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Originally Posted by SSJup81
Maybe that's it then. To me, there's no difference and I wanted you to explain to me how it's different from Reagan or Bush Sr.'s agenda. I felt that the "worry" was uncalled for and unwarranted. If previous Presidents were allowed to address students, why all of a sudden people have a problem with Obama's speech?
One lady I know of didn't want her kid seeing the speech and threatened to take her kid out of school for the day because of that. When asked what the speech was about, she couldn't even answer.
Still, to me, anyone who had a problem with Obama giving a speech about staying in school and working hard to get good grades and the assignment the Dept of Edu gave is still puzzling to me. I guess my problem is that people were pre-judging and I was seeing that through here and other places.
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For me personally, I believe Reagan was the best President of the last century, so I wouldn't mind him speaking. Bush Sr. did get all kinds of flak from Dems when he spoke, including a full-on Congressional hearing.
The lady probably couldn't tell you what it was going to be about because no one knew what it would be about. Yeah, Obama claimed it'd be on staying in school, but the homework assignment originally given out didn't match that claim at all. And many people are feeling like Obama had already fooled them once, with his grandiose campaign promises, and then turned around and governed very differently than he'd promised. (Of course, he'd promised so many different things to different people, he couldn't fulfill them all, they were self-contradictory. Obama pretended to be all things to all people, and then it was impossible to match the hype.) So when he promised an innocuous speech but the homework sounded more like the Hitler Youth loyalty pledges, it brought back images like this (how do these videos play with the left, because the freakin' creep the hell out of most non-leftists, especially the 1st one...) :
YouTube - BARACK OBAMA KIDS AND HITLER YOUTH SING FOR THEIR LEADER
YouTube - Obama Hitler Youth style Brainwashing
So we've already recently seen brainwashed kids singing loyalty songs to Obama like North Korea or Hitler's Germany, and marching in lockstep to him. The song in the first one was put together by a teacher at the kid's school. It is NOT an unfounded concern that he might try something similar on a larger scale, considering the loyalty pledge homework assignment!