encouraged to "POST IN LARGE PRINT AROUND THE CLASSROOM NOTABLE QUOTES EXCERPTED FROM PRESIDENT OBAMA'S SPEECHES ON EDUCATION"
Bottom line, I believe this amounts to an attempt to indoctrinate children into the belief that service to the state is more important than personal growth and fulfillment (i.e. life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness), and to present Obama as a larger than life celebrity rather than as our president, a man who works FOR US, and whose job is not to change the country but to protect its citizens from aggression, and to uphold the constitution.
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