Obama Speech 'Creepy Indoctrination of our Children' vs. My Pet Goat

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Mike Leahy of the Nationwide Tea Party Coalition calls President Obama's student address - 'indoctrination' and uses the national air time to make suggestions that parents everywhere should demand their schools offer optional programs for their children. Kathy Miller of the Texas Freedom Network speaks from the other side about how we should all be glad the President is reinforcing the message to get an education.

However - the media continues to give a national platform to arguments against President Obama speaking to school kids. On one hand, do we need to know. Yes. On the other hand, can the media become a part of the problem by amplifying the voices of one flea on a dog and making it seem like a 'movement'. Yes.

Schuster does make a good point about this being an exercise in demonizing our first African American President, and asks whether George Bush was inciting illegal behavior of kids by reading a book about having a pet goat when goats as pets are illegal in Florida (laughing) but by giving the demonizers the valuable national platform in the first place, are they really pulling a 'bait and switch' by putting it in the spotlight and then saying 'why are we even talking about this?!'

[Voice for Peace]

1. jeez

what a slimeball that guy is

[Why Syzygy]

2. Creepy?

That guy is the godfather of CREEPY. :shivers: I wouldn't let my kid anywhere near that fright.

Now I know why people say the stupid it hurts. They want DVDs provided :eyes:


From his website:
1. Contact the child’s school to find out whether or not your school is participating in the president’s September 8th program.

2. If your child’s school is participating, ask what alternatives there are for the children of families who wish their students learn about the establishment of the country respective to the Founding Father’s intentions. Discussion can focus on the Constitution, the definition and actions of a republic, and the responsibility of elected leaders to their constituents.

3. Ask if the school can excuse your child from the presentation and instead receive a DVD of the address and copy of the activity directives to be evaluated by parents at a later date.

4. Request meeting with the school board, superintendent, and principal to inquire as to why parents were excluded from the decision-making process of this event.

Katrina Pierson, member of the Nationwide Tea Party Coalition, described some of the tools available http://www. hallpassonthat.com: “We will provide alternative lesson plans to the ones initially sent out by President Obama’s Department of Education. Those plans, which people can download from the site, were uncomfortably partisan with no real focus on how our officials serve the people, not vice-versa. Our alternative lesson plans also focus appropriately on the role of parents in the education plan for every child.”

edit.. I broke the link so DU doesn't hit their counter

[bulloney]

17. Why do these people think they know what the founding fathers think

when conservatives have shown time after time that they don't know squat about history. We have an economic meltdown thanks to lack of regulation and oversight over our banks and stock markets and they advocate less regulation. We essentially removed the protections put in place to prevent another economic meltdown from happening after the Great Depression. The Great Depression began under Hoover, who was the third straight Republican president. All three of those presidents worked with a Republican-controlled Congress.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing but expecting different results.

[The Wizard]

3. Just wondering

if the teabaggers are encouraging their kids to yell at the screen during the President's speech, and to disrupt any discussions about the speech afterward. This is their method of imposing insanity on the rest of us.
Dick (Pecker Head) Armey should be ashamed and arrested. No wonder Texas ranks near the bottom in education.
Republican predators prey on the children of the weak minded. It doesn't get much lower than that

[ScottLand]

19. That was my question too.

If they keep their kids home, who's going to yell and disrupt the speech? Sounds like this guy thinks the department of education itself is trying to indoctrinate his kids. Why doesn't he just pull them out permanently?

[GivePeaceAchance]

4. I can't even listen to what the right are up to it's too ludicrous for words. Till they can start...

acting sane I don't want to deal with it. I have to keep this nonsense at a distance for my own sanity.

[DrDan]

5. at least Shuster correctly labeled this slimeball - a blatant racist

[BREMPRO]

6. Mike the creepy finger wagging pretentious tea bagger is a better role model for children

than the president. clearly. I wonder if kids are more ignorant and creepier than Obama's? i'd guess- yes.

Mike the creep kept harping on the old lesson plan- which clearly was just poorly worded and misinterpreted. But of course that doesn't matter to the tea-baggers. They scavenge the pile for any excuse to pull down this president. I love it how the woman from Texas made him sound like an unpatriotic crazy asshole.

Why is it that the MSM gives airtime to these fringe idiots? I guess someone had to fill the wacko space voided by all the disgraced and dying televangelists.

[robo50]

7. One of those states Shuster had on the map was Illinois?

That can't be right! Can it? Has Illinois become hostile to Obama?

Also, why is the media giving this story ANY legs at all? Would they have done the same to Reagan, Bush I? Did they? Of course not!

So even the "centrist" network MSNBC is wasting our time following the hues and cries of nut cases, and actually giving them time to be hear on the tee vee. No wonder Obama is having a hard time on Health Care Reform!

[AlbertCat]

16. wasting our time following the hues and cries of nut cases

They should give it some time...relative to the number of people espousing such notions and then give time to mainstream views relative to their proponents. IOW...3 minutes for the birthers, teabaggers, I-love-my-insurance-company crowd and indoctrination fear mongers and an entire hour to what most people think about these subjects. An hour to explain the history and current ideas about Health Care Reform with a mere mention of the extremists who shout down town halls. An hour on past presidential addresses to school children and their contents and a mere mention of the paranoids afraid of indoctrination. How about an hour on Socialism and what it means, what programs we now take for granted that were called and/or are socialist and how the term's been abused by totalitarian regimes and 1/2 a minute on those who are now also abusing the term.

Instead we have whole segments and specials on a small, small group of loonies.

[robo50]

22. I agree, I think it's not really very "balanced" reporting.

Just make a lot of noise, give the folks with the Tee Vee networks a Photo opportunity, and one has won more attention than deserved.

[blossomstar]

8. This rabid guy was wrong to be on the air

spewing his venom. YES, the media is wrong to give the "flea" a national voice. It boggles the mind.

[davidhilton]

15. agreed...

[NecklyTyler]

9. Right wingers get away with outright insults of the President

They imply the President of the United States is "Creepy" on national television. If one of us had (truthfully) called George Bush a Dry Drunk, we would have been lambasted for it

[newmac]

10. And when bush preached about "freedom being gods gift" that _wasn't indoctrination?

[BREMPRO]

12. Bush crossed way over the separation of church&state line

and indoctrinated children into the controversial belief that they needed pet goats to meet their full potential ;).

[green917]

11. This is about young minority kids

These morons don't want young minority children to have the American dream reinforced for them by seeing an articulate black man speak from a position of authority about them being able to attain any position they want if they study and work hard. These "birthers" or whatever the hell you want to call them are watching the secure, segregated, heterosexual world they've convinced themselves is reality
crumble before their very eyes and it scares the hell out of them.

"What can you do to help President Obama?"...this is what they have their panties all in a twist over. The President wants to get our nation's children involved in their Government...God Forbid! What a horrible travesty for children to actually take some initiative to effect change in their world and get involved in the civics of their nation. These morons have NO concept of what this nation is really about and I wish they would just shut the hell up or turn in their passports and get the hell out.

[BREMPRO]

13. I agree - there are some in the tea-bag movement who are just simply racist and could

care less what his politics were. Obama undermines their white supremacy myth.

[Grassy Knoll]

14. Put your hood back on Mr. Creepy......

I don't want to see your face or your finger,

[Piewhacket]

18. God, that Mike Leahy is creeeeepy. I wouldn't leave him around any children.

I got a weird feeling about this guy.
Anyone check to see if he's a felon or registered sex offender?

I think he should prove he isn't a pedophile by producing certified proof of his
acquittal if he intends to continue as an advocate for children, is all I'm sayin..

[Why Syzygy]

20. A drama ghoul

isn't he.

[DearAbby]

21. I don't know

Maybe it is a good idea to show these people and their insane hatred..most sane people have to be repulsed by this behavior. Mike Leahy came off looking like an idiot. And this is the leader of the infamous TEABAGGERS? Just another kook.

Like with McCarthy there will be a tipping point. They will have gone too far.