Conservatives Protest Obama's Nefarious Plot to Have Schoolchildren Learn Things in School

[marmar]

via AlterNet:



Conservatives Protest Obama's Nefarious Plot to Have Schoolchildren Learn Things in School

By Jamison Foser, Media Matters for America. Posted September 4, 2009.

It has come to this. Right-wingers are telling children to skip school as a protest against Obama's encouragement of students to stay in school.




If there is anybody out there who still doesn't believe that the conservative media will attack President Obama no matter what he does, consider this: Right-wingers are telling children to skip school as a protest against Obama's encouragement of students to stay in school.

I know, I know. You think I'm kidding. Or exaggerating. That I'm caricaturing the conservatives' position in order to make them look ridiculous.

Wrong. They defy caricature. There's nothing you can imagine that is too crazy for these people to say. They'll claim Barack Obama was secretly born in Kenya (his birth announcements in Hawaiian newspapers were just one part of an elaborate, decades-long conspiracy involving Kenyans, the media, Hawaii's Republican governor, and the Stonecutters). They'll say he has a diabolical plan to create government "death panels" to kill off the old and the young. They'll claim he is building a secret private army (consisting of -- I swear I am not making this up -- AmeriCorps and Peace Corps volunteers) that is "just as strong" as the U.S. military so that he can "seize power" and create a "thugocracy."

And when President Obama delivers the least-controversial message you could possibly imagine -- "Stay in school" -- they call it "indoctrination" and an attempt to "get 'em while they're young," warning, "They are capturing your kids" and "your republic is under attack." .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/story/142409/conservatives_protest_obama%27s_nefarious_plot_to_have_schoolchildren_learn_things_in_school/

[FSogol]

1. If Obama told all the conservatives not to jump off a cliff, would they?

:shrug:

Great article, btw.

[Beetwasher]

5. LOL! Oooh, That Would Be A Great Experiment!

Obama: "I encourage all my political opponents to stay alive! Please, whatever you do, do NOT drink drain cleaner, do NOT run around in the middle of free ways and by all means please, I beg you, as a personal favor, don't blow your heads off or slit your wrists as Michelle Bachman is asking you to."

[spanone]

2. this is one sick fucking nation...imho

[marmar]

3. I agree.....I've about had it.

nt

[smoogatz]

6. It's not the nation--it's a small but very noisy contingent of wingnuts

enraged by racial hatred and stirred up by the right-wing corporatist money boyz through the likes of Hannity and Beck. Like the poor, these idiots are always with us; it's the ugly American political underbelly, same as it ever was. They did the same thing when FDR was president, and he pretty much told them to go fuck themselves--which is exactly what Obama should do.

[FSogol]

11. +1 They appear as a large group due to distortion by the media. n/t

[FSogol]

4. Kick and recommend. n/t

[Froward69]

7. OOOOH that socialist message of

staying in public school and going to the Library.

I wish Obama would tell the republicans NOT to shoot themselves in the head...

[PA Democrat]

8. Better to tell them you can become president if you are a C student

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARUz21X1JDk

[smoogatz]

9. If your daddy and his daddy before him were billionaires

you can do any damn thing you want in this country! Woo hoo!! Go, USA!

[PA Democrat]

12. Yep that "C" stands for cronyism!

[smoogatz]

10. Obama: "Water is wet."

Wingnuts: "OMGOMGOMG WTF????!?!?!?!!!1111 Water being wet is socialist talk for commie fascist ideas about, uh, stuff!!!1!1 OMFG!>!?!?!!1 Hide the childrun!!!1!1/??!!1"

[Skidmore]

13. Meanwhile, our school district just spent $5M to install astroturf on the football field

at the new high school while cutting the rural school's librarian to 1 day per week.