THANK YOU

Gerald Stephens

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?

It seems that what we define as a generation has a reverse image American political culture at large. Politically, we can break down our culture into three roughly equal groups: one third is solidly on the Left, one third is solidly on the right, and one third belongs to the more ambivalent middle. Yet when we break down a generation into groups, the eldest third has much shared identity with those who came just before, the youngest third shares many traits with their younger siblings, and those in the middle are most emblematic of the core definition of their generation.

What Obama seems to be trying to do with his speech to schoolchildren is to put his imprint on the definition of the next generation. Though it is a little less obvious now that his speech has been “recalibrated”, the gist of it remains as, “Ask what your President can do for you, and what you can do for your President.” It may be paranoid of me to think this way, but Obama’s hubris makes him quite capable of overstepping so grandiosely.

I find it interesting that more than half of the group his speech was targeting has no recollection of 9/11, while the other part is going to carry some memory of it to their grave.

What has struck me about her generation is strong ethics. Work hard, love your spouse, save money, raise your kids well, sometimes raise your grandkids too. She had no idea what to do with herself after she retired — at age 79. My grandfather built his own business, doing door-to-door sales on credit to the poor in Little Rock — on all sides of the tracks. Two of his sisters, as well as one of my grandmother’s sisters, were the first in our family to go to college. I always thought it had to do more with growing up during the Depression than the war.

Should have been U.S. government. Obama more and more strikes me as Castro-lite. Castro was/is infamous for using the bully pulpit, if just to hear himself speak; making “grand” speeches to captive audiences. Am I being extreme, sure, a little. But it’s the mindset – the need – Obama feels to make these appearances and in the way he so far has.

Everyone – check out the links. This gets more and more disturbing.

One commenter:
Ha, this will play out exactly as I thought it might. My son adores Obama – entirely from things he’s heard at school. By the end of this, he’s going to think of the dude as just one more boring windbag.
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IMO it is just more of the O’ being Narcissistic than anything else. While the O’ being on TV nearly all the time is very creepy in a 1984 way, the reality, to me, is that he does think the POTUS is “the dear leaser” who should be in on everything anyone does and a glaring example of why “lefty liberals” need to be shoved to the dustbin of history before they cause anymore damage than they already have.

Then, as I thought some more about recruitment, it hits me with a Homer Simpson moment. DUH! My daughter is almost fifteen, she will be turning eighteen during 2012. She’ll miss being able to vote by a few months, but she is the exception. Most of the students that are fifteen will be able to cast their first vote for President in the 2012 election! And who is the only person who will be running that they have seen in school? Yep, a smack in the forehead.

Sure, Obama wants to recruit at all levels, but this is a direct effort to peel off first time voters. The same voters who he promised he is working on getting new “FREE” stuff like computers and supplies so they can excel and follow their dreams. (Read the text of the re-done speech. One can only wonder what the original draft looked like.)

Talk about a direct marketing effort. Billy Mays would be struck dumb in amazement. How many captive members of this audience will he put his face in front of? According to the one report I looked at- over sixteen million. Sixteen million!! Sixteen million half paying attention, all confused about life, rebellious, looking for a reason for living, easily persuaded kids who will see one person who claims to understand and care for them. And lucky for them, he is running for President in 2012 again! Wow! Time to make a change, to make a statement, and vote your future. Students are the key to revolutions. Their numbers, raw energy and ease of manipulation are great assets to have when challenging the status quo.

Chavez has to be going “Darn, I wish I had thought of that! Thing would have gone smoother.”

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/venezuela/090130/students-lead-opposition-hugo-chavez

I’m sorry, I violated my own rule on this one. I forgot to always look through the prism of “How do they stay in power” before looking for other motives. I thought maybe this was about recruiting ideologues to the cause, but that only serves a small segment of the radicals. No, Obama and his crew are about power and robbery. They want the power as long as they can get it in order to be able to rob this nation blind. It is and always has been about them “getting theirs.”

Again, sorry.

http://truthandcommonsense.com/2009/08/23/why-socialize-america-lets-play-the-agenda-game/

Obama is taking an entire cohort of schoolchildren who, since they have no children of their own, do not yet understand the love and sense of responsibility that comes naturally to most parents. These kids cannot be swayed yet by the “we need to do this for our grandchildren” argument, so Obama comes to fill the gap with his ersatz “we need to do this so the president will say nice things about us” argument. To me , that is creepy.

Second, this whole “striving for generational excellence”, which seems to have started with the “Greatest Generation”, is a modern conceit, and it has grown tiresome. There is a focus on Generational Achievement nowadays that borders on obsessive. A Generation is now perceived as a homogeneous mass with distinct boundaries in time, and it must rise as a whole to achieve some great task or right some great wrong. I hit the “Previous Channel” button every time I hear the sound of Bono crooning, “Every generation gets a chance to change the world” in some commercial, because the fact is that every “generation” does not get that chance, nor does every “generation” want or deserve that chance.

It is interesting that the two generations you refer to were war generations. Most people are content to live uneventful lives free of cataclysm. They have no itching, burning desire to change the world. They are content to be responsible and self-reliant, raise their children and look out for their neighbors.

In the end most people are not concerned with what any person will say about them, but what God will say.

“When people ask, “how can you object to the President urging kids to stay in school,” I ask them what they’d think if I stopped by their house one night, uninvited, to tell their kids how to behave.”

I tell people that I would not allow anyone I do not trust (who has proven to be utterly untrustworthy) to address my children.

This is turning out to be a wonderful teaching moment.

It will be a long conversation and plan laying to enforce this mess.

I came home from NC late last night to find that my children’s school will be showing the speech today. I found out through their website. No opt out notice, no alternate plans, no notice period. They attend a PRIVATE school.

I sent a blistering email to the Head Master of the school. I am so livid. Needless to say, I will be picking my children up at noon to take them to lunch and to the library to get books on the Constitution and The Federalist Papers.

Disloyalty to a liberal means not supporting specific policies of a liberal politician. Not showing a particular liberal politician the deference the left wants him/her to have. Challenging particular policies of a liberal politician. Engaging in lawful acts that challenge the domestic political agenda of that politician.

The left, being vulnerable on the issue of patriotism, has co-opted the concept, and re-defined such that it now can be used as a weapon for their statist agenda.

http://www.surgeusa.org/actions/sept8.htm

That evening, “Get Schooled: You Have the Right” launches on all Viacom networks. The related website pushes lobbying of governors for the Obama education agenda. It also leads into related social networking sites on Facebook and Twitter to create a channel for communicating directly with any kids and parents who are drawn into this. That creates plausible denial to get around legal constraints on White House lobbying activities – but many of those governors will be up for election in 2010, and many teachers and school administrators have been very reliant on federal stimulus funds recently to save their school budgets and jobs, with more money still in play.

btw…. the lesson plan crap was over the line…. even for a sleazy administration