Or “What did I do to help President Bush?”

My youngest goes to Catholic school now - not sure if they will show the POTUS there or not - don’t really care - my daughter already knows this President is a liar.

Had to enlighten her early. Last year in public school she came home crying about the polar bears dieing from Global Warming. Her teachers were feeding her the whole “we’re doomed” line and - well I live in the Republican South but we still have a liberal teacher problem in the public schools.

Anyway - that is when I had to tell her that what her teachers were saying was untrue. Had to explain to her the whole political dynamic - and how people want to manipulate her fears to manipulate her liberty. It was a difficult talk - because you don’t want her to think that the math and reading she’s being taught is untruthful. I had to teach her how to tell the difference.

She’s only nine - but we have political discussions all the time. She’s seen the President say one thing and turn around and say something else to a different crowd.

So she’s definitely “O-Savvy”.

She’s beyond his control.

The Statist believes parents are incapable of doing their job on their own… therefore the State must inject itself to carry out proper parenting.
The motivation is transparent if one places oneself in the Statist perspective.

He goes into this little rant about how Barack Obama is the “quintessential patriot”, whatever in the hell that means to the left these days. Of course, that is not the issue concerning the speech, which we all have covered here.

Very bizzare.

Obama has demonstrated that he is the most partisan, leftist, lying individual ever to occupy the White House, and it did not take him long to do it (because he is not really very bright, and has no actual people skills). He has used up his “benefit of the doubt” with the American people. Even though he may have the best of intentions in this case (which I seriously doubt), he no longer has any credibility. His presidency is effectively over.

As I remember, they were just being taught to do what they could to help Obama. It’s the curriculum from the DoE that bothered me more than him giving the speech. I tend to agree with you here though, there’s no there there to his speech. My kids have enough work to do in and out of school to have to take time away for this.

Enjoy our glass of whine, Marty.

“…the right to hear him…” It’s always a right with the left, isn’t it? It’s just another *chance* to hear him, Marty. And trust me here: Obama is going to make himself plenty available for the kids to hear him talk.

It’s not like it’s Halley’s Comet, dude.

Analyzing the text of the President’s message a bit more closely, I found myself chaffing at the statist nature of the talk. Obama has a message that students must strive and take responsibility - that’s the OK message I guess - but for what?

“What you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this country. What you’re learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the future.” In other words, you owe it to the state.

“We need every single one of you to develop your talents, skills and intellect so you can help solve our most difficult problems. If you don’t do that – if you quit on school – you’re not just quitting on yourself, you’re quitting on your country.” In other words, you owe it to the state.

“I want to ask you, what’s your contribution going to be? What problems are you going to solve? What discoveries will you make? What will a president who comes here in twenty or fifty or one hundred years say about what all of you did for this country?” In other words, your life is not for you, it is for us, the state.

“I’m working hard to fix up your classrooms and get you the books, equipment and computers you need to learn. But you’ve got to do your part too.” Translation - you must serve the state, which provides for you.

“So don’t let us down – don’t let your family or your country or yourself down.” You owe us. You belong to us.

You are correct. He has no right to be speaking to the kids in such an nationalized method. His goal, regardless of the new speech put out there, is too implant his face and his message into our kid’s brains.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/MediaResources/PreparedSchoolRemarks/

Even as he tries to stay above the personalization, he can’t. There are too many “me too” and “look how tough my life was” moments in the speech.

When I heard about the speech I felt he was reaching too far into the lives of our kids. It isn’t his job. He has enough to do without spending time recruiting our kids into some kind of political effort (save the environment portion of the speech). I was convinced then he wanted to be the face of the government to our children, ala Chavez and others throughout history.

He forgets in four years he may not be the face of anything anymore, other than a one term President trying to stay ahead of Carter for being the worst one in American history.

Dissent or any disagreement with our dear leader is unamerican, unpatriotic & downright dangerous, And, iIf any of us keep misbehaving—-by talking back, they’re going to hit us twice as hard, bite our fingers off, redistribute our healthcare, etc, etc. We got it , we got it! Except we’re damn well not sitting down and shutting up anymore and in fact we intend to clean house and retire the buffoons!

He is on TV every other day. Sometimes almost every day. If somebody wants to grant their children right to hear him switch on your TV.

btw…. the lesson plan crap was over the line…. even for a sleazy administration

Wake up! This is about more than his speech in school.

http://www.surgeusa.org/actions/sept8.htm

That evening, “Get Schooled: You Have the Right” launches on all Viacom networks. The related website pushes lobbying of governors for the Obama education agenda. It also leads into related social networking sites on Facebook and Twitter to create a channel for communicating directly with any kids and parents who are drawn into this. That creates plausible denial to get around legal constraints on White House lobbying activities - but many of those governors will be up for election in 2010, and many teachers and school administrators have been very reliant on federal stimulus funds recently to save their school budgets and jobs, with more money still in play.

Disloyalty to a conservative means disloyalty to your country. For instance, selling missile technology to fill the coffers of your political party. Telling lies about your country. Apologizing to totalitarian dictators for nonexistent crimes your country allegedly committed. Engaging in practices the undermine the security or honor of your country.

Disloyalty to a liberal means not supporting specific policies of a liberal politician. Not showing a particular liberal politician the deference the left wants him/her to have. Challenging particular policies of a liberal politician. Engaging in lawful acts that challenge the domestic political agenda of that politician.

The left, being vulnerable on the issue of patriotism, has co-opted the concept, and re-defined such that it now can be used as a weapon for their statist agenda.

You can bet that it won’t be “okay kids, speech is over. Turn to page 52 in your math book”.

It will be a long conversation and plan laying to enforce this mess.

I came home from NC late last night to find that my children’s school will be showing the speech today. I found out through their website. No opt out notice, no alternate plans, no notice period. They attend a PRIVATE school.

I sent a blistering email to the Head Master of the school. I am so livid. Needless to say, I will be picking my children up at noon to take them to lunch and to the library to get books on the Constitution and The Federalist Papers.

You wrote:

“When people ask, “how can you object to the President urging kids to stay in school,” I ask them what they’d think if I stopped by their house one night, uninvited, to tell their kids how to behave.”

I tell people that I would not allow anyone I do not trust (who has proven to be utterly untrustworthy) to address my children.

This is turning out to be a wonderful teaching moment.

As I’m blogging and commenting, I cemented my opinion around the effort for Obama to convert young school children into Obamanites.

Then, as I thought some more about recruitment, it hits me with a Homer Simpson moment. DUH! My daughter is almost fifteen, she will be turning eighteen during 2012. She’ll miss being able to vote by a few months, but she is the exception. Most of the students that are fifteen will be able to cast their first vote for President in the 2012 election! And who is the only person who will be running that they have seen in school? Yep, a smack in the forehead.

Sure, Obama wants to recruit at all levels, but this is a direct effort to peel off first time voters. The same voters who he promised he is working on getting new “FREE” stuff like computers and supplies so they can excel and follow their dreams. (Read the text of the re-done speech. One can only wonder what the original draft looked like.)

Talk about a direct marketing effort. Billy Mays would be struck dumb in amazement. How many captive members of this audience will he put his face in front of? According to the one report I looked at- over sixteen million. Sixteen million!! Sixteen million half paying attention, all confused about life, rebellious, looking for a reason for living, easily persuaded kids who will see one person who claims to understand and care for them. And lucky for them, he is running for President in 2012 again! Wow! Time to make a change, to make a statement, and vote your future. Students are the key to revolutions. Their numbers, raw energy and ease of manipulation are great assets to have when challenging the status quo.

Chavez has to be going “Darn, I wish I had thought of that! Thing would have gone smoother.”

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/venezuela/090130/students-lead-opposition-hugo-chavez

I’m sorry, I violated my own rule on this one. I forgot to always look through the prism of “How do they stay in power” before looking for other motives. I thought maybe this was about recruiting ideologues to the cause, but that only serves a small segment of the radicals. No, Obama and his crew are about power and robbery. They want the power as long as they can get it in order to be able to rob this nation blind. It is and always has been about them “getting theirs.”

Again, sorry.

http://truthandcommonsense.com/2009/08/23/why-socialize-america-lets-play-the-agenda-game/

and the lefties in Congress went nuts calling for and actually launching investigations etc.
Obama wanted to do something worse than is now portrayed by the MSM-his speech did cross the line that Bush did not and has since been “altered” due to public outcry.

IMO it is just more of the O’ being Narcissistic than anything else. While the O’ being on TV nearly all the time is very creepy in a 1984 way, the reality, to me, is that he does think the POTUS is “the dear leaser” who should be in on everything anyone does and a glaring example of why “lefty liberals” need to be shoved to the dustbin of history before they cause anymore damage than they already have.

“Dear Leader” not “dear leaser”….

Obama’s speech to kids is nearly 10x as long as the Gettysburg Address (which was given to adults).

One commenter:
Ha, this will play out exactly as I thought it might. My son adores Obama - entirely from things he’s heard at school. By the end of this, he’s going to think of the dude as just one more boring windbag.
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“This is a President who once again shows that he has no idea of the proper role of government.”

Should have been U.S. government. Obama more and more strikes me as Castro-lite. Castro was/is infamous for using the bully pulpit, if just to hear himself speak; making “grand” speeches to captive audiences. Am I being extreme, sure, a little. But it’s the mindset - the need - Obama feels to make these appearances and in the way he so far has.

President Reagan and President G.H.W. Bush both gave speeches to school children that were televised back in the 1980’s and 1990’s and no-one complained. So why are people complaining now? I would like to see consistency. I could understand the arguments against the speech if it was partisan but it said children should work hard, do their homework and that success comes through failures - a thoroughly conservative message.
Please calm down and don`t see a conspiracy or wrong doing in every action.

Obama is depending on the radical teacher’s union to promote him as the great leader. How many readers realize that the NEA promotes Saul Alinsky’s books on their website? See below.

1. Obama is a union man to the core.
2. Government schools are run by the National Education Association, a teacher’s union.
2. The National Education Association is left-wing so it supports Obama’s agenda
3. Obama applies Saul Alinsky’s tactics.
4. The NEA promotes Saul Alinsky’s books on its website:
http://www.nea.org/tools/17231.htm
5. The NEA has posted this (in my view, anti-American) document on its website [note the tattered American flag!]:
http://www.nea.org/assets/docs/EW-PuttingOurValuesToWork.pdf

When will SOMEONE in the conservative blogs finally take this information and run with it?

You said it all, precluding the necessity of reading further!

THANK YOU

Gerald Stephens