Wingnuts Advocate Truancy because Obama is Giving a Nationwide Speech to Students.

[pepperbear]

The usual suspects. I thought they got over the "fear of Obama youth" thing when they found the birth certificate thing was shinier. Wasn't this crap already debunked as merely being an expansion of existing volunteer efforts?

Why, yes it was.

http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/is_obama_planning_a_gestapo-like_civilian_national.html


Parents across the country are rebelling against plans by President Barack Obama to speak directly to their children through the classrooms of the nation's public schools without their presence, participation and approval.

The plans announced by Obama also have been cited as raising the specter of the Civilian National Security Force, to which he's referred several times since his election campaign began, but never fully explained.

"He's recruiting his civilian army. His 'Hitler' youth brigade," wrote one participant in a forum at Free Republic.

"I am not going to compare President Obama to Hitler. We'll leave that to others and you can form your own opinions about them and their analogies. … However, we can learn a lot from the spread of propaganda in Europe that led to Hitler's power. A key ingredient in that spread of propaganda was through the youth," wrote a blogger at the AmericanElephant.com blog, where the subject of the day was a national "Keep-Your-Child-at-Home-Day."

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=108653

[bluestateguy]

1. I should have skipped school the day George H.W. Bush gave a speech to students about drugs

I could have gone to smoke a bowl.

[Davis_X_Machina]

2. We had vote in faculty meeting today..

...on whether you could put Rush on instead.

[ladywnch]

4. dear god, how did the vote turn out?!!!!

[Davis_X_Machina]

5. Not enough of the Rush forces...

...to carry the motion but enough of a stink ('bias') raised that we compromised and the Obama speech is not to be shown.

That Obama is Head of State in addition to the top of the Democratic Party totem pole is lost on these people. I remember remarks broadcast in '89 on the occasion of the Constitution's bicentennial, and no such ruckus. Who was president in '89?

[targetpractice]

7. Public school?

This is amazing to me... I'm 44 and my parents were Democrats... I lived in Delaware, North Carolina, Illinois, and New Jersey while growing up... I was always taught that the President deserved respect and was undoubtedly the Head of State for the US.

I did make fun of Reagan in High School, but... never refused to listen to him speak.

I would think that public schools should be required to listen to him speak.

[Davis_X_Machina]

8. Public. "Too divisive". n/t

[Old and In the Way]

3. Civilian National Security Force?

News to me.

I love a cite that references a wackaloon at FR, though. That's a cred builder right there. :rofl:

[pinto]

6. Yep. Typical World Nut Daily fodder.

:rofl: