[erikm88]

What I don't understand is the parents that allow their children to participate in something like this. Children do not fully understand the complexities of ideology and politics, and this is just a prime example of children that will adopt the politics of their parents because they don't know any better and have been brainwashed from a young age to adopt a specific ideology, not because it is right or wrong, but because the parents say so....

In this situation everything BHO stands for is inherently wrong and dangerous. Marxist-Leninist philosophy is inherently dangerous, there is nothing virtuous or good that comes from it.

[The_Reader_David]

I think I can explain the parents:

First, understand that in the minds of many leftists, not only is there no God, there are no transcendent realities at all. The state, or maybe society, or humanity as an abstraction, holds the same place in their world-view as God does for the theist. For the American state-worshipper, Obama is obviously as messianic figure.

The little sing-along was simply a state-worshipping analog of having children in Sunday school sing “The Old Rugged Cross” or “Jesus Love Me”.

They are doing what parents do: attempting to pass on their beliefs, attitudes and mores to their children.

Be glad that folks of their persuasion tend not to reproduce.