http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/08/newt-g…

C. Stanley, I spent part of my weekend “enjoying” my copy of the 1982 manual by Educators for Social Responsibility, providing guidance to teachers for “nuclear” “education” (i.e., “nuclear war” education or “peace education,” the anti-Reagan-and-USA disarmament activism in the schools).

That example is *** so *** appropriate given Obama's flirtation with the extreme left currently.

Actually, Stockster, that's the cynical explanation I provided about the future involving those jobs that can't be sent to China or to India. What can't be “offshored” gets staffed by those from offshore.

No. Sorry to disappoint you. (I was away for the holiday weekend.)

What I find bad (I'll kindly just leave it at that) is the lack of propriety among many, or defective perception or more, who don't understand what is wrong, or don't care, or actually like it, anyway.

For every action there is a reaction, I suppose. IOW, the creepy Obama cultism that we did see during and after the campaign has provoked concern. I don't tie it as directly to the Hollywood crowd, but more specifically in this case to some of the inappropriate teachers' actions during the campaign. I do think that there's a problem with teachers promoting their political views to young schoolchildren, and there were several prominent instances of really poor judgment. In light of that kind of stuff going on in classrooms, I did feel the original DOE 'suggestions' were unacceptable and I'm glad that they've been altered.

That said, I definitely think this whole thing has been WAY overblown and involved some manufactured outrage. It's not quite at the level of one that almost made me throw the remote at the TV the other day- flipping through channels and seeing someone complaining about the on hold music chosen for House members by Nancy Pelosi not being patriotic enough- but it was just a small step above that kind of unseriousness.

So how did a video made by a group of starry-eyed, over-the-top-with-hope-change hollywood types become “that pledge of his”?

Utterly ridiculous.

Reagan, HW Bush, Clinton, GW Bush all had speeches to school children. NONE of them (including a democrat, Bill Clinton) used the Department of Education to mandate lesson plans to overglorify themselves.

And here's the pledge to Obama:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqcPA1ysSbw

2. The Bush billboard in Orlando was privately funded by ClearChannel Communications, and not funded by George Bush.

3. Double standard? You mean like Mark Sanford vs John Edwards? That kind of double standard?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqcPA1ysSbw

Kind of eerie, actually.
The one part I did like was the “I pledge to be an American, not an african-american”.

We should all just turn away from our guns and our Bibles and embrace our big brother.
Government will always do what's in our best interest. They love us.
The decisions they make have nothing to do with self-serving motives.
Everything the government tells us is truth and should not be verified.

That, my American brother, is the very definition of “drinking the kool ade”.

Just please tell me that you don't believe everything the President, Congress, or even anyone in the media tells you; without first verifying it. If you do, then you're lost.

It WAS the lesson plan from the Department of Education!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We NOW have no problem with tomorrow's speech, now that the Department of Ed. lesson plans have been scrapped. I guess that's why even Newt Gingrich said the same thing.

Get it now, bro?
The President, “manned up” and took away the inappropriate use of a government agency. I don't hear him apologizing.

No school district tells the Department of Education, “no”.

Some, and I emphasize, SOME of the parents won't let their kids go to school because they just don't like/trust President Obama. It has nothing to do with the lesson plans.

However, most, and I emphasize, MOST parents questioning it did see/hear about the lesson plans.
That could have been a very dangerous precedent, had the administration not pulled the lesson plans.

I'm sending my kids to school tomorrow, by the way.
I've already taught my kids to question anything the government tells them. So they're covered.

Recite this to yourselves my liberal American brothers, so that it finally sinks in:

No one cares that the President is addressing our children.
Most parents applaud the President telling our children to work hard, stay in school, and be successful.

The issue is with the ORIGINAL plan to incorporate lesson plans that were skewed toward the President's ideals.

Period.

Is that perfectly clear now?

That kind of manipulation is wrong for ANY president.

In case people haven't noticed the US is slipping in education rankings. If we want good jobs and successful businesses that means giving our students a good education. Not the education that parents approve of because those same parents do not like to deal with life and want to lock their children behind closed doors.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/11/19/US-slipp…

These same people will probably complain when some highly skilled Indian or Chinese lands a well-paying job in the computer industry in the US. They claim that foreigners are taking jobs away from Americans. Well if parents want to cloister their children and keep them ignorant of the world, then I'd say that it's the parents who are keeping their children from having a good job. There are highly qualified candidates out there and companies will hire the best they can. I look for well-rounded individuals to work for me. I would not hire some ignorant hick who doesn't have a clue how the world works. Fortunately ignorant hicks aren't particularly interested in my line of business.

All political leaders have cult followings to some extent or another. If people didn't like them they would not be politicians. I remember in 2004 the Republicans successfully used fear of Kerry to be re-elected. Fear of the unknown that Kerry represented. I remember many people said, “I don't like either Bush or Kerry but at least Bush has the experience and I think he's the lesser of the two evils.”

It's actually nice that people voted and follow Obama because they like him, not that they view him as the lesser of two evils.