Obama’s Silly Season Speech
The Obama White House characterized criticism of the President’s planned speech to America’s school children as ’silly season’. The MSM seems to agree based on most coverage yet no such reaction existed for the 24/7 MSM coverage of the search for the Obama dog. Likewise it is at least humorous that the White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs would refer to anything as ’silly’ given his performance to date. And no review of this topic would be complete without the opposition party response during the Bush Administration. In 1991, then-President George H.W. Bush, a Republican, addressed students live on television, with Democrats at the time complaining the speech was costly political advertising at the expense of taxpayers.
So just how silly is the concern that a speech by a sitting US President to the nation’s school children is problematic?
School districts in at least six states say they will not show the speech in classrooms after objections from some administrators and parents.
The speech sparked criticism after U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan sent a letter to school principals urging them to allow their students to watch. The Department of Education also had material that included a suggestion that students write themselves a note on how they can “help the president.”
Is there a chance that after criticism surfaced about the speech not only did the Dept of Education change their stance but the President’s speech may also have been rewritten once the strategy cat was let out of the bag? C’mon, not like this is as innocent as JFK’s promotion of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness. Which, by the way, would not be a bad choice for a rerun given the torturous frequency of reminders we’re all obese. You can almost hear the President suggesting the silly season response to Gibbs as he simultaneously directs speech writer’s to make a change.
Conspiracy theories on the speech are not in short supply. But how over the top is it to suggest that a President who is in campaign mode by default would work the crowd in the nation’s schools to his political advantage? Given the fact that his campaign strategy is about all that has worked thus far it is not a surprise that he would use the only weapon he has….. talking. And next up would be the same strategy applied to a joint session of the House and Senate. One could argue the former audience is superior to the latter although the academic achievements of either are not stellar.
Stanford Matthews
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Why should D.C. schoolkids listen to Obama? (Michelle Malkin)
September 9th, 2009 at 6:38 am
Let’s not give Obama the luxury of the benefit of doubt that he “hasn’t taken a stance” on vouchers. Yes he has! It’s been loud and clear. He and his Administration, his czars, and left wing nutballs will never support vouchers. That, obviously, would screw up his support base and what will he do when minority kids start to get a good education and rise in the world? He and his cronies are voted out! They’ll see what has been done to them all these years by the Democrats that have had overwhelming power over their lives, especially in the big cities. They’ll actually see that the Republicans have been their real friends all along. He can’t allow that!
September 9th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
Obama is depending on the radical teacher’s union to promote him as the great leader. How many readers realize that the NEA promotes Saul Alinsky’s books on their website? See below.
1. Obama is a union man to the core.
2. Government schools are run by the National Education Association, a teacher’s union.
2. The National Education Association is left-wing so it supports Obama’s agenda
3. Obama applies Saul Alinsky’s tactics.
4. The NEA promotes Saul Alinsky’s books on its website:
http://www.nea.org/tools/17231.htm
5. The NEA has posted this (in my view, anti-American) document on its website [note the tattered American flag!]:
http://www.nea.org/assets/docs/EW-PuttingOurValuesToWork.pdf
When will SOMEONE in the conservative blogs finally take this information and run with it?
September 10th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
I want to go on Glenn Beck. I couldn’t suffer through that propaganda speech! I know i shouldn’t be surprised because liberals always use these tactics. My whole school had been brainwashed by liberals, and they’ve become Obama’s mindless drones! He said that “American kids shouldn’t fail on their nation” but honestly, when he goes out of office, the Union of American Soviet Socialist Republics will be formed! Now i know im only 15, but i really want to go on fox, the only fair and balanced(and i mean every word of that!) newstation in the world, and share my message with America’s children, and i want America to wake up! Its time for the leftist repression to be stopped! I can’t even support Bush or any GOP without getting jeered at- even Ronald Reagan, who was a fine American, and a patriot who brought America out of tough times. If i go on fox, ill show that the left cannot and will not repress America’s youth!