No replies from the mindless followers of O ? (The same folks who leave their '08 election stickers on their cars & think Soviet 'art' style posters of "Mr. Hope & Change" are just terrific.) And what do they think of that Orwellian ad sponsored by the useful idiots that pledge personal alligance to the Great One ? Are they ignorant of history, or just plain stupid in general ?
Republicans have been in an uproar recently over video footage of children at a New Jersey elementary school singing the praises of President Barack Obama. The outrage has been fueled mainly by a constant drumbeat from conservative media. But on Friday it boiled over into the realm of political opportunism when the Republican National Committee sent out a fundraising appeal calling the episode an "indoctrination of our nations... children" and "fanaticism." "Friend," RNC Chairman Michael Steele wrote, "this is the type of propaganda you would see in Stalin's Russia or Kim Jong Il's North Korea. I never thought the day would come when I'd see it here in America." Alas, such "propaganda" has not been limited to despots, dictators and the Obama White House. As a savvy source points out, back in 2006 children from Gulf Coast states serenaded First Lady Laura Bush with a song praising the President, Congress, and Federal Emergency Management Agency for their response to -- of all things -- Hurricane Katrina. The lyrics were as follow: Our country's stood beside us People have sent us aid. Katrina could not stop us, our hopes will never fade. Congress, Bush and FEMA People across our land Together have come to rebuild us and we join them hand-in-hand! The event took place at that year's White House Easter Egg Roll and included roughly 100 children from Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. President Bush, it seems, wasn't in attendance during the song itself. But he was there earlier, when the First Lady read the book, Will You Be My Friend: A Bunny and Bird Story by Nancy Tafuri, to the children. "After the reading," the Wall Street Journal reported at the time, "Mr. Bush asked, 'Did you like this book? Does it tell you about what people can do to help other people, what bird did to help bunny? Be kind to him and give him shelter.'" The weather that day was described as a "chilly rain" which must have seemed appropriate given the fact that the Gulf Coast children were actually thanking the administration for its feeble response to the hurricane. <img src=http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/107389/thumbs/s-BUSH-CHILDREN-large.jpg>
Obama would be a scoundrel if there was never a Bush. Here is another use by comparison of the despised Bush to try to make Obama look good. You are all admitting that judging Obama on his own merits, he is hard to defend and only against a Bush story can you prop up your Dear (post racial)Leader.
I can't remember once that I've heard a liberal defend Obama on his own merits. It's always the case they use a failure to judge Obama against. That's a winning strategy.
the title of the thread is Preaching Obama? School Kids Taught To Sing Prez's Praises, Just Like Nazi Germany. so what would be the point of saying, "Obama is awfully intelligent, charismatic, his policies are helping what seemed a complete economic failure, he has a nice layup, etc., etc., etc." when you can so easily post data indicating that yet again, the previous president had something worse in similar praise sung to him AND from a group that i believe had no reason to be singing to him (or maybe you have other data regarding george dubya's brilliant handling of the Katrina disaster?) this has nothing to do with Obama, just a teacher that is a fan and sure, maybe she should not be influencing the kids' minds in this way but then, neither should the person that wrote the laughable katrina aid song. either way, no need to fear the childrens' song as a beginning of other fascist tenets like nationalism/patriotism, militarism/expansionism (as in pre-emptive wars), banning of abortion, or just carting off the racial and/or sectarian minorities to be boiled down into a new shade of baloney (or maybe the cells' carbon could be used to make coal?). i don't think that will happen under this president but i'm wrong at least once per day (but keep my stops tight so it's usually good
Take it up with the Wall Street Journal you mowron... http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2006/04/17/out-of-the-mouths-of-babes/
What Bush did does not make Obama look good in my view... Let's be honest for a change, eh? You voted for Bush twice and have defended Bush and apologized for Bush for years... On the other hand, I did not vote for Obama and was one of his biggest critics in the primary campaign...just ask Saxon. What I see is the right wing bozos who defended Bush blindly, now attack Obama for many of the same stupid moves... Am I happy with Obama? No. Was I happy with Bush? No. Are those who voted for Bush twice and defended him blindly qualified to relentlessly attack Obama? A reasonable man would say no, as anyone who voted for and blindly defended Bush is devoid of reason and unqualified to judge anyone...until they have their head examined.
Ooooh, the WSJ, the fountain of truth. Didn't see any video proof just some opinion in text. Only a moron or a brainwashed sheep such as yourself would trust that over a video is this day and age. If that happened it would exist but why let a little thing like proof interfere with your mis-guided agenda. LOL@U