"Don Foreman" wrote in message
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On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 13:20:42 -0400, "Ed Huntress"
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"SteveB" wrote in message
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September 8, Obama will be piped into all public schools for a speech.
Probably about how to snitch on their parents.

This is scary. This is sick.

Steve

Damn! Look at this, from Rightpundits.com:

"In yet one more historic moment for this White House, Barack Obama will
hold a nationwide speech for school children. Apparently, The One will
challenge students to work hard, set educational goals, and take
responsibility for their learning. He will also call for a "shared
responsibility and commitment" on the part of students, parents and
educators to ensure that every child in every school receives the best
education possible so they can compete in the global economy for good jobs
and live rewarding and productive lives as American citizens."

Man, if that doesn't scare the hell out of you, what will? The sick
*******s
want our kids to work hard and take responsibility!

How will they ever learn to be a good, upstanding redneck if they listen
to
that? What will become of conservatives?

You're right, Steve. There's some real sickness here. 'Hope you get well
soon. g

Ed, it's scarey because it has some resemblence to Hitler's appeal to
youth in the '30's. Obama does have similar charisma and obvious
tendency toward narcissism, and he has a majority of U.S. citizens in
thrall thus far. You may be among those he has in thrall. I'm not
saying the repub candidates were preferable. They were not.

I have no school-age children but if I did I'd want to vet Obama's
presentation before exposing them to it. I'd regard that as my
responsibility as a parent. I can tell you that parents of young
children I know, e.g. next door neighbors, are reacting similarly.
Said neighbors are educated professionals, not rednecks. Young Wes is
not yet of school age, but if he was his mom said she'd keep him home
from school during an Obama speech to children. I'd call that
responsible parenting.

You might also if you met wee Wes. He is a very neat little boy next
door.

I took some of his daddy's 9mmp handloads to the range today to clock
them. They're mommy rounds, she's permitted to carry. They clocked
about like we expected, good to go for practice ammo.

I'm hardly "in thrall," Don, but neither am I paranoid. Obama is just too
"different" for conservatives. It's clear now that most of them will be
suspicious of everything he does. That's their nature; it's not really about
what he's doing, it's about their perception of who he is, combined with the
way conservatism has made a boogieman of every idea that's not
right-of-center, a phenomenon that's been building since the days of Ronald
Reagan.

Doubtless they have convinced themselves that they're being prudent. If
there were no Boy Scouts and if Obama was promoting them the way Teddy
Roosevelt promoted Scouting, conservatives would say it was the second
coming of the Brown Shirts and that Obama was the next Hitler.

So, carry on. I think it's bizarre that parents are going to keep their kids
home from school because of a talk about education that the President is
going to deliver to them. But a week spent in Illinois a few weeks ago made
clear to me that conservatives haven't emotionally absorbed what's happened
politically over the past couple of years, and that it scares the hell out
of them.

It really doesn't matter now what he says or does. Conservatives are
handloading like the Three Plagues are on the way, and they're holing up,
psychologically. I think it's sad but it's their business, as long as it
doesn't affect me.

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Ed Huntress