Posted on 09/08/2009 5:22:00 AM PDT by shortstop
It’s fairly simple, really.
Tens of millions of American parents don’t trust him. The upset over this morning’s presidential address to schoolchildren isn’t about the partisan divide, it’s about the president’s arrogance.
After seven months of crammed-down-your-throat Obama agenda, half the country has had a bellyful. After seven months of being told that they don’t matter, half the country is returning the sentiment.
They don’t trust him with their children not because they’re paranoid, but because he’s not trustworthy. He has shown himself to be an enemy to their values and beliefs – to be hostile to their families and their country – and they are merely saying, “Stay the hell away from our kids.”
This isn’t about Republicans, this is about Barack Obama. Specifically, it is about a president who steamrolled and marginalized those who didn’t vote for him and who now is astounded that they won’t kiss his royal backside. He wants to be a rock star but nobody’s buying tickets.
Here’s the background.
The Department of Education sent out talking points for teachers, outlines of lesson plans intended to precede and follow a then-unannounced speech by the president to elementary school students. Troublesome in the wording was a suggested assignment that pupils be asked to write down a plan for how they could help President Obama.
That ticked people off.
But that was only part of it.
Because not only didn’t parents want their kids being drafted into the Obama army, they didn’t want this particular socialist politicizing the classroom.
When you’ve got a classroom being run by an NEA member and you’re piping in Barack Hussein Orwell, all of a sudden the home-school people don’t seem so kooky. All of a sudden it seems like an unnecessary lecture intended primarily to indoctrinate the impressionable into the cult of Big Brother.
Parents don’t so much mind the president talking to their children, but seven months have taught the country to expect propaganda, not talk.
Further, about half the country simply doesn’t trust his basic philosophy.
Like the notion that America’s children need a lecture on doing their homework from the head of the federal government.
See, the federal government isn’t in charge of my children’s education – I am. And American children don’t need the president to tell them that education is important – that’s what parents are for.
Every child in every classroom has a parent or guardian who can talk to them about doing their homework and paying attention in school. Every student in every classroom has a teacher or two who can talk to them about working hard and setting goals.
For crying out loud, even Bill Cosby is telling children about the importance of education.
We don’t need the jug-eared Marxist-in-Chief to think that the nanny government has to get in the act. And, no offense intended, but there are a bunch of us who think that “community organizer” is not exactly the role model we want our children following. For a certain portion of America, squealing for a bigger cut of other people’s tax money isn’t particularly noble and it’s not what we want our kids to grow up to do.
Further, we prefer that people who used illegal drugs not hold themselves out as teachers of the young. We are not impressed by the irony that the guy in charge of the military would be barred – by virtue of his teen-aged drug use – from enlisting in the military.
But the bottom line isn’t politics or philosophy – it’s the way he’s treated us. He has treated half the electorate like dirt and has done nothing, through the first eighth of his term, to make friends or earn himself the benefit of the doubt.
Typically, when someone wins an election, he sets out to reassure and woo the folks who didn’t vote for him. Typically, basic decency makes a politician want to show he’s serving all the people.
The Obama Administration and the Democrats who control Congress have had no such disposition. It has been an arrogance unmatched for decades as divergent views have been dismissed and mocked. Half the country feels that the president and the Congress are condescendingly dismissive of them.
He has had seven months to extend an olive branch. He has chosen not to. He has chosen instead to attack people and philosophies different from his. He has chosen to play fast and loose with American tradition and principle. He has practiced scorched-earth politics against the people whose taxes support his grand dreams. He has dismissed anyone who doesn’t agree with him.
And tens of millions of Americans don’t want a person like that talking to their children.
And I’m one of them.
READ THE LESSON PLAN!
The issue is not the speech it's is the indoctrination after the speech.
And the lesson plan?
Did you read that.
Clear thinking Americans will never hand their kids over to a marxist community organizer who hangs around creeps like Jeremiah Wright (”G-D Da— America”) And William (Let’s-Go-Blow-Things Up) Ayers...and that passel of unelected czars.
keeping my 14 year old munchkin home today.
Tell your school principal for him/her not to allow the teachers to engage in hero worship when discussing the speech!
2 - What is the direst point of this speech?
3 - Why would you comment about how you had to wake up at 4:30 in the morning?
4 - Did you write this speech yourself?
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3 of the 5 questions my 11yo (1st day of 6th grade today) came up with to ask the Pres after reading his speech yesterday. The other 2 questions dealt with why he made so many Harry Potter references.
I didn’t read the “lesson plan” but I’m not exactly worrying about it, if they even show the speech at all.
Good for you. Our school (small private christian) will not be showing it at all.
I want to see the first draft of the thing, BEFORE firestorm had the speech writers up all night to sterilize it.
direst = direct
I HATE when I do dumb stuff like that :)
Hero worship may not be an issue with our faculty at our school.
: )
Thank God!
So, what happened in Congress when Bush 41 talked to the kids??? Democrats Investigated and held hearings:
I’d like a show of hands from the parents of the kids as to how many voted FOR the obamessiah.
To paraphrase Toby Keith, “How do you like him now”?
“I think (HE) has awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve.”
With credit to Adm. Yamamoto, Obama has awakened what was once derisively called the “SILENT majority”
There is NO longer a “sound of silence”, I think.
UNBELIEVABLE!!
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When you enter the whole school system's classrooms for 30+ (?) minutes it becomes propaganda and indoctrination!!!
That darned Bob Lonsberry! He posted exactly what I was thinking and going to post! Every point matched what I was thinking. Great post, great blog. (Thank you Bob)
The teachers could make a question to the students: “Write down and think about why all the President’s school records from Kindergarten and up are sealed for us to see, including his long-form B.C.”!!!
Remember - He uses NLP ....
The School Address is an Outrage: Here’s Why
http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2009/09/07/the-school-address-is-an-outrage-heres-why/
We are supposed to be a country of laws, not men.
zer0 is trying to reverse that.
This is an effective way for him to do it if we let him get away with it.
The real threat will be a year from now when they do a re-run and, since this year’s *speech* was innocuous, they re-instate the *indoctrination propaganda* via lesson plans and try to get away with it then.
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