President Obama is going to address all of the nation’s public school students next week (Tuesday, September 8, 11 CDT)! Isn’t that exciting? All aboard the Statist Express! Can’t you feel those ObamaYouth ranks swelling? I certainly hope they have snappy uniforms.
Here is the announcement on the U.S. Department of Education web site. Want to see some questions from the helpful accompanying classroom material (and I swear these are direct quotes)?
- What do you think the President wants us to do?
- Does the speech make you want to do anything?
- Are we able to do what President Obama is asking of us?
Hey, you know what this reminds me of? Remember this post (relevant Michelle Obama quote below)?
Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed. – Michelle Obama
I have email in to our boys’ principal asking if their school intends to show the address, and if so whether alternate arrangements (without academic penalty) will be available. Without satisfactory answers to these questions, they’ll be staying home that day.
Folks, whether you consider yourself liberal, conservative, or something in between, please hear me. This is wholly inappropriate. The President of the United States, no matter who he or she is, has absolutely no legitimate standing to tell my seven-year-old and my five-year-old (or yours) anything without my (or your) consent.
(If he provides his remarks in advance, I’ll be glad to review them and possibly reconsider. Won’t hold my breath.)
President Obama, I will tell my children myself about hard work, character, taking responsibility, and setting goals. That is my job. You do yours. For your convenience, here is a link to your job description, in toto.
And while I have your attention, let me add that I’m very much looking forward to actively securing your defeat. You need to be busy somewhere besides the Oval Office, sir.
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I read an interesting article that referred to The President as a “post turtle.” What is a post turtle you ask? From the article:
Well one day an old cowboy was out ridin’ fence and he saw a turtle balanced on top of a fence post. When he got back to the bunkhouse he told the other fellas that he saw a “post turtle”. They all asked, “What the hell is a ‘post Turtle’? And he said it was a turtle settin’ on top of a post! He then went on to explain that “you know he didn’t get up there by himself, he doesn’t belong there, he doesn’t know what to do while he’s up there and you just wonder what kind of dang fool put him up there to begin with!”
This is why my kid’s in private school. They aren’t wasting valuable class time on this propaganda BS.
Let’s hear it for open lines of communication….
BB_FAN: Yeah, that’s fitting, except that I fear there are still way too many people who think it was a good idea to put him up there!
kemtee: Good deal! We discussed that possibility extensively, but traded it off for other benefits. We have a well-regarded public system and have been pleased to date (and believe me, my guard’s been up). I can’t believe my first real problem with it is coming directly from an overbearing, egomaniacal President of the United States with a God complex. (I guess I expected it to be revisionist history and/or radical environmentalism in the curriculum.)
So far Obama’s doing a good job at keeping his likability plummeting. Nothing for me to do but hope it continues. God, what a jackass. How deep can my loathing go? He seems determined to find the bottom.
Dollars to doughnuts this gets handed off to the Vice Principal 🙂 Good call though. Let me know what he says. My experience is he’s a very good principal and very responsive (something about his predecessor being run off for being aloof with parents I think).
I thought of a few more questions that should definitely be included in the classroom activity portion:
You’re crackin’ me up.
Yes, you crack me up too. But, I totally agree with you. (don’t faint) I am firmly believing the “give ’em enough rope” theory. He’ll be tying his own noose before you know it.
I was going to say something, but I was distracted by something weird on that post over there.
Just got a robocall from the school system. Here’s the deal:
The address will not be shown to the entire school. Each teacher shall decide whether the address fits his/her lesson plan for the day. For students of teachers who do plan to use the address, there is no penalty for non-participation. If a child is not to view the address, a note from home to that effect is all that’s required.
I’d call that a thoroughly satisfactory resolution. Well done, folks.
Imagine if you lived in an area that is in love with the idea of a nanny state. It will be much harder to opt out there, I think.
Here’s another tired piece calling me names. It also contains this whopper:
I don’t know how anyone who hasn’t been comatose or delirious for the past five years can type that with a straight face. That’s O’Brien, room 101-level shit right there. The “kooks” on the left reside in the mainstream.
As a resident of one of the strongest Republican districts in the U.S. (Cobb County, GA), I was thrilled that our school system determined that it was best to “allow the students to maintain their normal schedules” next Tuesday, instead of wasting their time listening to his message. I hope it registers with people that it’s a very bad sign when parents don’t trust the President of our country to speak to our children without an agenda.
eds girl: Welcome! I’m delighted to “see” you here. (All, I’ve known eds girl for 33 years!)
I hope it registers too. It’s uphill for sure, though. We’ve never seen a spin machine like the one in the White House right now, and way too much of the media is all too eager to carry their water.
Fortunately, Obama has proven to be unexpectedly bad at on the ground, day-to-day politics–bad enough that his ineptness is serving a lot of the function that a well-organized minority would. When situations have called for diplomatic finesse, he’s pulled the bully lever instead, and he just doesn’t have the mandate to get away with that.
Here’s hoping for continued incompetence to the midterm elections, at which point I hope we can hobble him enough to get him the hell out in 2012.