Politifact debunks charge that Obama will "indoctrinate" school children with "socialist ideology"

[jefferson_dem]

Republican Party of Florida says Obama will "indoctrinate" school children with "socialist ideology"

President Barack Obama plans to speak to the nation's schoolchildren on Sept. 8. According to the U.S. Department of Education, the speech will be about "the importance of persisting and succeeding in school," and the department is offering classroom materials to "engage students and stimulate discussion on the importance of education in their lives."

You might think that would be a harmless topic, and that people across the political spectrum could agree on the importance of education.

Not so for the Republican Party of Florida, which released a statement "condemning President Obama's use of taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate America’s children to his socialist agenda."

"As the father of four children, I am absolutely appalled that taxpayer dollars are being used to spread President Obama's socialist ideology," said Jim Greer, party chairman, in a news release.

"The idea that schoolchildren across our nation will be forced to watch the president justify his plans for government-run health care, banks, and automobile companies, increasing taxes on those who create jobs, and racking up more debt than any other president, is not only infuriating, but goes against beliefs of the majority of Americans, while bypassing American parents through an invasive abuse of power," he added.

"The Democrats have clearly lost the battle to maintain control of the message this summer, so now that school is back in session, President Obama has turned to American’s children to spread his liberal lies, indoctrinating American’s youngest children before they have a chance to decide for themselves," he concluded.

The release, which we received via e-mail, told us to click a link to learn more about Obama's speech.

That took us to the U.S. Department of Education Web site, where Secretary Arne Duncan wrote that the speech was about "the importance of education."

<SNIP>

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/sep/02/republican-party-florida/republican-party-florida-says-obama-will-indoctrin/

[Bleacher Creature]

1. The idea that time and effort needs to be exerted to "debunk" this says a lot. NT

[Davis_X_Machina]

2. You can't debunk or refute a theology...

...and what they're up against is a particular application of it, to wit, divine-right monarchy.

Mr. Bush and Mr. Reagan -- white, male, Republican -- possessed the Mandate of Heaven. Obama doesn’t.

The weirdest transformation of political terminology hasn’t been what happened to the word ‘liberal’ since John Stuart Mill—it’s what happened to the word ‘republican’.

They fundamentally do not accept the legitimacy of any government but their own. When one gets in, it's an accident, or even a sign of God's wrath.

When this happens, the one true and Godly response is to work for a rapid transition back to a monarchy, by all necessary means, and hasten the day when the people come to their senses and the King comes into his own again, the glorious day when the good peasants can go back to kissing the whip and the nobles can go back to fighting over preferment and looting the treasury.

Republicans are monarchists. Party like it’s 1599, dudes.