Posted on 09/04/2009 5:38:26 PM PDT by nickcarraway
When Barack Obama won Florida last November — the first Democrat to take the Sunshine State since FDR — many saw it as a sign of centrist GOP Governor Charlie Crist's moderating influence. But lately, Florida's disgruntled Republicans aren't looking very moderate. This week, in fact, the peninsula's GOP registered arguably the loudest outcry over the education speech President Obama plans to deliver to U.S. primary and secondary students via webcast and C-Span next Tuesday. In perhaps the most over-the-top performance, state Republican Chairman Jim Greer called it an attempt to use "our children to spread liberal propaganda" and "President Obama's socialist ideology."
Thanks in large part to the Administration's ham-handed advance work, the strident conservative anger that erupted this summer over health-care reform has shifted from town halls to school halls. On the surface, Obama's intentions for Tuesday seem nothing more threatening than a presidential pep talk about taking education seriously. But some ill-advised prep material from the Education Department — like suggestions that teachers have students write letters on "how to help the President" and recommendations that those pupils read his books — has left the door ajar (and that's all it seems to take these days) for Republican charges that Obama "wants to indoctrinate our kids," as Clara Dean, GOP chairwoman of Florida's Collier County, puts it. (Read Joe Klein on Barack Obama's August to forget.)
The public school systems in both Collier and next-door Lee counties, a conservative pocket in southwest Florida that includes Naples, announced Thursday that their students won't be seeing Obama's speech.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
They don’t need your ed-jew-kay-shun
They don’t need your thot contro
This sleazy Baracko school indoctrination session has such a Hitleresque feel to it. This is another impeachable moment for Hussein.
Is the author of this piece an idiot? Clinton won Florida in 1996, Carter won it in 1976, LBJ won it in 1964, and Truman won it in 1948.
I thought Carter won Florida in 1976.
All in all, you are just another barack in the wall.
Yes, that’s why Time hired him...
My son’s school district said no. I called the superintendent and thanked him.
Uh. Truman '48, Johnson '64, Carter '76, Clinton '96.
Glaring error.
They never get it right. And I hate that my state voted for the Zero.
He did. You and I are both smarter than a Time staffer. No surprise there.
Well, it made me go HUH too but I was too lazy to look it up. Thanks.
Hey, Obama! Leave those kids alone!
SHUT UP, ALL OF YOU!!
Don’t you know that Kim Il Sung and Kim Jung Il, er, I mean Barrack Hussein Obama (Oops, they are tricking me by blending together!) KNOW what’s good for us and our chid-ren???
Shut up or you go to the FEMA camp.
My three children in HS, Jr. H and elementary don’t start until Thursday so our school system doesn’t worry about this.
To the latter, no it isn't. Let it run.
It will set the precedent for TOTAL CONTROL whenever we conservatives regain power. Except it won't be "CONTROL", it will be "FREEDOM" -- no more liberal garbage ever. We can expunge that poison forever from our schools, "our" news media, from our courts and our government.
0.999 / sarc (to you dimwit fascist libs, that means I am not supporting this --not quite-- but just keep it up)
How many school officials would be willing to bet their jobs that President Obama doesn’t say anything political? Would they be willing to resign if their guarantees are viewed as false?
Were children ever asked to write about being inspired by the man? Serve the man?
Did Reagan ever claim that that "shining city on a hill" was his creation?
All the other presidents were about America! America! America! America!
Obama would not likely deign to lower himself -- he'd have to go back on the apology tours and apologize for himself this time.
In New Hampshire, the Manchester city schools opted out. The Supt said that the prez is considered an outside speaker, which requires parental consent, and there’s no time to do that before Tuesday.
http://www.wmur.com/education/20731285/detail.html
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