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1. Orlin Bowman:

Wait, is our fearless leader indoctrinating our children to follow his political agenda? Yep, I think so.

Sep 1, 2009 - 5:25 pm 2. Chuck Dizzle:

Why not watch it with them (if you can stomach it) and have a frank talk about the President’s motivation and tactics? When it comes to teaching our kids how to be better citizens, BHO seems poised to present endless teachable moments.

Sep 1, 2009 - 5:36 pm 3. McGehee:

Why not watch it with them (if you can stomach it) and have a frank talk about the President’s motivation and tactics?

Indeed. Inoculation is far preferable to mere avoidance, as it equips kids with the tools necessary to resist and (hopefully) prevail.

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Sep 1, 2009 - 6:29 pm 5. Frank Martin:

Can you imagine the fun that would have occurred if Bush had tried such a thing? Remember the number of school teachers who wouldnt even allow a picture of the President to be put in class? Remember the teachers who wanted students to write letters to the President to protest the war? Lets try a bit of that for this and watch what happens. Lets watch and see how the rights of the protesters are protected now.

I’d say that this is one of the most repulsive things Ive ever seen, but I know I have 3 1/2 years left to go in this administration, so maybe I will just say its the most repulsive thing they have done so far. Its just downright creepy. To me this seems like a massive miscalculation that can only make whatever problems he has with the voting public that much worse.

Is there no shame at all in this administration?

Sep 1, 2009 - 9:49 pm 6. frank martin:

Oh and let me add that my crystal ball sees a rash of school fire alarms going off just before this meeting. Parents across the nation suddenly needed to take their kids out of school to have their braces tightened. I see PTA meetings across the country overrun with parents angry that little johnny and jane and being discrimnated against because they werent there the day the President spoke. I see Gymnasiums across the nation filled with sudden coughing fits where the word “bullshit” can barely be understood through the muffled coughs of the giggling students. I see red-in-the-face teachers who suddenly realize that now they are “the establishment” and the kids look at them the way they looked at LBJ. Speaking as a former “Audio/Visual” geek, I can hardly count the animal house style mischief were couldda done with this back-in-the-day. I got a ‘teachable moment’ for you junior, its called ‘civil disobedience’, and here’s how we did it back when the man we were fighting was Richard Nixon,not Barack Obama. Big banner drops from the ceiling with the words “EAT ME”, you know, that sort of thing.

I wonder what the impact will be to school districts of there is a sudden rash of one day absences reported on that day? How much to the feds pay per day? All that revenue, flushed because someone just had to push the envelope of politics.

Sep 1, 2009 - 10:00 pm 7. arhooley:

All that’s missing from the plan is an e-mail address to report kids who skip out with some fishy-sounding excuse.

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Sep 2, 2009 - 12:37 am 9. David Thomson:

Barack Obama is a fundamentally lazy man. He hates performing the ho-hum responsibilities demanded of a president. Obama will find any excuse to do something else. The man has practically no executive experience whatsoever. Those who voted for him simply were not paying attention. It was no major secret.

Sep 2, 2009 - 1:43 am 10. Delia:

Swine flu!

Sep 2, 2009 - 2:21 am 11. wGraves:

Yes, I have a better idea. Don’t underestimate or fail to support your children. If El Supremo wants to fight it out in the classroom, fine. My son, when he was 13, passed calculus in the ninth grade. He attends Princeton University. My daughter, 8th grade, 12 years old, is not very dumb either. Either they’ll let her question what has transpired, with debate, or they will tell her to sit down and shut up. In the latter case, they’ll have created a constitutional patriot forever. Let them create their own destruction.

Sep 2, 2009 - 2:46 am 12. wGraves:

Another thought. In many states, by law, a parent cannot be barred from monitoring any class of their choice. Why not go?

Sep 2, 2009 - 2:49 am 13. Mike Murray:

Public school teachers are, no doubt, anxious to repay the prez for his staunch anti-voucher position. If, however, my local school system allows itself to be hijacked on September 8th by Obama, I won’t forget.

I will consider that absurdity the next time the school board asks me to approve an increase in my property taxes. That will be my “lesson” to them.

To those who say I’ll only be punishing the children, I say this: If the school system has days to waste on political propaganda, it certainly has more money than it needs already.

Sep 2, 2009 - 2:58 am 14. Kristen Burroughs:

Ask for equal time. For every minute Obama speaks, get a young, local Republican to offer opposing opinions. What a hoot!

Sep 2, 2009 - 3:42 am 15. Emma:

@ rhooley: lmao

@ Mike Murray: well put.

If I had kids I’d pull them out of school for Republican Pizza and Ponies Party Day. Two can play this propaganda game.

Sep 2, 2009 - 4:12 am 16. Jamie W.:

My two younger boys, aged 12 and 14 (the oldest is a Marine), have already been educated via facts and the Socratic method about Obama; did my best to let them make their own decisions with ALL of the truth about him, and they have done me proud. They will not be going to school on Sept. 8 if my school is participating — and it being Oahu, I’d say there’s very little chance it will not participate.

We will go to Pearl Harbor or some other patriotically educational place instead and discuss the difference America and her soldiers have made in the world.

Sep 2, 2009 - 4:12 am 17. Gary S.:

> Now my son is young enough that he won’t
> be subjected to the President’s smiling face

That makes your decision fairly easy.

What do I do, with two elementary school children? I don’t feel good about keeping them out of school. First, I don’t want to teach them that we should skip things just because they are difficult. Second, it’s the first day of school in our district, which is exciting.

I think I’m going to have a talk with my kids before Tuesday. I’ll come up with a way to tell my two little ones that 1) we respect others’ viewpoints (including kids whose parents are Obama worshipers), but 2) no one is right all the time, much less this president.

For damage control purposes, my wife has graciously volunteered to watch the speech if it is available online, since I’ll be at work. I sort of think they’ll password-protect it, since they don’t want us to know what they’re telling our kids, but there’s always HOPE, right? …right?

Sep 2, 2009 - 4:32 am 18. pibill:

OMG-What a delicious moment! What a great opportunity!
Disclaimer: I live in Texas.
I propose that Immediately following the prez that Gov. Perry comes on tv and, to a shot of a couple of cowgirls on matched paints, riding into an arena holding the American,and the Texas flag,introduces himself and his position in the state government.
The Governor then should give facts about Texas education,ie. the number of students in Texas, the number of Mexican students daily crossing the border for their education, the dollars Texas parents spend yearly for their childrens’ education, etc.
He should then move on, informing and showing his audience the virtues of our state, with requisite shots of the great cities, airports, industries, the great universities, the great medical facilities, the marvelous job and career opportunities.
The possibilities are endless! After politely thanking the prez for emphasizing education, invite all children to Austin and our capitol to see government in action.
No TV station in Texas could turn it down and I think it would soon become viral in other media.
WHAT AN OPPORTUNITY!

Sep 2, 2009 - 4:37 am 19. sydneyj:

I think people might be making too much of a big deal over this. The speech might be something as simple as encouraging reading, learning, the importance of education. After all, whether we like it or not, a lot of kids LIKE the president and respect him. If he can use that to help kids take more of an interest in school, then why not.

Plus, even though this speech is for all students, I kind of think it’s more directed to minorities, especially black males, and children in inner city schools.

I agree with the posters above who said to watch the speech with your kids. From what I understand, it will be available for anyone to see, so, even if you’re keeping your child home, you should be able to watch it on cable, the Internet, etc.

Regardless of how we, as parents, feel about the president, I think we still want to teach our children to be respectful of the office of the president, even if we disagree with what he is saying.

Now, if he turns this into a mildly political speech, that’s a different story! But, hopefully, he won’t do something so stupidly.

Sep 2, 2009 - 5:12 am 20. seansarto:

The Chinese might have done this kinda thing when Mao was around (After having an ACTUAL revolution)…but even they would see it as crazy these days…..talk about the “Great Leap Backwards” in the USA.

Discuss…

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Sep 2, 2009 - 5:21 am 22. Melissa:

September 8th is a great teaching opportunity! Take a day read American history at home. Take a day to visit a local historical society building. Take a day to drive to your Senator’s or Representatives office and allow the children to ask why they are placing such a huge burden of taxes on them. Keep them home and teach them!

Sep 2, 2009 - 5:33 am 23. Mark:

Relax #1 Orlin. It’s not indoctrination. It’s merely community organizing.

Next on the agenda, training our nations children to beat up their conservative parents, with lessons presented by the SEIU.

Sep 2, 2009 - 5:45 am 24. SteveInNJ:

You can read all about our future here –>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_youth

Enjoy!

Sep 2, 2009 - 6:00 am 25. RandyChandler:

I would love to see large demonstrations across the country protesting Obama’s brainwashing of our kids.

DON’T INFECT OUR YOUTH WITH YOUR RADICAL SOCIAL DISEASE!

We need a real president, not a Brainwasher-in-chief.

Sep 2, 2009 - 6:05 am 26. Lucy:

This is the learnyness question for Sept 8 that made me shriek.

*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?

What happened to the Left’s mantra “Question Authority”

Sep 2, 2009 - 6:16 am 27. ~Paules:

Nothing the president says is going to matter anyway. Our public school system is on autopilot, and has been for some time. A typical school district employs one bureaucrat at the state or local level for every two classroom teachers. The bureaucrats, often drawn from the ranks of failed teachers, spend their time creating administrative mandates of no consequence except to burden already overworked classroom teachers. Our public school system is nothing more than a jobs program. Actual learning is incidental to the process.

A kid’s ideological outlook (assuming he’s sophisticated enough to have one at all) is drawn from his family life. If mom is a moonbat who spends her time in aroma therapy, the kid will be the same sort of anti-intellectual. If the kid comes from a conservative family, his value system will be inoculation against indoctrination. The vast middle ground doesn’t know, doesn’t care, and doesn’t care to know.

The only way to improve public schooling is to deconstruct the entire edifice and start over. Schooling was never a prerogative of the federal government to begin with. The monster has grown too large to be defeated; it must be killed, the body burned, and the ashes scattered. I don’t see such a scenario, at least not in my lifetime.

Sep 2, 2009 - 6:31 am 28. anton:

To bad The One can’t grow a decent mustache….it would make him look a lot more like his idol Josef Stalin. This is the sort of thing you see in 20th century fascist counties, or modern Third-World dictatorships.

Either way it goes way beyond creepy. Deeply disturbing, my son will have a doctor’s appointment that day.

Sep 2, 2009 - 6:35 am 29. Right as well as Correct:

This indoctrination of children is reminiscent of todays middle eastern muslim counries where it’s never too early to teach your kids to hate and kill Jews. This makes me sick.

Frank Martin @ #5 makes a great point about the reaction if President Bush had tried something like this. Can you imagine the uproar from idiots like vivo, moho and david s? Can’t wait to hear their justification. I wonder what’s taking them so long…

Sep 2, 2009 - 6:38 am 30. Dan Rampage:

Time to “duck and cover” from the nutcase we have elected. When are the libs gonna wake up and see that scary loony actions like this are extreme even for the Left? My 3-day weekend just became a 4-day weekend.

Sep 2, 2009 - 6:38 am 31. Lily:

Send your kids – but go with them. This is a great teaching moment, really. This is the time to explain to your kids that the Government is here to listen to us – not the other way around.

1. Go with you kids – you want to know EXACTLY what is being said to them
2. Tell the school you intend to do so (but don’t be disruptive)
3. Brief you kids before you go, and debrief them afterward (deprogram if necessary).

This is a great time to discuss you view on what role, exactly, the government should have in the lives of its people.

We are not here to serve Government. And really, we are not even here to serve society. Yes, we want to help neighbors, be good citizens etc – but our purpose is not to SERVE our community / country.

Sep 2, 2009 - 6:53 am 32. RE:

With any other president, such an appearance this would not concern me in the least, for I believed them all to be essentially good men – even the extremely misguided and hapless Jimmy Carter.

But with Obama, this definitely feels like a totalitarian ‘Dear Leader’ propaganda event. I’m sure that it’s Obama’s inherent hostility to America, American values, and all things American that’s behind it.

This one creeps me out. Totally.

Sep 2, 2009 - 7:10 am 33. james:

Can’t wait to see the starched little uniforms that the kids bring home before they turn their parents in to Linda Douglass’s Truth Ministry.
Any “liberal” who explains this away should be shunned like Hester Prynne.

Sep 2, 2009 - 7:27 am 34. Sebastian Shaw:

With any other President, I would not think anything about it since they are inherently good men, but President Obama is a Statist who wants to dominate. Isn’t this the same failed indoctrination program done in Chicago–and FAILED miserably? Then Senator Obama took 100 million dollars for this indoctrination as a form of new learning. I see President Obama & look at him as Dictator Kim Jon Il or Fidel Castro or the Mullahs in Iran. This is a creepy moment & needs not to be ignored. I see a more power given to President Obama’s backlash in the Tea Party movement.

We have a megalomaniac narcissist as President of the United States.

Sep 2, 2009 - 7:27 am 35. TFMo:

11: WGraves-good for your kids, but Obama is targeting the 6th grade and under.

In light of his website calling dissenters like us Right Wing Domestic Terrorists, I don’t think I want the Commie In Chief saying anything to my kids; certainly not without me screening it first.

Sep 2, 2009 - 7:32 am 36. AThinkingPerson:

Who can blame Obama for reaching out to the only group of people he hasn’t pissed off yet. Parading around being his usual superior self fits quite nicely with a mandatory speech to a captive audience full of maleable minds.

I’m sure loud-speaker oratories to the nursing home residents can’t be far behind.

Sep 2, 2009 - 7:39 am 37. Jack Olson:

Looks like Obama’s trying to give “no child left behind” a new meaning.

To be more serious, I suspect that Obama didn’t think of this idea. More likely, it was the same staffer, or same type of staffer, who thought of giving Gordon Brown a set of movie DVD’s which cannot be played on a British or European DVD player. Or the same screwloose who decided Obama should give Queen Elizabeth an I Pod full of recordings of his own speeches. Someone thought, Hm, the One’s popularity is sinking among adults and his overexposure in the media is boring adults away, so why don’t we give him a captive, impressionable audience, schoolchildren?

Sep 2, 2009 - 7:40 am 38. wobble&gyrate:

If our charter school succumbs to this, I’ll have my kids read a couple of Reagan speeches during that time.

ALL of Obama’s pronouncements are juvenile enough to be accessible to kids. No need to subject them to an extra dose of the new messianism.

Sep 2, 2009 - 7:47 am 39. misanthopicus:

Hitlerjugend -

Sep 2, 2009 - 7:57 am 40. Now and Then:

“I’d call him in sick next Tuesday. I’d keep him home. I suggest you do so. I urge you to do so. If pressed, be honest about your reasons”

By all means, be honest . . . but only if pressed. Now THAT is a good lesson for your kid. “Finish your deep-fried Twinkie, Tommy, and guess what, today you’re gonna lie and play hooky because President Obama is evil and wants to kill your Grammy. Instead, we’re going to a rally. Here’s your sign. Can you tell me what it says? Thaaaat’s right, it says Obama is just like Hitler. Do you know who Hitler was? No? He killed six million Jews, you know, like those people down at the bakery. Yeah, the ones with the funny hats. And if a reporter asks you any questions, just say, “Obama, keep your hands of my piggy bank!” Now, I know I already took the money out of your piggy bank to stock up on ammo, but I’ll replace it just as soon as I get my disability check.”

Indoctrination indeed. You people are completely brainwashed. And I wouldn’t let any of you NEAR my kids.

Sep 2, 2009 - 8:00 am 41. rbj:

“and Jimmy Carter would come around and hand out balloon animals at parties. Or maybe those were clowns. I get confused. ”

Just remember, John Wayne Gacy was a clown who handed out ballons at parties. And a Democrat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne_Gacy

Not that all Democrats are murderous clowns. . .

Sep 2, 2009 - 8:03 am 42. tc:

So, the Presentense can’t convince the parents—so take the fight to the kiddos. Nice, really nice. I’m glad we homeschool.

Sep 2, 2009 - 8:07 am 43. Meryl:

I’ve been saying it for a year: obama never does anything but play at roles.

Next week he gets to roleplay being a teacher.

Remember how Hillary mocked Laura Bush for actually being a teacher?

These people are so clueless. But of course, they have POWER so clueless doesn’t matter. Welcome to Soft Tyranny, USA.

Sep 2, 2009 - 8:12 am 44. Trainwreck:

I am so glad that my kids don’t start school until the 9th.

“Does the speech make you want to do anything?”

Whenever my two-year old sees a cartoon character on a TV she doesn’t like, she bangs the screen screaming “nooooo…go away!!! GO AWAY!!” I feel the same way about seeing Obama. This is the most overexposed pres ever. Remember how Obama’s face on TV constatntly made this woman in Iowa want to sell her TV’s?

Sep 2, 2009 - 8:13 am 45. ione:

I remember watching as police took apart a van in my school parking lot in the early ’70s without a warrant looking for drugs based on a rumor. Because it was sitting on school property they could do this. There were no drugs, and the fellow who owned the van with his seats and carpet ripped out had no recourse. Now we search backpacks and purses without even a rumor. We put black marks on records of kids caught with an aspirin. We take away a childs civil rights for the majority of their day and put them under totalitarian authority and then wonder why they come out of school thinking as they do. I know, I know, it is for their safety. But, think about it, what is safety without liberty. We take a kid for 13 years, take away his civil rights and feed him propaganda on political and religious matters and what kind of citizen does that produce. The child thinks it must be alright because mommy and daddy send me to this place everyday. “Dear Leader” showing up in their classes with a call to public service is not shocking it is just a continuation of what they have already been taught since pre-school. If you want to fix it, you better fix the whole thing. It will take more than a day sitting in your child’s classroom. By the way, if it is safety you are concerned with; call the cops, not the principal, when a minor breaks the law at school. That settles that.

Sep 2, 2009 - 8:13 am 46. tanstaafl:

I guess the Prezzydent determined on his vacances in the Vineyard that he’d lost the grown-ups and should now concentrate on the kiddies.

Who is this guy ? And why the hell isn’t he concentrating on Afghanistan strategy instead of dreaming up more brainwashing techniques ? (oh, he’s got generals doing Afghanistan, well, the generals seem a little freaked, even though Obama’s military propaganda Czar, Jim Jones, is painting a nice picture of “success” in that theater of overseas contingency operation…)

If I had a school age child, he/she would be staying home September 8.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Big Sis Janet N & friends are trying to scare the crapola out of you on the (still timid, much to their disappointment) swine flu. Obama’s science advisors put out last week, 90,000 deaths (or so) and even the CDC refutes that.

…a scientific advisory panel recently sent the White House a report saying it was possible that anywhere from 30 percent to half the population could catch what doctors call “2009 H1N1″ and that it was also possible there could be between 30,000 and 90,000 deaths.

“Everything we’ve seen in the U.S. and everything we’ve seen around the world suggests we won’t see that kind of number if the virus doesn’t change,” Dr. Thomas Frieden, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in a C-SPAN interview last week.

Napolitano: ‘Big Influx’ of new infections likely

I’m moving to Cuba. The liberals all tell me there is excellent “healthcare” there. (yeah, cough, if you’re Fidel and have a whole wing of a hospital built just to treat you…)

Sep 2, 2009 - 8:36 am 47. Now and Then:

42. tc:

Home school. eh? I look forward to your future posts:

http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/08/31/sex-education/

Sep 2, 2009 - 8:38 am 48. bubblehead:

Now and Then –

You have kids??? CRAP! There goes the gene pool!:)

Seriously, if this was Bush or Reagan, would you be OK with it? I think not! Neither would I! It’s bad enough our children are required by law to attend schools with so much political interference in the first place. The LAST thing I want is some politician using my children as a captive audience for indoctrination and proslytizing!

Your children and mine should learn things in school that prepare them to be productive and successful members of society. You and I should enjoy the privelege of teaching our children whatever philosophy, politics or religion we want. Our local schools should be beholden to us, not Washington. We should not have to tolerate this kind of interference in our relationship with our children.

Can we agree on these points?

Sep 2, 2009 - 8:57 am 49. Now and Then:

BTW, have you told your kids yet to slit their wrists and take a blood oath against healthcare? If not, you have Michelle Bachmann to answer to (when she’s not praying and fasting).

Ah, the future of the Republican party. I feel better now. Can’t wait to see Palin’s Asia Speech – with the firegrass shooting up into the barren tundra on those days that are really cold that used to be warm when summer was before this by the merciless waters – I wonder if she’ll use a teleprompter?

Sep 2, 2009 - 9:04 am 50. Paul -Indiana:

#48, Now and Then. “– I wonder if she’ll use a teleprompter”==================================
Probably not, she writes her own speeches.

Sep 2, 2009 - 9:30 am 51. Drew:

This almost makes me wish I had kids in the public schools so I could take them out for the day. Alas, my children are being educated at a private school, and may not get the benefit of His Glorious Wisdom.

Do we actually have a President, or just a guy playing President?

Sep 2, 2009 - 9:41 am 52. tc:

I expect to see an acute increase in the number of homeschooled children.

Sep 2, 2009 - 9:41 am 53. tanstaafl:

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?

Yes, indeed, Barack.

It’s important to understand that they might be highly corrupt dissemblers, outright liars, people who direct public money to private projects & relatives, adulters/ adulteresses, guys who solicit other guys in airport bathrooms, guys who keep $90 grand in their freezers, impeached federal judges, con artists, people who admit they don’t understand the legislation they vote on, or, even, God Forbid, murderers who get away with it and go on to have a long, long tenure in the US Senate because officials in the great state of Massachusetts are smitten by their family name.

Am I too cynical?

There is no distinctly native American criminal class, save Congress
~Mark Twain

Sep 2, 2009 - 9:45 am 54. wGraves:

TFMo…

Point taken. We shouldn’t let him at the younger ones unless we’re present ourselves, and maybe not then. I would actually be more concerned with what some overzealous classroom teacher might say in ‘interpreting’ the President. Keep the indoctrination out of grade school.

Sep 2, 2009 - 9:48 am 55. Blacque Jacques Shellacque:

“Hey kids, I want you to tell your parents to support healthcare reform….”

Sep 2, 2009 - 10:07 am 56. billslayer:

NOW AND THEN:
Why would parents want their children to be subjected to the insipid dreck of a man who go this start on his knees polishing the zipper of a slumlord? (Tony Rezko)

Sep 2, 2009 - 10:09 am 57. tommyd:

so he can’t beat the opposition voters down so now he will resort to brainwashing our children in an attempt to ensure the leftist future.

Everyone knows this person is not a leader. He has never come out of campaign mode because that is all he knows how to do. He is no leader.
He will now begin the campaign to indoctrinate grade school children into the fold…..
No way will my children be subjected to forced re education by this blatant lair.
Sick Out!!

Sep 2, 2009 - 10:10 am 58. Anne C:

Let me get this straight…

Across the country, civics classes have been sacrificed, US history has been watered-down with pc-nonsense and the Constitution taught in a condensed, one-day session. But this administration and the DOE now think it important to emphasize the office of the President, specifically this particular President?

The fact that we no longer emphasize our history, our Constitution and our civic responsibilities as citizens, but instead are willing to showcase one man as representative of this country is a travesty. The power of America isn’t derived from its “authority figures,” its derived from its citizens.

Keeping your children away is not the answer. Arming your children with the facts so that they can think for themselves is the only way to fight the brainwashing in our school system.

“So it is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you can win a thousand battles without a single loss.

If you only know yourself, but not your opponent, you may win or may lose.

If you know neither yourself nor your enemy, you will always endanger yourself.” – Sun Tzu

Sep 2, 2009 - 10:27 am 59. CBoo:

I simply emailed my son’s teacher and told her my concerns and asked that he be given an alternate assignment during that time. He will be doing a reading lesson on the computer with headphones. I was told it will be at 1pm EST on Tuesday.
I am very pleased with the school my son attends and the relationship we have with the teachers and staff at the school.

Sep 2, 2009 - 10:47 am 60. Repubtallygirl:

September 8th, 2009
PASS Day

Prenatally Approved Skip School Day

Sep 2, 2009 - 10:48 am 61. DWilson:

Has it occurred to anyone that a mass “sick out” of public school children on that day might have already been anticipated, and that a contingency plan would be to do the broadcast a day or two earlier? The stated reason for the change in the date would probably be an “unexpected scheduling conflict” for BHO. Don’t know if this will happen, but if it does, I won’t be surprised.

Sep 2, 2009 - 10:50 am 62. Rashputin:

This guy fits the phrase, “thick as a brick”, so well. Since this broke, I’ve gotten three emails from independents, two in the neighborhood and one a friend out of state, who all said that they now see the light. I told them months ago this guy would go after the children just like Hitler did and what do you know. Here it is, right after usurping 9/11; he has this special treat for the kids the day before National Socialist Volunteer Day. He managed to finally piss off some people who were in “wait and see” mode, exactly what normal people would expect to happen when you go after people’s kids. Not this guy, though, he’s positive everyone is so brainwashed by wanting to play fair and be nice that he can run roughshod over them and get away with it.

Anyone still thinking this guy isn’t intent of tearing the country apart better decide right now how they’re going like going down with him because this isn’t your father’s “conservative backlash”. This is when the great mass of average, conservative, Americans who are the real oppressed in this country takes the country back from top to bottom and leave none of the democrat apparatus in place for them to revive themselves with. President had a Mooslim Ramadamadingdang dinner, announces his special day to tell your children to straighten out Mom and Dad, usurped the 9/11 commemoration of the WTC attack, and sends the below listed instruction out for his volunteers to follow on 9/11. Couple that one week with the nationalization of huge parts of the economy and you can’t ignore either the fact that he hates this country or that he’ll do whatever it takes to destroy it. When his “community organizing” doesn’t work, how long will it be until Ayers and his disciples are blowing things up again on behalf of their revolution and blaming it on whoever they want to jail for it?

Scroll down the following to the “Fight Back …” article.

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/

That is what he has in mind for children to be telling their parents and how he frames those he disagrees with. A large part of the reason we got into the mess we’re in is because so many people ignored or shrugged off what was happening in our school systems and in the universities. Isn’t it about time we quit ignoring it and throw out school boards and revoke the charter of many a university as well as voting out those at the top? Leave their infrastructure in place and you accomplish nothing, we’ve seen that clearly just since the past election. It’s time to either stop these people once and for all or just go ahead and surrender yourself to the state.

Keep your kids home that day, it’s the only thing that makes a statistical impact on the idiots because they can’t hide it and the absentee count impacts a wide range of funding and other programs. Even better, if you can figure out how to do it, both parents stay home with them in protest. I know it’s crazy, but if enough people stayed home from work on the same day it would show this crowd they can be out “community organized” as well as encouraging a lot of the people who want to stop this crowd.

Regards

Sep 2, 2009 - 10:50 am 63. Here’s a heads up: Keep your kids home from school on September 8th « Clinging to G & G:

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Sep 2, 2009 - 11:18 am 64. Steve DeMarcus:

Fortunately my children are all grown and my youngest grandson is not in school but his sister who is 8 is and my youngest daughter will be keeping her home from school on that day, if necessary I and her grandmother will keep her that day if needed at her own home.

I imagine that there will be many children absent or be sent with a note to the teacher that the child must not participate in this unamerican activity (propaganda). The safest is to just keep children home from school and tell them if when they return to school they have to watch a taped rerun of this mess to go to the principals office and complain and to call home about the incident.

Sep 2, 2009 - 11:19 am 65. davidt:

This is an attempt to shore up his polling by putting on a display of being concerned about the education of our children.

Sep 2, 2009 - 11:25 am 66. Delia:

Well, since the current children and their children are going to be the ones saddled with all of this bottomless debt and socialist garbage, of course BH0 wants to get his message directly to the kiddies.

Pass me the vomit bag because I’m feeling an urge to toss my cookies.

Sep 2, 2009 - 11:31 am 67. President will speak to students « Joanne Jacobs:

[...] some see it as indoctrinating kiddies to venerate the Great Leader. Stephen Green and Dana Loesch are urging parents to keep their kids home from school that [...]

Sep 2, 2009 - 11:36 am 68. Dale:

It’s very sad that Conservative parents are planning to pull their kids out of school to avoid hearing the President’ speech. Why?

1. It teaches your kids disrespect for the office of the presidency. Not just the Obama presidency, but every presidency.
2. You’re denying your kids the right to decide whether they want to see the president’s speech.
3. You are teaching your kids that they can just choose to walk away from education if they don’t care for, or agree with the subject matter. In other words, you’re teaching your kids to be intellectually lazy.
4. You are denying your kids the opportunity to hear some words that might (shocker!) actually inspire them.
5. Childhood is tough enough, and you are making it that much tougher and more awkward by segregating your kid from the rest of his peers because of your own selfish and irrational feelings about the president.
6. After a childhood of being denied the right to learn new things and think independently, your kid will eventually realize that your need to keep him in a caccoon of right wing ideology was never for his/her own good, but rather for yours, and the life-long resentment and distrust begins.

Sep 2, 2009 - 11:38 am 69. newton:

At least my two girls are under the age of 3. I’m already considering different student curricula for them. Homeschooling is a possibility.

This day should become the wake-up call for parents across the country. Don’t just keep them at home one day and then return them the next day! Take them out of the public schools! There are plenty of educational alternatives out there. Sure, it might cost you a bit, but it should be money well spent in the end.

Because again, what’s the alternative to YOU being the one who decides your kid’s education? The Little Book of Mao, at the other end.

Sep 2, 2009 - 11:39 am 70. jp2man:

keeping kids home won’t work — O is probably bringing his own busload of kids

Sep 2, 2009 - 11:43 am 71. Steve DeMarcus:

#68 Dale

There is nothing about this president to respect because he is a Marxist/Communist I volunteered during Viet Nam to fight against the ideas he believes in (communism) so respecting him is disrespecting myself and many others who fought and many died fighting against it and for this country.

Sep 2, 2009 - 11:44 am 72. Alesian_Siege:

Let us turn the Community Organizer in Chief’s around on him. Combine Obama’s call to action with bringing your children to TEA Party rallies. My daughter’s class has an ongoing photo collage project where the kids add photos during the year and tell the other kids what the photo is about. My daughter will be getting pictures at the 912 rally on the mall and will be telling her class all about it — just like Obama asked.

Sep 2, 2009 - 11:46 am 73. deguello:

OBAMA;THE CASTRO WANNABE:The idiot ’s incompetence has reduced him to appealing to grade schoolers! It’s pathetic but revealing. What next?Organizing children into Soviet -style Young pioneers, s that they can rat-out their parents,to Obama’s web site? This gotten up little affirmative action gutter thug, suffer from Totalitarian envy;he wants to be Castro.Let’s stop this jerk!

Sep 2, 2009 - 11:51 am 74. AThinkingPerson:

Dale: I appreciate your altruistic approach to this but I also think that children will learn a LOT by being told why they are not being allowed to see the video or are kept home on that day. What could be better than Democracy at work? Wouldn’t it be a great time to have a conversation with your kids about what you find disturbing about Obama’s video and all the reasons why it’s alarming and wrong? Wouldn’t it be a great lesson for kids to know that as US citizens, they can and SHOULD question those in control of the government? Do we really want another generation of sheeple who take everything the MSM spoons into their open mouths?

Obama himself is a proponent of “teaching moments” after all right?

Sep 2, 2009 - 11:55 am 75. Keep Your Kids Home From School On Obama Speech Day:

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Sep 2, 2009 - 11:59 am 76. logdogsmith:

My son is in high skrewel, and I would not have him miss this for the world. I have already mentioned it to him, and he googled it himself and gave a little read on it. I will make sure he has the teachers “guide” and that he already has his answers framed. Of course, I’m calling the school now to confirm that his school will be screening it, and if so, how can I participate.

Sep 2, 2009 - 12:03 pm 77. AdrianS:

Is it coincidental that Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 has been declared Protest Against Barrack Obama Day. Across America, school age youth and college age youth will be encouraged to stay home and help their parents formulate ideas on how to oust Barrack Obama so that America can thrive again; so that Freedom and Free Enterprise can again lead America to days of prosperity without the need for dangerous communism, socialism, or fascism.

Events encouraged on this day will be parties for our youth that include reading the Constitution of the United States, games that challenge our youth on subjects such as American History, our Founding Fathers, Justice, Freedom, and the Bill of Rights.

What a coincidence.

Sep 2, 2009 - 12:09 pm 78. yarrrrr:

Pedophiles call this “grooming”… sorry, even if it is just a message to “just say in school kids”, it’s not cool…

Sep 2, 2009 - 12:13 pm 79. deguello:

DALE68 I nominate you for the government’s useful idiot prize. You are, simultaneosly, a hypocrite;because if a Republican president ever attempted this sort of brainwashing,you and other liBtards would screech.A fraud,because equating indoctrination with education,is a sign of a totalitarian trying to disguise virulent statism;and corrupt:because you actually support politicizing education.Teaching children to ignore, satirize, and have contempt for Statism,is a wonderful way to raise them for freedom; schools have become centers for the dissemination of statist indoctrination. .Obama is a thuggish Castro wannabe,reduced by his ineptitude, to trying to brainwash helpless schoolkids.How disgusting!What next Dale?Forcing kids into an American variant of the Young Pioneers,teaching them to denounce their parents to Obama’s web site,so that they can be visited by ACORN or union thugs,and sent to a “re-education camp”?You would probably approve:As I’ve said before in other contexts:”Scratch a Liberal,find a Stalinist!

Sep 2, 2009 - 12:14 pm 80. Frank Martin:

I’d like to point out that military recruiters are not allowed on most High School and college campuses, but the Commander in Chief is. Well, atleast this one is, all others former and future, need not apply.

I’d like to also point out that if you think this is the last time they will do this, think again. Imagine the 2012 campaign where both candidates argue that they have a right to have access to Americas schools as part of election law. This phenomenon will slide downhill too, and soon it will be Governors who demand the same sort of treatment. It will be candidates for President and Governor, Senator, (Congressman for gods sake, try to imagine the horror of your local Congressman speaking about tax law in front of mere children.) who wish to make speeches to the only remaining audience in America without the choice to say no.

Yes. This is all working out perfectly.

Sep 2, 2009 - 12:18 pm 81. Dayngr:

My goodness, let’s not teach the kids to think for themselves. What the hell is going on in America and why are we allowing this to happen?

Sep 2, 2009 - 12:19 pm 82. dkw:

Looks like a 4 day weekend to me (-:

Sep 2, 2009 - 12:20 pm 83. Heidi-CO:

Gary S.. Trust me, it doesn’t matter if elementary age kids miss school. It’s a little different when they reach middle/high school.
I have a call into my 6th grade school, I am calling my son’s 8th grade school today.
Dale, my son’s social studies teacher went on and on about Obama last year. It was terrible. He had them watch the inaugeration, and CRIED, in front of the class.
My son felt he could not speak out at all in class. One girl did and she was made fun of. I asked if he wanted me to say anything, he said no, I told him if I did, he would probably be ostracized or would get bad grades from this teacher.
I feel that that treatment is totally uncalled for and is NOT teaching. This year I WILL TAKE A STAND and not let this happen again.

Sep 2, 2009 - 12:20 pm 84. candle:

I am dismayed by this insensitive blog. President Obama (not just “Obama”…) is doing his best to stop all you people from raising your kids wrong and all you can do is tear him down. Don’t you know that? I know at my blog we have more respect for the ONLY president to really do a good job. What has become of this world…

Sep 2, 2009 - 12:21 pm 85. Stune:

Right before the big speech, just tell your kid to say “I have a headache, I want to go to the nurse’s office and lie down for a while.”

Sep 2, 2009 - 12:22 pm 86. stune:

Candle: your flame went out. Just sayin’.

Sep 2, 2009 - 12:24 pm 87. ReaganDem:

The man is Hitler. Educators with backbone will have the courage to encourage dissent with his agenda of indoctrination.

Sep 2, 2009 - 12:24 pm 88. AThinkingPerson:

Re 84 candle:”President Obama (not just “Obama”…) is doing his best to stop all you people from raising your kids wrong and all you can do is tear him down.”

Obama has NO BUSINESS in the raising of my kids. Period. Pity the fool if he thinks he actually does.

Sep 2, 2009 - 12:26 pm 89. Chercast:

Solution: Cancel the president’s presidential address to students during school. Parents and students can choose to watch him 8pm on Sept. 8th the special guest that same night on Get Schooled

LOS ANGELES, NEW YORK — On Sept. 8 at 8 p.m., all of Viacom’s (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B) U.S. television properties will join together to simultaneously air Get Schooled: You Have the Right, a 30-minute special that highlights education challenges and breakthroughs experienced by three leading figures from the world of entertainment, sports and politics; along with the stories of three of their most trusted professional colleagues. This is the first programming “roadblock” of any kind across all Viacom networks including BET, MTV, VH1, CMT, COMEDY CENTRAL, Spike TV and Nickelodeon.

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/press-releases/Pages/get-schooled-event-090813.aspx

Sep 2, 2009 - 12:27 pm 90. Carie:

I live in Santa Monica, CA, my kids will not be attending their first day of school which is Sept. 8th. If you need a babysitter for Sept. 8th, feel free to contact me at carie20@msn.com

Sep 2, 2009 - 12:29 pm 91. Aureliano:

Creepy.

Sep 2, 2009 - 12:33 pm 92. William in Arizona:

I agree with all of the folks who are extremely wary of this particular individual’s access to America’s youth in a public school venue. Obama’s radical, Progressive ideology is well known by most American adults by now, thus most objective, observant adults are rightly alarmed by this stunt.

As an analogy, consider the effusive praise and blind adoration lavished upon a recent pop culture icon, Michael Jackson, by his fans. Despite the well-founded suspicions surrounding MJ’s ‘affection’ for children, many of his fans simply chose to ignore this fundamental dysfunction and worship him anyway. This is how I see the Left’s absolution of Obama’s Socialist Progressive dysfunction, except now, they’ll have us believe that it would be all right to allow our kids to spend a little quality time with the man and his affliction. If you have faith in the objective, rational mind of your elementary school child, allowing him/her to take in this in-school address may be just fine — but I, personally, wouldn’t expose my child to it.

One last concern I have about this is the precident this sets. This time, the President’s intrusion into our children’s scholastic cocoon may be innoculous, but this may lead to subsequent ideological panderings, by this and other means, by federal entities. The homefront is one of the last bastions of conservative values — allowing ideologues, such as this President, to abridge that relationship with your children would be as appalling as allowing Micheal Jackson to influence your child’s ideas of a proper adult-child relationship.

Sep 2, 2009 - 12:33 pm 93. SusanLC:

In preparation for the advent of this day, I have homeschooled my three children since 1991. My oldest graduated magna cum laude from the private college she attended. My middle is in college, and the youngest is in 9th grade. I’m using “The Thinking Toolbox” book by Nathaniel and Hans Bluedorn (themselves homeschooled) to help my son recognize bad logic and equip him to analyze opposing viewpoints. WE ALL NEED TO BE USING BOOKS LIKE THIS TO TEACH OUR CHILDREN HOW TO STAND UP TO ALL THE FALLACIES PUSHED ON THEM BY LIBERALS. Another good book by these two fellows is “The Fallacy Detective.” Hurry!!!! Order them asap on amazon.com

Sep 2, 2009 - 12:37 pm 94. Jim:

I have already sent a polite but firm email to our school superintendant and our son’s principal that he will not be in attendance on 9/8/09. Even if you have no children in school I encourage you all to email the school superintendants expressing your disagreement, politely of course.

Sep 2, 2009 - 12:38 pm 95. Rashputin:

Dale –
“1. It teaches your kids disrespect for the office of the presidency. Not just the Obama presidency, but every presidency.”

Bull chit, any disrespect for the office they learned they would have learned from the past eight years of unremitting lies and signs that suddenly are too harsh to take to a protest now that Obama is in office. You smelt it, you delt it, as the kids used to say.

“2. You’re denying your kids the right to decide whether they want to see the president’s speech.”

Bull chit, you’re denying that the school system, particularly the lower grades, are not a political venue for you and yours probably because you’ve spent decades turning them into another arm of the political agenda you support. The only denying of speed involved is the lack of any balance in anything taught in schools these days.

“3. You are teaching your kids that they can just choose to walk away from education if they don’t care for, or agree with the subject matter. In other words, you’re teaching your kids to be intellectually lazy.”

Bullshit, being force fed your point of view or the Presidential point of view either one would have been out of bounds were it Bush speaking to them and it’s no different now. You chose to walk away from education yourself and by defending the making of education into nothing but a political venue you admit it whether you realize it or not.

“4. You are denying your kids the opportunity to hear some words that might (shocker!) actually inspire them.”

What, inspire them the way Alensky inspired Obama? No thanks, I don’t want Che, Fidel, or the October Revolution to be the inspiration for my children so having one of their followers even attempt to inspire them is out of bounds. Yes, as a parent I have the right and in fact the obligation to keep them from being led astray and anyone who spends his time with terrorist bombers and avowed communists is intent on leading them astray. Shocker indeed, that you’d like the idea of a single ideology being forced on the students when you thought it was horrible for Bush to even speak at a tea somewhere without Congressmen running before waiting propaganda networks to disagree and swear he didn’t really like the tea as he claimed to.

“5. Childhood is tough enough, and you are making it that much tougher and more awkward by segregating your kid from the rest of his peers because of your own selfish and irrational feelings about the president.

Blah, more Bull chit. Childhood isn’t your and your masters test bed to turn children’s minds into clones of your own, it’s not awkward for children to miss a political bullshit speech, but you know it’s awkward for them to be set in front of the television by their teacher and then not nod their little heads in agreement if she wants them to. You’re the selfish and irrational one if you think any president deserves access to my children on demand for whatever reason.

“6. After a childhood of being denied the right to learn new things and think independently, your kid will eventually realize that your need to keep him in a caccoon of right wing ideology was never for his/her own good, but rather for yours, and the life-long resentment and distrust begins.”

A childhood of being denied the right to play Russian Roulette is no not denying your child the right and ability to learn anything new, it’s denying the right to do things that are not good for them and no matter what your think, listening to this SOB spew his collectivist crap is not good for them.

It’s ironic, but you folks that have for so long bathed the October Revolution in Russia in a special glow and sought to emulate it may be about to see what an October Revolution is like American style. I hope you won’t mind 24/7/365 enforced viewing of Reagan and Republicans on your television any more than the you think others should turn their kids over to whatever idiot you think deserves respect. I’m sure you don’t know this, but respect is EARNED, not given for nothing. I respect the office of the presidency, not the individual now in that office. That’s how it works according to you and others who enjoyed your eight years of hideous lies and defamation.

Don’t have a nice day

Sep 2, 2009 - 12:42 pm 96. Bookworm Room » Use Obama’s school speech as a teachable moment:

[...] there is a movement afoot for conservative parents to keep their children at home: In impossible times, the only way to be a responsible parent is to do the irresponsible thing. If [...]

Sep 2, 2009 - 12:47 pm 97. mike:

How can this be? The liberal’s messiah is allowed to address the entire public school system? Where’s the ACLU?

Sep 2, 2009 - 12:47 pm 98. Steve DeMarcus:

‹^› ‹(•¿•)› ‹^› Buck Ofama and his ideas, he is a communist and does not deserve any respect only disdain and disrepute. This will nose dive his already sinking approvals and skyrocket his disapproval.

Vote out all democrats (communists) in 2010 they now are showing their true color for all to see.

Sep 2, 2009 - 1:07 pm 99. Jackie:

Contact your local school superintendent and tell them NO OBAMA IN THE CLASSROOM.

The Obama Buffoon continues to try and force himself on our lives.

Hey Obama — GET OUT OF OUR LIVES.

ENOUGH.

Sep 2, 2009 - 1:10 pm 100. aprilnovember811:

I agree with the writer, keep your kids home. The only other option would be for every parent of a public school child, to insist on parent be with them to watch the presentation. Otherwise, keep them home, or insist it be canceled. This guy is so reprehensible, he can’t indoctrinate the parents, so now, he is reaching for their children. He’s mentally unstable, no stable person in this country would ever do this.
Here is an interesting video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l3o4Rf-ny8

Sep 2, 2009 - 1:24 pm 101. Eddie Frank:

What good does it do anyone to resist positive change. With your negative attitude proliferating at all we can count ourselves in emminate doom. You are very ignorant and Backwads!

Sep 2, 2009 - 1:24 pm 102. Poor Citizen:

I recall President Bush didnt have great luck when it came to reading to kids in schools either. However, education, like health care and our national defense is one of the areas that require a constant vigil. However, I have gone far right on education. When parents teach their own, it saves tax money and gets parents involved which is a great idea. So I can agree, lets can the dept of education and let the local folks run it.

Sep 2, 2009 - 1:30 pm 103. Mac:

Just so you know (and you might), the letter went straight to school principals and not to the school boards. I don’t know if they can ‘opt-out’ or not…that in-and-of-itself is unsettling. Are ‘privately educated kids’ going to have to watch this? If it really is about education, and the answer to that question was No, then why not? I have offered to volunteer at school for those kids who choose not to watch…maybe we can discuss the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence!!!

Sep 2, 2009 - 1:33 pm 104. Steve DeMarcus:

101 Eddie Frank

Communism is not positive and certainly not a change that is needed in this country. Go get a job and earn your keep for your self and family and leave me alone and keep your hands out of my pocket looking for me to pay for you and your family and fairness!

Sep 2, 2009 - 1:35 pm 105. make em pay:

Don’t public schools lose state money for the day if they don’t meet a certain threshold of attendance? I know they would make sure to keep students until lunch before an early-dismissal for snow in order to get the day’s worth of money from the state… so if enough students stayed home that day, maybe schools would lose that day’s funding. That’ll teach them to invite and condone this indoctrinating propaganda.

Sep 2, 2009 - 1:40 pm 106. Col. Reed:

We are taking the grand kids to the Cradle of TEXAS LIBERTY, THE ALAMO!

Sep 2, 2009 - 1:44 pm 107. geokstr:

Where’s Blinkety Blanklefart and vivo and the other leftist trolls that would normally be all over any thread with the possibility of being less than magnificent about the The Won?

I think this particular ploy stinks so much it even leaves a bad taste in their mouths, if that’s even remotely possible.

Sep 2, 2009 - 1:49 pm 108. rrpjr:

“Barack Obama is a fundamentally lazy man.”

Correct. This has been attested to by contempararies at Harvard and in Chicago. He was the only President of the Harvard Law Review who didn’t submit a piece for his year’s issue. His co-chairmanship stint at Chicago Annenberg Challenge came to nothing after he squandered $50 million of philanthropic funds. There’s a disabled black woman in Chicago still railing at Obama for abandoning the asbestos-abatement project at her tenement he was supposed to manage. Poor follow-through, poor attention span, easily distracted by new opportunisties. A good executive with vision who knows how to delegate can compensate for some of these deficiencies. Obama is not one, has never operated or managed any kind of enterprise to fruitful end.

Sep 2, 2009 - 1:49 pm 109. Jeff:

So sorry mister prez you don’t get to touch our kids, they are sacred to us. In your commie dream world, in that smoky haze you live in, which gives you instructions on what fool move to do next. This is one you are not allowed to do. You have no right whatsoever to touch our kids. Your poll ratings are going down to the congressional level with this deft touch of yours to everything into crap.
We have learned our lesson here I would hope. Tolerance of evil in any form gets you Barack Obama etc… These evil people (is there any other word that really fits?) act like another evil group in the world that believes it is okay to lie as long as you are propagating your religion. Come to think of it our prez is rather fond of this particular religion.
Don’t let him near your kids. Think Charles Manson or something equally dead in spirit and you’ve got our prez. No good thing dwells within.

Sep 2, 2009 - 1:52 pm 110. wesley:

I would definitely remove my child from school. But I WOULD RECORD THE BROADCAST and after having a chance to review what the Teacher-in-Chief had to say to my child I would devise my own discussion plans and sit down together to explain (in MY words) what the president is saying.

Sep 2, 2009 - 1:52 pm 111. Possum Dearie:

One would think the schools would have better informed the parents and made this something like a field trip where permission slips would be signed. Otherwise, this is straight-up fascism and creepy.

Sep 2, 2009 - 1:54 pm 112. ETAB:

This is pure totalitarian Leader-Worship, akin to that in Chairman Mao’s era, Stalin’s era, Hitler’s era etc.

It has no place, absolutely no role, in a republic.

Notice what Obama is doing. Rather than focusing on individual action and responsibility, he is telling the children to Obey Obama. He is asking them to think about ‘what the President wants you to do’ rather than, as in a Republic,what YOU, as a responsible and thinking FREE individual, want to do for your country.

Sep 2, 2009 - 1:57 pm 113. karlinsync:

This mailing cost the American taxpayers a ton of money. It should have been sent to School Boards! It would be up to local Boards to decide whether to go along with this indoctrination. Does the Federal govt. now in the hands of this administration not care where tax dollars are going? Where is the fiscal responsibility? This Democratic lead Congress has NO shame in spending taxpayer’s monies. Enough is enough!

Sep 2, 2009 - 1:59 pm 114. Samizdat:

I reviewed the story on Drudge and read this piece. What is the President going to speak to students about? I saw the teaching points but didn’t see the specific subject matter of his address. Please fill me in Pajamas commentators.

Sep 2, 2009 - 2:00 pm 115. Drew:

While the argument that it might be more educational to have the students listen to the President and discuss the speech with them, there are a couple reasons I think keeping them home is the better approach. I would be more worried about a teacher and/or administration that would use the speech for the sake of indoctrinating the little tykes than I would be about the President’s speech itself. I’m sure his words will be innocuous on the surface, but quite useful to educators with a lefty agenda. (The curriculum I’m reading seems full of very leading questions.)

If you do keep your kids home, it’s important (I think) to let your school know why. If more people would object to the politicizing of the classroom, we might see a change — at least at the local level. And perhaps some teachers would find their backbones to object also if enough parents supported them.

Anyway, it’s one day, one event. Since being exposed to (or skipping) one event is unlikely to negatively affect your child, might as well just keep him home and let your absence make the proper statement.

As for disrespecting the President, I think the teachable moment here is that the President is not a monarch/dictator/emperor or someone who we must bow before.

Sep 2, 2009 - 2:02 pm 116. Smartist Parent:

I’ve taught my children to be independent thinkers and not to trust everything that people assert to be fact, even those with great authority. Which is why I’m keeping them both out of school to organize a neighborhood Constitutional themed party so they can decide themselves how much of a liar and a fascist our president is and how blind his faithful statist followers are. I’m arming my kids with the answers to use when they are hounded by their teachers for doing what I think is right. Absurd anyone? Actually, 81 Dayngr & 101 Eddie Frank said it quite well. I think you people are creepy and full of venom. Maybe it’s the love of money.

Sep 2, 2009 - 2:05 pm 117. Rashputin:

Actually, it’s getting spooky across the board as we come up to 9/11. The 8th, talk to all the kids, the 9th, prime time address to Congress, (Gee, what was the 10th?), and the 11th a new day of National Socialist Volunteerism. Why the bums rush at 9/11 if it isn’t to take the focus off of the WTC attack?

This guy is every bit as bad as Hitler and all those lefties who swear they’d have resisted Hitler are holding hands and dancing along after him. It’s poetic justice I guess, that they’ll be the ones wondering how their leader could have deceived them when it all comes apart on them around Christmas.

Regards

Sep 2, 2009 - 2:16 pm 118. obamaphobe:

Please see Section 1017 at http://www.ed.gov/legislation/GOALS2000/TheAct/sec1017.html

Protection of Pupils

Sep 2, 2009 - 2:32 pm 119. joe:

How does this kind of thinking help in any way? are you going to shelter your kids from ‘everything’ you don’t like or disagree with? are you kidding? when did conversation and communication become a bad thing? isn’t this what you would call, ’sticking your head in the sand’. or why not just teach your kids to put their hands on their ears and scream, ‘nah, nah, nah, nag,..’ while the president speaks. oh, and by the way, if you have something to say about what i just wrote….I’m all ears.

Sep 2, 2009 - 2:48 pm 120. ken faggetter:

this is how the communists and nazis came to power! think about the hitler youth movement and the idoctrination they where subjected to
Regards
ken faggetter
ps can my daughter opt not to watch or is it compulsory??

Sep 2, 2009 - 2:49 pm 121. singlemalt:

Smartist Parent.

So, you’re raising your children “to be independent thinkers and not to trust everything that people assert to be fact…” Yet, you’re “keeping” them from listening to the President of the United States? I don’t think you’re raising them to be independent thinkers. Not even close.

What scares you about the “handy instructions”? http://tinyurl.com/ndb336

Sep 2, 2009 - 2:51 pm 122. jeffsters:

I just checked my sons’ school district website and they said that they weren’t going to be showing it but would provide a link on their website when the speech was archived. Kudos to Lewisville (Texas, which explains a lot) Independent School District for standing up to the indoctrination acts of the Left.

Sep 2, 2009 - 2:57 pm 123. BrainTrust:

I have tried for the last 6 months to place Obama in history. Is he the executioner? Nope, doesn’t like to get his hands dirty (besides, that’s Rahm’s job). Is he the chief counsel? Nope, not really a very good lawyer. Is he the king? Nope, he’s owned by the European banking families/Goldman Sachs. Is he the jester? Can’t be, the man has no sense of humor. Then, after hearing about the really bad idea of lecturing the school children while they are trapped in their classrooms it came to me …. Obama is the ……TOWN SCOLD.

How many times in his short career has he scolded us, brow furrowed, lips pursed, eyes darkened, voice just barely covering the whining. Twenty? Thirty?

And now he is scheduled to scold Congree next week for not giving him what he wanted in health “reform”.

But first, scold the school children. DEMAND THEY OBEY !!!

If there is anything that better illustrates this guy is not an American, it is his obliviousness to the American soul which is personified by the words … “Leave Me Alone” and “I Can Do It Myself”.

Sep 2, 2009 - 2:59 pm 124. Whitehall:

Just called the Campbell Union High School District here in Silicon Valley. The lady in the superintendent’s office said she had gotten three calls on it already today but no, they had no formal word come down through channels and had no plans to participate.

That could change between now and Tuesday though. They wouldn’t say that they wouldn’t participate – they would have to read the directions. That’s a reason position for a local school district.

This is one nice feature of Big Government – it is inefficent and clumsy.

Sep 2, 2009 - 3:00 pm 125. Louise:

There is no question it is creepy. There is no question that there are ulterior motives by this admin. There is no question that it reeks of indoctrination. BUT – I agree with the people who are saying that they should allow their children to go to school, listen, and then participate! How surprising when the teachers do not get the response of the whole class standing and reciting the “I pledge allegiance to Obama….” I am wondering how many teachers will decline to do this? I think my daughter has pre-calculus at that time, I am pretty sure that her teacher will think that limits are more important than telling a room full of honors students that they need to study harder! He will indoctrinate only those that are already indoctrinated. My daughter (if required to watch) will find it boring, stupid, condescending, but a perfect time to check her texts under her desk! For once, I find that texting may be more valuable than I thought. HA! I haven’t had the patience to make my daughter read articles on the web (not the rags, of course) and listen to my explanations of just how dangerous this admin is. I will now.

Sep 2, 2009 - 3:00 pm 126. AdrianS:

#84 Candle:

You can’t see much, let alone smell much, with your head deep, deep in the sand. Either that or you’re in a deep, deep trance. Wake the heck up!

Sep 2, 2009 - 3:00 pm 127. AdrianS:

#121 Singlemalt:

The reason laws that pertain to students rights while attending school are what they are is that they students are mandated to be there.

Those same rules and laws, however, are somewhat different for adults freely attending public schools for meetings or protests (public events).

The adults are not mandated to be there.

When you corral kids in schools without the RIGHT to choose if they want to listen to Obama or not, that is wrong. And, it has very little to do with making choices, since students are not provided with the chance to opt out and NOT listen to Obama, the fool.

Sep 2, 2009 - 3:08 pm 128. Dr. Robotnik:

Remember when President Bush did an interview with the school system’s Weekly Reader about Social Security reform and one of the questions the childrend were encouraged to answer was:

“Are we able to do what President Bush is asking of us?”

No?

Well that’s probably because he never tried this kind of slimy “daddy, the President said you should…” silliness.

Sep 2, 2009 - 3:09 pm 129. Hot Air » Blog Archive » Vodkapundit: Keep your kid home from school for Obama’s speech:

[...] Really? One pap-filled 20-minute speech about working hard and serving others is so lethal a threat to tender minds that they have to be yanked off the premises for the day to shield them from it? Or is this more of a protest in principle at the idea of the president giving a captive audience of schoolkids a pep talk on civics? Nope, Obama can’t just say hey to the kiddies and encourage them to do their homework. He has to make this a — what does the Left call it? — a teachable moment. A speech-in, if you will. Teachers have even been given handy instructions on how best to integrate The One into the classroom… [...]

Sep 2, 2009 - 3:15 pm 130. MrsC:

Keep ‘em home that day, and while you’re at it, don’t send them back. Face it, my conservative friends: the pubic educational system is founded on philosophies that would turn your stomachs, and it’s only living up to its intended purpose, to mold your children in the image of the State.

Rather than moan and wring our hands at how the liberals are trying to indoctrinate our children while continuing to place those children under their authority day after day, year after year, do the hard thing. Reject the government’s “free” education, make the sacrifice and pull your kids out.

A parochial school that espouses your beliefs is a sacrifice of money, but possibly a worthwhile one (unfortunately, this doesn’t apply to all private schools). The greatest sacrifice, however, will yield the greatest blessings: TEACH THEM YOURSELVES.

It’s insanity to keep sending them into the enemy camp:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=108260

Sep 2, 2009 - 3:32 pm 131. gopmom:

I completely disagree with the following comment – “If pressed, be honest about your reasons — but be reasonable about presenting them. Otherwise, don’t offer an explanation. Make it a silent protest.”

I do not understand your reticence to make this public. What is the point in a silent protest when most of the country will not or can not participate. I think the opposite is called for. Parents should call their principals and school boards first to ask if their school is participating. If so, and they can’t keep the kids home, write the school a note saying your kids are not to participate. The admin might be able to force the school to show the address but our kids can not be forced to watch.

If, on the other hand, you’re afraid to do this, send your kid. You’re not teaching them anything by hiding your values and beliefs – might as well let Obama have ‘em. If we’re not willing to fight for our kids, what else should we be fighting for?

Sep 2, 2009 - 3:37 pm 132. Rashputin:

Incrementalism, like when sex education could never, ever, not in a million years lead to abortion advice from the school without letting the parents know.

We’ve heard all the, “it’s just …” that we need to and we know where it leads.

Regards

Sep 2, 2009 - 3:38 pm 133. singlemalt:

Hi AdrianS,

Parents can keep their child out that day, that’s their call.

I just don’t get what people are so scared of. Parents can debrief their kids when they come home from school after the President’s talk.

I also think the “handy instructions” are great–have you read them? My goodness, Mr. Obama is the President of the United States. Listening to him doesn’t translate to agreeing with what he has to say (and we don’t know what he’ll be talking to them about yet) And, yes, for the record: I would have wanted my children (who are in public school, by the way) to have listened to President Bush speak to their class when he was in office.

I think it would be great to hear what the kids thought of the talk. I wouldn’t have to be there. I’d love to hear their thoughts, and that would then provide a great and valuable parent-child talk. But to encourage children not to listen to the President of the United States? I don’t get it. I just don’t get it.

Sep 2, 2009 - 3:41 pm 134. AThinkingPerson:

Re #133 singlemalt: You don’t get how we “encourage children not to listen to the President of the United States?” Please, let me help you to understand. If it were President Clinton or Carter, sure, my kids would be front and center and then I would have taken the opportunity to have a good discussion with them. The Obama situation is entirely different unfortunately. It’s become obvious to me and apparently others, that Obama does NOT have the best interests of this country at heart. He operates from a point of anti-American ideals, anti-Constitution, and anti-personal responsibility. In other words, the antithesis of what a President is supposed to represent. With my viewpoint in mind, am I supposed to let him fill my impressionable kids with his rhetoric? Maybe in your corner of the world, but not in mine.

Obama has moved way past partisanship at this point. He is proving himself to be a danger to the very fabric of this country and it’s Constitution.

Sep 2, 2009 - 3:51 pm 135. William in Arizona:

Re: 119

This kind of thinking (on prominent display in these comments) helps to kill the propaganda initiatives of the Left by removing the platform. By saying ‘no thanks’, parents can spare themselves the trouble of damage control after the fact. ‘Sheltering’ our young, impressionable minds is exactly the flip side of the same coin here, and when coupled with good, sound advice (and perhaps a short lesson on Trojan horses), we can manage to make this truly a teachable moment. Objective, rational communication is always a good thing 119, that’s why shielding the kids from the real possibility of a one-sided indoctrination session on the 8th is a good thing.

The people sticking their heads in the sand and crying ‘nah, nah, nah’ are the ones still carrying water for this proven Socialist Progressive front man. The ‘change’ has to start somewhere … how ironic that this President and Congress really kicked off the ‘change we can believe in’ movement at their own expense.

Sep 2, 2009 - 3:52 pm 136. Rep4Life:

I do NOT see pulling kids out of class on Sept. 8th as a bad thing. In fact, I think children will get a much broader education at home on that day. Parents can choose to “go with their kids to school” if they want to. But if I had children, and I don’t yet, I would keep them home with me. Maybe do our own history lesson on the development of Politics and “why” it was initiated in the first. Honestly, I do not believe Politics or Politicians should be entering our classrooms in any form what-so-ever. This is primarily a family-oriented matter, and parents should have the right to chose whichever way they want to teach the subject of “Politics” to their own children.

Mr. President-

PLEASE! Go back to the Capitol and try and make good on some of those promises you built your platform on. So far, I have seen little to no work or completion on any of those promises which you spoke of. Should not our President be the “one person” who when he speaks, he then puts action to words?

James 2:14-26 Faith Without Works is Dead…

I will let you do your own homework and look this up. What is boils down to, Sir, is that you can “make promises” or claims or say you “have faith” all day long. But unless you take actions to back up your big speech, it is worthless and will fall on deaf ears.

So leave our children alone. They are our (individual parents) responsibility, in which to train and raise. You have your own kids to teach, leave ours to us.

I will leave you with a little joke I once heard:

“If Pro is the opposite of Con, then wouldn’t Progress be the opposite of Congress?”

Sep 2, 2009 - 3:55 pm 137. tanstaafl:

Well that’s probably because (Bush) never tried this kind of slimy “daddy, the President said you should…” silliness.

Yes, reading My Pet Goat is looking pretty good.

I’m speechless (nearly) at the condescension and Hitler Youth elements in this garbage, coupled with an attempt to make Sept. 11 some kind of national service day.

Sep 2, 2009 - 4:01 pm 138. Cybergeezer:

I’m fully behind this movement; The school board should shut the school for this day, and give everybody the day off with pay!

Sep 2, 2009 - 4:08 pm 139. The UnPatriot:

Parents should take the place of their children in class that day and ask the teacher why they think that this was appropriate, what would their response be if this had been GWB, and what they intend to use as the “take away” message to the children concerning this. Be very polite, take notes, and then attend the next PTA meeting.

The message to teachers and school boards – and to the children – should be that we parents are the guiding force in our children’s lives not government.

–The UnPatriot
“Mister Kotter, Mister Kotter”

Sep 2, 2009 - 4:08 pm 140. Cybergeezer:

I’m behind this movement 100%; The school board should give everybody the day off with pay!

Sep 2, 2009 - 4:12 pm 141. Janie:

It sets a bad precident: Listen and Obey.

Sep 2, 2009 - 4:25 pm 142. Rashputin:

“I also think the “handy instructions” are great–have you read them? My goodness, …”

Were there a new education initiative or anything at all to do with education, which by the way is what schools are supposed to be about, it would be different. This is about Obama selling a healthcare initiative that the public as a whole is deadset against and has nothing at all to do with eductation. It has to do with trying to reach parents through the manipulation of their kids, kids who will be sitting in front of teachers who belong to a union, a union that spends money to help push this healthcare agenda.

“My goodness”, indeed, how about we have Steele or maybe the minority leader of the Senate appear and talk a bit about why nationalization of the healthcare in this country is bad?

Help the president? Not a bit, in no way, not even in your dreams, and ignoring anything he does is helping him since he and his Chicago thugs count on operating in the shadows. This man laid down the guantlet right away, “I won, you lost” and two can play at that game. If you honestly don’t see the problem I not only feel sorry for you, I feel very, very, sorry for your children.

have a nice day

Sep 2, 2009 - 4:40 pm 143. Ex-Liberal:

My 7th grader starts school on the 9th, thank God. But then, he is appropriately inoculated against the Dear Leader.

Sep 2, 2009 - 4:44 pm 144. Calvin Ball:

This reminds me of the first Earth Day in 1970. They pumped us all up full of assemblies in the morning, and then turned us loose in the afternoon to pick up litter in the school lawn.

After about 5 minutes of this, I’d realized that we’d all been had. I sauntered over to the road, and then ducked across the street and ran quickly behind a house. Then I walked home.

My mom asked me why I was home so early. I told her what happened. She just rolled her eyes.

Service, my butt. The sad thing is that most of these idiots kept on giving free labor. After almost 40 years, I wonder how many ever figured out that they were pimped?

Sep 2, 2009 - 4:45 pm 145. Confessions of a Pilgrim – You have kids in school? Keep them home on September 8th:

[...] [...]

Sep 2, 2009 - 4:51 pm 146. Moho:

I think this latest little hissy fit will be the last slab on the grave of your movement. Say what you want about the President’s ideas, but when you imply that his mere presence in front of school children is somehow dangerous–this, our nation’s first African American president–then everyone pretty much knows what you’re up to. Keep it up, but I suggest you just be honest about it. You’ll save us all a lot of time and patience if you just go ahead and start using the n-word now.

Sep 2, 2009 - 4:53 pm 147. billslayer:

This really happened.Not in Zimbabwe, Nicaragua, or Chile.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqcPA1ysSbw&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Esltrib%2Ecom%2Fnews%2Fci%5F13249171%3F%5Frequestid%3D5883011&feature=player_embedded#t=251

Sep 2, 2009 - 4:59 pm 148. Moho:

My mom asked me why I was home so early. I told her what happened. She just rolled her eyes. Service my butt.

I hope for her sake that you didn’t take her up on it. That poor woman.

Sep 2, 2009 - 5:03 pm 149. singlemalt:

Rashputin:

How do you know the President is going to talk to students about health care?

Here’s the scoop according to The White House (http://www.whitehouse.gov/mediaresources/ –

THE PRESIDENT’S BACK-TO-SCHOOL MESSAGE TO AMERICA’S STUDENTS

Help get America’s students engaged!

On Tuesday, September 8 — the first day of school for many students — the President will talk directly to students across the country on the importance of taking responsibility for their education, challenging them to set goals and do everything they can to succeed.

We want to make sure that as many schools and classrooms nationwide can participate in this special opportunity, so we are making the President’s address and all the information that comes with it available as widely as possible.

Whether you are a teacher, a school board member, or a member of the media, find information below to help you watch and be engaged with the President in welcoming our students back to school.
–
So, Rashputin, since he’ll be speaking about education, and you stated at #142 that you’d be okay with that, then you really shouldn’t have a problem with the President talking to students.

Sep 2, 2009 - 5:03 pm 150. Moho:

If it were President Clinton or Carter, sure, my kids would be front and center and then I would have taken the opportunity to have a good discussion with them. The Obama situation is entirely different unfortunately. It’s become obvious to me and apparently others, that Obama does NOT have the best interests of this country at heart.

What you mean is that you’ve finally muddied the waters with so many code words–socialist, secret muslim, death panels–that you can basically be completely open about your bigotry now. Chapeau, my little friend. Apparently, your movements only goal–to reclaim society for open racism–has finally had its day again. This may compensate for your small penis, but I sincerely doubt it.

Sep 2, 2009 - 5:05 pm 151. steveg:

The only good that may come of this could be that more parents open their eyes to what goes on in the school curriculum. Remember, public education is one of the ten planks of the communist manifesto.

Sep 2, 2009 - 5:09 pm 152. Whitey:

The republican party has gone full retard. Everybody knows, you don’t go full retard.

Sep 2, 2009 - 5:13 pm 153. steveg:

What’s next? Kwanzaa becoming a national socialist holiday?

Sep 2, 2009 - 5:30 pm 154. seansarto:

Let him shuck his smarm to the big CA convict release, at least they understand where his civics are at and could debate it in like manner…
instead of suckerin’ the innocent.Don’t take from candy from strangers, kids…

Sep 2, 2009 - 5:31 pm 155. Saltherring:

Will they be handing out the “Obama Youth” uniforms before or after Obama’s televised tutorial on “How to Rat on Your Disloyal Parents?

Sep 2, 2009 - 5:36 pm 156. McBride:

I’m using this opportunity as an excuse to further the education of my boys in the historic source of American military supremacy,i.e. squirrel hunting.I view it as every fathers duty to raise their sons to grow up to be an American Rifleman.The weapon system the jihadi’s fear more than any other in our arsenal.

Sep 2, 2009 - 5:54 pm 157. Samizdat:

Singlemalt at 149,

Thanks for the clue about what the President will discuss. If he is speaking inspirationally, much as I have no use for his socialism and other aspects of his policies, I have no issue with a non ideological speech that is meant to inspire achievement. If he delves into policy or politics I will have a major problem with him.

My 13 year old is quite bright and self innoculated against the worst aspects of Democrat redistributionism and political correctness. His only issue will be keeping his derision hidden. My 8 year old won’t care what he says, he will be looking forward to recess or soccer practice.

Sep 2, 2009 - 6:02 pm 158. donttreadonme:

Moho(mmad),
Your record skipping? That darn deck of yours keeps spitting out the race card? 55% of America is racist. Suurreeee. Obama, the poor little innocent pwesident has done nothing to earn the rage and hatred of the productive side of America. I mean, taking over the auto industry, the banks, nominating tax cheats; appointing literal Communists and Eugenicists as “czars,” running our National debt into the ozone layer; ramping up the Afghan boondoggle; bowing to foreign dignitaries; doing absolutely nada to better the economy. Nope, the reason for the venom by a now MAJORITY of America is his skin color! Mohommad, you are almost as batty as your prophet.

Sep 2, 2009 - 6:03 pm 159. seansarto:

Now let’s see who’s really alive an’ awake out there…

What was the public school system like before and after desegregation?
What are the facts?

Discuss…

Sep 2, 2009 - 6:06 pm 160. Don’t Drink the Skool-Aid - Caleb’s blog - RedState:

[...] going to say to students, but that’s being ably covered by others, especially Michelle, Vodka Pundit, and Dana [...]

Sep 2, 2009 - 6:08 pm 161. Rashputin:

singlemalt – (149)

In the finest liberal tradition, I say he’s lying and I can’t take the chance that he’ll stray onto forbidden terf, just like you folks worry so much, I’m afraid he may quote scripture, now. You know how those people who go to a church like that of Rev. Wright are, dropping Bible verses at the drop of a hat, so no, him opening his mouth on anyting isn’t good enough. Especially since he wants to be sure the children come up with ways to help him. My goodness, he may want them to help him spread the Word!!!

have nice day

You won, we lost, now you shove it and get obstructed at every step no matter what it’s about. Chicago style thick just for you

Sep 2, 2009 - 6:09 pm 162. Rashputin:

152. Whitey:

“The republican party has gone full retard. Everybody knows, you don’t go full retard.”

Nice racist name to sling mud under.

Sep 2, 2009 - 6:11 pm 163. AThinkingPerson:

Re #150 Moho: Right on queue our resident liberal moonbat comes in wielding his “racism” sword. (yawn)

Sorry Moho….that racism crap is like water off a ducks back to me. Ply your wares elsewhere where they haven’t heard you and your broken liberal record.

LET ME BE CLEAR: I don’t dislike Obama because he’s half black, psuedo-Hawaiian. I dislike Obama because he’s a socialist, deceitful, thug. Please Moho…feel free to cut and paste me on that.

Sep 2, 2009 - 6:16 pm 164. McBride:

Mohomed,I see your still have your obscene middle eastern obsession on butt love.You and now and then should just go to Vermont and make it official.

Sep 2, 2009 - 6:17 pm 165. Aureliano:

Dear Leader is attempting to lay the groundwork for his mandatory volunteerism initiative.

(Volunteering for ACORN will be encouraged, natch ….)

“Sally forth, my minions! Do something (liberal)!”
— Barack Hussein Obama, Sept 08 2009

Sep 2, 2009 - 6:23 pm 166. Rashputin:

Moho, what a piece of work, huh? Mooslim defending Hussein and swearing he has nothing but the finest liberal traditions in mind. Like the liberal tradition of murdering infidels, raping women who are not appropriately attired, all the good things from Islamic society. Not to menion the things Mooslims like to take credit for inventing when they really stole them in India between their multiple mass murders, murders numbered in the tens of millions each time they went on another spree.

I don’t think Moho has an opinion on anything except supporting his Hussein. Everything else sounds so much like a characture of a liberal because it is.

Hey, Moho, what % black is Obama, hmmm? Figure it out, he’s actually Arab by almost ten to one, but whatever.

have a nice day

Sep 2, 2009 - 6:24 pm 167. Peddler:

I wonder, if Hitler and Castro had the technology, would they have addressed all of the students and issued Lesson Plans?

Most school districts have curriculum committees that approve all Lesson Plans, will they be able to get ‘Bama’s Plans approved by next Tuesday?

Sep 2, 2009 - 6:26 pm 168. Rasshputin:

How Obama wants parents to help him on 9/11, not that he would ever in a million years be talking to children and telling them to talk to their parents in order to get help with this. No, not Obama.

I posted a link to the actual web page this is taken from earlier, it’s an example of what Volunteer day is about on his new 9/11 special day, and I’m sure his talking to children about volunteering could never be related. But, I still think he might toss out some scripture, or in violation of ACLU good intentions, mention something about intelligent design, so, he won, we lost, we’ll stay home since it’s not our country and we’re not wanted by him. Sob, Sob, I can’t bear not being wanted by a pimp. Sob, Sob.

===========================
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STAY HOME FOR THIS EVENT! DO NOT GO ANYWHERE!
Stay HOME:
—* The Event consists of ALL OF US Making Two Phone Calls on one particular, single day.
—* We call each of our State Senators (phone numbers are below) on that day.

What day? Our US Senators return to DC the Tues after Labor Day. That next FRIDAY, Sep 11, is Patriot Day, designated in memory of the nearly three thousand who died in the 9/11 attacks.

All 50 States are coordinating in this – as we fight back against our own Right-Wing Domestic Terrorists who are subverting the American Democratic Process, whipped to a frenzy by their Fox Propaganda Network ceaselessly re-seizing power for their treacherous leaders.

DO YOU WANT to ensure passage of the Public Plan? Since 75% of Americans support it, I guess it’s time for us Seventy-Five Percenters to be heard. Why Public Plan? = Because It’s American To Take Care Of Our Own!

And, according to a White House Advisor to the President with whom I spoke ten days ago at a DNC Panel, he said, “ON ONE DAY you ‘burn-up’ the Senate Switchboards – THE NEXT DAY you’ve got the Senator’s attention”. We will achieve that effect, on Friday, Patriot Day 9/11.

Auto-generated emails will remind you about our Armchair Public Plan Slam-Dunk Two-Phone-Call Call-A-Thon. Plus I will email you that day, too. And, if you’re proud you joined-in, then email me (the Host) back, when you’ve made your calls. I will be honored to report our massive numbers to OFA for them to brag on the web.

2 PHONE CALLS ON 9/11 – BE A TRUE PATRIOT –

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—* TELL THEM: “I’m calling from the city of [xxx] – and I AM mad as Hell – and I AM NOT going to take it anymore, If You Don’t Mind!”…
—* TELL THEM: “Please make the Public Plan the Law of the Land –
—* TELL THEM: “Because IT’S AMERICAN TO TAKE CARE OF OUR OWN.”
—* TELL THEM: “Tell that to my Senator – Thank you, Good-bye.”

That’s it – simple – all you need is a calendar, an armchair and a phone, for us to have a good strong voice.

Ask your friends if they want to join our Public Plan Call-A-Thon on 9/11: Patriot’s Day –

Sep 2, 2009 - 6:30 pm 169. AThinkingPerson:

Re #168 That phone call blitz doesn’t surprise me. Isn’t it crazy that the liberals are so desperate that they are now resorting to this? Now that all of their ACORN thugs and Obama minions are back in their community colleges studying Food Service 101, the remaining sheeple must now do automated calling to get their socialist agenda rammed through. Such is the life of a Obamazombie. I almost feel sorry for them.

Sep 2, 2009 - 7:20 pm 170. rblancard:

It’s called “Full on retard”, there dummy.
Statist’s seem to think that indoctrination is O.K if their point of view is being peddled for a gain,regardless of whom gets burned in the process.The means justify the ends.Right?
Not here,not now and not ever will this be tolerated or perpetrated against our kids without consequences.
Real Americans will use this as a Teachable moment.

Sep 2, 2009 - 7:23 pm 171. ER White:

http://www.bloggybayou.com/2009/09/on-obamas-speech-to-our-children-at.html

Not the ending I initially expected… but I’m proud of my son…

Sep 2, 2009 - 7:33 pm 172. Moho:

Rashputin. I have no comment, except I hope you don’t stop doing this kind of thing. The phrase, “your own worst enemy” almost doesn’t do you justice. I think most of your enemies wouldn’t be as ruthlessly intent on making you look like an idiot.

Sep 2, 2009 - 7:41 pm 173. tommyd:

Like Michell Malkin reminded us just a few minutes ago…
Obama has already used children in his obsession.

What about the 11 y/o girl at the fake town hall a few weeks ago. He had no problem using a young child that could not have possibly known what she was really doing at the time. What makes anyone think he would not use your kids if he can get away with it.

How about those famous obama child singers at his corination.. Oh how sweet that was.

Maybe he can get some uniforms from Hugo Chavez or Kim Jong’s PR people for the kids.

Obama, nothing but a third rate dictator wannabe… Has no idea what it means to govern,

America, home of the free, Not the free ride….(to quote a tea party goer)

Sep 2, 2009 - 7:43 pm 174. Moho:

LET ME BE CLEAR: I don’t dislike Obama because he’s half black, psuedo-Hawaiian. I dislike Obama because he’s a socialist, deceitful, thug. Please Moho…feel free to cut and paste me on that.

There you go, you got your wish. I would be more inclined to consider your little fig leafs to hide your racism if you actually knew what socialism is. We already live in a socialist country, dumbass. We lived in one in 2004, and in 2000. We have scads of socialist programs. Its a matter of historical record that the US wouldn’t have survived this long without several socialist interventions in the 20th century. If we hadn’t, your toothless appalachian grandma wouldn’t have been around long enough to give birth to your mother and father. Feel free to quote that too.

Sep 2, 2009 - 7:45 pm 175. Obama White House Backtracks on Skool-Aid Propaganda : Stop The ACLU:

[...] for one will be joining Vodka Pundit in keeping my kid out of school on this [...]

Sep 2, 2009 - 7:46 pm 176. scythe:

By all means encourage your children to attend. And strongly suggest they have an “accident” while being mesmerized by the Dear Leader. Now there’s a teachable moment.

Sep 2, 2009 - 7:52 pm 177. Samizdat:

A thinking Person,

I have read your rejoinder to the marxist trolls who keep trying to distract visitors with their malevolent brand of statism. You are a worthy adversary and your stamina ia admirable.

Could you help us out and drop the repartee with these people? They are human beings, but they are not true Americans. They believe in a system of government that has nothing to do with our Constitution. Read Marx and his theory on the dialectic. If you keep bantering with moho, now and then, jharp and vivo your depriving the rest of us of your contributions and feeding their distraction.

Just because they have difficulty living in our republic and reject the liberty and freedoms articulated in the Constitution doesn’t mean you have to engage them in debate or defend our system and way of life.

It’s your decision, but I appeal to your better nature and ask you to join me, a recovering responder, and shut down the debate with the statist provocaters. They are fundamentally untrustworthy and dishonest about citizenship and it’s requirements in our country. Their marxism and our Constitution can’t be reconciled. It ain’t worth further debate.

Sep 2, 2009 - 7:56 pm 178. The Obama Overreach « Obi’s Sister:

[...] small children. Dear Leader wants to interrupt the school day to start his indoctrination program. Stephen Green says, “Keep ‘em at home next Tuesday.” A parent’s first job is to protect [...]

Sep 2, 2009 - 7:59 pm 179. dianddra:

It’s not so innocent as some might hope. Obama wants the children to write a letter to themselves, expressing how they can help the President. if I were a kid I think mine might read:

Dear Me, I want to grow up to be a doctor so that I can help the President when he is locked up in the mental hospital.

Sep 2, 2009 - 8:09 pm 180. myth buster:

174. Considering that many history books were written by those sympathetic to socialism, I’m not surprised that the record says that the US wouldn’t have survived this long without socialist programs. It’s also a bald faced lie, but what else should anyone expect from a Muslim, or a leftist for that matter?

Sep 2, 2009 - 8:19 pm 181. malclave:

@174

Dear Mr. Obama,

Moho will not be in class Tuesday because he will be banging his sister. However, he is already thoroughly brainwashed, so please give him a gold Acorn for his beliefs.

signed,
Moho’s mother

Sep 2, 2009 - 8:20 pm 182. Chris:

Good Lord.

Ok. If this is just a pep talk on studying hard, I’m essentially OK with it.

But I don’t trust Obama to limit it to that.

The problem is, I’m 26, and for the longest time I leaned left precisely because of this kind of thing in school. All you have to do is present the idea that “government does good things” and — HEAR ME — kids naturally come to these leftist conclusions themselves.

How? Talk about all the things government does to help people. Talk about all the government efforts to make your lives better, to make you happier, to make things equal.

Try explaining to a child that equality and helping people are bad.

Kids relate to this, it’s a natural trust of people who have good intentions. Kids aren’t cynical about politics.

“Hi, I’m President Obama. I work in the White House. It is my privilege and pleasure to make America a better place, and that’s what we do every day in Washington. We’re in communities, schools, businesses, looking for ways to improve everyone’s lives, to provide good quality of life for you and your parents, your grandparents. We want you to be happy, to grow up and go to college. We want you to enter the world and do your part to make it a better place, too.

You can save the world too. You can be important and smart, just like the President. You can do your part. It makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside. It’s *seductive*.

With teacher material like “What do you think the President wants you to do?” you can see where this could go.

Your kids are being exposed to this every day.

Sep 2, 2009 - 8:25 pm 183. Moho:

Samizdat:

I have read your rejoinder to the marxist trolls who keep trying to distract visitors with their malevolent brand of statism. You are a worthy adversary and your stamina ia admirable.

Whoa. You’re even dumber than he is.

Sep 2, 2009 - 8:30 pm 184. Moho:

Malclave. Its generally agreed that the first one out with the parent/sex joke has the initiative. When others join in, they are merely copying, and doing a bad show of it, as you did. A particularly fumbling effort, no class or style.

I could add a joke about how you’re hillbilly father taught you the family business of milking bulls, but making one honky cry a day is my limit.

Sep 2, 2009 - 8:33 pm 185. Obama Youth – Obama to indoctrinate kids on Sep 8 | Fire Andrea Mitchell!:

[...] If there was ever a day for people to keep their kids out of school, September 8th is the day. And even before this date, in Utah of all places, they are already starting indoctrinating kids with left wing propaganda. As Michelle Malkin mentions a school principal has apologized for showing a video at an assembly that was considered “radical, leftist propaganda.” Michelle Malkin also has a syndicated column about this today. Malkin also has posted an e-mail from a read named “Katie” in Atlanta about how the US Department of Education circumvented elected school officials to send notice of Obama’s indoctrination speech on Sep 8. Many parents of kids in this Pre-K-6th grade targeted propaganda group as you can imagine are outraged, and many are pulling their kids out of school of the day of September 8th. Now blogs such as Vodkapundit are suggesting the same idea. [...]

Sep 2, 2009 - 8:33 pm 186. digitalis:

Moho – wassa mattah bro? No mo ho?

Sep 2, 2009 - 10:34 pm 187. AdrianS:

This is a nasty plan where Obama will molest young students and essentially pit them against parents who DO NOT support Obama. This is a most disturbing and disgusting plan — typical of perversion, manipulating children. The outrage across the country is hot. You’ve got it right; Obama has to be stopped.

Sep 2, 2009 - 10:36 pm 188. Moho:

Simply lame. Even if you were wearing your hood as you typed this, it utterly failed as an insult. Stay in the sandbox, little one. Fewer tears there.

Sep 2, 2009 - 10:53 pm 189. Pragmatist:

How appropriate that the JEW HATING ARAB Mohammedan MOHO just ‘lurves’ the Obamanation and all he stands for. This tells you all you want to know about PC MC moonbat ‘libtard’ Socialists and Mohammedans doesn’t it and also what the Mohammedan BOGUS POTUS Barrack , you can call me HUSSEIN now I won, Obama is too.

Sep 2, 2009 - 10:56 pm 190. Anwyn’s Notes in the Margin » Message Problem:

[...] read a lot of opinions, from (I think) childless AP and Ace to Mama Venom and Daddy Vodka–one “Keep your kids home,” one “Really?” one “Yeah, I can sorta see that,” one “Pick your [...]

Sep 2, 2009 - 11:02 pm 191. AdrianS:

Sounds like Moho has no real opinion. He’s an Obama agent attempting to negate derogatory commentary. Won’t work. As the mayor said, “the badge would have saved him if it weren’t for all them other “bullets” coming in from everywhere.”

Obama now has too much opposition to simply say, “Simply lame”. There is opposition to Obama coming from EVERYWHERE. Nice.

Keep the kids home for a day. Avoid Obama.

Sep 2, 2009 - 11:05 pm 192. Pragmatist:

You must all join zee Obambi Youth und report any deviant friends und parents who speak badly about zee Fuhrer opps sorry the Obamanation. Vee haf already opened the White House site to send your denounciation emails to und vee are recruiting Internment (Concentration) Camp Guards und a National Militia (Brown Shirts and SS) und have also put in to place Internet control legislation, Sieg Hei! Seig Heil! Seig Heil!

If you cant see what the left wing SOCIALIST NAZI moonbat ‘libtards’ and Dems are now then you never will either that or you are one of them.

Sep 3, 2009 - 1:42 am 193. Zuzu:

Frank Martin @5 said:

“Can you imagine the fun that would have occurred if Bush had tried such a thing?”

Well, I remember when his daddy tried just such a thing. Oddly enough, I don’t remember anyone threatening to keep their kids home from school.

~~~~Mr. Bush’s speech, which he delivered at Alice Deal Junior High School here, was carried live by the Cable News Network and stations of the Public Broadcasting Service. The White House hired Wetacom Inc., a production company with the local PBS station, WETA, to send in a crew for the telecast. Mr. Bush perched on a stool by a blackboard and read his speech from Teleprompters that were at the back of the classroom, out of the range of the three cameras.

[. . .]

Secretary Alexander had sent letters to all the nation’s 110,000 elementary and secondary schools beforehand, urging them to let students watch the President’s speech.” ~~~~~

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/04/us/financing-for-a-bush-speech-is-attacked.html

Of course there IS one big difference. Obama’s speech is going to be posted at the White House website. People can watch it whenever theyt want … nobody has to watch it live.

Bush’s show, on the other hand, could only be watched live. And he wanted every schoolkid in the country to tune in at the same time. Ooooh, mind control!

Sep 3, 2009 - 3:15 am 194. My Kids Deserve Better » Blog Archive » My Kids Deserve Better:

[...] going to say to students, but that’s being ably covered by others, especially Michelle, Vodka Pundit, Dana Loesch, and Steve [...]

Sep 3, 2009 - 6:13 am 195. Rashputin:

ZuZu

“Ooooh, mind control!”

How many days before the Bush, “call your senators and call those opposed to my plan terrorists” day was that? If you can’t see the difference between having a special kiddies day interwovn with a campaign to run roughshod over the majority of the population and the president holding and education week (or whatever) event you’re being totally dishonest with yourself. You know this isn’t the same thing and lying here or shading the fact with your little ridicule tidbits from your handbook just prove that you know it’s different.

have a day

Sep 3, 2009 - 6:47 am 196. The Greenroom » Forum Archive » VodkaPundit’s Sept. 8 Rebellion: Now Endorsed by Hoodlums and Homeschoolers:

[...] VodkaPundit says parents should keep their kids home from school next Tuesday rather than subject them to the Obama Mass Indoctrination. In reply Allahpundit says, “I’m with CJ” and ridicules the idea: One pap-filled 20-minute speech about working hard and serving others is so lethal a threat to tender minds that they have to be yanked off the premises for the day to shield them from it? Or is this more of a protest in principle at the idea of the president giving a captive audience of schoolkids a pep talk on civics? . . . Irresistible exit question: If it’s true that “state indoctrination of children is a hallmark of totalitarian government” (never mind that various subtle forms of indoctrination are happening in schools constantly), does that mean atheists were right all along in opposing prayer in public schools? [...]

Sep 3, 2009 - 7:10 am 197. frank grimes:

moho:unless you’re just being ironic…or playing a role,i suggest you seek help.

fwiw,barak may have an african father-that he never saw,but inside he is whiter than you are(without the guilt).

Sep 3, 2009 - 7:45 am 198. Moho:

Keep the kids home for a day.

Do the world a favor: keep your kids home everyday.

Sep 3, 2009 - 7:46 am 199. Moho:

fwiw,barak may have an african father-that he never saw,but inside he is whiter than you are(without the guilt).

Yeah, I’m the one that should seek help.

Sep 3, 2009 - 7:48 am 200. AdrianS:

September 8, 2009: National Keep Your Child at Home Day

By AmericanElephant on September 1, 2009

http://americanelephant.com/blog/commentary/september-8-2009-national-keep-your-child-at-home

Sep 3, 2009 - 7:49 am 201. Moho:

Adrian.

As I said, I think you should all keep your children at home every day.

Sep 3, 2009 - 7:55 am 202. Dex Houston TX:

Boy did I take a wrong turn onto this site…what a bunch hateful people. To think that you are teaching your child to hate and not respect our president in such a way is criminal.
Having an opinion is one thing, but to incite and influence hate by any means necessary is wrong. I pray to God that you will sit down with your children and give them enough information to make sound decisions.
Bottom line those that have hate in them simply needed a platform to fuel their pre-existing condition.

Sep 3, 2009 - 8:06 am 203. A.W.:

Look, i am pretty down on obama, but you know i think this is a great thing. We forget what a thunderclap this has been in the minds of african americans everywhere. As a white kid growing up i can’t tell you how sacred it was for me to hear that teacher say “Lincoln was born in a log cabin, and that means anyone can grow up to be president.” Of course, now they will say “Obama is utterly unqualified to do the job and therefore anyone, literally anyone, can become president.” okay, that was harsh, but a little funny. but more seriously, you can say to black children “anyone can be president” without the obvious retort.

As for the teachers saying “does this make you want to do something?” Well, in context it sounds like nothing more than, “do your homework, be a good citizen” and so on.

All of this sounds like the ultra paranoid cases where the ACLU fears that if children are given a moment of silence they might… omg, pray. and then if a kid doesn’t pray then hey might feel peer pressure and the next thing you know, they will be indoctrinated into faith. if a teacher is that inclined to abuse his or her power, i suspect they don’t need either a moment of silence, or a few silly study sheets from the white house, to do so.

But i will oppose it on simpler grounds: just how much money are we spending on these lesson plans? whatever it is, its too much. i am sure those teachers are individually smart enough to figure out how to create a lesson plan. or, well, if they aren’t, why do you think they will teach these kids anything else?

Sep 3, 2009 - 8:33 am 204. A.W.:

Btw, Stephen, let me add that i usually agree with you on alot of stuff. i just don’t usually post to pay a person on the back.

Sep 3, 2009 - 8:34 am 205. Podcast: The President, Little People, The Press, Levi’s Palin Penis Johnson « Blog Entry « Dr. Melissa Clouthier:

[...] Green joins me to discuss the Obama-Education talk controversy. He takes on AllahPundit with wit and style. [I would have asked AllahPundit to be on the show had [...]

Sep 3, 2009 - 8:48 am 206. Dave Hansen:

How about this. Keep your kids home and watch the video together. This is a teaching opportunity and should not be wasted. This will also give you the opportunity to control the discussion and teach your kids about what is being said instead of some liberal teacher. And if the president does turn this into something political you can counter-act it or discuss how you feel about it and give them your opinion on whats being discussed.

Sep 3, 2009 - 9:26 am 207. jumping the shark meets fuoridation paranoia « blahgblog:

[...] These nutcases are, in all seriousness (or at least such as they can muster), are tearing out their hair and planning to pull their kids from the “government schools” because Obama is planning an address to the kids telling them to study hard, stay in school and work to give back to society. [...]

Sep 3, 2009 - 10:05 am 208. The Chicago, Er, U.S. Annenberg Challenge « The Underground Conservative:

[...] Green, the Vodka Pundit, advocates keeping your kids at home next Tuesday. Obama can’t just say hey to the kiddies and encourage them to do their homework. He [...]

Sep 3, 2009 - 10:19 am 209. Obama’s Schoolchildren Speech:

[...] Stephen Green would keep his son out of public school that day if his son were old enough and he urges you to do the same. Nope, Obama can’t just say hey to the kiddies and encourage them to do their homework. He has to make this a — what does the Left call it? — a teachable moment. A speech-in, if you will. Teachers have even been given handy instructions on how best to integrate The One into the classroom. [...]

Sep 3, 2009 - 10:35 am 210. deguello:

RASHPUTIN,ADRIAN,RE:146:MOJON: First let’s get one thing clear shall we?The president has NO IDEAS,he merely reads,libtard drivel, cooked up by the stalinist controllers programming his teleprompter.Second,Nobody uses the “N” word here,for the simple reason that Obama is not a “n”&*r”, he is a BOY,an errand boy for George Soros, and the other members of the white liberal plutocracy who run him. Do you know what that makes YOU? Another errand boy for white libtards,once removed.What Irony! Now go home for a day(better, a week, and take your recreational enemas.It might avoid people continuing to think of you as full of sh@%t!

Sep 3, 2009 - 10:59 am 211. Barack Obama, Pedagogue in Chief? | Constant Conservative:

[...] Stephen Green, notes his objection by saying: “It’s not mere education — it’s [...]

Sep 3, 2009 - 11:14 am 212. Right as well as Correct:

#199 moho:
“Yeah, I’m the one that should seek help.”

WOOOOO HOOOOOO! Someone finally got moho to realize that HE NEEDS SERIOUS HELP.

Good luck with the therapy mofo.:)

Sep 3, 2009 - 11:50 am 213. President to make speech indoctrinating schoolkids; OUTRAGE follows » Cold Fury:

[...] my money, Stephen’s right and Allahpundit’s wrong on this one. Bob, mostly in agreement with AP, makes some admittedly [...]

Sep 3, 2009 - 12:19 pm 214. SurgeUSAorg:

Note how the White House is trying to spin out of this mess by changing the content posted on the Dept of Education website. Don’t be fooled. See the original letter from Arne Duncan and the related teacher instructions.

Obama can post any message he wants on the White House website, and encourage parents to show it to their kids. Arne Duncan should not be instructing school administrators to fit Obama into their curriculum. Note that they encouraged kids to read books about Obama, study his speeches, etc. Not study the Constitution, limited government, etc. Use this day as a “teachable moment” with your kids in that regard.

Sep 3, 2009 - 12:28 pm 215. Rashputin:

213 –

Well, it looks like at least some House Democrats are just as nutty as fruitcakes along with us conservative A**holes (I do so want to honor the name the Green Jobs Czar used for republicans). Anyone thinking that this is all so innocent had better step back and consider what is really going on when even members of his own party are calling this, “a paid political announcement”.

Yeah, it grinds exceedingly fine once it starts and the grinding wheel has barely overcome inertia yet. I say this nutcase Obama has a breakdown or a public fit of obvious madness before Christmas, maybe before Thanksgiving. The first wave of rats is leaving the ship and soon there will be a mad rush of democrats distancing themselves from him. They wouldn’t have come out against even this unless there’s more going on behind the scenes than has leaked out as of yet; at least that’s my opinion.

have a nice day

Sep 3, 2009 - 12:44 pm 216. Moho:

WOOOOO HOOOOOO! Someone finally got moho to realize that HE NEEDS SERIOUS HELP.

What a sad comment on your life that anything having to do with me should make you either happy or sad. I don’t care what any of you do.

Sep 3, 2009 - 1:13 pm 217. First Day of School and Right-Wing Nuttiness. « The Angry Bear (ALPHA):

[...] short‐term and long‐term education goals.” There are, of course, the usual collection of right-wing crazies who think this some dastardly plot by the Administration to turn their kids into Village of the [...]

Sep 3, 2009 - 1:19 pm 218. Silence Do Good:

A nitwit wrote the following:

“I just don’t get what people are so scared of. Parents can debrief their kids when they come home from school after the President’s talk.”

Can you believe it?

“Parents can debrief their kids….”

We do NOT want to be in THAT position! How stupid can a person be!

Is that the level of deep thinking? All you have to do is “debrief” your kids!

I have a better solution. Give each parent a voucher for the actual cost of each child’s education at the hands of government run union school. Say $9K, $10K, or $11K and let the parents choose which school their child will attend.

And yes, the non-motivated parents with the non-motivated kids will be the losers. Because, as we all know, they already are.

Sep 3, 2009 - 1:39 pm 219. DAVID:

Are you joking or are you nuts? Repubilcans always talk about personal responsibility but when a Democrat call for children to be better person and accept personal responsibility they are call Socialist. Wingnut!

Sep 3, 2009 - 1:53 pm 220. doug:

Oh, Christ, you’re all idiots. Shouldn’t you right-wingers be out looking for new victims? Or at least scoring this week’s coke deal?

Sep 3, 2009 - 2:00 pm 221. Karen:

What is wrong with all of you people. The President is trying to get kids motivated and stay in school and become successful. Now tell me if Bush did this, you would be all tripping over yourselves saying please watch this. I think some of you need to go back to school, and learn!

Sep 3, 2009 - 2:14 pm 222. Artsgolfer:

Re: 68. Dale:

It’s very sad that Conservative parents are planning to pull their kids out of school to avoid hearing the President’ speech. Why?

A: I will tell you why? Because the speech is not innocuous. It is teaching kids that personalities should be followed and obeyed and not the Constitution of the United States of America. He works for us, not for him.

1. It teaches your kids disrespect for the office of the presidency. Not just the Obama presidency, but every presidency.

A: I absolutely disagree. I have always emphasized to my children that we have to respect the choice of the voters but we can disagree vigorously with the policies of any President. NO president should have this kind of access with these kind of questions to high school students much less elementary school students.

2. You’re denying your kids the right to decide whether they want to see the president’s speech.

A: This is the main problem with the left. They are children. They must be taught right from wrong, taught how to discern the truthfullness of an argument, schooled in the history and documents of our great nation. There are levels of decision making. This kind of decision is for adults of voting age…not children…..if you give them a wii or a choc cake you can convince them of anything.

3. You are teaching your kids that they can just choose to walk away from education if they don’t care for, or agree with the subject matter.

A. Another problem with the left. You are arguing from a premise that you assume is correct. This is not education (your premise) it is the soft indoctrination of children. If the president can come across all nice and smiley kids will later be upset when their parents disagree with his policies at home. This is aimed at separating parents from their children.

In other words, you’re teaching your kids to be intellectually lazy.

A: That is just laughable. Most conservatives strive to teach their kids debate, rhetoric, math, sciences and encourage a strive for excellence. Most liberals teach the kids that they don’t abort how to be a professional victim and study PC correct subjects so they can suck at the government teat.

4. You are denying your kids the opportunity to hear some words that might (shocker!) actually inspire them.

A: We can choose who we want to inspire our kids thank you very much. As adults they can make their own choices. I have an idea…why don’t you let your kid come to live with me for a month. We can go to Mass every sunday, read Adam Smith and the Wall Street journal and watch Glen Beck….hey…why deny them…they can make their own choices…right?

5. Childhood is tough enough, and you are making it that much tougher and more awkward by segregating your kid from the rest of his peers because of your own selfish and irrational feelings about the president.

A: Creepy…that sounds like it came right out of the Mao/Lenin/Hitler playbook. And, save unexpected tragedy, most tough childhoods come directly as a result of stupid selfish parental choices.

6. After a childhood of being denied the right to learn new things and think independently, your kid will eventually realize that your need to keep him in a caccoon of right wing ideology was never for his/her own good, but rather for yours, and the life-long resentment and distrust begins.

A: Gosh I feel so guilty now…..NOT! Are you kidding me? My kids are going to grow up informed, intelligtent, knowledgeable (even about all the oppostion’s trite arguments and tactics ) and confident in their Faith and the culture of freedom. They will serve the community by not being a burden and their fellow man through service to Christ on earth.

Sep 3, 2009 - 2:21 pm 223. Paul_D:

Keep the kids out of school becuase Teh Halfrican Overlord? Fine. Maybe evolution could be taught that day without controversy.

Sep 3, 2009 - 2:24 pm 224. Mary:

YOU ALL ARE SO PARANOID
GET A LIFE

Sep 3, 2009 - 2:41 pm 225. Inspire Away « Slow Stagger:

[...] [...]

Sep 3, 2009 - 3:06 pm 226. John McLachlan:

While some commenters are concerned that this address to schoolchildren is blatant political propaganda and indoctrination, others are stating that it will probably just be harmless platitudes, about which there should be no concern. I think that the actual address will be mostly platitudes, which no-one, left or right would object to, but it will have established a precedent. After a few such addresses, I think that the political content of mr Obama’s address to schoolshildren will become more partisan. He sat, with William Ayres, for several years. Both sought to turn schools into socialist indoctrination centres. Both Mr Ayres and Mr Obama regard propagandising schoolchildren as the function of education, rather than teaching skills like mathematics, physics, etc. I think that this will not be a solitary address to schoolchildren and that it will appear uncontentious. However, it will be the thin end of the wedge; the camel’s nose inside the tent. Mr Obama is a “community orgniser”. His skill is manipulating people’s emotions, by selection or distorion of facts. At this he excells. Children’s emotions are more easily manipulated. Mr Obama enjoys making speaches.

Sep 3, 2009 - 3:20 pm 227. jay smith:

people, there is nothing at all wrong for this president to address the nation’s children.
Many presidents have done that, regan, bush, nixon and others.
don’t let the hate filled trash of the likes of rush limbaugh, glen beck, and some politicians like jim greer and rex rummel poision your minds and fill the country with hate. this country’s history had enough with serious incidents with leaders falling to the crazies. conservative talk radio is creating a sickening atmosphere, where someone, with no sense of right and wrong might take their message the wrong way.
obama, a dad with his own little kids wants to inspire children, what on earth is wrong with that. the age of computers is spreading all this nonsense about obama, it is a real shame and all of you should be ashamed of yourselves, from talk radio and some politicians as i mentioned and don’t forget senator blackman

Sep 3, 2009 - 3:31 pm 228. Aureliano:

Uh-oh. Looks like a kiddie has just returned home from his/her class and is masquerading as some kind of borg collective: little Mary, Karen, Doug, and David ….

The little babooshkas are just so dang cute, aren’t they? OK, so it’s probably just one babooshka pretending to be multiple concerned peoples.

Anyway, given the fact that their meaningless drive-by postings were made within just a few minutes of each other, I have to wonder who put them/he/she up to it, and do you think they’re aware of the irony of a Left-liberal adult moving them to comment on political issues that are way above their head based upon little to no reliable information or analytical skills whatsoever?

Probably not.

Sep 3, 2009 - 3:33 pm 229. Below The Beltway » Blog Archive » Obama Speech To Schoolchildren Continues To Stir Controversy:

[...] at Vodkapundit,Stephen Green says he would keep his son home from school: Nope, Obama can’t just say hey to the kiddies and [...]

Sep 3, 2009 - 3:42 pm 230. Aureliano:

jay smith,

Do not ever address educated, experienced, full-fledged adults with text-message quality gibberish.

Learn how to form paragraphs, make an attempt to spell correctly, place periods and apostrophes where appropriate, and use friggin’ upper-case characters when required.

Oh, and it would probably help if you actually knew something useful.

Sheesh.

Sep 3, 2009 - 3:49 pm 231. Moho:

Learn how to form paragraphs, make an attempt to spell correctly, place periods and apostrophes where appropriate, and use friggin’ upper-case characters when required.

And, of course, this sentence should have been written with semi-colons rather than periods.

Sep 3, 2009 - 4:10 pm 232. Angela:

My three children aged 14, 9, and 6 are all out of school Sept. 7-9. They are out the 8th and 9th for “teacher training days”, so no speech for them. I am in Northwest Louisiana by the way. The entire parish is out of school, as well as several other parishes. I am curious now if this has something to do with the extended holiday bestowed upon my children,as we all know Gov. Jindal is one of the few Governors who refused federal stimulus money. HMMMMMMM……..

Sep 3, 2009 - 4:51 pm 233. Aureliano:

And, of course, this sentence should have been written with semi-colons rather than periods.

Actually, no.

Independent clauses in a compound sentence CAN be separated with a semi-colon, and semi-colons are often necessary for the sake of clarity, but it is not ungrammatical to use commas to separate the clauses.

Sometimes semi-colons are required; often they are optional, or only just preferred.

Didn’t they teach you that in your ebonics courses?

Sep 3, 2009 - 5:09 pm 234. Nancy:

The comments most of you post here scare me. What happened to respecting the office of the president and honoring our democracy. President Obama was elected with a hefty majority of the votes. I find it repulsive that you are making a mockery of the presidency. Many people hated Bush, but I never heard that Bush was denied in a school…in fact he was reading to children when 911 occurred. Shame on you all for denying your children the right to hear from their president, whether you agree with his politics or not! He is the president and he has done many great things in his life including community services that he did at a much lesser cost than he could have done with his Harvard Law Degree. He is a bright man, who the Right is deeming as evil. I personally believe this is all about his half black ethnicity and you not being able to handle a black man making any big policies or God forbid, teach your children who will have to learn to live in a diverse world, whether you like it or not! Grow up! Consider it a great thing for the president to take time from his very busy schedule to address school children and motivate them to learn as much as they can. Shame on you for even proposing that people call in sick and further reduce our economic productivity at a time like this, or suggest that people put their jobs in jeopardy or their children’s attendance record in school in jeopardy for your political nonsense! And it is nonsense. Obama is not sending messages to children or anyone else on socialist policies. This whole thing about Hitler is insanity. We sound like a bunch of nuts to other countries and you are making this into a Rush Limbaugh political rally, which is no way to teach your children respect. First and foremost, you should respect the vote and our democracy and then support your president once elected to succeed. If you disagree, you should vote for your lawmakers and be coherant and educated rather than pray for his demise or failure. What has happened to this country that your racist views have overtaken your sense of decency and patriotism? You only make yourself look like a bunch of crazy, racist fools!

Sep 3, 2009 - 5:10 pm 235. jacksonsmom:

He seems to be taking a page from the past; Stalin and Hitlers past. My kids will NOT be listening to his propaganda.

Sep 3, 2009 - 5:13 pm 236. Cameron Johnson:

I think some people have gone off the deep end! I have never heard such utter rubbish in all my 64 years! This speec is not only not political, the indoctrination I can see in it is to get get kids to get an education so they can take care of themselves and their future families! stop being crazy and trying to make the rest of us crazy with you!

Sep 3, 2009 - 5:29 pm 237. Dr. Frank Lippenheimer:

This is inappropriate behavior on the commander in chief’s part. Who does he think he is? There is no way that we should stand idly by and allow him to single out our children for his own special instructions on how to think, and how to behave, like a good little liberal drone.

Sep 3, 2009 - 5:30 pm 238. Rashputin:

“I think some people have gone off the deep end! I have never heard such utter rubbish in all my 64 years!”

Oh, horescrap, I’m nearly as old as you and unless you’ve been in a coma you’re a liar pure and simple. The left has on numerous occasions gone off like a box of cheap fireworks over all kinds of things that were far less worrisome and has even spent months demanding people be fired for far less than a political speech to the kiddies.

Please, either you’re not 64 or you’re brain is not getting enough blood anymore. Who did you think you’d fool other than maybe yourself?

have another day of coma

Sep 3, 2009 - 5:37 pm 239. Justin S:

Sad world when people dpn’t even give the leader of the free world a chance. Get a life you retards!!! maybe your kids will learn to stay in school and not become like there half retarded parents

Sep 3, 2009 - 5:37 pm 240. The Lawyer Mom:

Had it just been the president giving a straight-up “do good in school” speech, without the attendant “suggested classroom activities,” I would have been A-OK.

But after seeing the video on Michelle Malkin’s website where a pro-Obama teacher harangues a young student who supported McCain, the “teacher talking points” alarmed me.

The suggested discussions and “student activities” provided by the White House present an irresistable platform for pro-Obama teachers to do some politicking.

This is especially true, given the AFT’s (teachers’ union) days-old press release, in which it argues for a public option in health care reform. Oh, and given the fact Obama addresses Congress on health care reform the day after his nation-wide school speech.

Sep 3, 2009 - 5:53 pm 241. jacksonsmom:

I will teach my kids to respect the office of the President when there is a respectable person in the office, Nancy! He is filling his staff with ultra liberal, anti-American zealots. My prayer is this will be his undoing.

Sep 3, 2009 - 6:03 pm 242. Artsgolfer:

Re: Nancy (234)

What has happened to this country that your racist views have overtaken your sense of decency and patriotism? You only make yourself look like a bunch of crazy, racist fools!

wow…Nancy…why don’t you meet one of us face to face….I bet you end up screaming and calling us names like you did in the post and we will be sighing and silently praying for you. You, all of you liberals need to stop throwing down the racist card…..conservatives are an ethnically, socio-economically, and belief system diverse bunch….I know it will come as a shock to y’all with preconceived notions. However, it is you who is racist because you assume (and you know what happens when we do that don’t you!) that all black people have to think alike because…well..they’re black…therefore anyone oppossed to President Obama must be a white racist. Not at all. I would just LOOOOOVVEEE to see Jindal or Alan Keyes as president. I don’t care what a person’s skin color is….I care about the character, morals and policies of the person. How dare you call me a racist. You know nothing about me. And I have had enough. I am taking a stand. I endured 8 years of slanderous, ugly hateful talk about President Bush. Where were the liberals then…name calling and using foul language and straw man arguments like usual. It…stops….now!

Sep 3, 2009 - 6:16 pm 243. Norris Hall:

If parents don’t want their kids to watch that
black man telling white kids to stay in school.
He should be telling that to little black kids. They are the ones that are dropping out and getting pregnant at 13.
Texas has a long proud history of keeping the blacks “in their place”. So now we got to listen to one of them blacks lecturing our white kids to stay n school??
If Obama wants to push a broom down the school halls, that’s ok. But to put that black man in a suit and tie and treat him like he’s the president of the United States or something like that….
Now that’s taking things too far.
I miss the good old days when those darkies had to address us as “massah”, don’t you

Sep 3, 2009 - 6:16 pm 244. Artsgolfer:

239. Justin S:

Sad world when people dpn’t even give the leader of the free world a chance. Get a life you retards!!! maybe your kids will learn to stay in school and not become like there half retarded parents

You just proved our point Justin…and quite beautifully I might add.

1. You are obviously a product of a social promotion public school because the word you are looking for would be spelled “their.”

2. Okay…not “Leader of the free world.” Only expats can vote. Citizens of other countries cannot vote for him. He is the President of the United States. And, so far the First Ammendment gives me the right to criticize him. Read it. It’s a good document.

3. Retards…harsh….You see Justin conservatives who value all life, including the lives of metally challenged and handicapped people don’t use words like “retard” Surely you must have access to a Thesaurus and can come up with some better barbs.

Sep 3, 2009 - 6:23 pm 245. deguello:

#216 MOHO doesn’t need help;he, Justin, and the other Stalin enthusiast trolls,need to see a death panel run by public sanitation engineers.Maybe not Justin,he’s an amusing buffoon.

Sep 3, 2009 - 7:06 pm 246. Leslie:

Oh come on, for the past 8 years there was incredible pressure the right wing of our political spectrum to “put up or get out”, and now the left wing is pushing their agenda. It’s called American politics, and Obama is no more evil than Bush for engaging in it.

Sep 3, 2009 - 7:12 pm 247. Marla Lanni:

It is very sad to see all the hate directed toward our President. I wonder if most of the comments on this site are made by people who Love Jesus and this is their way of showing Christain values?

Sep 3, 2009 - 7:49 pm 248. Artsgolfer:

Re: 243 Norris Hall:

I will just bet that this one is a plant by an (not so) undercover lefty socialist (not a redundancy…its an emphasis!) No real conservative talks like that but the liberals imagine that they do. That is why they troll these blogs and plant these ridiulous sounding statements thinking the world will be shocked. Forget it.

Now children…say it with me….”Liberal Lie”…..no that was a redundancy….good night all.

Sep 3, 2009 - 7:58 pm 249. Now and Then:

246. Leslie . . . dear leslie, Leslie, Leslie . . . I feel your pain, I really do, but your logic and truth have no bearing here in the House of Deafening Din. These folks have no interest in any brand of accountability. They exist purely to defend that which they have never defended, uphold that which they have never upheld, and play victim to the MSM which is either a) all powerful or b) irrelevant . . . Obama who is either a) an evil genius or b) a sputtering dolt . . . excuse me, sputtering Kenyan-born Muslim dolt . . . while echoing the intransigent insanity of Glenda Beck. By all means, join the fray, but don’t expect the obvious to be obvious to anyone here. They’re just too patriotic to care.

Sep 3, 2009 - 8:03 pm 250. Artsgolfer:

You can disagee with a person without hating them Marla. We disagree with almost everything he stands for. We will actively, as is our right, speak of our disagreements. Christ, while here on earth was an agitator. He warned people not to be of this world. He talked about Hell almost twice as much as Heaven….he doesn’t offer insipid love everyone no matter what they think love. He offers tough love….follow me or suffer the consequences.

Sep 3, 2009 - 8:05 pm 251. ugot2bkiddin:

How can my child help the President?
Organize a fund raiser to buy him a one way ticket to Saudi Arabia

Sep 3, 2009 - 8:08 pm 252. frank grimes:

12 year old moron:”Texas has a long proud history of keeping the blacks “in their place”

really? i happen to have some black friends out near waco,is very far from you?because next time i come out to visit…..it would be very interesting to see you “put them in place”.

Sep 3, 2009 - 8:09 pm 253. frank grimes:

“Obama who is either a) an evil genius or b) a sputtering dolt .”

you mean like bush,apparatchik?

Sep 3, 2009 - 8:12 pm 254. Now and Then:

253. frank grimes:

Do us all a favor, Frank, wake ALL THE WAY up before you post.

Sep 3, 2009 - 8:15 pm 255. frank grimes:

254.i know this might be hard for you to fathom,but some people have careers tha force them to LEAVE the house and travel to them….i’ll give you a moment to let that sink in.

ok,ready?

i understand that your short-term memory is probably pretty badly damaged,but the left characterized bush in the very same manner you described.

PS.try and be quicker in your reply next time,it is getting late,and i have to get up BEFORE noon.

Sep 3, 2009 - 8:52 pm 256. Class Clown:

Let the kids watch. They need to listen to con-men so that they can learn to recognize them when they hear them.

Sep 3, 2009 - 8:57 pm 257. randasmom:

I will let my child go to school on Sept. 8th and hear the speech…BUT as a responsible parent I will inform her about it prior to school. While I won’t be there with her, I will watch it at home. Then when she gets home, I will talk to her about it and what they did at school. We are proud Americans and responsible parents. I have raised my child to be open minded but also to understand what our country is truly about. I trust her to make the right choices and I’m here for her.

Sep 3, 2009 - 9:34 pm 258. smc67:

Does anyone remember their German history course? Adolf Hitler was successful because: the German economy was crumbling & the people were dissatisfied (sound familiar?) – he was an inspiring orator, capable of rousing speeches (similar to anyone you know?) – he began with indoctrinating the youth (hmmmmm) – the press failed to question his credentials (or lack thereof) – the German people followed blindly, making excuses & justifying the increasingly worrisome government agenda.

You can call me paranoid – I’m OK with that … because if I’m wrong, the only harm done is that I look foolish. But if you’re wrong, those who would call me paranoid, we are in serious trouble… I hope I’m wrong – but I doubt it.

Sep 3, 2009 - 9:35 pm 259. Meryl:

234.Nancy

We do respect the office of the President. We do not respect the individual presently occupying that office. There’s a huge difference.

This man’s spokesmen, up and including the very highest levels, have been calling us names, mocking us and making accusations ever since he took office.

Will you be contacting him and suggesting to him that he respect Americans?

Sep 3, 2009 - 11:00 pm 260. seanmahair:

Here is the saddest thing, at least to me. Even if this speech was benign, most of us are so tired of the constant lies, aspersion, calumny, deceit, deception, defamation, detraction, dishonesty, disinformation, distortion, evasions, fabrication, falsehood, falsification, fiction,, fraudulence, guile, hyperbole, inaccuracy, invention, libel, mendacity, misrepresentation, misstatement, myth, obloquy, perjury, prevarication, revilement, slander, subterfuge, vilification not to mention white lies perpetuated by this administration; that there is NO way to convince us other wise.

This cabal has used Class warfare, bigotry, and racism to divide the country in hopes that by the time some of us figure out we’ve been had it will be too late to undo the damage. For those of you who don’t know a lot about what caused the American Revolution; the high handed tactics of this administration are right on par with the mismanagement of George III. Keep it up folks and you will have destroyed a nation it took 200 +years to build.

Sep 3, 2009 - 11:05 pm 261. Robohobo:

candle @ 84: From her blog (She is a self hating, white Lesbian):

We who love peace demand that we all live as one under a just government. A government which will empower us towards a future where the world will be one and fair and equal. I am Candle, I am your Guide, and this is my struggle….

It is really going to smart when reality smacks that one in the face. Poor child. She also wrote about hating her skin? How messed up is that?

Moho @ 146:

I think this latest little hissy fit will be the last slab on the grave of your movement. … You’ll save us all a lot of time and patience if you just go ahead and start using the n-word now.

Ah, crap, you found us out. Again, why do you ahng out here is we are so bad?

OTOH, it took 146 comments before the troll-fu took over.

Sep 4, 2009 - 12:23 am 262. Meryl:

Not unexpectedly, troll comments (like obama’s endless blither blither blither) reveal so much about them. Interesting.

Sep 4, 2009 - 12:35 am 263. sensiblethoughts4u:

I can’t believe the extreme degree of ignorance, hatred, and senseless fear I have read on this blog. Some people are so blinded by their own ignorance that they let their irrational fears and the urgings of other ignorants lead them to do STUPID DEEDS that will cost them dearly later on. Many who do harbor such hate and ignorance do sometimes later become enlightened, usually too late to help them. Many of you so-called right-wing religious zealots will NEVER see Heaven! So go forth and continue on your hateful ways. We’ll not miss seeing you as you descend to your firey home!

Sep 4, 2009 - 12:54 am 264. Pragmatist:

Dont forget when reading MOHO’s posts that he is a self confessed JEW HATING antisemitic ARAB Mohammedan who just ‘lurves’ the Obamanation because he recognises a kindred spirit.

Sep 4, 2009 - 3:10 am 265. Dee:

HA!
OUR SO CALLED PRESIDENT!
HE SUCKS!
HE DOES NOT RESPECT OUR FLAG, OUR BIBLE, HE ACTUALLY DID NOT SHOW PROOF OF HIS BIRTH CERTIFICATE!
GO BACK TO KENYA WHERE YOU BELONG!
LEAVE OUR KIDS ALONG!
NO USE FOR CRAP AS HIMSELF!

Sep 4, 2009 - 3:43 am 266. Amy:

Nation’s schoolchildren advised to ‘keep cool with Coolidge’ on Sept. 8

Sep 4, 2009 - 8:07 am 267. Chris:

Mr Green,

I’m sad to see all these nutters spamming this board railing against your post. I wonder what leftie blogs they came from.

Just know that there are a lot of us who support you. Keep up the wonderful writing, your thoughts and sarcasm are always refreshing.

-Chris

Sep 4, 2009 - 10:52 am 268. Everyday Mommy:

Conservative parents need to awake to the reality of government schools. We must not fool ourselves into thinking that the agenda is only being taught on a single day, when President Obama addresses the children. These are government schools and the children are taught by government employees.

Keep your children home – for good, beginning September 8th.

Sep 4, 2009 - 10:57 am 269. The Infidel Alliance:

“Children, before I begin, let’s all stand and face your President for the pledge of allegiance…..

We pledge allegiance to “The One”
for the deconstruction of America,
and to the Republic we hope to change:
one Nation under debt,
Islamicized,
with dependency and bankruptcy for all.”

As voters realize the emperor has no clothes, Obama’s poll numbers are plummeting, and he realizes his fawning, adoring base is falling apart. He needs to find new bodies to repopulate his personality cult.

Thus, like Michael Jackson, he turns to those who can be manipulated by his charm the easiest, children, to feed his fragile, narcicisstic ego.

This is just creepy.

~ The Infidel Alliance

P.S. – What do you want to bet part of his speech includes a reference to tolerance of and the great contributions of Islam in America?

Sep 4, 2009 - 12:33 pm 270. liberal US soldier:

O-BAMA!!! O-BAMA!!! O-BAMA!!!

Wingnuts. All of you are pure 100% American Nuts! LOL I never laughed so hard in my life.

God if you people knew what a real communist looked like you’d crap yourselves with fear. If you knew what a real fascist looked like (check a mirror) you’d have no choice but to blow your own brains out.

If the choice is between your brand of Christianity and Satanism, I believe Im going to have to run out for some goat’s blood and chicken bones.

Still can’t help but think at most of you Obama bashers are merely racist. Still, I’ll take my liberal mixed-race lawyer over your white trash, draft dodging, yahoo any day.

Perhaps education is what children in America need right now. So that they can learn tolerance, peace, fairness for all, and love of country (and its people) again. Let Obama give his little speech on civic virtue… and please try and keep your ears (and brains) open. You might learn something.

Better luck in 2010, but please keep up the insanity and maybe we can put a liberal, gay woman in there next time!!

Peaceout fascists!

PS: Is it “Vodkapundit” because you are youself a communist and work for the KGB or because you are a drunk

Sep 4, 2009 - 2:58 pm 271. Marc Cooper » Blog Archive » The Manchurian President:

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Sep 4, 2009 - 11:10 pm 272. St.Aug:

So what percent of kids drop out of school nationally? Less than 20%? Why does the other 80% have to be subjected to this? I live in the #1 school district in my state. Why do these smart, bright students have to waste time in their day being subjected to this arrogance? I am the annointed one, the Messiah, do as I do. I went to Columbia, and my records are sealed so that Fox News can’t talk about my Marxist activities at college. So what about Van Jones, Obama’s new Green Jobs Czar. He is racist and an admitted communist. He signed a petition that the Government planned the 9/11 attacks. ANYONE on this blog who thinks that Conservatives are whacko, need to re-think this. There is Van Jones, Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dorn, the Reverand Wright and a list of others that Obama has been connected to. Do you not get it? Or do you lean so far left that you are OK with this? Why oh why do you people not believe in Freedom and Liberty? Why is it that you want big government to dictate our lives?

Sep 5, 2009 - 6:53 am 273. Pragmatist:

You wouldn’t nbe of the Black persuasion yourself by any chance would you ‘liberal US soldier’ an oxymoron if ever I heard one.

Sep 5, 2009 - 8:19 am 274. Kevin OK:

To the “what’s the big deal?” crowd:

Don’t forget that the current Washington gang has developed quite a reputation for itself as dealing very heavy-handedly with all those who disagree with their views. Their push for one-party rule is obvious.

Remember the treatment of hapless Joe the Plumber.
Remember the DHS report on “Right Wing Extremists”.
Remember how the Tea Partiers were first ignored then ridiculed.
Remember how the Town Hall protesters were dismissed as “manufactured” “astroturfers” and, predictably, as racists.
Remember how the true astroturfers then physically assaulted those same Town Hall protesters.

Any reasonable parent should take a cautious stance against Washington’s intrusion into the schoolroom.

Sep 5, 2009 - 11:12 am 275. steveg:

Perhaps he will instruct the students to search out the marxist teachers in their schools, as he did.

Sep 5, 2009 - 12:14 pm 276. Pajamas Media » PJM Political 09/05/09: Does Mastication Lead To Blindness?:

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Sep 5, 2009 - 1:13 pm 277. Kaylene:

Wow, what is this country coming to when the President is being criticized for telling kids to stay in school?! Hmm I wonder if Bush would have received this much flak if was going to do the same thing? Hmmm I wonder if Obama being black has anything to do it? Yep, I went ther, Hmm just wondering. Why would you let your kids stay home just because President Obama wants to encourage our already failing kids to stay in school? You know what’s funny, people like you who don’t want to expose your children to Obama’s speech are the same the kind of people that will let their 5-6 year old watch hate-filled, racist hogwash, obscene nudity, violence and the like. People like yo are such f-ing hypocrites.

“68. Dale:

It’s very sad that Conservative parents are planning to pull their kids out of school to avoid hearing the President’ speech. Why?

1. It teaches your kids disrespect for the office of the presidency. Not just the Obama presidency, but every presidency.
2. You’re denying your kids the right to decide whether they want to see the president’s speech.
3. You are teaching your kids that they can just choose to walk away from education if they don’t care for, or agree with the subject matter. In other words, you’re teaching your kids to be intellectually lazy.
4. You are denying your kids the opportunity to hear some words that might (shocker!) actually inspire them.
5. Childhood is tough enough, and you are making it that much tougher and more awkward by segregating your kid from the rest of his peers because of your own selfish and irrational feelings about the president.
6. After a childhood of being denied the right to learn new things and think independently, your kid will eventually realize that your need to keep him in a caccoon of right wing ideology was never for his/her own good, but rather for yours, and the life-long resentment and distrust begins.”

- Very well said Dale!

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