What Obama Will Really Say to the Kids

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[...] gasp . . . political? His wife, the former first lady, was one of the many who came out and called the protests against the Obama speech ridiculous, but there’s been no word from the Bush camp on this particular [...]

Ah, but I’m sure if we play the speech backwards, we’ll find something!!

What is going on with people? Anything the president says at all is automatically horrifying, commie indoctrination? It like conservatives have lost their marbles to the point that it seems like republican=crazy these days.

You know, people act like Obama invented this speech. Go on Google and listen to Reagan’s pontification on gun rights in his stay-in-school speech.
Once again schools and parents have demonstrated the very qualities we would admonish if seen in our children. There is room for compromise here. I taught government for several years and I would have shown and/or printed out other stay-in-school speeches given by past presidents and had the kids do comparison/contrast charts for content. It would have been a great way to study different presidential views while also practicing analysis of a text.
It is pathetic that the president can’t encourage kids to wash their hands without people screaming ‘indoctrination!’ Gee I hope all those kids kept home watch plenty of television, no indoctrination will certainly be going on there. And all those kids put in separate rooms? I sure hope they’re just staring at a wall or texting their friends cuz I don’t see how they could be given any work that wasn’t approved by conservation talk show hosts (sure, I bet they’ll work on homework or read a book). Wait, they could write a letter to the president telling him exactly why they shouldn’t take responsibility for their education.
In the end, the sad fact that this will be all much ado about nothing. His speech will not be controversial at all, and thus, not all that inspiring.

What’s he doing to me?
Yeah, I was a lot better educated than my parents. I knew it all. But then, my kids learned a lot more than me, and now my President wants my grandkids to learna lot more than my children ever knew. Kids need to grow up respecting the knowledge of their grandparents, but ‘he’ wants them to know so much more than I do that I’ll never get any respect for what I know.

I don’t think L&C is much in the business of thinking at all. Her comment was a random bunch of generated conservative talking points.

These idiots just keep making themselves look more and more ridiculous every day. I feel so sorry for their children that will grow up to be just as ignorant as they are.

That’s hilarious, “inordinately in the country’s face.” Um, he’s the president and he should be all over the place - it’s called doing his job. Would you rather he disappeared into a black hole like Cheney did for most of W’s two terms?

As for speaking out against GWB vs. what’s going on now with Obama, the big difference is that many of the complaints the right has with Obama are based on lies, fear, and propaganda. Seriously, I have heard Obama refered to, among other things, as communist, socialist, fascist, and Hitler-like. The Birthers? Crazy. Death panels? Not true, a distortion of the end-of-life counseling provision designed to encourage the creation of living wills and added to the health care bill by a Republican. He’s anti-America, friends with terrorists, a tool of the New World Order - ugh. None of this is based on any kind of truth and is not even remotely comparable to people protesting the Iraq war, domestic wire taping, etc.