"You’ll need the insights and critical thinking skills you gain in history and social studies to fight poverty and homelessness, crime and discrimination, and make our nation more fair and more free."

This is a line from Obarrassing's upcoming speech to school children. All this time, I've been thinking America was the land of the free, where everyone has an opportunity. Again, my foolish patriotic nature has apparently blinded me to the reality of enslavement and discrimination that lurks outside my door. This is the type of thing that, true or not, will creep into your child's thoughts. The more they hear this sort of anti-American propaganda, the more true it becomes in their minds. This is why I'm disturbed by Obarrassing's speech. Sure, it's just one speech. Tomorrow. But with his ego, and his agenda, you can rest assured that there will be more, and each of them will be sprinkled with this kind of suggestive blather. If this were Joe Liberal, sitting on a bus, it would be some guy sharing his opinion. It's not... it's the President of the United States, being pumped into hundreds of thousands of classrooms simultaneously. This is indoctrination, and this is exactly what we don't want.

Here are a couple other gems: "Because when you give up on yourself, you give up on your country," and , "I’m working hard to fix up your classrooms and get you the books, equipment and computers you need to learn. But you’ve got to do your part too. So I expect you to get serious this year. I expect you to put your best effort into everything you do. I expect great things from each of you. So don’t let us down – don’t let your family or your country or yourself down."

Why not just use a little guilt, too? I'm working hard to make it better for you; so gosh, please, don't let me down, Bobby. Or your parents. Or your country. Guilt is a great tool for an ineffective parent, sure to burden a child with a whopping dose of insecurity. Again, combine this with being pitched in a school setting, and you're compounding the problem. I don't really need my child being demeaned by his President.

And despite the actual content of the speech, I was listening to a liberal blogger today on a national radio talk show. He attributed the reluctance of some parents to let their kids sit in on tomorrow's speach to their misgivings about having a black president. The left can't grasp the fact that we can actually disagree with someone's philosophies and ideas without taking their race into account.

Hijacking Young Minds

My child's school superintendent was quite surprised when we expressed concerns over the upcoming forced indoctrination session that Obarrassing has planned. "Why wouldn't you want ___________ to listen?" they asked.

1) My child has an excellent teacher, and I'd rather my child spend an extra hour with her, actually learning, than being primed to vote as a Democrat and having his head filled with nonsense about climate change and socialist utopias.
2) Because it's my job, not Obarrassings, to instill the importance of hard work, education, and community service in my child.
3) Because Obarrassing should have more important things to do than campaign to elementary schools.
4) Because I beleive that roughly 99.73% of his ideas are harmful to our country, our children, and life as we know it on planet Earth, and I don't needed him promoted blindly by the schools.
5) Because my child doesn't "serve the president," it's the other way around. Or at least, it's supposed to be.

Schools need to teach kids about the government, the branches, and checks and balances. We need to teach respect for the office of the Presidency, not blind devotion to a man who's basically a vacuous ego with feet.