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Originally Posted by MMM
The president had nothing to do with the kids singing that creepy song. That's the fundamental difference with N. Korea. If one of the American kids would have messed up there would have been a retake. If one of the N. Korean kids messed up...
Promise? What promise? Ooh? There was a secret speech? When? I would like to more.
That video of school children singing to Obama was new to me. I hadn't seen it before you posted it. I think it is creepy but also know the Obama campaign had nothing to do with it, so what can I say? There are nuts on all sides.
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More and more, I think there are 2 Americas... a red state America and a blue state America. In red state America, that video of the kids was very, very common knowledge. There was a lot of talk about it when it first showed up:
Kids Sing for Change Obama Video | Bitten and Bound
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I found the video quite disturbing, and I find I am not alone in my assessment.
From AOL:
… it is eerie. What on earth are children doing praying to a political candidate? I’m not sure what bothers me most: Is it their glassy-eyed stares? Is it their Children of the Corn-fed good looks? Their hypnotized vibrato-less tones?
From The Washington Post:
Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid
It is possible to criticize one side without endorsing the other, right?
Just to keep things in perspective, take a glance at this vision of our future in Obamaland. All those who find Christian camps terrifying, brace yourselves.
From The Anchoress:
It creeped me out in 2000 when people stood on a streetcorner handing out lyrics and singing songs about how Hillary Clinton was “a human statue of liberty…” who would solve all the world’s problems.
It creeps me out even more to see children exploited – to serenade and “lighten the community” – about Dear Leader Obama, and the glorious “we” who are going to spread “happiness.” Or, more accurately, the glorious “they” who will spread happiness – partly, it seems, through control of media.
Because “spreading happiness,” apparently, is the role of government. Not to protect the shores, build the infrastructure and get out of the way, but to make us “happy.”
This has more than a little whiff of Havana and Moscow about it, sorry.
From Hot Air:
Their music? No, the music came from the people who wanted to indoctrinate these children, and many others, in the faith of the New Messiah.
From Wizbang:
These kids are already being taught to worship Obama as if he were some kind of god. That’s what kids in North Korea, Cuba, Saddam Hussein’s old Iraq, and other totalitarian regimes were taught to do as well. The purpose is if they grow up seeing their leaders as god-like they’re less likely to rise up against them.
From Pajamas Media:
Watching this video has disturbed me more than almost anything I have seen in recent years. It is the kind of exploitation of children that reminds me of Young Pioneer Camps I saw when visiting the Soviet Union in the Eighties.
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Plus all the usuals like Rush, Fox News, and the rest. Yet many on the left are apparently ignorant of these videos, and many, many other things that came out during the campaign. These things, combined with statements from Obama about mandatory service for all youths in America, and creating a domestic force to rival the military, and creating a website where neighbors can rat out anyone spreading disinformation about health care or other issues, and so on and so on, give background context to a pledge for all school children to "help Obama" that you and others on the left, without that context, see as harmless, and don't understand why anyone else could possibly worry about it. If you had the proper context and knew what we know, you might be able to better understand it, or at least see where we're coming from. That's part of my mission here, to bring understanding...