Why would any reasonable person stand against the president for wanting to speak to our nation's school children and encouraging them to take their studies seriously, stay in school, and to set and achieve goals in their lives. When you further consider that our nation's first African American president could inspire children who may have never truly believed that their dreams could come true before, it is even more of a positive isn't it? If there was a way to assure Americans that was what was going to happen, and only that, then I believe it would be embraced by all.
However, are there really any people left who would believe that with regards to this particular president?
This unprecedented live speech directly to the public school kids all across America just seems a little too creepy, a little too Orwellian, to those who have been paying attention to what other things that this president and administration have been closely involved. This attempt by Obama is far more the politics of personality that has been his trademark throughout, closely reminiscent of "The Leader for Life" indoctrinations found inside Communist and Fascist regimes. It also follows a decades long pattern for those trained in Marxist ideology to go past the adults when their message isn't being well received and sell it to the children to make them little lobbyists at their dining room tables.
"When an opponent declares, 'I will not come over to your side,' I calmly say, 'Your child belongs to us already.....What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in my camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this community." Adolph Hitler 1933
We need to consider who Obama is, his training, and what he stands for in trying to discern his motives. Once again this speech was attempted to be done quietly on the first day of most schools across the country without parents being aware of it until after it was done. Why? If his motives are so pure, why not make political hay out of his "magnanimous" gesture? His personal popularity is free falling to the lowest any president has ever seen this early in their presidency during the last 60 years. His policies and pet projects are much less popular than he. The left has for years, during such political crisis, run for cover by promoting to children to use them as salespeople for their agendas.
"Can we truly expect those who aim to exploit us to be trusted to educate us?" Eric Schaub.
What did democrats say about George W. Bush's speech he gave from a school, not to every school child.
"The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students," House Majority Leader Richard A. Gephardt (D-Mo.) said. "And the president should be doing more about education than saying, 'Lights, camera, action.' "
Two House committees demanded that the department explain the use of its funds for the speech, an explanation that Deputy Secretary David T. Kearns provided late in the day in a letter to Rep. William D. Ford (D-Mich.), chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee. Education Secretary Lamar Alexander was out of town. [...]
Rep. Patricia Schroeder (D-Colo.), chairwoman of the Select Committee on Children, Youth and Families, said it was outrageous for the White House to "start using precious dollars for campaigns" when "we are struggling for every silly dime we can get" for education programs.
Rep. Martin Frost (D-Tex.) said that if Bush feels obliged to use government funds to hire outside consultants "to make him look good," then he should fire some of the public relations experts on the White House payroll. "Then the president might be more sympathetic to unemployment benefits," Frost said, referring to Bush's threat to veto legislation to extend benefits.
Where are these towers of virtue today as Obama sets about a self promotion to EVERY school in America?
There has never been a president we have known so little about as we do this one. For a man who has written two books about himself before he had accomplished anything we still have huge gaps in our knowledge about what he was up to most of his adult life. Maybe that is why so many think of him in messianic terms. However, there are some things we do know, how do they make us feel about Obama speaking to our children? We learned a lot from articles written by Steven Diamond and Sol Stern coming out a day apart.
Barrack Obama worked in a 30 x 30 office for Bill Ayres, the former Weather Underground bomber and terrorist from the 60s. Obama was part of Ayres work to turn the Chicago public schools into indoctrination centers.
"For William Ayers and other American pedagogical versions of the Weather Underground, social justice 'education' means using every subject taught in public school, including math and science, as a means to teach children that capitalism is evil and that anyone who supports the American way of life is going straight to hell."
Characterizing the Weatherman as "an American Red Army," Ayers summed up the organization's ideology as follows: "Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home. Kill your parents."
From Steve Diamond:
"[...] in late 1994 or early 1995, Obama made what I think was probably the key move in his early career. He was named Chairman of the Board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a $50 million grant program to funnel money into reform efforts at Chicago schools. It turns out that the architect of the Annenberg Challenge was Bill Ayers, who designed the grant proposal and shepherded it to success.
Diamond's report makes it clear that the relationship was close and work-related over a period of years. And it's clear from Obama's willingness to work for Ayers's pet project that he was in general agreement with Ayers's political philosophy and approach to public education."
From Sol Stern:
"Ayers’s politics have hardly changed since his Weatherman days. He still boasts about working full-time to bring down American capitalism and imperialism. This time, however, he does it from his tenured perch as Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Instead of planting bombs in public buildings, Ayers now works to indoctrinate America’s future teachers in the revolutionary cause, urging them to pass on the lessons to their public school students.
Indeed, the education department at the University of Illinois is a hotbed for the radical education professoriate. As Ayers puts it in one of his course descriptions, prospective K–12 teachers need to “be aware of the social and moral universe we inhabit and . . . be a teacher capable of hope and struggle, outrage and action, a teacher teaching for social justice and liberation.” Ayers’s texts on the imperative of social-justice teaching are among the most popular works in the syllabi of the nation’s ed schools and teacher-training institutes. One of Ayers’s major themes is that the American public school system is nothing but a reflection of capitalist hegemony. Thus, the mission of all progressive teachers is to take back the classrooms and turn them into laboratories of revolutionary change.
Would that Ayers were just another radical English professor. In that case, his poisonous anti-American teaching would be limited to a few hundred college students in the liberal arts. But through his indoctrination of future K–12 teachers, Ayers has been able to influence what happens in hundreds, perhaps thousands, of classrooms.
Ayers’s influence on what is taught in the nation’s public schools is likely to grow in the future. Last month, he was elected vice president for curriculum of the 25,000-member American Educational Research Association (AERA), the nation’s largest organization of education-school professors and researchers. Ayers won the election handily, and there is no doubt that his fellow education professors knew whom they were voting for. In the short biographical statement distributed to prospective voters beforehand, Ayers listed among his scholarly books Fugitive Days, an unapologetic memoir about his ten years in the Weather Underground. The book includes dramatic accounts of how he bombed the Pentagon and other public buildings.
AERA already does a great deal to advance the social-justice teaching agenda in the nation’s schools and has established a Social Justice Division with its own executive director. With Bill Ayers now part of the organization’s national leadership, you can be sure that it will encourage even more funding and support for research on how teachers can promote left-wing ideology in the nation’s classrooms—and correspondingly less support for research on such mundane subjects as the best methods for teaching underprivileged children to read."
Sol Stern is a contributing editor of City Journal and the author of Breaking Free: Public School Lessons
Obama had another job in Chicago in the education field. He was a trainer for Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" for ACORN. He trained an army of community agitators in this Marxist strategy to tear down Capitalism and bring about Marxist change. At least he had some experience teaching in a classroom.
During one of the Health Care Rallies with Obama speaking he had a little 11 year old girl who stood up to ask "why are there those people with the mean signs out there?" She was a plant, her mother was Obama's local campaign manager. So he obviously doesn't mind exploiting children for his end, just as they did with the young nephew of Ted Kennedy at his funeral being used in the same way. There seems to be no shame in this administration in their quest for ever more power.
Why then would there be such a groundswell of opposition to Obama speaking to our kids, do you really still have to ask?
If you have children in public schools, you have a decision to make before Tuesday the 8th. You can do as I did and call the school principle and tell them you don't want your child exposed and need an alternative activity not related to the Obama session, you can be non-confrontational and just keep your child home that day, or as a couple friends of mine told me today go sit in their classroom and be there to observe, and point out if it is getting out of hand. However, doing nothing isn't a choice I as a parent could feel comfortable with.
"The philosophy of the classroom today will be the philosophy of government tomorrow." Abraham Lincoln.
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