Obama's Address to Schools

[MUSKYMAN]

you guys are hilarious, how is this any different than GWB's teleconference with students in 91' (oh wait, I forgot, he wasn't a "socialist liberal" )

"day off school"= lame...

I agree Marc, and thats why I said its good and should happen every year. The President is and and should be a roll model. Every year kids in good school districts start with fitness testing and the Presidents physical fitness standards and testing was one of the main reasons this was put in place. I still remember how much that patch meant to me as a young kid and I am sure those initial seeds have contributed to my life long interest in sports and physical activity.

As much as I disagree with the policy of the current administration I still respect the office of the President and understand that this is the President my daughter is comming self aware under. To be so threatened by the words of this administration that you dont even want your child to hear it is admitting defeat as a parent and the power that job affords you. With that power comes responsibility and that responsibility includes teaching them to make good decisions based on the information they have.

 

[Discoinjapan]

Yes, I truly believe you are the biggest douche on Dweb. I have caught on.

You won't play it in YOUR classroom because what is going to be said doesn't fall in line with YOUR political beliefs. That's it mold YOUR students in YOUR own way, Ben.

How about this for a teaching exercise......PLAY it and then let the kids debate what they thought about it. Hmmm... There's a thought. Open debate about different thoughts and views. Oh hell... That would probably be too liberal.

If I had decent teachers that's how my first post would have read..... lol....

 

[Discoinjapan]

'As much as I disagree with the policy of the current administration I still respect the office of the President and understand that this is the President my daughter is comming self aware under "

Musky. atriot:

 

[peter sherman]

I am fine till it gets political or religious or subversive in any way shape or form.

 

[eliaschristeas]

damn you look good for your age

its the Commyfornia - i mean California sunshine....

 

[SGaynor]

Do you have children in school?

Yep, three of them. And they get their political education by being with me and their mom when we talk about the issues of the day (and helping elect local/state officials).

I really don't think a 15 minute speech is going to change years of work (indoctrination) on my part.

 

[SGaynor]

I agree Marc, and thats why I said its good and should happen every year. The President is and and should be a roll model. Every year kids in good school districts start with fitness testing and the Presidents physical fitness standards and testing was one of the main reasons this was put in place. I still remember how much that patch meant to me as a young kid and I am sure those initial seeds have contributed to my life long interest in sports and physical activity.

As much as I disagree with the policy of the current administration I still respect the office of the President and understand that this is the President my daughter is comming self aware under. To be so threatened by the words of this administration that you dont even want your child to hear it is admitting defeat as a parent and the power that job affords you. With that power comes responsibility and that responsibility includes teaching them to make good decisions based on the information they have.

Couldn't have said it better.:applause:

 

[garrett]

Yes, I truly believe you are the biggest douche on Dweb. I have caught on.

You won't play it in YOUR classroom because what is going to be said doesn't fall in line with YOUR political beliefs. That's it mold YOUR students in YOUR own way, Ben.

How about this for a teaching exercise......PLAY it and then let the kids debate what they thought about it. Hmmm... There's a thought. Open debate about different thoughts and views. Oh hell... That would probably be too liberal.

:applause:

 

[2FUELS]

What say you KENNITH????? Please opine!

Lately, I've been living life by WWKD

 

[Drillbit]

What say you KENNITH????? Please opine!

Lately, I've been living life by WWKD

I know what kennith is going to do, he is going to write a 3000 word post. He always does that.

 

[sean]

So what if it is against the parents point of view. Thats just a small part of it. For those that are to dim to understand IT GOES AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION. BO pledged to be a servant of the american people, to have kids pledge to be his servant in wrong on many levels.
As for Reagan and Bush they never asked for the kids to pledge as servants to a wanna be king.

 

[emmodg]

Dear God! When will this pathetic, tiring, ignorant, petty paranoia end?

Fuck guys! It's the President of The United States! It's not Hilter, Mao, Lenin, Trotsky, or Castro! It's YOUR President, maybe you didn't vote for him, (I didn't), but respect the man's freedom of speech! Respect the rights of your children to listen to their President. Sometimes this "Obamanoia" is downright funny, other times it's kinda sad and weird.

As a student I would be more worried/paranoid that my teacher DOESN'T want me to hear what the President has to say! That's just strange:

"Students, today the President of The United States would like to address you; I however don't want you to listen to him so I am not letting you hear him. Now, let's talk about my idea of freedom of speech!"

 

[noee]

^^
Yeah, really. I remember when my eighth grade English teacher took a whole two periods and we listened to The Wall and discussed it, especially "Another Brick in the Wall."

After that, I started smoking pot, eating girls' underwear and never made below a 96 on a test all the way through college.

So, you just never know what kind of impact something like this might have. Bring it on!

 

[2FUELS]

How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?

 

[garrett]

You "walk the line" GOP guys sure are painting yourselves into the crazy corner that you feel the Libs have been trying to do for a while now.

Keep it up. It's rather amusing. Really.

 

[MarkP]

Ok, my take. Let Obama speak. As already noted Reagan and GW1 also spoke to children. The mainstream media has lost control of communications, which is now dominated by Blogs, New Media and Facebook. Even before Obama utters the last sentence his speech will be criticised and dissected.

What has changed? Political Correctness and the outcome of PCness. The political exchange feels like it is becoming more polarized even though each party promises to be less partisan.

Unintended consequences
The Belmont Club

.....One of the most fascinating examples of the law of unintended consequences is Professor John Jackson’s theory that political correctness has driven racism into deep hiding places where it will live forever, completely beyond the ability of anyone to get at it. Politically correct speech eventually becomes so debased that nobody believes it. Ultimately a state is reached where everyone mouths the words but thinks in a language of his own. All connection between public fact and actual truth becomes severed. In the days of the Soviet Union the newspapers would announce progress year by year until finally the whole system collapsed. By the end the only thing you could positively believe in a Party newspaper was the date on the masthead. Everything else you had to infer by inversion.

By converting the public square into a place where lies are mandatorily exchanged (”end of life care”, “hope and change”) on penalty of persecution, the public square eventually becomes a freak show with only a curiosity value. Ironically “political correctness” taken to its limit, will not result in a world of ‘peace and harmony’ so much as one of secret and furtive suspicion. A totally politically correct world will be one completely dominated by conspiracy theories......​

Obama's constant 'speeches' have become a freak show.

 

[Mike_Rupp]

With every speech he gives, his poll numbers drop. Please Obama, keep talking.

 

[jhmover]

Keep talking? Hell, you can't shut him up!

 

[p m]

damn you look good for your age

ROTFL
Beverly Hills does it to you

 

[cptyarderho]

So what if it is against the parents point of view. Thats just a small part of it. For those that are to dim to understand IT GOES AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION. BO pledged to be a servant of the american people, to have kids pledge to be his servant in wrong on many levels.
As for Reagan and Bush they never asked for the kids to pledge as servants to a wanna be king.

I would be curious to see where he asked kids to be his servant. Please cite.