{"id":4620,"date":"2009-09-04T13:45:04","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T20:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/09\/04\/the-paranoid-stylings-obama-is-coming-to-indoctrinate-our-children\/"},"modified":"2009-09-04T13:49:09","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T20:49:09","slug":"the-paranoid-stylings-obama-is-coming-to-indoctrinate-our-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/09\/04\/the-paranoid-stylings-obama-is-coming-to-indoctrinate-our-children\/","title":{"rendered":"The Paranoid Stylings: Obama is Coming to Indoctrinate Our Children"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obama.\u00c2\u00a0 To speak before the children on the day after\u00c2\u00a0Labor Day.\u00c2\u00a0 Horrors!<\/p>\n

Time for all the bloggers to run to Photo-shop and splice together images of Hitler Youth<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0with Obama buttons!<\/p>\n

I mean, the timing of it all!\u00c2\u00a0 Right here, when he’s pushing Health Care!\u00c2\u00a0 And… on the first day of school for many locales.\u00c2\u00a0 One or the other.<\/p>\n

Parents in\u00c2\u00a0Utah<\/a>, Kentucky<\/a> and Texas<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0are keeping their children out of school for the day.\u00c2\u00a0 To boycott th video taped message.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t know what age children will start making these connections, but the connection will be made: your parents are bonkers!\u00c2\u00a0 (Or, I suppose, in the most rarefied of red districts, the students left behind have parents who are Liberal Socialist Communists?)<\/p>\n

There is some manner of historical digging.\u00c2\u00a0 We remember what Bush was doing on September 11, and that was tied directly to promotion of his “No Child Left Behind” policies.\u00c2\u00a0 Reagan took a student’s question and gave his support for Supply Side Economics.\u00c2\u00a0 Apparently.\u00c2\u00a0 I suppose politico digs up something a bit more algined to this “controversy”.<\/p>\n

Obama isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the first president to be criticized this way<\/em><\/a>. O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Neill recalled President George H.W. Bush made televised address to students in October 1991 as campaign season was heating up. A handful of Democrats denounced Bush\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s address as pure politics. Bush asked students to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153take control\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of their education and to write him a letter about ways students could help him achieve his goals, strikingly similar to Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s messages.<\/em><\/p>\n

I don’t remember that speech.\u00c2\u00a0 Will the kids remember the Obama speech?
\nI do think things surrounding the Persian Gulf War trended around the boosterism that Obama is claimed to be pecking out here, treated as the naturally good thing\u00c2\u00a0in stasis.\u00c2\u00a0 I know that in grades higher than I was and probably in locales more liberal than I was in, some students organized a walk-out at the start of the Gulf War… for a conciousness veneer to play hookey, I would say.<\/p>\n

Anyway.\u00c2\u00a0 My message to the Negative Reaction to Obama on this:\u00c2\u00a0 Get a Grip.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Obama.\u00c2\u00a0 To speak before the children on the day after\u00c2\u00a0Labor Day.\u00c2\u00a0 Horrors! Time for all the bloggers to run to Photo-shop and splice together images of Hitler Youth\u00c2\u00a0with Obama buttons! I mean, the timing of it all!\u00c2\u00a0 Right here, when he’s pushing Health Care!\u00c2\u00a0 And… on the first day of school for many locales.\u00c2\u00a0 One […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4621,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4620\/revisions\/4621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}