About Obama’s September 8th Ground Breaking Speech….To The Children

Some thoughts on President Obama’s teachable moment [more at Bookworm and Michelle Malkin]:

The best predictor of human behavior is past behavior.

Obama will be:

1. Glib
2. Boring
3. Professorish

He will say:

4. One or two outrageous things
5. Mixed in with bland banalities

Teachers will dutifully talk about the glories of diversity. The wonderfulness of the president. The hopefulness of his plans.

Children will want to “help the President” and be “good stewards” and “save electricity” and “save the children” and “study hard”. Well, the last one not-so-much.

The message won’t matter. The fact that the President is speaking to them, unfiltered, with no parent is what I object to.

And I live in the most conservative of conservative school districts. Many teachers don’t even know when they are passing bullshit pap along.

My kids came home from school worried about global warming and the world ending.

Our mind numb society didn’t happen in a vacuum.

Anyway, not everyone agrees with my take–they want to give the President the benefit of the doubt. But I can only predict his future actions on past performances. He has done very well at gracefully talking around a controversial subject and making all who hear it believe he’s agreeing with their take.

Children want to believe authorities. They DO believe authorities. Depending on the child’s developmental level, he cannot discern that a President would mislead. Heck, many adults have been baffled by Obama’s b.s. They are shocked, shocked! I tell you, at how President Obama has presided.

But let’s assume the substance is benign. I still don’t like it. The President being beamed directly to children is unprecedented. It has never happened and for good reason. The authority in a child’s life is his parent. A teacher has a teaching role but it is subservient to the parent.

When I think of leaders going around parents to talk to children, I think of Elian Gonzalez. Over at TheRealCuba blog here’s what it says:

Poor Elian!

For the last six years, after he was forced to return to Cuba to become another slave, Elian Gonzalez had to celebrate his birthday with his real father, Fidel Castro. But now, the Cuban dictator is half dead and unable to attend his young slave’s birthday party.
However, that doesn’t mean that Elian would be able to celebrate his birthday as a normal child. Not in Castro’s Cuba!

Elian, who today became a teenager, still had to “celebrate” his birthday party in the presence of two “viejos cagalitrosos,” the new dictator-in-chief and Ricardo “Watermellon Head” Alarcon.
Can you imagine? A teenager having to salute these two sinister characters on his birthday, after having been forced to do the same with Cuba’s mass murderer for the last six years?
Poor Elian! I wonder if Janet Reno remembered to send him a birthday card.

I don’t want an entire generation of Americans getting a universal message from ANY leader or politician. I want a generation of children to be inspired by big dreams–like going to the moon or exploring Mars. A free country can do big things. A free country, lead by a visionary, can demonstrate greatness. The leader doesn’t have to use empty words.

Let President Obama’s personal example of education, hard work and achievement speak for themselves. It is enough…and it’s very American.

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