Absolutely so.
The left has been practicing this kind of incrementalism for over 40 years and look where we are now.
We need to bring it to a crashing, full stop.
Posted on 09/08/2009 11:14:28 AM PDT by Federalist Patriot
Here is audio of Rush Limbaugh talking about Obama's speech to students today.
Limbaugh said Obama's speech today was not the "original intent." He went on to say the "the original intent of the speech was a dear leader kind of thing," and "right out of the pages of Kim Jong Il." (Watch Video)
(Excerpt) Read more at freedomslighthouse.com ...
A “dear leader” speech, yes, but a lame one at that. Read the transcript - booooooooring.
The low point of the speech was “I hope you wash your hands often.” He’s going for the revered “Dear Leader” personality cult thing, and he’s stooping to _that_?
Could it have been the first step of a conditioning process? As in, the first speech to the students wasn’t bad at all - so the next one and the ones following will receive less scrutiny?
Absolutely so.
The left has been practicing this kind of incrementalism for over 40 years and look where we are now.
We need to bring it to a crashing, full stop.
I do actually, bit of a news junkie as a matter of fact. That is why I was surprised by Rush’s assertion of “original intent” because I had not seen any “original draft” that could be used to extract Obama’s “original intent”.
The point is that the original draft was never released and any content of such a draft is unknown and so Rush is dealing with pure conjecture, no actual fact. Yet people are treating it as fact just because Rush said it.
Don’t research and question sources much do you? That is not my problem.
The lesson plans – one plan for pre-K-6 students and another plan for students in grades 7-12 – provided specific activities and assignments for children to do before, during, and after the president’s speech.
The pre-k-6 plan instructs teachers to ask children “Why is it important that we listen to the President and other elected officials…”
It further directs teachers to have children consider the following while listening to Obama’s speech:
“What is the President trying to tell me?”
“What is the President asking me to do?”
“What new ideas and actions is the President challenging me to think about?”
The plan continues, “Students can record important parts of the speech where the President is asking them to do something. Students might think about: What specific job is he asking me to do…Are we able to do what President Obama is asking of us?”
On Wednesday evening however, the administration edited part of the pre-k-6 lesson plans after public outcry about enlisting children’s participation in political activities.
The original lesson plan asked children to “write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president.”
It has since been changed to say “Write letters to themselves about how they can achieve their short-term and long-term education goals.”
The lesson plan for students in grades 7-12 is equally disquieting.
The Department of Education directs teachers to “…focus students on quotations that… propose a specific challenge to them.”
The plan asks students, “What resonated with you from President Obama’s speech? What lines/phrases do you remember? Is he challenging you to do anything?”
http://blog.heritage.org/2009/09/03/politicizing-the-department-of-education/
or go here
Thanks. It’s still not the old pdf / new pdf I’m looking for.
Ya’ know Jack, I did.
I followed this since it was first posted that Obama would do the talk. I followed the first leason plan and how it changed to the “new” one.
That’s the original intent everybody is talking about.
The “FACT!” that it was changed after after everybody started talking about it.
So the point of Rush’s talk was “what was changed in his speach?” “Did he get caught and have to change his speach.”
We’ll never know.
Follow the news a little closer and you will not have to play catchup.
OK.
Guess there is a lesson in all of this learning we seem to be needing from Obama:
there is much wisdom in capturing things when they originate from the White House.
Yes. If Steele and the RNC had half a clue, they’d have a small team doing nothing but doing web crawls of Dem sites 24/7.
I wonder what the folks at the Department of Education used in order to make the original lesson plan. Did they have a copy of the speech? Or did they have an outline and a synopsis of the original speech? We need a journalist (or citizen journalist) to submit a FOIA request for the materials used to create the original lesson plan.
FWIW, our children attended school as usual yesterday. Daughter #2, a junior, did not have her classes interrupted by the speech. The students in the class when the speech aired were thankful that the teacher continued with chemistry. I guess daughter’s English teacher wanted to show the speech, but daughter informed the woman that the speech would not take place until that class was over. Son #1 was not shown the speech. Son #2 was told last week that his class would watch the speech. He reported that the overwhelming reaction to the speech was BOREDOM. Daughter #3 was not shown the speech. Daughter #4 is in elementary school, and her class did not view the speech. The most surprising part of this is that the most conservative son in the most conservative school is the one who watched the speech. Hmmmmm. (the population of the schools our other children attend is overwhelmingly Hispanic. Daughter #2 has noticed a complete change in the views of Obama among her peers.)
I saw a billboard in a small local community in Ohio today, it said, “No prayer in our schools, No Obama in our schools.”
Thanks for the link. I took a good look at it and it seems like a pretty positive plan. What specific points caused the uproar?
Wasn’t there a preview section that had read books about the Dear Leader???
Thanks Anna! I’ve been looking for this to answer the liberals smug question, “Where is the original lesson plan?”
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