I am so disapointed

[SeaCat]

I am ever so disapointed.

I watched and listened to the uproar about President Obama's proposed speech the the young and impressionable minds of the School Children.

Then I read his speech. Alas it turned out to be a pep talk for the kids to do well in school. No where did he try to swing them over to his way of thinking about the Bail Outs or Public Health Care. No where did he tell the children it was their duty to turn their parents in for not agreeing with him.

Oh wait a minute, he did make a rather nasty comment there at the very end. One I'm sure will get way too many people upset. He said "God Bless".

Cat

 

[kromen]

I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop, but it seems people are speechless. Oh well, they'll go back to complaining about Michelle wearing shorts in public or something else asinine.

 

[Freefall_mc]

I was pleased to hear his speech. Other presidents have done classroom pep talks, I know Reagan did. And it is truly a shame that party or personal opposition is so desperate and bored as to attempt any type of "brainwashing our youth" propaganda. Way beyond a stretch of the imagination.

But that will always exist; and it becomes more like an annoying dumpster dust devil than legitimate commentaries. I hardly hear it anymore, but the smell!
Kind of like getting pissed off at a toddler for throwing his spagetti on the floor. What's the point.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

I am ever so disapointed.

I watched and listened to the uproar about President Obama's proposed speech the the young and impressionable minds of the School Children.

Then I read his speech. Alas it turned out to be a pep talk for the kids to do well in school. No where did he try to swing them over to his way of thinking about the Bail Outs or Public Health Care. No where did he tell the children it was their duty to turn their parents in for not agreeing with him.

Oh wait a minute, he did make a rather nasty comment there at the very end. One I'm sure will get way too many people upset. He said "God Bless".

Cat

Sure SeaCat, and I agree. It's just that he did have a lot of politico crap in the draft speech til he realised his problem and edited it out.

Result - great.

 

[Saucyminx]

I was really surprised that they didn't show it in my kid's school district. Most of the other local districts did, with a parental opt out policy. I wish that had happened in ours. Even had it been political crap (which it wasn't) I still would have liked my kids to have had the opportunity to listen and then have a discussion with me when they got home. I love any occasion to open a political debate with my kiddos. We are planning on reading it and chatting about it this evening.

 

[Teloz]

Sure SeaCat, and I agree. It's just that he did have a lot of politico crap in the draft speech til he realised his problem and edited it out.

Result - great.

Damn it Elf! You telling us he sent it to you for editing and you didn't tell us?

 

[bronzeage]

I am ever so disapointed.

I watched and listened to the uproar about President Obama's proposed speech the the young and impressionable minds of the School Children.

Then I read his speech. Alas it turned out to be a pep talk for the kids to do well in school. No where did he try to swing them over to his way of thinking about the Bail Outs or Public Health Care. No where did he tell the children it was their duty to turn their parents in for not agreeing with him.

Oh wait a minute, he did make a rather nasty comment there at the very end. One I'm sure will get way too many people upset. He said "God Bless".

Cat

The Republican response to the speech told kids to drop out of school, disobey their parents and start drinking heavily.

 

[slyc_willie]

The Republican response to the speech told kids to drop out of school, disobey their parents and start drinking heavily.

They're doing that already.

 

[3113]

I watched and listened to the uproar about President Obama's proposed speech the the young and impressionable minds of the School Children.

Then I read his speech. Alas it turned out to be a pep talk for the kids to do well in school. No where did he try to swing them over to his way of thinking about the Bail Outs or Public Health Care. No where did he tell the children it was their duty to turn their parents in for not agreeing with him.

Tsk, tsk. SeaCat, SeaCat, SeaCat [sadly shakes head]. You've gotta learn how to read between the lines. There are subliminal messages all throughout that speech. Hidden Marxist references (note how he suggests students might grow up to fight poverty and homelessness--he means fighting these by taking money from the rich!), gay references (his mention to growing up and curing AIDS), pro-illegal immigrants (he uses one Jazmin Perez who didn't speak English when she first started school in the U.S. as a role model), pro-healthcare (that reference to possible flu outbreaks), pro-elite-intellectualism (he tells them to spend all day reading a book! Can you imagine?), and, yes, a Satanic message! (he alludes to Harry Potter ). And that "God Bless" at the end...play it backwards. You'll clearly hear him saying: "Praise Allah!" and "I was really born in Kenya..."

A very subversive speech. The parents who kept their kid from listening to that saved them from being horribly and irrevocably brainwashed.

 

[SeaCat]

Tsk, tsk. SeaCat, SeaCat, SeaCat [sadly shakes head]. You've gotta learn how to read between the lines. There are subliminal messages all throughout that speech. Hidden Marxist references (note how he suggests students might grow up to fight poverty and homelessness--he means fighting these by taking money from the rich!), gay references (his mention to growing up and curing AIDS), pro-illegal immigrants (he uses one Jazmin Perez who didn't speak English when she first started school in the U.S. as a role model), pro-healthcare (that reference to possible flu outbreaks), pro-elite-intellectualism (he tells them to spend all day reading a book! Can you imagine?), and, yes, a Satanic message! (he alludes to Harry Potter ). And that "God Bless" at the end...play it backwards. You'll clearly hear him saying: "Praise Allah!" and "I was really born in Kenya..."

A very subversive speech. The parents who kept their kid from listening to that saved them from being horribly and irrevocably brainwashed.

*Snerk*

And to think, somewhere out there someone is actually thinking that. (Not to mention believing it.)

Cat

 

[DeeZire]

The Republican response to the speech told kids to drop out of school, disobey their parents and start drinking heavily.

GWB was a good role model for that.

 

[penandpaper]

I was really surprised that they didn't show it in my kid's school district. Most of the other local districts did, with a parental opt out policy. I wish that had happened in ours. Even had it been political crap (which it wasn't) I still would have liked my kids to have had the opportunity to listen and then have a discussion with me when they got home. I love any occasion to open a political debate with my kiddos. We are planning on reading it and chatting about it this evening.

It was up to the teachers in the classroom as to whether to show it or not; alas none did for fear of backlash from an angry parent. Hopefully, the parents watch it at home and show it to their child on youtube. Political differences aside, it's always nice to see a president showing an interest in youth education.