First, they came for the schoolchildren
Today, President Barack Hussein Obama is scheduled to indoctrinate the schoolchildren of America into the marvels of socialism and his own cult of personality.
I heard on talk radio — so it must be true — that the president’s first step will be to teach the little children a slightly revised pledge of allegiance:
“I pledge allegiance to Obama, born not in the United States of America, and to the dictatorship for which he stands, ObamaNation, indivisible, with free healthcare but no guns at all.”
The Obama administration clearly understands that America’s public schools, filled with children whose pure little minds have little or no resistance, represent an incredibly fertile breeding ground for its ideas of “sharing” and “equality.” The hope is that once the kids are infected with socialist ideas, they will be sent home to infect their parents as well.
According to White House sources, it’s an approach recommended by infectious disease specialists at the CDC, based on the transmission pattern of the H1N1 flu virus. So far, the only vaccine guaranteed to provide immunity involves watching 72 nonstop hours of Fox News.
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Scooter
September 8th, 2009
8:29 am
Did I get first again?
Scooter
September 8th, 2009
8:29 am
TW
September 8th, 2009
8:30 am
If we define ‘uneducated’ as the inability to learn lessons, it only makes sense.
For if there was but one lesson to be learned from the ‘w’ abortion of a presidency, it was simply this:
Stupid ain’t cool.
I Report/ Vast White Wing Conspirator (-: You Whine )-:
September 8th, 2009
8:31 am
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.-Obozo
The most important issues facing our nation today or a goony socialist laundry list?
Scooter
September 8th, 2009
8:34 am
When and where can we see Obama give the speech?
Doggone/GA
September 8th, 2009
8:35 am
“If we define ‘uneducated’ as the inability to learn lessons, it only makes sense”
Except that ISN’T the definition of uneducated.
Yankee
September 8th, 2009
8:36 am
These MORONS when I hear them give the reason why their kid(s) will not listen to the President speech I just CRINGE. These are the most IDIOTIC, UNEDUCATED RED-NECKS ON THE PLANET. Their RACIST, TEA-BAGGER, BIRTHER VIEWS just take over COMMON SENSE. I say keep your kids out of school forever so YOUR spawn can grow up to be just like their MOM and DAD …………IGNORANT RACIST WHO WANTS THE PRESIDENT TO FAIL !!!
USinUK
September 8th, 2009
8:37 am
Scooter-Puss –
the speech has been out since yesterday:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/MediaResources/PreparedSchoolRemarks/
Jay
September 8th, 2009
8:38 am
Scooter, it’s at noon, live streaming here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Prepared remarks are here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/MediaResources/PreparedSchoolRemarks/
Hef
September 8th, 2009
8:41 am
“the Obama administration clearly understands”, really? I have hard time based on the first 8 months in office believing Obama has a clear understanding of anything, I will give him credit on one front,cause of the public distrust he has created on both sides more & more people are actually paying attention to what our rocket scientists in DC are doing. So for that I thank him.
jt
September 8th, 2009
8:42 am
Fidel Castro speech to school children-
And the Union of Pioneers of Cuba Is Like a Great School in Which You Are
Preparing Yourselves for the Future
As you know, we are all organized. First of all, there is our party; then
there is the youth organization; and then, the other mass organizations.
Our workers are organized in their trade unions; Cuban women are organized
in the Federation of Cuban Women; neighbors are organized in Committees for
the Defense of the Revolution; farmers are organized in the National
Association of Small Farmers; students are organized in the FEEM
(Federation of Students of Intermediate Education) and the FEU (Federation
of University Students); and children are organized in the Pioneers, the
UPC. (applause) And the Union of Pioneers of Cuba is like a great school in
which you are preparing yourselves for the future.
In the future, when you grow up, you will join FEEM, the CTC (Central
Organization of Cuban Trade Unions), the Federation of Women, the CDR’s
(Committees for the Defense of the Revolution), the communist youth
organization and someday our glorious Communist Party. (applause)
Your revolutionary life begins in the UPC, and I am sure there is not a
single one of you who does not want to be revolutionary (shouts of: “No!”),
and I am sure there is not a single one of you who does not want to be a
communist in the future (shouts of: “No!”), and I am sure that all of you
have hopes of one day belonging to our Communist Party. (applause and
shouts)
The revolution is not over. The revolution is on the march. And tomorrow it
will be you who will have to carry our revolution forward. (applause) And I
know that you love the revolution. (shouts of: “Yes!”) And the revolution
is the work of past generations, present generations and future
generations. (applause)
jconservative
September 8th, 2009
8:45 am
My neighbor thinks it is better for her 2 kids to drop out of school, the oldest already has, than to hear Obama tell them why they should stay in school. They are at home now.
TW
September 8th, 2009
8:46 am
Well said, Yankee. Perhaps a campaign to keep all the trash home today could bring about a perfect time to actually educate? Might just be the most productive day of the school year, what with none of the meth head redneck trash offspring to get in the teacher’s hair. Matter of fact, let’s use today to argue for lowering the drop-out age in GA to…five? YES! Fight socialism today, redneck trash – put your kid’s education where your mouth is and withdraw your little pi$$ant
Scooter
September 8th, 2009
8:47 am
Thanks USinUK-Puss and Jay!
USinUK
September 8th, 2009
8:47 am
jcons –
yet another stellar example of “I believe that children are our future, teach them well and let them lead the way” …
jeeeeebus on a jet-ski …
bob
September 8th, 2009
8:48 am
I see many blaming this on rednecks but alot of the schools I have seen cancel the speech were not redneck and had quite high SAT scores. I think they are protesting because the parents want to openly show disrespect to Obama. The speech, as reported, would be positive to many. And since the original plan of making students write a letter to Obama pledging support has been canceled, the protests are a bit much.
Hef
September 8th, 2009
8:52 am
Oh by the way,I don’t have a problem with Obama’s speech. I also don’t have a problem with any parents decision to have/not have they’re child/children listen to it. Last time I looked,parents have that right. Those who disagree with that right I believe are the ignorant one’s.
jt
September 8th, 2009
8:56 am
Yank and TW-
You shouldn’t judge a man by the color of his neck.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
September 8th, 2009
8:56 am
Well, this Obama speech is another reason why we need to lower the age when kids can drop out of school. Kids shouldn’t be made to go to school and listen to the likes of Obama till they’re 16. Which just happens to be the age you can get a drivers liscence. We need to lower the age for getting a drivers liscence to 12 and let kids drop out then. That way they can go to work so they can get a trailer and a pickup truck of their own.
The GA SAT tests prove kids don’t learn nothing after they reach 12. So it’s just cruel to make them stay in school another 4 yrs.
Anyhow, it’s great to know alot of counties in GA ain’t letting this Obama brainwash their kids into thinking like Socialists. We might of lost the election but we ain’t lost our ability to fight the libruls. We will fight them in the cotton fields, we will fight them in the pulpwood mills, we will fight them in the trailer parks. We ain’t never going to surrender to the Socialists.
It might be diffrent if we had a decent Republican President talking to the kids. He would have Fambly Values and know what’s Right. But I would hate to think a kid would have to listen to the godless heathen we got in the White House now.
I ain’t never been as proud of GA folk as I am today. Have a good day everybody.
LeeH1
September 8th, 2009
9:01 am
“…whose pure little minds have little or no resistance, represent an incredibly fertile breeding ground for its ideas…”
This idea is obviously stolen from Rush Limbaugh and the radical right.
Bosch
September 8th, 2009
9:02 am
“But at the end of the day, we can have the most dedicated teachers, the most supportive parents, and the best schools in the world and none of it will matter unless all of you fulfill your responsibilities. Unless you show up to those schools; pay attention to those teachers; listen to your parents, grandparents and other adults; and put in the hard work it takes to succeed.
And that’s what I want to focus on today: the responsibility each of you has for your education. I want to start with the responsibility you have to yourself.
Every single one of you has something you’re good at. Every single one of you has something to offer. And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is. That’s the opportunity an education can provide”
How dare he say such things!!!
stands for decibels
September 8th, 2009
9:05 am
but alot of the schools I have seen cancel the speech were not redneck and had quite high SAT scores. I think they are protesting because the parents want to openly show disrespect to Obama.
YMMV, of course, but in my mind “parents want to openly show disrespect to Obama” = redneck. More or less. Distinction without a difference.
Scooter
September 8th, 2009
9:07 am
You shouldn’t judge a man by the color of his neck but by the content of his holster!
vince neil
September 8th, 2009
9:09 am
president gets to speak to school children…that is a standard for the ages…….but none of you all of a sudden act like you didn’t get offended when GW took up a similar cause……
Ray
September 8th, 2009
9:09 am
It was bad enough when one of them got elected. To think that he was gonna offer hope to his kind on my dime was unacceptable.
Well done, Brethren.
TaxPayer
September 8th, 2009
9:10 am
Jay,
You’re behind the times. These children are the new era of the children of the corn — the children of the Monsanto Corn. They’re genetically modified to resist and resist they will. It’s all part of the plan, a plan that took root decades ago in a little Kenyan village far far away. But I divulge too much too soon.
Hef
September 8th, 2009
9:10 am
sfd-because others may not agree with you=redneck. If you have children,are all of your decisions the popular ones? And are they always met with applause?
Davo
September 8th, 2009
9:10 am
If it’s gotten to the point where a significant portion of the electorate think that a presidents talk to school children is dangerous than perhaps seccesion is not such a bad idea after all.
Just sayin’.
I Report/ Vast White Wing Conspirator (-: You Whine )-:
September 8th, 2009
9:11 am
You may want to check me, but the school systems that offer degrees in courses such as “discrimination” and “fairness” are the same ones that do not do so well in SAT scoring and the like.
I Report/ Vast White Wing Conspirator (-: You Whine )-:
September 8th, 2009
9:13 am
Cobb County may be a “backwards,” “religious extremist,” throwback to the 13th century but at least our kids can read, unlike yours.
Gordon
September 8th, 2009
9:14 am
Jay Bookman writes a piece about an extreme position on a tangential issue and tries to convince his readers that this is the most important thing in the world to those who don’t support most of Obama’s positions.
In other news, the sun rose this morning…
whatever
September 8th, 2009
9:14 am
Wow, because I do not believe that it is any politicians right to speak to my children I am now a redneck. that is fabulous. funny, when I signed up my children for school this year, i dont remember checking any box that said that I had to acquiesce to any politician speaking to my children. funny, i thought it was my right to keep them out. amazing that the liberals think the president has the right, ANY right, to address my children without my permission. I didnt agree with it when bush I or reagan did it and dont agree with it now.
so, are you all on the left spouting insults because you think that the president, or any politician, has a right to speak to my children or do you think the message is so important that our children need to hear it? funny, since I take an active role in my childrens’ lives, they know how important school is and how they are going to have a hell of a day if they dont get good grades. i dont need someone in washington that doesnt know me or my kids telling them that.
Bosch
September 8th, 2009
9:15 am
vince neil,
“but none of you all of a sudden act like you didn’t get offended when GW took up a similar cause……”
Uh, no, we didn’t.
Doggone/GA
September 8th, 2009
9:15 am
” tries to convince his readers that this is the most important thing in the world ”
He did? Where?
Gale
September 8th, 2009
9:17 am
“…whose pure little minds have little or no resistance, represent an incredibly fertile breeding ground for its ideas…”
What amazes me is that these are some of the same people who want prayer in schools and argue that it is NOT an attempt to indoctrinate children.
TaxPayer
September 8th, 2009
9:17 am
I Report/ Vast White Wing Conspirator (-: You Whine )-:
September 8th, 2009
9:13 am
Cobb County may be a “backwards,” “religious extremist,” throwback to the 13th century but at least our kids can read, unlike yours.
Reciting scripture doe not qualify as ‘reading’.
TaxPayer
September 8th, 2009
9:19 am
I should have prevented my child from listening to Bush. She misunderestimates far too much, thanks to him.
USinUK
September 8th, 2009
9:19 am
“at least our kids can read, unlike yours”
maybe. but, as anyone has realized reading your posts, whiner, reading isn’t everything. critical thinking skills are KEY.
“but none of you all of a sudden act like you didn’t get offended when GW took up a similar cause”
sorry, bub. try again. I am and have always been all for Reagan, Papa Bush and Baby Bush speaking to kids and getting them excited about school.
“Wow, because I do not believe that it is any politicians right to speak to my children I am now a redneck”
it’s not just “any politician”, you numpty, it’s the President. and … oooooo … he’s talking about such subversive ideas as PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY … scary!!!
criminey, some people are too damn stupid to breathe.
stands for decibels
September 8th, 2009
9:20 am
sfd-because others may not agree with you=redneck.
No, vn, it’s more like “because you chose to make a huge stink in order to let your children know just how much you don’t consider Obama to be the legitimately elected President of the US and thus feel it’s unacceptable for your children to so much as hear him speak without some right-wing “news” outlet’s editing and filtering = redneck.”
And by my reckoning, you don’t have to be poor, Southern, or literally have a red neck, to be a redneck.
Doggone/GA
September 8th, 2009
9:20 am
“Wow, because I do not believe that it is any politicians right to speak to my children I am now a redneck.”
Sounds about right to me.
TaxPayer
September 8th, 2009
9:21 am
Gale
September 8th, 2009
9:17 am
Don’t be amazed, Gale. Evolution has equipped them with two mouthes for a reason.
USinUK
September 8th, 2009
9:21 am
dB – 9:20
( raucaus applause )
danjonglee
September 8th, 2009
9:23 am
I think understanding basis economics is little more important, since the real unemployment numbers are running around 16%… sorry, the State says 9.6%
thomas
September 8th, 2009
9:25 am
Anyone know why the original speech was changed?
If the speech was ONLY about staying in school and getting the most out of their eductaion, what could there possibly be that nedded to be changed?
I Report/ Vast White Wing Conspirator (-: You Whine )-:
September 8th, 2009
9:25 am
Instead of identifying the roadblocks to comprehension and applying motivational enhancements to the educational curriculum, modern day witch doctors and shaman like Obozo toss around mindless platitudes like “environmentalism” and “fairness,” which, amazingly, also closely resemble the prominent liberal orthodoxy.
Makes you wonder what his true motives are.
vince neil
September 8th, 2009
9:26 am
generalize much????
USinUK
September 8th, 2009
9:27 am
thomas –
“Anyone know why the original speech was changed?”
who says it was (besides the a-wipes on talk radio)
Gale
September 8th, 2009
9:27 am
Now that I’ve read the speech, I see only two flaws. One, he uses too many big words that younger students may not know yet. Two, there is too much focus on college. Everyone does have a success potential, but it may not involve college. Other than that, I think it is a very good speech.
Citizen of the World
September 8th, 2009
9:28 am
There’s irony in the fact that some of these people who think their kids will be brainwashed and indoctrinated by a 15 minute speech by the president think they are totally impervious to the brainwashing techniques used on them hours on end by the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity — high repetition of over-simplified messages, name-calling, appealing to their fears and prejudices, anti-intellectualism, constant harping on the liberal media to discourage them from going to or believing in other sources of news and information, characterizing anyone who thinks differently as the enemy, etc.
Hef
September 8th, 2009
9:29 am
Usinuk-I think you missed the point,while it’s no big deal to you,it is to some parents. And regardless to what you and some others here think,it’s thery’re right. I’m sure there is at least one decision that you’ve made over the years that others thought was clueless,but it is your right to make it. And if you are a parent,it is your right/responsibility to raise your children to the best your ability.May not be popular,may not always be right,but it is your right.