GA Facebook wingers afraid Obama will indoctrinate their children in speech

I've replaced the actual names with initials but my brother sent this to me and told me "holy crap I've started a facebook war over Obama!"... the funny part is that my brother really isn't very political - he apparently just got tired of the nut jobs spouting off.

I joined in later with more about it but here's what was said before I got there - I've replaced the names with initials and the location is a suburb of Augusta Georgia area - Columbia County.

People responded:

EM: Isn't Tuesday the furlough day for teachers?

MS: No. In Col Cty, we're taking the whole week of thanksgiving off.

MS2: Parents should be given the option of taking their children out of the class if you decide to move ahead with this.

EM: Mike, you might want to let DOE folks know that there's likely to be a bad case of "24-hr flu" in Col Cty schools on Tuesday.

SMT: I hope the decision is NO!! and if so I agree with Mike or we could just go with Emory flu!!

MS: I'd much rather just tell everyone "No". The classroom isn't the place for politics. .

JB: Maybe the kids could have an option of either watching Prez Bo or gathering in the cafeteria and watching ice melt. I am sure that watching ice melt would be more educational.

EM: I have a sneaking suspicion that watching ice melt would turn into a rant about global warming.

LSF: I'd vote for the ice melting!!!!!

DPS: Keep him out of our schools -

JSC: They could watch the "educational" movie Dumb or Dumber... same concept....

DD: A little backward that people, especially educators and parents might censor the President of the USA addressing young American citizens. What are they afraid of? I'd have been thrilled as a student to be recognized as a valued part of our country's future. Maybe some kid will actually pay attention, learn something, or be inspired to become a civic leader themselves. How can that ever be wrong? I didn't vote for the dude but wonder how we're ever going to progress if we don't start respecting election results and supporting our leader?

LSF: its not so much the speech - its the additional curriculum that is suggested to go along with it..... its the ideals that this man is constantly trying to get across & now is aiming at our youth. Take a look at this youtube video and see if it makes you see why this type of thing scares the heck out of me! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOtGr1JFCnE. I'm not saying that this is the kind of thing he condones or promotes...or that this has anything to do with his speech..but all his talk of a "peoples security force" and all of that has some very socialist undertones that I don't feel right about. AND I honestly don't trust him - and i don't want his speech directed at my child until I first have had the chance to see it for myself!

LP: Dean, this is called indoctranation, Hitler, Sadaam Hussien, even now Chavez did this. Could you imagine if George W. would have done this with a particular cirriculum to go with it. Remember the election, the songs by little children singing the praises of Obama. When we see statues erected everywhere, be scared, be very scared.

DC: Dean, you have some good points, but supporting our leader doesn't necessarily include having our children listen to a speech that has no place in the classroom to begin with...

DD: I'd call it inspiration not indoctrination. Since when are ideals a bad thing? Nobody's asking kids to do more than imagine a brighter future. Not so different from Jefferson, Lincoln, Kennedy, or Reagan...if we're name-dropping dead guys. This YouTube post is an overzealous, anectdotal example...not an officially sanctioned communication from our government, or anything official at all. Still, if you listened to their words, these college (not elementary or high school) students say that because of the president they are inspired to become lawyers, doctors, architects, etc. When did any president last inspire anyone? Many kids have good role models in parents and teachers, but wthout hope, the rest will just hang around selling crack and meth to the good kids. Shouldn't we worry about that more? Maybe the answer is to prepare kids to listen to the President with an open mind and then discuss it with them afterward over dinner, instead of censoring it without ever giving it a chance.

MS: Instructional time is very valuable to our schools. At this time, having no indication that this will advance all of our classroom objectives, there are no plans to mandate that our schools view the President's address. That being said, it is possible that some classes, such as Advanced Placement Government, may choose to incorporate this into that day's lesson

SPS: When in the world did Columbia County get so rabid and redneck? Maybe I wasn't paying as much attention as I should have been at Evans High back in 1985! How can anyone claim there is no place for the President of the United States speaking to a segment of his citizens? He's not out to indoctrinate anyone, just include them in a national dialogue that they have a rightful place in. Better to have his address presented in a somewhat impartial, learning atmosphere, than have it presented through the obvious skewered partisan filters that many of the students have to live with on a daily basis. What is everyone really SO afraid of? Maybe a student will think on his own and realize that his parents just don't know quite what they think they do. Heavens, we certainly don't want that!

LP: It is exactly indoctranation. You have not mentioned the cirriculum that goes with this speech. Learning about the United States president is all well and good for goodness sakes look at what this man is doing. His whole life is a clue as to what Obama has in mind. Check out the green czar (whatever that is), he is a self proclaimed communist!!! Is the United States listening?????


DD: the words are spelled curriculum and indoctrination

Well, duh! They figured out that getting all these future socialists to re-education camps would be a logistical nightmare!

Just to stir the pot a little.

fucking fanatics are all full of shit liars. They are nothing but a political cult hiding behind a god. Disgusting, perverted, pathetic and cowardly.

Their representative, Paul Brounshirt, is very representative of these rabid rednecks.

1989: George H. W. Bush gave televised address to students about drug use. http://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/13/us/bush-urges-youngsters-to-help-friends-on-drugs.html1991:

Bush addressed students on importance of education. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1320&dat=19911002&id=dPQRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=T-oDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4247,311009

1) I've told them by making Obama "forbidden" they are going to make him irresistable - like banning the Beatles and Rock and Roll.
2) I've told them that if the kids see their parents acting like nutjobs about this that the kids will vote for Obama out of spite alone.
3) I've told them that they must not have very much confidence in their kids or their parenting skills if they think one 15 minute speech is going to erase a lifetime's worth of upbringing.
4) I've told them it's spelled "citizen" and "religion". Yes that's right, they can't even spell these words correctly.

:rofl:

but then, when they do, they get punished?

It's hard to go from 8 straight years of "He's the President, he's always right!" to "No, don't listen to him!"