What Happens to the Separation of Church and State When the State Acts Like a Church?
The new motto of the Obama adminstration seems to be, “Ask not what the country can do for you, rather write down what you can do for the President in a letter and give it to your teacher so that a few months from now she can give it back to you and hold you accountable for not giving the President your all.”
Okay, that’s not exactly the new motto but it is a new motto, to go along with all the others this administration has sprung on us including:
- The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, and right-wing domestic terrorists who want you to get sick and die.
- See the USA in a Chevrolet, but only about eighty or so miles at a time because that’s when the car’s battery will run out.
- Never have so few sacrificed so much for so many and that’ll be true next month when we raise taxes again.
If I were a parent, I’d keep my child home from school on September 8th. Our kids are force-fed enough government propaganda at school about everything from personal hygiene to what food they should eat to whether plastic water bottles will kill their little dog because it doesn’t recycle well. They don’t need the President guilting them into spending their childhood hours on grown-up concerns.
Let the kids be kids, Mr. President. If you can’t get your polls numbers up, then find a new approach that doesn’t involve pressuring little kids into doing your dirty work. Be a man and stop recruiting your little army of progressive scolds from among defenseless and trusting children.
UPDATE: Melissa Clouther has the right of it and reminds us of another child used as a tool by a popular politician.
UPDATE 2: Just so we’re clear, this video showed up in a Utah school two weeks before the President’s Mandatory Assembly Meeting. The video, which is obviously a Barack Obama production, enjoins us to “be of service to our president and all mankind”. That is such an amazingly wrong and un-American sentiment that I can’t even begin to wrap my head around it. We exist to serve our President? Really? And all mankind?
That, folks, is religion and last I checked, we don’t do religion in our schools. If I can’t walk into a classroom and tell kids how they should serve God in accordance with the Bible, then no teacher should be allowed to pop in a video tape that tells them how they should serve Barack Obama in accordance with his websites.
And I guarantee you, if it’s been shown in one school, it’s in a thousand.
(Note: As the story has changed somewhat, so has the post title.)
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Category: President Barack Obama, The Rise of the Nanny State
More personally, the good President's daughters are off-limits. Rightfully so. Why not the rest of the children in the country?
[QUOTE]“Literacy is good. It’s wonderful,” Bush said. “But it doesn’t make you safe from radical Islamic terrorists who want to blow you to little bits. The only thing that can protect you from that is your government, and to constantly live on edge, so you’re always at the ready. But anyway, go on. Keep reading the story.”[/QUOTE]
Bush did no better, in fact I'd say trying to scare little kids with false propaganda to score points is worse than asking how a child can be patriotic to his nation.
swizzle, you realize that's not a real quote, right? It's from a spoof story.
Also, doing volunteer work has nothing to do with patriotism.
"I swear by almighty Obama this sacred oath:
I will render unconditional obedience
to the Führer of the Democrat Reich and people, Barack Obama,
Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces,
and, as a brave student,
I will be ready at any time
to stake my life for this oath."
Come on now…tone down the Hitler stuff. He's light-years from that.
"That, folks, is religion and last I checked, we don’t do religion in our schools."
Your definition of religion is so broad it includes everything. Geometry is a religion in your view (granted, at one time it was). If any person ever expresses an opinion, a fact, or a desire, it's automatically a religion to you. As such, I apparently follow over a hundred religions. Now, I understand why you'd oppose doing anything that might serve mankind. After all, you intend to exterminate all of mankind that doesn't blindly follow Christianity. And I certainly understand why you'd oppose someone telling children to study hard in school. The Republican Party depends on an ignorant populace. If it weren't for people afraid of government running their Medicare and Social Security, the Republican Party would have nobody in it but young white supremacists.
"As such, I apparently follow over a hundred religions."
For the record, I only follow one, And it's not Obamawantstotellchildrentoworkharsdinschoolism. I do encourage every child I meet to study hard in school, but I don't think taht concept is a religion. I just think it's good to encourage children to learn. Sorry about that, but I'll still do it. And if your religion encourages people to not learn, I'm perfectly willing to let that happen. Your people will die away quickly if you oppose knowledge. The Jews figured that one out, and that's why they are the most educated populace in the world. And I say that in admiration. Unlike the Christians and Muslims, the Jewish people are capable of rational thought. Bad sadly, maybe a little too rational to concern themselves with the value of a human life.
Remember during the campaign…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54tjbgJmLFg
Hi!
Please stop complaining about Obama's address to the nation's students.
Instead, please, please, please, tell all your readers to pull their kids out of their local school. If they are motivated at all, then their child will probably have a better education at home, than they will get at their local school.
I encourage ALL parents who are upset/worried/feeling uneasy about the President of the United States talking to their children, to immediately pull your kids out of school.
It is legal all across the country, and in places like Wisconsin, where I live, VERY easy to pull your kids out and homeschool them
God Bless!
cliff
NBO