Obama's 8 Sept School Broadcast -- says "I" 32 times

Virginia Patriot | 9/7/09 | Barack Obama's Speechwriters

[the invisib1e hand]

i scanned this, saw nothing overly objectionable.

[goodnesswins]

Yea...not bad for a narcissistic commie putz.

[Laserman]

I think some of it is aimed at the parents and the general public and not at the students. That part should be stricken. The rest, that deals with working hard in school and achieving is OK by me, and I really don’t like Obama. His personal story is overdone it the speech. It clearly serves to try and rescue him from a bad summer, but as the sitting president, I guess some things like this come with the territory.

I think it would be better if it were given by Bush and Obama together. That would remove all the politics from the idea of Obama giving the speech, and suggest that Obama is serious about being bi-partisan.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

"I’m working hard to fix up your classrooms and get you the books, equipment and computers you need to learn."

Was fine with it until I got to the part where he took credit for what taxpayers, workmen and mainly state officials are doing.

[Freedom56v2]

We counted 56 times on another thread.

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But it is NOT about him....

[Tennessee Nana]

I was raised by a single mother who struggled at times to pay the bills and wasn’t always able to give us things the other kids had
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Another set of lies...

His mother wasnt always single..only from age 2 till 4 and from age 10 he lived with his grandparents...

When he lived with Lolo in Indonesia he lived well...

For a poor disadvantaged boy he managed to go to a private school in Indonesia, Punahou in Hawaii, Columbia University and Harvard...

One thing right...other kids didnt have those advantages...

He talks like Mom lived in low income housing when in reality she was a globe trotting free spirit who lived very well...where did that money come from ???

Poor kids in the US usually dont get to travel all over like Barry did, starting at the age of 2 weeks...

Stanley Ann didnt stuggle to pay bills..Lolo and her parents might have but she had no worries of her own...

[Tennessee Nana]

protect our environment.
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Once the kid can read Do Not Litter, why does he need a college education ???

[Tennessee Nana]

protect our environment.
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Those are not just high school drop outs that throw rubbish out of speeding car windows..

or drop plastic bags off their yachts...

[NonValueAdded]

At least this time he wasn’t advising students to aim low

[Gene Eric]

>> If you get a bad grade, that doesn’t mean you’re stupid, it just means you need to spend more time studying.

That statement is foolish.

What if the kid’s already spending an abundance of time studying??? It’s only logical to then follow OB’s statement and conclude the student is stupid.

There are ways to address poor grades - looping in the notion of stupidity is not one of them.

[Wonderama Mama]

Im with you on this too rovnstinez. I thought it was a good speech. I think he uses himself as a way to let the kids know he empathizes with any struggles they're going through. True he is narcissistic, but it's also a good way to connect with kids and people for that matter.
My only complaint is he criticizes the country more than I would like. By saying he would like the country to be more fair and more free, he's implying that fairness is a value we want to aspire to and that we are not free here. We value liberty in this country more than fairness. Fairness is a leftist mantra, so I expect him to hold that high. Other than that, I like the Michael Jordan analogy and the idea that kids need to take personal responsibility no matter their circumstances.My kids district isn't showing it, but if we came across it, I would let them watch with my editing of course.

[bgill]

Yes, he’s a liar. I’ve posted this several times but here it is again:

Not to mention he is lying to the kids in the new and improved script and is promoting illegals in talking about the Brown student. Here’s the lies about his childhood:

1. I don’t believe a word of it much less that he got up at 4:30 to do lessons. I’m surprised he didn’t say he walked to school, 4 miles, up hill both ways in the snow in his bare feet.

2. And what’s this about his father leaving the family when he was two? That’s a lie. Evidence shows his parents didn’t live together so how could he have left them? Ann was in Seattle days after the birth and didn’t go back to Hawaii until after Senior left for Harvard on June 22, 1962.

3. He says he was raised by a single mom. No, his grandparents raised him.

4. He says his mom was single. Someone is lying. Michelle says Ann was “very much single” but Hussein says Ann and Senior were maybe sort of maybe married on Maui but she did file for divorce in ‘64. In ‘67 when he was 6, she married Soetoro.

5. He missed having a father. The Soetoros were married for eight years but of course he wasn’t with them all that time because Ann dumped him back on the grandparents in ‘72. For most of his life he had a father figure in his grandfather which is much more than the kids he claims to identify with.

[Tennessee Nana]

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
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Yeah kid you need an education so you can get a job and pay rent...

Get a job annd have money so you wont be poverty stricken...

Poverty always leads to crime ...

Fight discrimantion ...listen to Van Jones and go to Rev Wrights church...

Fair and free...give lots of your mpney in taxes...why should only your children benefit from your labor..theres lots of people who dont want to work ...errrr... dont have a job who have lots of children too...poor single Moms of children with no Dads...What ??? What happened to the Dads ??? Nothing happened to the Dads...the Moms just got punished...Now its your responsibility to help support the babies...Dont ask why...it just is...its fair...you want to be fair dont you ???

Free...free to be...you need to help those poor single Moms be free to be...contribute through taxes so that their children can wear name brand clothes and shoes and have iphones while your own children wear cheap tennies and make tin can play phones...

See ??? Fair...free...

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I'm sure it'll be in the very next edition of...

[livius]

The whole thing is Obama’s latest fantasy version of himself. And who cares, anyway? Since when do our kids have to listen to a president spouting platitudes on the one hand, justifying himself on the other with some made-up biography (like anybody cares), and then telling your kids how he is riding to the rescue because obviously the evil US didn’t care about them until he came along?

[Recovering_Democrat]

For an 18 minute address, that is an “I” every 32 seconds.

Narcissist.

[Tennessee Nana]

to cure diseases like cancer and AIDS
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

A kid doesnt need an education to be able to tell a homosexual or a druggie to stop doing things that lead to AIDS

[ProtectOurFreedom]

And it SHOULDN’T be state government, either. K-12 education should strictly be the purview of towns, townships, counties and cities. Centralized government, whether at State or Federal level, should not be in the picture at all.

[livius]

We’re seeing Obama’s latest version of himself. This one reminds me of the Steve Martin movie where he begins, “I was born a poor black child in ...” and then we go on to see the rest of the family staring at him in amazement.

[RobinOfKingston]

The use of “I” keeps him from repetitively referring to himself in the third person, which can get tiresome after the 30th, or so, time.