Shameful partisans teach disrespect to President in school speech episode
Categories: Education, Featured, Politics and Elections
Written By: Shawn Williams
A couple of years ago, when my son was in kindergarten, George W. Bush was his guy. He enjoyed seeing Bush on TV, speaking from the podium, and handling official business. Maybe it was because the President was speaking in words that he could stand, I don’t know, but he was a self admitted George Bush fan.
“Is George Bush a good President?’ I would ask him. “Yes” he would answer every time. Hard to believe with him growing up in a house with solidly progressive parents, but our son loved him some Dubya.
“Dad have you ever met George Bush?” he asked me while sitting at the table one day. “No son I haven’t,” I said puzzled by his question. “Then why do you always say that he takes your money?” he inquired. All I could do was laugh and shake my head.
It really makes all the sense in the world that our little fella hearted the POTUS. He was born soon after 9/11, and George W. Bush was the only President he had known in his lifetime. He realized -as a student of current events- that
being the President of the United States was the highest honor reserved for an American. He respected the office.
Though I challenged his thinking, I never tried to indoctrinate him, or force my belief that George W. Bush was a sub par President upon him. But that’s not what we’re seeing from the losing team these days. The losing team opposes anything thing the President does, and literally wishes for his failure everyday. And we know at least one pastor who takes it one step farther by praying for his death. Steve Anderson said he wants the President to “die like Ted Kennedy of brain cancer.”
Parenthetically, remember when George Jefferson called up the White House, got mad at the operator and the secret service visited him, thinking he was a threat to the security of President Jimmy Carter. But now I guess it’s OK to say you want the president dead, and think that this man wouldn’t rejoice if someone did take the law into their own hands.
Yes there was a lesson plan for teachers that was to accompany President Obama’s speech, calling on students to write the President and tell him how they would improve the country. Imagine that, a challenge to students to engage in the process of government. The nerve of the President to ask today’s youth to put their thinking caps on.
Critics would rather our kids be like the lady who Jay Leno interviewed recently on the street. Leno asked her “Who lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.?” The woman thought about it but was unable to come up with an answer. He then asked “Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?” “SpongeBob Squarepants!” she replied.
Someone has to stand up to the losers who find any and every excuse to oppose the President. They do in loudly, without shame, and without remorse. It’s easy to sit on the sideline and allow their birther, death panel, socialist, rantings to go unchallenged. But ignorance can’t be allowed to prevail.
Barack Obama won the election. Barack Obama is the President. Barack Obama is black. Barack Obama wants America’s healthcare system to get off the bottom of the heep of industrialized nations and be more efficient. Get freaking over it.
I cannot for the life of me imagine keeping my child home from school because he was going to hear a speech from the democratically elected President of the United States of America. Can’t imagine it. I also can’t imagine being such a sore loser.
Even after President Bush stole….er…won the election in 2000 v. Al Gore, I -like most progressives and liberals- vowed to move on and give the President the chance to show he was willing to work across the aisle with Democrats like he did as governor of Texas. He didn’t.
And here’s President Obama, bending over backwards to placate Republicans when his party has a filibuster proof majority in the Senate. Do you know what President Rove…er…President Cheney….er…President Bush would have done with a filibuster proof majority? I shutter to think. Yet the President gets no reward, no thank you, no atta boy (well let’s hold off on atta boys) for extending an olive branch.
It’s sad to think that not only are loser conservatives hell bent on bringing about the President’s failure, but intelligent, rational, and free thinking conservatives stand by and listen to all the hate speech and partisan roadblocks being thrown out by their brothers and sisters without saying a word. RNC figurehead Michale Steele is afraid to speak around El Rushmo, so of course he won’t denounce the behavior of his faithful. Shame.
I’m sure parents out there feel just as good about their decisions to teach their children to hate the president, and disrespect the presidency, as I do about my decision to teach my son to respect the office. But I can wholeheartly say that any parent who takes their child out of school because they don’t want them to hear from our Commander-in-Chief is doing their child a great disservice.
September 4th, 2009 at 8:59 am
Wow - where do I start?
1. “Even after President Bush stole….er…won the election in 2000…”
Sounds like you were once the “loser” that you so claim to condemn. You’re no different from anyone else - except that you’re on the “winning” team.
2. “I -like most progressives and liberals- vowed to move on and give the President the chance to show he was willing to work across the aisle with Democrats like he did as governor of Texas. He didn’t.”
UH… can you say No Child Left Behind? Passed with the assistance of the recently-deceased Ted Kennedy?
3. “Do you know what President Rove…er…President Cheney….er…President Bush would have done with a filibuster proof majority? I shutter to think. Yet the President gets no reward, no thank you… for extending an olive branch.”
You and I both know that’s a gross mischaracterization of Obama’s short presidency. The reason Obama can’t get anything passed is because the American people are telling the Democrats that we won’t buy the crap they’re selling. If the people were on board, all the Right’s ranting/raving/bitching wouldn’t make a bit of difference. The so-called “olive branch” you describe is a compromise not based in compassionate bipartisanship, but in political necessity. [And yes - if Bush et al had a filibuster-proof majority but tried to pass an agenda that the American people didn't like, the same thing that is happening now would have happened then.]
4. “Yes there was a lesson plan for teachers that was to accompany President Obama’s speech, calling on students to write the President and tell him how they would improve the country.”
Wrong! - it was a lesson plan telling kids how they can “help their president.” Two completely different things. I’m sure you “helped your country” in many written pieces while Bush was in office, even though you may not have been “helping your president.” [Although this should no longer be an issue - Obama finally came to his senses, realized that his study materials were inappropriate, and changed them to focus on students setting short- and long-term goals for their education. And that IS a laudable goal.]
5. “RNC figurehead Michale Steele is afraid to speak around El Rushmo, so of course he won’t denounce the behavior of his faithful.”
Yeah, like all the Democrats denouncing the liberal wing of that party. Oh wait - they’re not.
While I respect Mr. Williams writing in general, this piece is just a partisan hack job against Americans who might actually have better insights into how to raise their children than some loudmouthed columnist.
September 4th, 2009 at 9:10 am
Shawn P, I’d like to address the “shameful partisans”
What a tangled web we weave in these yet to be United States. As I’ve written before, when we were taught to sing the Star-Spangled Banner (and not the Marvin Gaye version which is still the greatest remix of the national anthem ever!) and you know when it says, “. . . O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.” While some of our voices were cracking on the “free” part, it was not obvious that this statement was not meant for all. We could have figured it out by the underlying racial disharmony that’s always been there, but it took Obama’s election to finally see that all this B.S. about “The United States of America has been successful since the beginning because individual citizens have been given freedom to strive to achieve their highest potential. People with the greatest talents in every field of endeavor have been encouraged to create for the common good of all.” REALLY? So why is it that a man with degrees from Columbia University and Harvard Law School and who served as president of Harvard Law Review who obviously has “strived to achieve his highest potential” and who obviously has talent would be so fiercely hated? I wish that Republicans, conversatives, the right, Daughters of the American Revolution, and the Glenn Becks of the world would grow some cahonis and just admit that they can’t stand that an African American man holds the most powerful office on the planet Earth. It would really be refreshing to hear some (in my best Billy Joel voice) “Honesty is such a lonely word . . .”
I admit it’s been disappointing to hear my white friends (Yes, they are still my friends. No one, including me, is perfect.) trip over themselves trying to come up with excuses on why they don’t like Obama and are so terribly stressed by this new President. I crack up when they say, “I would have preferred Condi or Colin” as if to say, “I approve of those Negroes, but this uppity bastard that got elected, I do not approve.” At the end of the day, Obama followed the process that the founding fathers laid out, and he was elected President. Unlike the emergence of Tiger Woods, you can’t just start redesigning the course to make it harder to win. There’s that darn Constitution standing in the way, but you can always amend it. By the way, Obama haters, are you still chasing birth certificates? Suckas!
While I tease the right and the Limbald’s of the world about their cowardice, I have to admit it’s disappointing that we won’t just be able to get along. I think about how powerful we as a nation could have been, but like my four year old daughter, I guess if you can’t be the line leader, you’re not getting in line. Oh well, you win some (sorry, didn’t mean to rub in the Obama victory) and you lose some. I have to tell you like I tell my white friends who just can’t quite figure out why they can’t stand Obama, if the economy makes any kind of a recovery, you’ll have four more years to whine about socialism. Oh, just an FYI. If you think the powerful 1% that own over 90% of the wealth in this country would allow a socialist to become President and take away their financial hegemony over me and you, you gotta stop watching Fox News just so you might expand your mind and as Lawrence Fishburn yells in “School Daze” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 4th, 2009 at 9:27 am
“And here’s President Obama, bending over backwards to placate Republicans when his party has a filibuster proof majority in the Senate.”
That’s complete B.S. He was willing to sign the healthcare reform bill without even reading it first, by his own admission. It hasn’t passed because he can’t get enough Democrats to to vote for it.
September 4th, 2009 at 9:35 am
Shawn, I have recently involved myself with politics quite frankly because I find the hypocrisy on both sides to be entertaining. One question I have for you though is this: Why do progressive thinkers on the radio and in print, such as yourself, seek to denounce their opposition with hateful terms? Terms like, “loser conservatives” and so on. I listen to the liberal talk station in the morning and I have to turn it off after about 3 min. (which are all commercials) b/c I don’t want my children hearing the hate, the disgust and the cuss words (albeit bleeped out). I like to think of myself as progressive and respecting of all people but liberals with a voice are always so vulgar in their speech. You don’t help our cause.
September 4th, 2009 at 9:55 am
It’s hard not to see this ‘issue’ being dramatized with such chest pounding middle-age / middle-aged angst as the sentinel ‘jump the shark’ landmark for the ‘Libertarian’ cause.
Meanwhile a couple of things I posted earlier regarding this silly putty time: A postscript irony to a phenom I witnessed growing up that too few who work too hard to ‘protect’ their kids have yet to learn: that some of the most ‘independent’ thinkers #if not outrageous behavior children# come from families that do what they can to make their children an #indoctrinated?# image of themselves. I could name hundreds, both famous or personal….who grew up to resent and then rebel against the messages they felt forced to tattoo on their psyches. Frankly, that explains the last third of the 1960s. And Jane Fonda to Christopher Buckley.
2) That when I close my eyes and listen, or close my ears and read…. ‘Libertarian’ dialog a la 2009…I am transported intact redux back to 1969-71 (north California et al) communes listening to what was then christened the communist ‘far left’. The militant rhetoric rebel, the simplistic ideas, the lame comments, statements, demands, words, faked or real ‘outrage’…all identical.
The only thing that’s changed is the general age and physical tone of the voicing jean pool. (In those days the people with first graders were in their 20s, their kids’ parents likely their 40s) is that instead of passing the hookah, everyone just forwards that email or links to that blog. Which explains why I left the Far Left burnt out and why the GOP is about to be roasted to a crisp by it’s current crop of self-styled spit-over-flame Chicken Littles.
September 4th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Shawn, when my two daughters get old enough, and they ask me “Daddy, tells us about George W. Bush”.
I am quite sure my answer will be, well … he was the worst President the United States has ever known.
He had no faith in the constitution, he believed in torture, he had a hankering for wars that benefit his friends. We attacked countries that couldn’t possibly attack us, he was stupid on almost every level, and was definitely as you point out, the puppet of Rove and others. He wanted to bail out rich bankers at my expense and never seemed to stop helping corporations over the common man.
I will always teach my children right from wrong regardless if the wrong is the president. Being President doesn’t give you carte blanche to make bad decisions…
That being said, most of the issues I didn’t like Bush for, are the same issues which I am starting to not like our current President for.
Afghanistan? Really? Bring the trroops home now. These countries hate us because we are there, so our plan is to send more troops… there? Thus inspiring more hate. But those pipelines sure are sweet.
The banks, the stimulus, the Federal Reserve? I noticed we kept the wise Ben Bernanke on… the guy who 2 months before the 2nd largest meltdown in our history said “everything is fantastic” fantastic for him and Goldman Sachs I guess. Not so much for us.
The Republicans have Insurance companies, and the Democrats have big pharma, I only have the constitution and the hope that either side would actually read it every once in a while.
Texas can have a health care plan… that is constitutional. The Federal Government should not.
I have a list of free market solutions (that I am sure the Republicans regard as light to a vampire as well) but do you know why politicians don’t like free market solutions? Because there is no one to reward, no one to pad your war chest, no one to get kick backs from.
Both of these groups are so corrupt it makes me sick. My brother always says something that to me rings true.
Obama is Bush.
We need to wake up, before the American Dream is no longer an option.
Louis Farrakhan said it best a few years ago, speaking on the Federal Reserve.
September 4th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
I am a conservative and I agree that position of president does deserve respect, but the president has to give us a reason to respect him. I, as many conservatives did, tried, but Obama has made no effort to uphold the Constitution of the United States and the Christian morals and beliefs upon which this country was founded. Your president’s ideals match those of socialistic countries (not to mention liberal self-centered, selfish people). We don’t care to be socialistic–brave men and women did not sacrifice lives, time, money, etc. for this REPUBLIC another socialistic country. Furthermore, we want the killing of innocent babies to stop; AND marriage was meant to be between a man and a woman, not two men–not two women–and whatever other “unions” self-centered, non-repentant humans want to . God was once the center of this country, and
September 4th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
Heather, you can want whatever you like, but marriage is none of governments business.
It is not the governments business if two people want to get married. Marriage laws came about as a way to keep white girls from marrying black men. The idea that you have to have a liscense to be married is unconstitutional. Thank god that is actually recognized, which is why marriage liscenses are state liscenses.
If your government is in your bed room your government is too big.
If you want to preach from the highest rooftop your disdain for same sex marriage that’s fantastic, (that’s in the constitution too).
The fact is though… any type of federally mandated marriage laws would be unconstitutional, so work on your state, if that’s your issue.
Seems like a a waist of time, considering the bigger fish to fry…. in order:
13 Trillion : The amount of money the Federal Reserve gave banks last year that is still unaccounted for. THAT IS THE GORILLA IN THE ROOM.
12 Trillion: the number they expect the national debt to grow by, over the next 10 years. When we currently pay enough in interest, INTEREST, to pay for the top 1000 cities in Americas total City Budgets… (you know the ones that are going broke now).
1 trillion a year: That is how much we pay to be the worlds police, and maintain our empire. That is not in the constitution. And it does not serve our interest.
1.3 trillion over 10 years, possible cost of the health care plan, which I personally don’t want. Or think we need, I will post some solutions on Monday, that would allow for lower prices.
But it’s funny looking at this list… what is all the uproar about? Health Care… Oh… the one that is 10 times less than the others.
Divide and conquer. Health care, gay marriage, abortion, immigration, pick a side, you have to pick a side. Gotcha!
September 4th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
{And here’s President Obama, bending over backwards to placate Republicans when his party has a filibuster proof majority in the Senate. Do you know what President Rove…er…President Cheney….er…President Bush would have done with a filibuster proof majority?”
if i’m not mistaken Bush had a strong majority in the House after the 2004 election he had a basic mandate to fix social security,but the left shouted it down playing up fears worse than what we see now.
let us not forget what Rahm Emanuel has said about not wasting a good crisis. For the past 2 years the Democrats have controlled the congress. They cold have easily passed whatever they wanted except the blue dogs realize they would be voted out in 2010
Obama speaks of bipartisanship but like most Democracts he talks the walk well but fails to walk the talk
September 4th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
I am a conservative and I agree that position of president does deserve respect, but the president has to give us a reason to respect him. I, as many conservatives,, have tried (and are still trying,) but Obama continues to disappoint us with his lack of effort to uphold the Constitution of the United States and the Christian morals and beliefs upon which this country was founded. Of course, he is not the only president who has failed us–republicans and democrats alike have and continue to fail us, just in different ways. I have to say, though, that Obama takes the 1st place ribbon. His actions are much more intentional, and he has caused a division among America’s people more quickly than any president in our history with his socialistic ideals and lack of belief in good solid American Republicanism. He has an agenda like no other American president has ever had. Then he has people like you who haven’t yet figured out the full agenda. I hate to inform you, but your young son may be smarter than you! At least he supported a president that believed in America. Your president’s ideals match those of socialistic countries (not to mention very liberal self-centered, selfish people). We don’t care to be socialistic–brave men and women did not sacrifice lives, time, money, etc. for this REPUBLIC to become yet another socialistic country. And in case you haven’t noticed, the system doesn’t work–at least not like the system with which we have already been blessed. There is no better system than that of America’s. We just need to do some clean up work. Don’t you understand? We HAVE to keep our Constitution and our foundations alive, or we are not The United States of America. Furthermore, the killing of innocent babies is a really BIG issue to us. What was the very first thing Obama did when he got into office? You didn’t cheer and clap when your president gave conservatives that big slap in the face? He does not support self-control or righteousness when it comes to sex outside of marriage, same-sex marriage, and the God-given built-in CONSEQUENCES to those actions. He is into whatever self-centered, non-repentant humans think they are entitled to because it makes them feel good. . . So, you tell me. Is it weakness or wickedness? These beliefs are addressed in the Bible. It is called “evil” and people who cannot discern between right and wrong are called “evildoers”. Look in a Bible and see where your fate lies. . . Is that fate, i.e., going to hell, worth it for your selfish wants and “entitlements.” ? None of us are perfect in this world, but repentance is the key word. You can do evil and repent, but you CANNOT believe that evil is okay and that you (or anyone else) is entitled to engage in it. So, with that said, if you are a Christian, remember that even if you are not personally engaging in those acts, but you SUPPORT it, then you had better search your heart because that is called being “lukewarm,” and your fate is the same as the evildoer. You can’t have it both ways. . . sorry. If God says it’s a sin, then it’s a sin. We all have to “suffer” by exercising self-control and do our best to be Christlike and then whole-heartedly repent when we mess up. It’s all in the Bible, and it’s black and white–no gray in there at all. It should leave no question in the minds of readers on those issues.
So, there you have it. How can we respect a man who appears to be doing everything he can to destroy the American way of life? No one is totally blaming Obama for where our country is right now. . . it’s just that he is not responding to our situation like an American should respond. Additionally, if he would give some sort of indication that HE respected America, and that he is willing to persevere to uphold our Constitution and our Republic, he would get the respect. He would deserve the respect. Finally, he has to believe in us for us to believe in him. His actions and words are contrary to the American way of life. He has made that very clear in many of his speeches, especially abroad. He is not proud of his country. So how can we be expected to be proud of him?
P.S. Since you don’t seem to have figured out what all the hype is about Obama speaking to our young children in the classrooms, you should do some research into the manner in which Hitler was able to “sway” the minds of the Germans. You might notice some similarities. . .
September 5th, 2009 at 1:49 am
Heather,
I have grown weary of the conservatives…
From the moment McCain gave his concession speech, the conservatives have refused to be respectful to President Obama. The division which you state the president caused was in fact caused by and continues to be stoked by those who lost the election.
The OFFICE of the President is to be respected. You respect him because he was elected. Whether you voted for him or not. Those who have been in the military will tell you that you respect the uniform, not the person in it. President Obama loves this country, but your response that he is, “not responding like an American should” is a euphemism for “I’m still uncomfortable with him because, you know, he’s different. I want him to tell everyone in the world that we are better than everyone else.”
When I hear of the discussion of the Constitution and/or the violation of it, I have to remind people that we have AMENDMENTS. Our forefathers, those crazy guys who ran the native people of their land and who did not include women or people of color in their thought processes, showed foresight because they realized that they could not address everything. Whenever an amendment was added there was always some group scared that the government was “changing America.” The government wasn’t changing; America was changing. If that 19th amendment hadn’t been ratified you and I would be in trouble.
“He is into whatever self-centered, non-repentant humans think they are entitled to because it makes them feel good.” What does that mean? He is the President. It is now his job to parent? Selfish Liberals? You mean because they feel that all should have health care and not just those who are using the socialized Medicare?
Although this country was founded on Christian principles, it is up to me to save my soul and repent no one else. I am responsible for my own actions. Sex outside of marriage…hmmmm. None of your business. You and the government should stay out my bedroom.
The issue of abortion is a big issue for most of us. So is the issue of birth control and so is the issue of taking care of those who are here. Let’s teach our children about sex and the consequences. Abstinence doesn’t work. In case you haven’t heard, Texas leads the nation in teenage girls who have given birth more than once. On more than one occasion, I have heard my Christian friends make derogatory remarks about children born out of wedlock so the hypocrisy is wearing thin.
In most parts of the world, Americans are viewed as self absorbed, rude, arrogant and ignorant. President Obama demonstrated the rest of the world that although we may not always agree with other countries, we as Americans are respectful. We don’t have to pound on the table and let everyone know who we are. You see, it’s like being a Christian. You shouldn’t have to tell everyone you are.
So there YOU have it. President Obama respects this country even though some in this country refuse to respect him. I love the way the name Hitler is thrown around. You might want to add McCarthyism to your research list.
P.S. Get real, the President is not trying to sway your children into doing anything but stay in school, study, set goals and graduate.
September 5th, 2009 at 11:56 am
The hate some people have for the elected President Of The United States. I, like many others am not surprised.
September 5th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
“P.S. Since you don’t seem to have figured out what all the hype is about Obama speaking to our young children in the classrooms, you should do some research into the manner in which Hitler was able to “sway” the minds of the Germans. You might notice some similarities”
@ Heather
Really! Because no other President has ever in the history of America done such a thing.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/200909030020
September 5th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Shameful partisans?
He had no faith in the constitution, he believed in torture, he had a hankering for wars that benefit his friends. We attacked countries that couldn’t possibly attack us, he was stupid on almost every level, and was definitely as you point out, the puppet of Rove and others. He wanted to bail out rich bankers at my expense and never seemed to stop helping corporations over the common man.
And how is Obama different? He’s continued every single GWB policy on law enforcement and the WoT, he’s continuing the same torture policies, and he’s doubling down on Afghanistan. He’s got just as many (underreported for sure, but still uttered) malapropisms, and is as much the puppet of Soros as Bush was of Rove (meaning not a puppet at all, but there is some influence there). He’s bailing out even more rich bankers than Bush and is constructing a health insurance “reform” that does nothing but alleviate “corporations” from their burdens by lowering the quality of everyone’s health care.
Bush wasn’t a great president. He certainly wasn’t a terrible president, and you have to be historically illiterate to call him the worst. Guess what? Neither is Obama, on all three counts. He has strong fascist tendencies that his supporters are almost willfully blind to (note that the lesson plan didn’t call “on students to write the President and tell him how they would improve the country” — it called on students to write and tell him how they could help Obama. It gets more and more difficult for me every day to argue that he isn’t a fascist when he surrounds himself with people who seem hellbent on evoking the same imagery and methods.)
Bush was a good choice only in response to the miserable failures that Gore and Kerry would have been. True to form, Obama is a good choice only in response to the miserable failure McCain would have been. Our government is rotten, from the President, to Congress, all the way down to Don Hill and our constables in SE Dallas. I have absolutely no faith in government at any level any more. That is the sentiment that you are seeing. It isn’t partisanship. It is a contra-partisanship. It’s opposition to both ruling parties.
September 5th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
From the moment McCain gave his concession speech, the conservatives have refused to be respectful to President Obama.
And Shawn is still hawking “selected not elected” which immediately followed Gore’s concession. Grow up, quit crying, and act like you won the election.
September 5th, 2009 at 9:05 pm
RT I agree with quite a bit of what you said. I am glad you want to enforce the constitution. I guess the things is…. making an amendment is not like making a law. And until it’s in the constitution it is against the constitution.
My point being, if you want to do something unconstitutional then you need to amend the constitution. Can we agree on that?
We also have the Bill of rights, (the first 10 amendments) I hope we keep those intact. I am also someone that believes our founding fathers were very bright fellas. I think they tried to make a document that would keep government from becoming corrupt.
That would keep us from too much interference from banks, from the military complex from lobbiest, from foreign intervention, and from ourselves.
It’s a very cool set of papers. I think most conservatives haven’t a clue what they actually mean. Both sides seem to be taking little bites out of it.
I think that since both sides want to shred it…they don’t really mind the other side doing it.
It’s sad… and it’s really sad that someone like Heather chimes in with her religious dogma that espouses the fact that she is really not into the constitution at all.
She probably thinks the wars are necessary.
September 5th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
Enough is Enough……
It’s time for us as a nation to support our President and Commander In Chief. What can he do right? I am so surprised at our actions. Millions of people of all cultures celebrated with him when he became president. What happened?
How long has he been in office?
Citizens what are you upset over?
I have never seen this kind of negativity towards the president of the United States..
I have organized the 1 million luv notes for the president…..
Enough is Enough!!!!
Edna Pemberton
1millionlovenotestoobama@gmail.com
September 6th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
Hey, Guys! Before you slam me for for my P.S. (i.e., swaying the minds of the people/children), do your research! I personally saw the curriculum! Did you? Of course, it was changed on Friday, because they realized that Obama’s presentation was not like those of former presidents. . . and there was an uproar within much of the American population. I have no problem with encouraging children to do their best in school–but no president, I don’t care who he is, will teach my children what Obama had planned.
Now, for the person who responded about marriage. The union of a man and a woman is made before God. . . if it has never been a mandated “law” at a state or federal level, then it is because God sanctifies marriage, not a government (as you said). The government involvement, etc. is taking place because certain people are activists and have made it their mission to sway the minds of people (including children in schools). I don’t care to hear what anyone does in the bedroom, but it makes it difficult to rear children as responsible citizens when people are out there doing everything they can to corrupt the minds of our children and tell them that sin is not sin–and also that they are entitled to special privileges because of their CHOICES and refusal to accept that their actions are sinful. The proper way to address it is not giving in. If we all gave into our sinful ways, can you imagine what our lives would be like?. . . and then think about where we have come from as a nation and where we are headed. Can you see the hand of God becoming a little bit more distant? Ask yourself why is that happening? Read your Bibles and see what happens to nations when they turn from God. It is all there!
September 7th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
I feel so sad for this country. We have sunk to a new low of hatred and racisim. I shudder to think what would happen if I am in a resturant, school or church and disagree with the color of the walls. We have surely lost our way as a people when you can not see how the rest of the world views us and how dumb we must look. This was a crowning moment in history, that we have turned into to some igonorant side show because the majority of clear thinking Americans will not stand up and say……right or wrong this is my country and this is my President and I would fight to the death to defend. I don’t always agree with many things that go on in Washington, however, I have never wished death or harm to anyone. Surely never under the disguise of being a Christian. How do you sleep at night? How do you raise your children with this inability to learn from everyone and everything to be able to listen and develop opinions from debates. We wonder why we are lagging so from behind other countries and cultures. I can remember the Klan and what it stands for and how sad it is that people are so afraid of change. It is all about the dollars and many of the people who are responding to this hate, let them count up the money they have in the bank and think about why the have so little. Then let them answer honestly, did you have any more than you have now 8 months ago? Two years ago? Four years ago? Do you have a job, a college education, your kids? Do you have health insurance? Well, if you had all of those things and the President is preventing you from getting them, then, I would like to join you in your being upset, however, that’s a debate, not cause for such evil talk. Hatred and evilness never helped anything. I know there are people in the world who can not live without hating someone, to them, I say look in the mirror. God Bless, you and yours, God please continue to Bless America and above all, God Bless the President and his family.
September 7th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
President Obama is certainly not the first US President to speak to children in schools. And, he is certainly not the only president to do so without some flack. But, he is the only president to do so that was accused of being un-American, a socialist, and needing to have his words censored. Its a sad day in this Country when the President of the United States must be censored and his right for the freedom of speech denied.
September 8th, 2009 at 9:22 am
When President George H.W. Bush spoke to school children in 1991, in addition to opposing his address, Democrats in Congress investigate his speech actually held hearings on it. Isn’t it somewhat hypocritical of the Left to be upset that conservatives oppose Obama’s speech today?
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/When-Bush-spoke-to-students-Democrats-investigated-held-hearings-57694347.html
September 8th, 2009 at 10:09 am
Maybe if Obama hadn’t hung out for years with anti-white, self-admitted communist lunatics like Reverend Wright and Van Jones, or convicted terrorist bomber and self-admitted communist Bill Ayers, then normal people who are not already Obama-cult-freaks might be more inclined to trust him.
September 8th, 2009 at 10:26 am
Proving that the Washington D.C. political ’silly season’ (as then-candidate Barack Obama christened it) is seasonless.