School Daze...Obama Daze

Pretend that it is 2002. President Bush is dealing with the after effects of 9/11, and he decides that he should address all of the students in the United States. He arranges for C-Span to carry the address, and instructs the Department of Education to put the whole thing together, complete with lists of what students should do in preparation for the address telling the teachers to make posters of Bush's quotable quotes. Then the big day comes, and every student in the United States is supposed to watch this exercise in communication.

What do you think the chances that such an address could have happened? Slim to none! But that is exactly what is going to happen next Tuesday. The Great Leader, President Barack Obama, is going to address American public school students either by streaming through the White House web site or on television through C-Span.

The political backlash from the press and education system would be heard on the moon if this were a Republican president. Screams of indoctrination and intrusion in the educational process for political gain would be unending. And if it actually happened, the ACLU would be in court demanding equal time. The bias of the press and the education system is now on full display.

This type of political activity is foreign to the United States. It is not foreign to countries like China, North Korea, the old Soviet Union, Cuba, and Venezuela. It smacks of the cult of personality. President Obama has taken to the airwaves to solve his ills which seem to be piling up by the day. When the reality of life meets with the socialist rhetoric, the rhetoric loses every time. Since he can’t resort to arguments of substance, he continues to rely on his personal charisma to get what he wants. Unfortunately for him, the adults aren't buying the charisma bit anymore, so he is selling it to the kids.

Students are indoctrinated on left wing philosophy and theory from the minute they walk into kindergarten. The teachers pay dues to a union which espouses left wing principles and donates regularly to left wing causes and left wing political candidates. The text books are filled with inaccuracies and revisionist theories and history. I remember my son’s elementary school science book…which was more like an environmental textbook talking about how the earth is going to suffer gloom and destruction. I set him straight after I read that claptrap. What was funny is the text book material was the same when I was elementary school and junior high. Miss Kennedy ran around the room to show how the moon orbits the earth, and the textbooks claimed we would run out of oil by 1980 and be burned up in a carbon monoxide baked world. Oh yes, the earth’s temperature would then drop dramatically, and we would all freeze to death if we didn’t burn up previously.

All kidding aside, Bush the 1st and Ronald Reagan made similar addresses to our students. Anything that can be said to help kids stay in school is a plus. Unfortuanely, America is finally turning Obama off. It is finally beginning to connect the dots with its uneasy feeling of discontentment and concern. He can keep talking…but I am not sure anyone is listening anymore. That is, of course, except for the kids who will be forced to watch him in school and then write letters on how they can help him. Oh well, if it gets too boring they can always text message their friends.

Wait a minute…is that Kim Jong-Il over there?