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Obama Speech: Don’t Let Him Down Kids

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The White Houe just released the prepared remarks for Obama's newest constituency, your children.

Make no mistake this is part of the grooming process that people like William Ayers, David Axelrod and Saul Alinsky have been promoting for years. This is what Obama means when he says “CHANGE”.

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Oh, and don't forget to wash your hands. It's not like Obamacare is going to take care of you.

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The President: Hello everyone – how's everybody doing today? (Will he pause so everyone can chorus, “Great, Mr. President!”) I'm here with students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia. And we've got students tuning in from all across America, kindergarten through twelfth grade. I'm glad you all could join us today.

This reminds me of the end of every episode of Barney the Dinosaur, where he says, “Hello again, to all my friends! I'm glad you came to play. Our fun and learning never end. Let's see what we did today!”

I know that for many of you, today is the first day of school. And for those of you in kindergarten, or starting middle or high school, it's your first day in a new school, so it's understandable if you're a little nervous.

What strange new feelings you're having, and you must be so self-conscious about them! I'll bet each and every one of you feels like a dweeb!

I don't know about kindergartners, but I should think most middle and high school students would find this unbearably patronizing. Reminds me of those embarrassing old lectures about puberty: “Don't be alarmed if you wake up one morning (boys) or go to the bathroom (girls) to find . . .”

When I was young, my family lived in Indonesia for a few years, and my mother didn't have the money to send me where all the American kids went to school. So she decided to teach me extra lessons herself, Monday through Friday – at 4:30 in the morning.
Oh my Lenin, she HOMESCHOOLED him? Why didn't she send him to the local public school, and demand bilingual teachers and programs to accommodate him?

Now I wasn't too happy about getting up that early. A lot of times, I'd fall asleep right there at the kitchen table. But whenever I'd complain, my mother would just give me one of those looks and say, "This is no picnic for me either, buster."
I'd much rather listen to Bill Cosby's father ranting about how when he was a boy, he had to walk to school every day for 12 miles in a blinding snowstorm—oh, and it was uphill both ways.

So I know some of you are still adjusting to being back at school. But I'm here today because I have something important to discuss with you. I'm here because I want to talk with you about your education and what's expected of all of you in this new school year.

Now I've given a lot of speeches about education. And I've talked a lot about responsibility.
I've talked about your teachers' responsibility for inspiring you, and pushing you to learn.
I've talked about your parents' responsibility for making sure you stay on track, and get your homework done, and don't spend every waking hour in front of the TV or with that Xbox.
I've talked a lot about your government's responsibility for setting high standards, supporting teachers and principals, and turning around schools that aren't working where students aren't getting the opportunities they deserve.
He talks a lot.


Every single one of you has something you're good at. Every single one of you has something to offer.

I know a lot of kids who are good at blowing milk through their noses. Burping is another. What are YOU good at? Write a letter to yourself about what you're good at.

And no matter what you want to do with your life – I guarantee that you'll need an education to do it. You want to be a doctor, or a teacher, or a police officer? You want to be a nurse or an architect, a lawyer or a member of our military? You're going to need a good education for every single one of those careers.

Not for the military! Just ask John Kerry.

I get it. I know what that's like. My father left my family when I was two years old, and I was raised by a single mother who struggled at times to pay the bills and wasn't always able to give us things the other kids had. There were times when I missed having a father in my life. There were times when I was lonely and felt like I didn't fit in.
Here we go again, me me me.

So I wasn't always as focused as I should have been. I did some things I'm not proud of, and got in more trouble than I should have. And my life could have easily taken a turn for the worse.

At long last, it gets slightly interesting. I would've loved to hear him elaborate on that.

But I was fortunate. I got a lot of second chances and had the opportunity to go to college, and law school, and follow my dreams. My wife, our First Lady Michelle Obama, has a similar story. Neither of her parents had gone to college, and they didn't have much. But they worked hard, and she worked hard, so that she could go to the best schools in this country.

Affirmative action helped, I'm sure.

Some of you might not have those advantages.

Like those of you not born into some government designated victim group.


But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life – what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you've got going on at home – that's no excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude. That's no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of school. That's no excuse for not trying.
Darn tootin' that's no excuse. That's what Republicans are for, because they're the ones who cause all that.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No one's written your destiny for you. Here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future.

And if you don't believe that, just check out Doc Brown's little speech to Marty McFly at the end of Back to the Future Part III. He says the same thing nearly word for word. Who wrote Obama's speech--Joe Biden?


If you get a bad grade, that doesn't mean you're stupid, it just means you need to spend more time studying.
But if you vote Republican, that DOES mean you're stupid.

And even when you're struggling, even when you're discouraged, and you feel like other people have given up on you – don't ever give up on yourself. Because when you give up on yourself, you give up on your country.
Of course, the Left never applied this advice to the troops in Iraq during the Bush years. Quite the contrary.

The story of America isn't about people who quit when things got tough. It's about people who kept going, who tried harder, who loved their country too much to do anything less than their best.

Oh, you mean like people who were reviled for "staying the course"? People who don't cut and run and call for an immediate pullout the minute things become so difficult it looks as if there's no way out? You mean those kind of people? Because I don't know what other kind of people you mean.

Your families, your teachers, and I (don't forget me, your president—remember, I WON!) are doing everything we can to make sure you have the education you need to answer these questions. 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. Make us all proud. I know you can do it.

Now everyone stand up and chant, “YES WE CAN! YES WE CAN! HEIL OBAMA!”

Thank you, God bless you, and God bless America.

Wait a minute! He can't say that in a speech to public schools, can he? Isn't that a direct violation of the Constitution that specifically mandates a separation of church and state?

Otherwise, snoozers! At least the original speech would've grabbed my attention and held it, if not for the reasons he intended.

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ROTFL, Pinkie! Your shovel-sharp wit is killing me. Especially the Back to the Future remark.

I would just like to add that...

If you get a bad grade, that doesn't mean you're stupid. Trust me, children, I know what stupid is. Stupid is when a white police officer puts a black racist troublemaker in handcuffs, and that loudmouth happens to be the personal friend of Obama professor Gates, and then Obama calls police stupid, and then the three of them sit and drink beer on the White Huse lawn in front of the cameras - THAT'S STUPID!

I also liked his line,
I'm working hard to fix up your classrooms and get you the books, equipment and computers you need to learn.

Just like in Stalin's days, all children now must chant in chorus: THANK YOU, COMRADE OBAMA, FOR OUR HAPPY CHILDHOOD!

You see, children, it's only through the kind generosity of the government and personally Barack Obama that you are blessed with having books, equipment and computers - not because this country's free market system ensures prosperity and abundance, and certainly not because your hard-working parents paid the hard-nosed government enough money in taxes so that it could spend 10% on books, equipment and computers, while keeping 90% of it for operating expenses and paying off union contractors including the Teachers' Union - and, into the bargain, have the monopoly to indoctrinate you in socialist ideology using special methods developed by Obama's friend, people's educator Bill Ayers.



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Pinkie, that's the best flensing that I've ever read.

My lord but he's a gaseous arrogant prick. More and more I think that Thomas Sowell was right.
Barack Obama has the kind of cocksure confidence that can only be achieved by not achieving anything else.Anyone who has actually had to take responsibility for consequences by running any kind of enterprise-- whether economic or academic, or even just managing a sports team-- is likely at some point to be chastened by either the setbacks brought on by his own mistakes or by seeing his successes followed by negative consequences that he never anticipated.

The kind of self-righteous self-confidence that has become Obama's trademark is usually found in sophomores in Ivy League colleges-- very bright and articulate students, utterly untempered by experience in real world.

The signs of Barack Obama's self-centered immaturity are painfully obvious, though ignored by true believers who have poured their hopes into him, and by the media who just want the symbolism and the ideology that Obama represents.

The triumphal tour of world capitals and photo-op meetings with world leaders by someone who, after all, was still merely a candidate, is just one sign of this self-centered immaturity.

"This is our time!" he proclaimed. And "I will change the world." But ultimately this election is not about him, but about the fate of this nation, at a time of both domestic and international peril, with a major financial crisis still unresolved and a nuclear Iran looming on the horizon.

For someone who has actually accomplished nothing to blithely talk about taking away what has been earned by those who have accomplished something, and give it to whomever he chooses in the name of "spreading the wealth," is the kind of casual arrogance that has led to many economic catastrophes in many countries.

The equally casual ease with which Barack Obama has talked about appointing judges on the basis of their empathies with various segments of the population makes a mockery of the very concept of law.

After this man has wrecked the economy and destroyed constitutional law with his judicial appointments, what can he do for an encore? He can cripple the military and gamble America's future on his ability to sit down with enemy nations and talk them out of causing trouble.
Sowell is always right.

Dear O'Leader is our worst nightmare. A man made by affirmative action who rose by being pretty. Walter Cronkite could call him an empty suit.

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According to this article, apparently Dear Leader took the time to informally chat with a few students before The Big Speech, resulting in this priceless exchange:


One young person asked the president whom he would choose to dine with if he could make only one such selection.

"Gandhi," Obama replied. "He's somebody I find a lot of inspiration in. He inspired Dr. (Martin Luther) King" with his message of nonviolence.

"He ended up doing so much and changed the world just by the power of his ethics," Obama said of the inspirational leader Mahatma Ghandi. At another point, Obama told the students that "a lot of people are counting on me."

Me, me, me!

(Dear AP Writer: Pick a spelling for Gandhi's name, please. May I recommend the correct one over the one preferred by Mikael Rudolph?)

I could have sworn, however, that Gandhi was big on fasting:
<br>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi#Vegetarianism

He abstained from eating for long periods, using fasting as a form of political protest. He refused to eat until his death or his demands were met.

If Obama is so inspired by Gandhi, then maybe he should try fasting until Congress passes his health care package complete with that public option--or until . . .

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I think he meant Gaddafi.

I might be mistaken, so let's not rush to judgment.

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He abstained from eating for long periods, using fasting as a form of political protest. He refused to eat until his death or his demands were met.


If Obama is so inspired by Gandhi, then maybe he should try fasting until Congress passes his health care package complete with that public option--or until . . .
Does this make Michael Moore the Anti-Obamessiah?
We know he's the Anti-Capitalist.
I just can't wait for his new film to open....and bomb like the others.

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Children across the land now know that Obama is nothing but a boring long-winded pompous ass.

I think what Obama really wanted to accomplish wasn't the words of his talk so much but is a conscious effort to slowly instill in children the image of Obama as Papa Obama, their beloved father figure. Or I might be wrong about that, it might all just be part and parcel of Obama being a boring long-winded pompous ass.

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All of the uproar about our Dear Leaders vision for the children of next Tuesday is because of their knuckle dragging flat earth RethugliKKKan parents. It's been 8 mths. - when do the purges start?

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The original version of Obama's speech...

WARNING!

NOT FAMILY-FRIENDLY, NOT WORK-FRIENDLY, NOT SCHOOL-FRIENDLY!
ONLY TO BE LISTENED TO IN PEOPLE'S HEADPHONES

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I think that Dear O'Leader ought to fast until he gets his way. And he can fast publicly on the White House lawn. The Reverend Jesse Jackson can help him fast, and do it the Jackson way.

Jesse would fast, until he was hungry. Then someone else would fast while he ate. Then he'd start fasting again, until he got hungry.

Now that's good fasting. It has the right attitude, doesn't hurt, and some people are stupid enough to take it seriously.

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If you want an idea of how seriously these people take fasting, how deep their hearts are nestled in whatever they believe this week, then check out this link and especially the comments:

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/fasting


I'd rather not tell you what I had to dig through to find it; but I remember it from trolling the IFP and this was where I got the idea to perch on the ledge.

Gandhi was a great leader because he lived what he believed.

These people only pretend to live what they profess to believe. (Hey, look at how the verbs start stacking up!)

At least one moonbat on that link said flat out it wasn't worth doing without publicity.

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I wonder if some of them are dead by now... wait, I'm sure His O'liness raised them from the dead, but then it does not really matter, as they would have voted either way...

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Notice the solipsism that the world gives a shit if they're not eating.

I. Don't. Care. Starve yourself. In 1981 Bobby Sands, a murdering member of the Sinn Fein, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... l">starved himself</a> in protest against the Brits.

I know that the Brits' Corn Laws were horrible to the Irish, and they did ride roughshod over them a lot. But when a terrorist starves himself to death, that's (1) one fewer terrorist and (2) more food for other people, from the moment that he quits eating.


 
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