Posted on 11/15/2010 10:22:04 AM PST by Nachum
President Obama's picture book for kids, Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters (Knopf, $17.99), pays tribute to 13 Americans whose traits he sees in his own children.
The 31-page book, for kids ages 3 and up, is filled with lyrical questions for Malia, 12, and Sasha, 9, opening with, "Have I told you lately how wonderful you are?"
The book, out Tuesday, is illustrated with Loren Long's paintings of the Obama girls and their dog, Bo, as well as the 13 famous Americans as kids and grown-ups.
(Excerpt) Read more at nation.foxnews.com ...
Let Obama be Obama!!
“Obama Praises Indian Chief Who Killed U.S. General (Sitting Bull)”
When will we stop extrapolating things into idiotic headlines? It makes our side look ridiculous.
Did sitting Bull himself kill a general? NO. Did he order a general killed? NO. A general was killed in a battle against Sitting Bulls forces. It wasn’t personal and he was not directly responsible.
“Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee” was an excellent book. So was “The First Hundred Years Of Nino Cochise.”
I have others, but they are buried in storage. One was about Crazy Horse from one of his descendants...last name of Mitchell, I believe.
(My mind, these days, likes to go walkabout at the worst times....)
Leader of the US says this on the one hand, and on the other, I just watched part of a Vietnamese soap opera where a kid proudly wears a T-shirt with a portrait of Custer on the front.
***Sadly, he had a tragic end being killed at Wounded Knee some 14 years after Little Big Horn while leading a peaceful protest against BIA police.***
Killed by a Sioux Indian policeman, one of his own.
They were born in America, that would make them Americans, right? They were Americans by default. This government didn’t recognize them as such until 1920 however. Regardless, they were Native (of) Americans.
Do you actually think that he wrote it? LOL
“They say we massacred him, but he would have done the same thing to us had we not defended ourselves and fought to the last.”
— Crazy Horse
According to the article, before the inauguration.
Another salute to NObama’s unknown & hidden ‘education’. ...
I went to a one-room school thru 7th grade. I knew Custer was NOT a General.
The book doesn't say that Custer was a general. That comes from the headline the foxnews.com added to the USA Today article.
Exactly.
A long litteny of abuses against aboriginal/”native” Americans cannot be excused or forgotten.
Well, I can argue with him on this.
Custer was a stupid, arrogant @$$hole who led his men to their deaths. If he’d just followed his orders (or just remembered to bring his sabers and Gatling guns), instead of being a glory hound, it might have turned out better.
Let me know when 0bama says something nice about Robert E. Lee.
I’m glad to see the majority of posts on this thread, take this view. What our government did to the Indians, goes against everything Conservatives believe in.
Walking Eagle - So full of crap he can not fly.
“Actually, Sitting Bull was not a terrorist or an insurgent.”
I quite agree, but with 55 Founding Fathers of extraordinary talent and God-given gifts, I wonder if this White House intruder included any of them in his “book.” It would have to be a minority, lib, or protected class person for him to even consider them. Yeah, like we’re supposed to believe that he actually wrote it.
A more appropriate question would be, "Have I told you lately how much debt my administration is saddling on your generation?"
Custer was given the rank of brevet major general for his gallantry in the Civil War, but he rose to lieutenant colonel in actual Regular Army rank. In general it's not wrong to refer to someone by the highest honorary rank they've held.
True, but I believe a simple education on the matter would clear things up.
How much of our history really focused on the “Trail of Tears”, The Indian Wars and Wounded Knee? It wouldn’t take much to overwrite years of Saturday morning programming.
Actually, during the Civil War, Custer held the brevet rank of Major General, and IIRC, was the youngest person to have done so. Following the war, with the reduction of the Army, he was bumped back down to Lieutenant Colonel, which is the rank he held at the time he was killed.
I’m with you...it was insane, unfair, and a travesty. General Custer got what he deserved.
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