Originally Posted By mawnck Now available online: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/MediaResources/PreparedSchoolRemarks/" target="_blank">http://www.whitehouse.gov/Medi...Remarks/</a> Among the revelations: Obama was homeschooled by his Commie mother in Indonesia. Despite this, he expects the federal government to take over schools without due process, to control national curriculum, and to support leftist teacher's unions. He expects schools to indoctrinate their charges with Socialist "critical thinking skills." He inserts product placement for the iPhone, and for Google, Twitter and Facebook. Clearly he got some big campaign donations from these leftist front organizations. He uses typical North Korean propaganda techniques in demanding that our nation's children stay in school "for their country" and not for their personal enrichment. "When you give up on yourself, you give up on your country," he says, encouraging our impressionable kids to give up on their country. He admits that "I did some things I’m not proud of, and got in more trouble than I should have." Clearly an unfit leader for this great country. He forbids students to question their teachers, even if they teach creationism, global warming, new age secular humanism, or tolerance of homosexuality. He tells students to "wash their hands a lot" and "stay home if they're sick," deflecting attention from the fact that the H1N1 virus was in fact created by White House doctors so that satellite-trackable nanomachines can be injected into everyone's blood stream with the flu vaccine. He claims a non-English-speaking, undoubtedly illegal alien named Jazmin Perez isn't "any different from any of you," even though she obviously is. She was educated on Texas taxpayers' dime without their having any say in the matter, and now is being held up as a positive example. He discourages students from pursuing careers in basketball, rap, or reality TV, when these are the only careers "certain people" are capable of being successful in. He endorses the witchcraft-promoting Harry Potter series. He quotes Communist sympathizer Michael Jordan with a simplistic platitude about how he became so successful, thus directly contradicting the statement about basketball players a few paragraphs earlier. He wussily admits that he has to ask for help "every day" as President. Hillary was right - he's untested and unqualified. He thinks the moon landing was real, and the pinko hippie "civil rights movement" was a good thing. He implies that future Presidents will personally be keeping track of the students' progress. Big Brother is watching! In discussing Presidents, he never once tells the students what an awesome President Ronald Reagan was. Never even mentions him! He says he's "working hard (IE spending your tax dollars) to fix up your classrooms and get you the books, equipment and computers you need to learn." Clearly we can't afford any of this. Studies by the Institute of Totally Unbiased Research at Oral Roberts University have shown that books, equipment, computers, and structurally sound school buildings do not contribute to a child's education. In other words, this is more of the typical Socialist dogma that we have learned to look for from this illegitimate Presidency. Secret lesson plans obtained exclusively by americauberalles.com, which are being distributed to every teacher in the country without anybody knowing about it, include a sign-up sheet for ACORN, a printable Nazi eagle symbol, and a copy of the book "Mary Has Three Daddies and One Of Them Is A Pony." Every teacher we talked with denies having received any such lesson plans, which proves how insidious and well-organized this cover-up is. We need to impeach this President now before he destroys Our America and everything we've fought for since Columbus landed on Plymouth Rock in 1776. Please pass this on to everyone you know. I'm sure it'll pale beside the real thing.
Originally Posted By ecdc Mawnck pretty much nails it. I've just finished reading the speech and it's just what you'd expect: a bunch of namby-pamby liberal nonsense about finding cures for AIDS and fighting homelessness and discrimination. What a bunch of rubbish! People who are homeless are lazy! People who are discriminated against are whiners! AIDS is a curse from God on the homosexuals and the sinners!
Originally Posted By DAR Funny the message that you have to work hard to be successful doesn't sound like have the government do everything for you. It sounds almost Republican.
Originally Posted By ecdc Actually, the more I think about it, the more mawnck really DOES nail it. While any normal human being, regardless of politics, would read this speech and see that it's harmless, filled with references to pop culture so that kids will stay interested, there is this hardcore group of right-wingers that would read it and object. It does represent a lot of their fears. It talks about things that, for years, these people have seen as somehow outside the norm, or unacceptable. For example, Obama talks about his single-parent upbringing. Growing up in a conservative religious community, I certainly had the sense that those in single-parent homes had somehow "failed" or, at best, were deserving of my pity. He talks about discrimination, about struggling against the status quo - the status quo that these extremists have insisted is not just acceptable, but is what makes America great. Discrimination is seen as a whiny excuse by these people. They see it as a word used to justify "sin" and "abnormality." That's enough ranting, but believe it or not, there are plenty of people that genuinely will be upset by this speech, benign as it might seem to the rest of us.
Originally Posted By ecdc >>Funny the message that you have to work hard to be successful doesn't sound like have the government do everything for you. It sounds almost Republican.<< At parts it certainly does. He talks about how, no matter how rough and tough your circumstances get, it's no excuse to not do well in school. Definitely that "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" message that conservatives insist is the way to go.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>Funny the message that you have to work hard to be successful doesn't sound like have the government do everything for you. It sounds almost Republican.<< See? The Mind-Control Czar and his staff of secular psychologists have done their work well. Even otherwise intelligent patriotic Americans are fooled into thinking that this speech expresses some widely-held American values, when in fact it's all Marxist group-think wrapped up in sugary words. Be careful, DAR. Don't let them get their hooks into you.
Originally Posted By mawnck PS - Thanks to the Drudge Report for the link to the speech. Drudge's headline? "OBAMA LECTURE TO STUDENTS: WASH YOUR HANDS"
Originally Posted By Dabob2 You'd think such an unobjectionable "stay in school, kids" speech would not raise any hackles, even on the most hackle-raisable, wouldn't you? But I bet there WILL be those who object, and say it's filled with subliminal messages designed to co-opt our children. Others will take credit for having "de-fanged" the speech by objecting preemptively, leaving the audience to assume without evidence that had they not done so, it WOULD HAVE filled with objectionable stuff. Wait for those claims, too.
Originally Posted By mawnck ... and as I expected, I missed the thing the **real** Wingnuts are having the screaming mimi over, probably because it was only two words long. >>You’ll need the insights and critical thinking skills you gain in history and social studies to fight poverty and homelessness, crime and discrimination, and make our nation more fair and more free.<< "More fair." Dang Commies.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder The more you think about it, the more you think anyone who has taken a stance against this talk should be flat-out ashamed of themselves. It not only impugns the integrity of the office, but the man himself. As if Obama would really take an opportunity to brainwash or indoctrinate children, for crying out loud, while they're in school, about anything to do with politics. I can only assume that the people against this think he's capable of it because they know they'd do it if they had the chance. Simply disgusting.
Originally Posted By Darkbeer <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/When-Bush-spoke-to-students-Democrats-investigated-held-hearings-57694347.html" target="_blank">http://www.washingtonexaminer....347.html</a> >>The controversy over President Obama's speech to the nation's schoolchildren will likely be over shortly after Obama speaks today at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia. But when President George H.W. Bush delivered a similar speech on October 1, 1991, from Alice Deal Junior High School in Washington DC, the controversy was just beginning. Democrats, then the majority party in Congress, not only denounced Bush's speech -- they also ordered the General Accounting Office to investigate its production and later summoned top Bush administration officials to Capitol Hill for an extensive hearing on the issue. Unlike the Obama speech, in 1991 most of the controversy came after, not before, the president's school appearance. The day after Bush spoke, the Washington Post published a front-page story suggesting the speech was carefully staged for the president's political benefit. "The White House turned a Northwest Washington junior high classroom into a television studio and its students into props," the Post reported. With the Post article in hand, Democrats pounced. "The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students," said Richard Gephardt, then the House Majority Leader. "And the president should be doing more about education than saying, 'Lights, camera, action.'"<<
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Originally Posted By DAR <<The more you think about it, the more you think anyone who has taken a stance against this talk should be flat-out ashamed of themselves. It not only impugns the integrity of the office, but the man himself. As if Obama would really take an opportunity to brainwash or indoctrinate children, for crying out loud, while they're in school, about anything to do with politics. I can only assume that the people against this think he's capable of it because they know they'd do it if they had the chance. Simply disgusting>> Anyone who believes that the President will somehow indoctrinate their kids in just 15 minutes is ignoring what the teachers union will try to accomplish in 12 years. Oh wait the teachers union is only concerned what's best for them not the students.
Originally Posted By DAR Let me just clarify that not all teachers are like that. I have family members and friends in the teaching profession. And there are plenty in the profession who truly put the interest of the students before there own.
Originally Posted By DAR <<Ummm, that seems like it was a bit unnecessary. What did he do?>> The issue is probably DB using someone else's words to get his point across. But yeah it was an overreaction.
Originally Posted By Darkbeer OK, I read the released speech yesterday (And what a joke that was, releasing it on a Holiday when NOBODY could do anything about the speech), the White House should have released it at least a week ago, so that Teachers, Administrators and Parents could have read it and discussed the content, and have made an INFORMED decision on if it would be worth making adjustments to the school schedule so that students could watch it. And talking about that, IMHO, it should have been pre-recorded and sent to schools via DVD or some other type of playable media, and allow the school to show it at a time of the day when it would work with the school schedule. (Such as showing it as part of the "homeroom" for schools with multiple periods). The speech was rushed and comes off as part of trying to fix the damage that the President got last month (and his approval ratings have plummeted). This and tomorrows speech to Congress just smells like a media blitz, even if the message in the speech is positive.
Originally Posted By Darkbeer And I love the fact that the LA Unified School district doesn't even start until Tomorrow!
Originally Posted By wahooskipper I've got no problem with my son watching a speech from the President at his school. If I had my choice of plopping him down in front of the news for 1/2 and hour or in front of an Obama speech it would be Obama 100 times out of 100. Most of the Republicans (and their media "supporters") made themselves look like idiots over this. And, frankly, they don't need any more reasons to look like idiots.
