Loons should shut up and listen: Obama not out to brainwash schoolkids

[babylonsister]

Loons should shut up and listen: Obama not out to brainwash schoolkids
Mike Lupica - News
Monday, September 7th 2009, 4:00 AM


The woman came across Third Ave. at 115th St., four children holding on to her and each other, the fifth being pushed in a stroller, all of them walking toward the PS 57 Leadership Academy, also known as the James Weldon Johnson School.

The woman was asked what kind of school PS 57 was and smiled.

"A good one, that's what kind," she said. "Pre-K through seventh grade."

There were these bright orange banners on the outside of the school along 115th, the morning wind blowing through them like banners at the ballpark, announcing a "Rigorous Curriculum" and "Scholar Programs" and "Theater" and "Visual Arts." On a bright morning like this, the place about to come alive this week, it was like a shining landmark of the city.

Except that if you have been listening over the past few days to the lunatic fringe, PS 57 and all schools like it, in New York and all across the country, are at great risk now, not because of budget cutbacks or the swine flu, but because President Obama wants to give a speech about education to the nation's schoolchildren tomorrow.

If you want to get a sense of just how haywire the country has gone lately, in less than eight months of the Obama presidency, start here. Start with the crazy people you saw on television this weekend, women actually crying that Obama's plan is really to brainwash her children, like he's invading her kid's middle school because some other President already invaded Iraq.

Of course. Who would want to put their children at risk this way, listening to a success story like this President's, listening to him describe the possibilities of both education and America, talking to them about hard work? But then so much of this comes from the same mouth-breathers who look at a health care plan as some sort of Socialist manifesto, and see opposition to it as a call to arms.

Only in this kind of climate could a traditional speech like this, to be delivered on C-SPAN and via the White House Web site, be seen as a controversy, actually get parents to think they are putting their children at risk by sending them to school tomorrow.

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[BlooInBloo]

1. (shrug) As long as we pretend their geniune issue is "indoctrinating kids"...

or whatever their random-cover-story-poutrage-of-the-week is, they'll just make another up next week, and we'll start all over again, debunking their next random-cover-story-poutrage-of-the-week.

You all are free to play the not-racism two-step game if you like, however.

[orpupilofnature57]

2. When the Gov.of Minn gives Palin kudos and calls the President "Disruptive"

It tells me, that the cure for cancer would be looked on with suspicion.Barrack Obama won and We all on THIS side ,which is what it is ,need to All start acting like it.

[Cha]

3. It tells me the fucking gov of Minnesota

is a man who worships stupid.

[SPedigrees]

4. The vaccine against cervical cancer was greeted with republicant suspicion.

I guess the message to study hard and stay in school, and that the sky is the limit for your personal ambitions here in America, is somehow disruptive. How sad these lunatics really are.