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America is a free country, my father told me in the ‘50s. In Russia, my grandparents’ homeland, people were arrested for speaking against the government. In America, anyone could stand on a street corner and shout, “Down with the president.” We happened to live on a corner. So I stood out by the street sign and the fire hydrant and yelled, “Down with President Eisenhower!” It was the suburbs. No pedestrians. I tried again when a car went by. “Down with President Eisenhower. Down with the government!” No reaction. I yelled louder for the next car: “Up with Khruschev! Communism...

Here is video of some parents who intend to keep their children home next week on Tuesday, September 8, rather than have them go to school for President Obama's speech to children across the nation. According to one of the guests, the Department of Education sent word of this plan directly to schools without going through normal protocols, including local Boards of Education. It is also the first time a U.S. President has tried to do such a message directly to children. I don't think the issue is what Obama is necessarily going to say. It could be. But even...

The Obama administration late Wednesday withdrew a recommendation that school children who watch a video featuring President Obama next week write about how they might "help the president" as part of a classroom assignment. The decision came after conservative critics attacked the plan by federal education officials that teachers supplement the speech with a special curriculum that was designed in concert with the White House.

This Cartoon predicts the future 50 years ago. This could have been made yesterday! You have to watch this!

puma08.comSept. 2, 2009Remember, the Dept. of Education expects your kids to read books on the life of Barack Obama before the monumental speech on September 8th, well here’s a look at two of the books that shall be used: The first book is aptly titled: Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope and here is the description, direct from the Publisher’s Website: Ever since Barack Obama was young, Hope has lived inside him. From the beaches of Hawaii to the streets of Chicago, from the jungles of Indonesia to the plains of Kenya, he has held on to Hope....

A groundswell of parent opposition to President Barack Obama's speech next week to students on the importance of education has forced many North Texas school districts to question whether to air it live in classrooms. Obama announced the speech weeks ago, but opposition and concerns spread rapidly Wednesday morning through conservative social networking Web sites and radio talk shows. By midday, local school districts say, they were inundated with hundreds of phone calls from parents urging them to not show Obama's speech at school. Some parents threatened to keep their children home from school if the video was aired. "We...

As many parents are focused on back to school clothes and supplies, the royal Czar Czar prepares to circumvent parental authority and speak directly to our children in one week. What will he command? That's a good question that the media won't ask, and one that could easily be answered right now while parents still have time to decide if they need a sitter or not. But like all things Obama does, it's spur of the moment and covert. We do know that there is a task demand being handed out to Pre-K through sixth graders that includes students writing...

In a move suggestive of the Pyongyang public school system, the U.S. Department of Education recommended that before the speech students collectively brainstorm questions like, "Why does President Obama want to speak with us today? How will he inspire us?" Classrooms are to be festooned with "notable quotes excerpted (and posted in large print on board) from President Obama's speeches about education," presumably alongside benevolent-looking images of the dear leader.

The above is the official White House spill on this upcoming unprecedented presidential intrusion into the lives of this nation’s children. At first glance it seems innocent enough but there is some history with president Barry Soetoro and other people’s children. It seems that president Soetoro desires children to sing his praises and laud his influence. The following is how the world would be if Barry is allowed to get into the heads of America’s children. (see 4:24min video) Children singing his praises it not the only thing Barry wants, no Barry wants your children’s complete devotion and commitment. Why...

Apparently, Our Beloved Leader, Barack Hussein Obama, the most merciful, Lion of the Masses, Protector of the Common Man and Omnipotent Parental Figure, will give an address on September 8 to America's school children. The audience will be all children, preK-12. In protest of the forced ObamaTV viewing in classrooms across the nation everyone is encouraged to participate in a National Skip Day and keep your kids home. Take the opportunity to teach your kids true life lessons and not subject them to Obama propaganda. Maybe even use the day to make protest posters for the 912 March on DC!!...

President Obama’s co-opting of what is, for many, the first day of school — not only taking unprecedented access to 50 million impressionable minds but pushing a curriculum turning children’s hearts towards Obama — has riveted the attention of conservative parents nationwide. Consider the proverbial frog who will immediately jump out of a pan of hot water, but when the water is heated gradually will be boiled to death. Public school parents have in many ways been that frog, compromising and letting things go as our schools slid towards social engineering, producing citizens leftists could use to their advantage. In...

The purpose of this thread is to secure a commitment from each local Principal to provide an opt-out so that no one is forced to endure Obama's subtle, presumptuous speech. Below, I will provide a sample of reasonable letters we want the Principal to sign. If refused, we know where they stand and will take the appropriate action against them. Here is an article of how they roll in Colorado. http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2009/09/douglas_county_school_allows_p.php It would be useful if the only comments on this thread are how to do this, report your results and contact information for the press to report and follow-up...

READ THIS CAREFULLY! You cannot allow any one man to enact this type of change on Your Country, no matter what political party symbol is beside his name. You must understand that unless he can pull off the truly unthinkable, and become a dictator like the left's favorite Chavez and Castro, the opposite party of yours will be in positions of power again. You will be allowing this President to create "precedent", that you will surely be raising hell about should you find yourself in the political minority again, and you will. The next successor might use the tools Obama...

An upcoming presidential address to local school children may bring the United States’ current fractious political climate to local classrooms. A little more than a week after President Barack Obama announced that he would be delivering a speech directly to children in classrooms across the country on Tuesday, some local parents have caught wind and are up in arms about what they perceive to be the president’s ulterior motives. Lety Martinez, the Odessa City Council PTA president, said the majority of parents she quickly polled about the president’s address were in favor of their children watching, with only one mother...

Plans by President Barack Obama to speak directly to the nation's schoolchildren Tuesday are sparking controversy in Kentucky. Fayette County parents will receive a note from Superintendent Stu Silberman Thursday explaining that their children will be allowed to opt out of the planned noon-time speech and that an alternate assignment will be arranged, provided that plans are made ahead of schedule. Other schools in the Bluegrass are following suit. There were "between 25 and 50 calls" Wednesday to the Fayette County school district, according to Superintendent Stu Silberman. "We want to respect the office of the president and to respect...

If I had children still in school and objected to the invasion of public schools with propaganda, I would send a note to school with my children that they are to be exempted from participation in this exercise. And if the school gave me any flack, I'd just keep them home that day. Where is the requirement that our children need to be 'inspired' by socialism and guilt trips that is vested in the ideology of Barack Obama?

"The White House announced Wednesday that the president plans to tape a presidential address to public schoolchildren around the country to air at noon Tuesday (9/8). Along with advanced word of the speech, the U.S. Department of Education last week distributed a "menu of classroom activities" to teachers that aims to turn the speech into one of Mr. Obama's teachable moments." "Rules For Radicals" explains that if you separate the child from the parent, you can educate(brainwash) the child and then you can win over the parents. Be assured that schools across the state of Texas will be participating in...

Right blasts Obama speech to students President Barack Obama's plans for a televised back-to-school address to students next week are drawing fire from some conservatives, who say he's just trying to indoctrinate them to his political beliefs. In the Sept. 8 speech, Obama will challenge students to work hard, set goals for their education and take responsibility for their learning, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a letter to principals. The Education Department is encouraging teachers to create lesson plans around the speech, using materials provided on the department website, that urge students to learn about Obama and other presidents....

In the midst of a rancorous health care debate and a sustained period of declining poll numbers, President Obama is seeking help from an unexpected constituency -- America's schoolchildren. And they better pay attention to his request: They may get graded on the assignment. The White House announced Wednesday that the president plans to tape a presidential address to public schoolchildren around the country to air at noon Tuesday. Along with advanced word of the speech, the U.S. Department of Education last week distributed a "menu of classroom activities" to teachers that aims to turn the speech into one of...

Here is audio of Glenn Beck on radio today where he called what President Obama is doing in planning to address school children across America next week, "indoctrination." He urged Americans to "stand guard." "Your Republic is under attack." Obama is slated to speak to children in a live address to schools next Tuesday, September 8. . . . . (Listen to Audio)