Posted on 09/08/2009 3:39:30 AM PDT by Kaslin
Today at noon Barack Obama addresses the nation’s schoolchildren .. or a good number of them anyway. Many students won’t hear the speech because of a rather severe miscalculation from the right. Republican screaming and wailing made it sound as if Hugo Chavez was flying in via Aeroflot to speak to our poor, innocent, unsuspecting angels. School districts reacted … and millions of school kids will sit around picking their noses at noon instead of watching the speech.
So now the speech is out. As of yesterday afternoon you could read it on the Internet. I’ve read it, and if there is anything in there that I wouldn’t want my child to have heard from a U.S. President, I certainly couldn’t find it.
Egad! The speech is innocuous! What are we going to do now? I know! We’ll all claim that Obama changed the speech after the uproar from the right! Well, duhhhhhh. Of course he did! Why wouldn’t he! Well, actually he really didn’t have to change it. It probably wasn’t written by the time conservative boxers bunched up en masse. So Obama’s speechwriters took their cue from the right and made the speech essentially bulletproof from the get-go. One sharp mind in a Republican strategy session could have seen this one coming from the next galaxy.
President says he will give speech to schoolchildren.
Republicans say the speech will be full of leftist propaganda
Parents run in circles flailing arms overhead while screaming and shouting.
Some school officials black out Obama’s speech. (racist comment)
Grinning speechwriters prepare speech with no leftist propaganda.
Republicans look like fools.
People now more reluctant to listen to conservative complaints about Obama.
Now how easy was that? For about three days we have parents, the Republican Party and assorted odds spinning around on their eyebrows and spitting wooden nickels over Obama’s speech. He’s going to indoctrinate our children. He’s going to fill them full of socialist ideology. They’re all going to come away from school today singing Kumbaya and waving red flags. They’ll probably stop on the way home from school to buy a Che Guevara t-shirt from vendors the Democrats will have waiting out in front of their schools. Then the hopelessly indoctrinated kids will come home and destroy all the incandescent light bulbs and turn the spare bathtub into a recycling bin. Before they do their homework (reading The Communist Manifesto) they’ll hide the car keys so daddy has to take mass transportation to work on Wednesday.
TeamObama must have loved this one. Talk about a hanging curveball. Once the manic inanity started all they had to do is sit back, prepare an innocuous speech for The One, and let the people scratch their heads wondering what in the hell the Republicans were so upset about! Now the next time the right comes up with an objection to some Obama concept, people who last week might have been on board will stand back and look at the Republicans with a jaundiced eye.
This one was so easy for the left I can’t even think of another 300 words to fill out this column. So just move on to the next one. Two steps forward and three steps back. Unless PrezBO really messes up his address to Congress tonight watch for his popularity ratings to rise. Thanks, Republicans! See if there’s some drug available for that rectal-cranial inversion you’re suffering from.
I suspect the speech that was published had been watered down and revised after the outcry.
Neal has gone over to the other side.....that speach, the watered down version, is still a prayer to obama...
That was a very different speech. Did anyone else read the questions in that recalled lesson plan?? Don’t you think the original speech had ANSWERS to those questions??
Of course there were.
From what I read many folks expected the speech to be innocuous. Concern was about preparation before the speech, and follow up; that is, lesson plans that incorporate leftist propaganda about how our children can "help" the President and support his programs. This kind of indoctrination can go on for years as a result of an innocuous speech.
What have you done for Obama today?
From the prepared remarks:
You’ll need the knowledge and problem-solving skills you learn in science and math to cure diseases like cancer and AIDS, and to develop new energy technologies and protect our environment. You’ll need the insights and critical thinking skills you gain in history and social studies to fight poverty and homelessness, crime and discrimination, and make our nation more fair and more free.
So what was Boortz’s solution (aassuming he had school age children)? There was no uproar until parents found out their kids were going to have to “agree” with President Obama and suggest ways they could “help” him. IMO, Boortz is being a little disingenuous with this article.
Neal doesn’t get it...
The speech was definitely revised several times, but Obama still says “I” 32 times and also dreams up a new history for himself (now he’s a poor black boy, child of a struggling single mother...). Gads, Obama has no shame.
But I’m surprised about Neal Boortz’ lack of objection to the whole concept of this “Dear Leader” address, complete with its classroom study guide and “resolutions” to be made after it, particularly since he is always referring scornfully to the “government schools.” Neal Boortz is a libertarian, though, and sometimes they can have very self-contradictory attitudes.
The speech isn’t the issue. Claiming it is, is a leftist strawman.
Regardless the *innocuous” appearance of the text, the underlying goal is still the same. IMO, the Obama machine doesn't waste any chances to further their agenda.
I wouldn’t want him to have any live speech piped into classrooms. Number one, it’s not part of his job/responsibilities; and number two, I don’t want them to start a precedent. Sooner or later you know what it would turn into...
There’s no mention of van jones.
Obama has appointed communist after communist after socialist after communist.
Not knowing what he was going to say to the kids, but knowing who he is and who he surrounds himself with is enough to spark an outcry.
“Personnel is policy” = associations matter
Boortz does get one thing correct though, Obama can now make a lot of people look like fools on this. But it’s good that he won’t be able to give the speech he wanted to give originally.
Exactly. Boortz doesn’t seem to have considered that the speech was sanitized in response to the outcry. Obama would put as much leftist propaganda in the speech as he could get away with...why else would there have been an idea floated about having schoolteachers make children viewing the speech to write an essay about how they could “help” Obama with his environmental agenda?
I’m fairly certain (by having listened to his show and read this and other pieces he’s written) that Boortz thinks he’s a pretty smart guy. How could he not have considered that Obama is treading carefully with this speech precisely as a result of the anger against it?
The speech was never intended to be anything other than a string of gassy platitudes. The real indoctrination was the job of the NEA agents.
#1) As far as I know, Obama’s speech to Congress is Wednesday, not “tonight” as Boortz states, so much for checking the facts.
#2) Why bother to comment if you don’t include the salient point of the lesson plan, “Write letters about how you can help President Obama?”
The only thing to do TODAY is to make this distinction in the press as LOUDLY as possible but the damage has been done. They responded quickly with a strawman that we didn't shoot down.
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