Help, My President Is Trying to Inspire My Children! A Parent's Desperate Series of Tweets
The following is a series of increasingly desperate tweets for help this parent was forced to make during this frightening Labor Day weekend:
Help, an employed Harvard graduate and family man is trying to inspire my children!
Officer, I think I just spotted a former community organizer loitering near my public school!
Police, hurry! I scared I'm about to witness an attempted act of leadership! What kind of evil monster wants to try and have a teachable moment right in front of innocent school child?
Run for your lives -- runaway official actually attempting to improve things! Come right now -- I'm petrified that the leader of the free world wants to send my boys to health care reform school!
Please get here right away! If we let this thug try and inspire our kids, next thing you know he'll wanna dig us out of massive big hole created by a prior administration!
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The right wing nuts will do anything to try and belittle Pres Obama. To them, he is not 'their' president. They are living in an alternate states not the united states. I still cannot believe that these people would rather this country be lead by the likes of s palin and have her be their childrens role model and not a harvard educated, knowledgeable, fair man--oh, thats right he is a black man so now I get it. PLEEZE!! I wish these people would all move to Alaska!!!
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Alaska is still America, right? Sorta?
Help! - The Beatles
You're the Inspiration - Chicago
Bad LeRoy Brown - Jim Croce (a menacing guy from Chicago?)
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
...oh wait-
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Very funny
The only explanation for the Rabid Right's furor over the President's address to the nation's schoolchildren is...drum roll...drum roll...drum roll......
Racism.
Yep. I said it. Played the race card. Didn't want to do it, but did it anyway because it's true. Racism. That's what it's about. It's Republicans ginning up their know-nothing tobacco-spitting slack-jawed base over a Black Man with a Muslim Name daring to speak directly to their children and offer them advice as if he were actually better than them.
I guarantee a big component of all this hoopla is just that. Good ol' boy, garden-variety racial hate.
See, I was raised in The Delta and I know it when I see it, even if it might not come with a banjo sound track and a Southern accent.
Come on Republicans. We need a functional second party courageous enough to promote ideas and criticisms based on fact and logic and love of democracy, not fear, bigotry, hate, and religious mumbo-jumbo.
STEP THE #$%& UP, Republicans. Use your energy to build up, not tear down. Are you for this country or not?
Decide.
No! Don't say they are racist. Say you *believe* they are racist. It's an entirely different thing. And totally okay to say. I heard that somewhere.
Why MikeyMike? Haven't you had enough mealy-mouth?
Amazing how a TRADITIONAL speech given by numerous sitting Presidents from BOTH parties has suddenly turned into such a controversy. The gist of both Bush & Obama's speeches are the same yet only Obama's has been so vilified? Only Obama's address has parents threatening to keep kids home and likening it to "socialist indoctrination"?
WHY??
While there was a SMALL few on the Dem side that protested Pappy Bush's address in 1991, they didn't act with this vitriol the way the far right is doing. And the right wingers are irrationally VICIOUS about it. This has gone BEYOND civil discourse. Its war.
And because of the likes of Beck & that Florida jacka$$, it has become an insane national movement. Something all the right wingers that hate Obama with a red-hot racist fever, can rally around yet again. They made them BELIEVE that it was yet another of Obama's "conspiracies". Like dogs trained to attack at certain words, all the likes of Beck, Hannity, Coulter, etc have to do is utter certain "attack phrases" and their hair bristles, the teeth bare and they're in full attack mode. Its too late for them. They've drunk the kool-aid, love the taste, keep going back for more.... I
ts up to us, the ones who know we're seeing this from the rational perspective to make dam sure we outnumber them at election time so we can keep this edge...Because God help us if they get back in.
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This is all about deep seeded racism and it makes me sick to my stomach. I had no idea that all of this would come out when Obama was elected. Unfortunately we have some serious issues to deal with and all of this is a huge distraction from honest discourse about the direction this country should be headed.
You don't mean to tell me..no, it couldn't be...are you trying to say,,, that he expects our children to actually listen, synthesize information, and apply knowledge? Are you serious? Aren't critical thinking skills for communists --or, socialists-- or trotskyites-- or, the damned French?? Stay in school? Work hard? Don't worry if you're poor and your homelife is in the tank because Obama's was too and look at him he made it all the way to POTUS!??? How radical can you get? What's next? Maybe the First Lady will visit the school and show us how to plant a sustainable vegetable garden. Can you imagine that? My children might be eating arugula! Next, they'll want library cards and visits to art museums, maybe start listening to Thelonius Monk and John Coltrane.. Maybe they too will follow POTUS to Harvard, and become communists, too...
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Well said Sportswoman. How DARE the President try and help us -- and even our children?
Your kids will be OK. Just keep a close watch in the event that they start insisting on mustard instead of ketchup on their burgers...
;-)
David : Am very gratified and glad to see you active in this comments section. My comment is. LOL
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Thank you dmyron, I'm sitting here facing a few more hours of writing work tonight, and you just made me very glad to be hanging here in Huff Po-land.
Have a great night.
Obama is a bad, bad role model. Kids start listening to him and, next thing you know, EVERYBODY wants to become President of the United States. Is that the kind of goal we really want our children to set for themselves?
This should have been the response when Bush spoke to the kids.
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Who will ever forget the time President Bush spoke to children on 9/11?
Frankly, though, I think it's great than any President tries to reach out to young people and inspire them in any positive direction.
Here's what has really gotten to me about all the hysteria. If one speech could truly "indoctrinate kids then there would be no teem pregnancy, no underage drinking, no drugs in schools, no gangs, etc., etc., etc.
Although I will say that I'm starting to understand irrational hysteria. Because these fanatics are really starting to scare me with the vehemence of their ignorance and bigotry. Hopefully it won't drive ME to extreme paranoia.
Glenn Beck works for Fox News. Enough said. There's the lie. The fact that they put "news" in their title is the lie.
If I were a kid, and I were forbidden to hear a speech, I would make SURE that I got a hold of said speech and carefully scrutinized it. Maybe the effect will be similar to banning a book! (You know, then everyone wants to read it...)
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Wow, how did a President encouraging learning become forbidden fruit?
Excellent. That is how stupidly ridiculous they sound.
But, then again, they are for the most part, racists.
i agree. It's very interesting how of all the pundits psychobabbling about how the crazies, which Wild has so aptly described, are all the fault of our POTUS not being a strong enough leader. rather than just acknowledging the truth which is that the Beck's and Limbaugh's have just whipped the K.K.K&friends into thinking they are living their worst nightmare having a blackman as POTUS.
The President of the United States of America should get respect. He is our Commander in Chief, and he is our leader. He has a good heart, and he is trying to do good things for the people who live in this great country.
If anyone cannot see this, they are spiritually blind. By thier fruits you will recognize them.
If you believe that it is ok to spend billions on war machines and foreign aid, but do not believe that we should do anything to help our fellow countrymen and countrywomen, your priorities are backwards. Give it any label or name you wish, but please have some compassion for your fellow Americans.
Tell that to the new guys he's sending to Afghanistan. I guess they're freebies? What about 2 billion to Brazil for offshore drilling? By their fruits, you will recognize them. These politicians all bear the same fruit.
You are right about the new guys going to Afghanistan.
I was talking about domestic issues not foreign affairs.
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I appreciate you taking the time to make that point spikebu. I confess that though I am inclined to support our President as much as possible right now, I do worry when I find myself agreeing with George Will on foreign policy issues.
First of all, the war in Afghanistan was started by the Bush Administration. If it were deemed safe and expedient to summarily withdraw the U.S. from that conflict, I believe that President Obama would do it.
Unfortunately, we have ongoing security obligations to the Afghan people, and the realities on the ground, as articulated by the military brass, dictate that we cannot just pack up and leave right now.
Second, where were you when it was revealed that Sarah Palin was wrong in her accusation that the President was sending $2 billion to Brazil for "offshore drilling"? And since when did the President seize unfettered power to control the actions of the U.S. Export-Import Bank and its transactions? Oh, yeah, he didn't.
That was great!
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Thanks I think
The people who keep their kids home from this day of school will sit gloating with their children on how "they showed that Obama he can't mess with their kids". All the while not realizing that they missed the entire first day of school. Some of the kids will ponder this, I know I would have if I was over 12.
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Good point, what on earth do kids make of this stupidity?
I would imagine there are fewer doers than talkers. Surely these people realize their kids will be singled out as "different" for not beong able to hear the President. They will wonder what is wrong with themselves and their imbecilic parental units.
I'll be leaving for work in a few minutes -- teaching English to high school juniors. I'll fill you in this afternoon.
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