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totally political
Even my 14 year old picked it up. More free and fair? What country is more free and fair than ours (was)? Your country depends on you nonsense. How about explaining to the children that they need to work hard so they can pay for all the garbage they are passing now? BUT we chose to show this to our children, it was chosen for them by government agents, aka school admin. See? freedom.
thanks
I homeschool our children. I was looking forward to having the boys listen to the President's speech. when I Googled it this morning, I was still getting nothing but hysterical articles. I knew you'd be there for me. Thanks for posting this.
Look Closer
Obama talked about individualism, but promoted the collective. To paraphrase him, "Do better in school, not to help yourself, but to help your country, and in essence help me and the government I'm creating."
They may have blown it...but
They may have blown it.. but Obummer doesn't believe a word that he said yesterday. Personal Responsibility? Freedom? these are NOT what Obama stands for.
Furthermore, when Bush did this, Democrats in the Legislature held investigations. Why didn't Obama talk about putting education back in the hands of parents and getting rid of the Federal Dept. of Education?
I do agree that Obama did a bit of a rope a dope on Repubs.
Obama
is of low moral character and I would not want him addressing my children
Camera training
To my surprise, it looks like Obama could use a little camera training.
He never looks at the camera. The impression this gives is that he's not speaking to the world of kids watching him on TV.
Only to the crowd in front of him.
No wonder some fell asleep.
Given how media-saavy Obama is, this surprises me.
Hope he fixes it before next year's speech!
The speech
The speech was changed, just as the questions were. I wonder what the speech was BEFORE everybody got up in arms over the questions.
The speech WAS changed. I have no proof, but I do have common sense.
O's Speech
I'll bet anything I have that 'The Speech' was changed after so many stood up and said "Bulls**t."
I will wager my left test*cle the original intent of "The Speech" was to help the O sell Obamacare by pleading with the kids to sway their parents to support it.
It was only after the sheep stood up and said "F**k you!" that the O changed The Speech to something equating to 'wash your hands..." or some such sh*t.
Or I possibly could be wrong.
But I doubt it,
not Churchill
It is a great quote but is misattributed to Churchill.
Blah-blah-blah...My 7th graders tuned out after the first few minutes and so did I. Too bad I didn't stick to my original lesson plan, which would probably be more interesting!
Obama's speech to school kids
I wonder if anybody videotaped the speech to see if there was any subliminal messages present.
bad premises
Not only is it not the government's place to "educate" anyone, it's certainly not the president's place to expound on the virtues of education. This is a living testimony to the fact that (as Mr. Boortz consistently reminds us) public school is government school. No one should go to school because their government (or even, for that matter, their country) "needs them," but because they have a desire to know. Obama accepts and condones the great erroneous modern premise of education: that everyone needs it, and that it is for the good of society. The only people who belong in school are those with aptitude and who love knowledge for its own sake.
Hypocrite
Isn't it ironic that this man is addressing the very school system that he is keeping his own kids out of?
It just shows mistrust
When I first heard about the "speech", it was from a mom who was going to pull her kids out of school so they "would not hear from Obama and how dare they ask her children to write to him and offer ways to help him and his agenda". I thought about it and decided my kids could see it. I wanted to know what was going to be said, but I'm okay with the Prez talking to our kids...he was voted in (not by me) and he offers a lot of inspiration to children and he is a great speaker. I don't even care about the "workbook". I would have been happy to help my children offer up advice to Obama...to change his agenda!
All in all, its no biggie to anyone. Frankly, the left and right look bad in this...the right for jumping up and down about it and the the left administration that tried to get it past the right without any planning to their reaction. What is truly shows to me is how unwilling the right is to trust anything that comes out of this administration.
My problem was
when the Department of Education decided to make kids write a letter to themselves and tell what they would do to help prezbo. When they removed that after a few days, I was fine with the speech because I knew there was no way prezbo would politicize it. Neal, why did you not state the original post on the Department of Ed's website?
How about listening to the Children?
Our PrezBO wants the best for our children with a focus on education. So then tell me Mr.O why did you kill the school voucher system in D.C. and deny the most deprived children of an opportunity to excel?
blah blah blah or lie lie lie
if his stinkin' muslim maexist fascist lips was movin'he' a lyin
No they didn't blow it.
We can't wait for them to do something, usually then it's too late.
There were changes, so the speech and lesson plan are now "ok". If people want to think we were reactionary (and it wasn't the Republicans, it was parents) that okay. I don't care. The job got done.
Republican's blew it
The GOP and conservatives need to quit anticipating what their opponents are GOING to do and respond to what they DO. Neal nailed it when he said it was just too easy for PrezBo's speechwriters to modify his speech to students to get rid of anything that smacked of what conservatives were accusing him of; makes us look like a bunch of loons…which we definitely are not.
Still, as innocuous as the speech seemed to be, it WAS political in the sense that he was reaching out to a constituency that already adores Obama, solidifying that adoration. On the surface, it was totally benign. At an abstract level, however, I found it almost as political as predicted, though not in a Marxist-Leninist fashion.
In the end, he accomplished what he wanted - energizing future voters to follow him, while leaving conservatives slack-jawed and with nothing about which to complain.
Just damn.
Lawrence Standifer Stevens
Boortz, you are wrong.
You are wrong to castigate Repubs on this. If you look at the questions that were first released, they were tied to his original speech. After the explosion of parents not wanting this socialist to try to brainwash their kids, he changed his speech to a much more demure, do well in school speech.
Surely, you were just not paying attention, and don't really think the speech that was released was his original one.
Love the show, don't ever stop, makes my mornings go better.
TXL
Speech
Well played sir.
I was disappointed with the way that this was approached, the lesson plans, not giving out a copy beforehand when it was announced, poor execution (which wasn't much of a suprise considering most of the blunders so far) however, I am somewhat pleased with the results.
Addressing the impressionable youth is a touchy subject and I am glad that whether the hysteria of the right, or the shrewdness of the left, were the motivating factors that policy was kept out of the speech.
You make a great argument that this might have been a setup due to the fervor whipped up by the town halls. Well laid trap if indeed it was so.
Hubris aside,(I mean he is a narcissistic liberal what did you expect there..) the content was fairly decent. I can only hope that this is a blessing in disguise that finally some of the youth that support him will go forward and venture to have a brain.With any luck, Churchill will be vindicated with his statement:
“If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.”
I hope as you say that this isn't a setback for the resistance to his policies, however the race card, and now this in their hands may very well give them the 21 on government healthcare.
Hubris 101
I, Me, Me, Mine.
Aren't you impressed with me?
speech to kids
Don't have kids still in school, but watched the prez on Cspan online at work. I'm not a fan of this administration, but the speech was good and decent - 15-20 minutes, non-political, and included points I'd tell my own kids. Thought I'd never say it but "Well done"
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