Posted on 09/07/2009 10:20:39 AM PDT by joinedafterattack
I really don't like it when Presidents or pols try to be "best friends" with children. Most, if not all of them, are crooks. That should be the lesson, after the speech. The "government" is not your parent...not by a long shot. It's definitely should never be confused with God.
As I see it, there are two types of government and politics in this world, one that puts God and the individual first and one that puts government first. The question is, do you want to put all your trust in men? Obama may be a "good friend", but he is just a man.
Certainly this is not how the speech was originally intended to go. I don’t really have a problem with his use of “I” in this text, because he’s using it as a rhetorical device to speak to the audience this speech is intended for. The problem I have with the speech is that this is an incredibly milquetoast address to make. Without some real, compelling reason to address students (GHW Bush’s address came during the big push on fighting drugs), this speech might as well not be given. Thus, in a way, it is all about him. Not because of what he says, but the fact that he is using his position to force himself on an audience of millions just to do it. He’s not saying anything groundbreaking, or even of particular note, so he accomplishes nothing of significance; all he does is get his face once more in front of a big audience. This is, in the end, just another campaign speech.
In a way, maybe he needs this. His popularity is tanking, so now he takes his case, in the form of his smoke-and-mirrors dog-and-pony speechgiving “talent”, to the children of the adults who have stopped listening, stopped “believing” in him, so he can get his name back into the kitchen-table conversation. He wants the kiddies to tell their parents how cool it was to have the pResident talking to them, to try to rekindle the magic he had during the election campaign. He’s campaigning again, not for the votes of the public, but for the support of the public, and he’s doing it through the proxy of America’s schoolchildren, taking advantage of the naivete of children to make himself a little invulnerable to the barbs of the adults. After all, no parent is going to tell their kid he or she is being a sheep, are they?
I didn’t post the thread, n00b. I’m not defending it or the indoctrination plans of obamessiah. Obama is a malignant narcissist. In his case, the number of times he tries to point attention to him and his life is significant, and when accompanied by the close circle of friends obammy has draw to him—like Axelgreasy and Billy the bomber Ayers—it is not a stretch to look for indoctrinational cues.
no response to the revelation that you were very, very wrong, huh? guess you’re back at DU.
Wow . . . thanks for doing all that work, point taken.
But now, with Barack’s Benevolent Bailout, he can send all sorts of borrowed future taxpayer dollars to these schools so they can purchase high-tech (obsolete) computers and broadband (each hard drive emblazoned with the “O” logo), so that little Johnny and little Julie can think warm, thankful thoughts of gratitude toward the nice man.
“Thank you for bankrupting my future and ensuring my life of government indebtedness and servitude, just so I can use this computer in class! Now I can watch kitties playing in the toilet on YouTube.”
Speech was pretty benign. Perhaps they sanitized it some because of the scrutiny it has recieved. But I would have no problem letting jr hear it as is.
Nothing to see here, move on.
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Now you are just being thilly BO. Please don't kill grandma
Puts me in mind of this quote...
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Man, what a boring speech. My little niece will be fidgeting by the end of the first paragraph.
This is Obama trying to be uber parent, it will flop.
Final Crisis was counting the "I's" from the Q&A session on the same web page. Those are kids using the word "I" - not President Reagan. So Final Crisis is incorrect.53 posted on Monday, September 07, 2009 12:39:06 PM by library user
I came to help crystallize and proofread conservative information where it originates, to make sure that faulty reasoning or bad facts don’t make us look like idiots.Really???by Final Crisis
Thank God my children will not hear this liberal crap.Obama needs to clean the Communists out of his administration and we can teach our children to “wash” their little hands while the government dilly dallys on life saving vaccines. Where are the vaccines??? GET IT DONE NOW before children die. Be prepared to jerk your child out at the first sign of Mexican pig flu.
I had never seen that Toby Keith video. Loved it ...
We need every single one of you to develop your talents, skills and intellect so you can help solve our most difficult problems. If you don’t do that – if you quit on school – you’re not just quitting on yourself, you’re quitting on your country.
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Reagan used “I” 75 times in his address to students on November 14, 1988
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Perhaps, but I don’t recall Nancy Reagan saying about her husband what Michelle Obama said: “Only Barack Obama can save America’s soul.”
Don’t let the door hit ya on the way out.
VirginiaMom
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