Posted by
VBushmills on Thursday, September 03, 2009 7:10:55 AM
Some comment needs to be made about the Obama school speech.
On its face, it's harmless...a shame other presidents haven't done it..at least if you believe in the President-is-our-Daddy rag.
Post-speech we can speak to the posing and preening, the cult of self, and the naked advertising of what is clearly now a very partisan political issue...but maybe none of that will happen. Maybe all he'll do is give them a buss on the butt and send them off happily to school.
Right now the only "news" is how people feel about it. As expected, a lot of parents, a very lot of parents, are dead-set against it....going so far as to either keep their children home or ask they be excused from having to watch/listen to it. And so far schools seem willing to oblige this very same request for parents they have steadfastly denied on the school prayer issue, namely allowing children to be targeted for ostracism for removing themselves from the herd. Apparently Obama's herd is held more dearly than God's (however you conceive Him to be) herd. In fact, we know so.
Parents committees are already gearing up to prevent using tax money to pay for DVD's, which, in our view should be a firing offense.
On the other side, we don't hear from parents who are for it. There is no Obama cheering section at the PTA. That comes from the Obama cheering section of the NEA and state affiliates, as well as local councilmen and women, and board members....the same ones who took the day off for the inauguration. As self-appointed ombudsmen, they do the kids' parents' cheering for them....
....while we continue to do the praying.
Bernard Chumm