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They must lay awake at night trying to think of how to out-moron one another.-------

 

Educators across America found themselves at the center of a political storm this week as conservatives exploded in anger over President Obama's plans to give a speech to the country's schoolchildren.

 

A stunned White House insisted the address, planned for Tuesday, and accompanying suggested lesson plans are meant simply to encourage students to study hard and stay in school.

 

But some parents said they aren't buying it. They said they're convinced the president is going to use the opportunity to press a partisan political agenda on impressionable young minds.

 

"Thinking about my kids in school having to listen to that just really upsets me," a suburban Colorado mother, Shanneen Barron, told CNN affiliate KMGH-TV in Denver.

 

"I'm an American. They are Americans, and I don't feel that's OK. I feel very scared to be in this country with our leadership right now."

 

GOP leaders have not shied away from the debate. Florida Republican Party Chairman Jim Greer released a statement Monday accusing Obama of using taxpayer money to "indoctrinate" children. Watch the debate over the president's speech »

 

"As the father of four children, I am absolutely appalled that taxpayer dollars are being used to spread President Obama's socialist ideology," Greer said.

 

 

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Ah yes, the Right Wing falls even deeper off of the deep end. Do they actually believe this shit? If so, we are about 0.5 generations away from obliteration. Carry on...

 

The left wing eagerly marches towards totalitarianism - their preferred state of being.

 

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You're kidding - right? Hopefully my irony meter is not working.

 

Not in the fucking least. This is a total outrage - and you'd feel the same if Bush had tried it.

 

Mmmmmmm, Yummy Delicious Crow!!!

 

"President George H.W. Bush gave an address to schools nationwide in 1991, from a junior high school in Washington, D.C. News reports from the time said the White House hoped that the address would be shown at schools nationwide, and Bush began his remarks by saying he was talking to "millions" of students "in classrooms all across the country.""

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You're kidding - right? Hopefully my irony meter is not working.

 

Not in the fucking least. This is a total outrage - and you'd feel the same if Bush had tried it.

no i wouldn't - i routinely show the state of the union and other major presidential speeches to my social studies class - duh! it's s-o-c-i-a-l s-t-u-d-i-e-s. if i followed it up with a "so what did you children think about the powerful words that the Great Leader just said?" or "how can you help make the Great Leader's plans a reality?" that would be uber-disturbing, but that's not the gameplan - it's a critical discussion - do you agree or not? how likely is this to come to pass? how would you have done it differently? is this an important issue or not, etc. etc.

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You're kidding - right? Hopefully my irony meter is not working.

 

Not in the fucking least. This is a total outrage - and you'd feel the same if Bush had tried it.

no i wouldn't - i routinely show the state of the union and other major presidential speeches to my social studies class - duh! it's s-o-c-i-a-l s-t-u-d-i-e-s. if i followed it up with a "so what did you children think about the powerful words that the Great Leader just said?" or "how can you help make the Great Leader's plans a reality?" that would be uber-disturbing, but that's not the gameplan - it's a critical discussion - do you agree or not? how likely is this to come to pass? how would you have done it differently? is this an important issue or not, etc. etc.

 

Yeah, well, I'd keep my kids far away from you for other reasons.

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You're kidding - right? Hopefully my irony meter is not working.

 

Not in the fucking least. This is a total outrage - and you'd feel the same if Bush had tried it.

 

Mmmmmmm, Yummy Delicious Crow!!!

 

"President George H.W. Bush gave an address to schools nationwide in 1991, from a junior high school in Washington, D.C. News reports from the time said the White House hoped that the address would be shown at schools nationwide, and Bush began his remarks by saying he was talking to "millions" of students "in classrooms all across the country.""

 

Crow? I'm opposed to this as well. No captive audience speeches from our politicians to our youths.

 

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Maybe Obama should include a portion in his speech about "personal responsbility" explaining how you it is OK to break all your campaign promises.

see, that would be an excellent thing for a kid to say after seeing the address! we could yammer about that for a good long while and maybe the result would be a little more enlightenment?

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I'm sure his speech will be all about the tenets of National Socialism and how it will help in forming Nazi Death Panels and Death Camps for Gramma. What a wicked, evil, man, with his deep seated hatred of white people.

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Crow? I'm opposed to this as well. No captive audience speeches from our politicians to our youths.

how about making the captive audience stand for the pledge of allegiance every morning? :)

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is that a televised speech to ALL students w/o advance parental consent?

how practical is it to get parental consent for every lesson plan i run in a year?

 

 

This is our government speaking directly to students in a forced environment. It is total bullshit.

 

Your lesson plans are subject to curricula, and parents can find out what is being taught. And you are accountable. Totally different.

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