On Tuesday, September 8, President Obama intends to address all schoolchildren in the country simultaneously. It was initially reported that his address would include encouraging the children to find ways to “serve President Obama” and to write a paper describing their ideas. As of Friday morning, September 4, it is reported that he has abandoned that approach, and will instead encourage them to “work hard and improve themselves.” We’ll see.
It is very disturbing, even frightening, that he even considered such language. The founders intended that elected officials would serve the citizens. What kind of object lesson is it, then, when a President considers telling our young minds that they should be serving him? The question should be, “How can you serve your country?”
Take a look back through world history. Whenever people have been told that they should serve any national leader, that leader has proven to be a self-serving despot who believes that he IS the country. That is the definition of arrogance. If the intent was there to use such language when addressing the kids, it means the thought remains regardless of any statement to the contrary.
This colossal arrogance on display, combined with the reckless spending and ill-advised agenda of this administration and congress, makes the growing grassroots efforts more important than ever. We need to work as hard as we can to assure that congress is brought under control in 2010, and that a new administration is elected in 2012.
--Tom Wells 9/4/09
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I don’t have a big problem with the president giving a generic pep talk to school children but the history of Obama’s connection with education, the Annenberg project in Chicago, isn’t encouraging. One William Ayers (just some guy in Obama’s neighborhood) worked with Obama in Chicago on education issues and on the Annenberg project. Ayers a professor at the University of Illinois Chicago, College of Education and a VP for Curriculum Studies at the American Educational Research Association, is one of the central actors in the effort to turn the public schools in the U. S. into collectivist propaganda mills. Causual observation indicates that he has done a pretty good job.
I don't at all like the idea of any president, especially this president, addressing children in a classroom setting. It is done for one reason and one reason only; the indoctrination of those children with the party line and the party line of this president is truly odious. Reinforced by the mostly left wing teachers in Government schools the message will become a mainstay of the student's future political leaning. Make no mistake about it, if this goes over with minimal protest it will become a major annual event...until a Conservative is elected.
I think it would be a very good idea if Conservative parents Kept their children out of school that day. Maybe take them to a veterans cemetery or other patriotic shrine. I have urged my Conservative son to do this with our two granddaughters but I don't think he will.
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