I Pledge.....Obama?

[Ogre]

Playing in a government school near you:

[Argo]

Every damn one of them were lying.  Except for Jason Bateman.  He probably doesn't flush after peeing. 

[Saniflush]

I pledge.  To help lead the revolution.

[ssgaufan]

I pledge.  To help lead the revolution.

My kids are going to miss school next week when this shit is happening.  Fuck this stupid shit.

[Thrilla]

When does this "Pledge" video air in schools?  Surprisingly, some schools here won't be airing his speech on Tuesday that he has scheduled.

Obama will talk, but not all students will listen

Schools decide whether to broadcast; some requiring permission slips from parents

By Alexis Stevens

President Barack Obama wants to tell students across the country about the value of education in a speech on Tuesday.

But not everyone wants students to hear it.

Some area schools have already informed parents that they will not air the president’s speech, which is scheduled for Tuesday. Others are leaving it up to individual schools and teachers.

“He will challenge students to work hard, set education goals, and take responsibility for their learning,” according to the U.S. Department of Education.

But public acceptance of the idea has been mixed. The message is expected to last between 15 and 20 minutes and some Atlanta-area school systems say the speech’s noon timing presents a logistical challenge.

“It’s not a political thing. It’s the president of the United States telling kids to stay in school,” said Keith Bromley, spokesman for Atlanta Public Schools. “He’s the president. He’s not candidate Obama.”

Yet not all parents are convinced Obama will stick to his intended message.

“If it just covers education, then great. The more we can get that message across, the better,” Karen Hallacy, a Cobb County parent, said. “Without an education, they just can’t reach all of their potential.”

The timing of the speech also raises concerns, according to Frank Auman, Chairman of the DeKalb County Republican Party. Though students in Georgia have been in school for weeks now, Tuesday is the first day of school for many students across the country. And a debate on health care reform has communities divided.

“The concern, as far as I can tell, is that rather than being about civics and the presidency, it’s about issues and President Obama,” Auman said.

The state Board of Education said the decision on whether to show the speech resides with the individual schools.

“There is nothing in state or federal law that would require or prohibit a school from showing this speech to students,” according to a statement on board’s Web site.

Ruth Keenan, in her 33rd year teaching, says she was stunned to learn from her school’s principal that students would have to return permission slips in order to listen to the speech.

“I was just so shocked,” said Keenan, who teaches at Booth Middle School in Fayette County. “I have never, ever even heard of getting parental approval to watch a presidential speech. It’s just outrageous to me.”

Obama’s speech won’t mark the first time a president has spoken directly to students. In October 1991, President George H.W. Bush urged students to hit the books harder in a speech televised on CNN. In June 1985, President Ronald Reagan told students at the former Northside High School in Atlanta about his tax reform plan.

In DeKalb County, schools will make their own decision on whether or not to listen to the speech, according to Dale Davis, district spokesman.

The Cobb County school system, like the Fulton County, Cherokee County and City of Marietta districts, is encouraging parents to watch the speech at a later time.

Obama will speak Tuesday at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Va. The speech will be broadcast on C-SPAN and shown via the Internet and will be available to be downloaded after it is delivered.

“If schools decide they want to incorporate the speech into their curricular activities, they may do so on a voluntary basis, provided they notify parents in advance and provide an opportunity for students to opt out of the broadcast,” Cobb Superintendent Fred Sanderson stated in a letter to parents currently posted on the district’s Web site.

In addition to the planned speech, the Department of Education has lesson plans available for teachers to use in their classrooms. But rigorous curriculum in Georgia schools doesn’t allow time for a change in lessons, according to the Fulton County school system.

“Daily instructional time is a precious resource,” according to a memo posted on the Fulton schools’ Web site. “Therefore, schools are under no obligation to watch the address, either through the Webcast or on C-SPAN.

In Cobb, Fulton and Cherokee counties, parents have the option of signing a form to exempt their child from watching the speech, if a particular school is planning to view it. Students will not be penalized for choosing not to listen to Obama’s message, school system officials say.

Gwinnett County school officials did not respond to a request for information about plans for the speech.

In Forsyth County, the speech will not be shown at all on Tuesday, according to spokeswoman Jennifer Caracciolo. Instead, teachers will be able to review the speech and then plan lessons.

“This way, you can frame it as part of the curriculum,” she said.

Allowing students to watch the speech presents a logistical challenge in schools because of the timing, Caracciolo said. In schools with 2,000 students, the noon hour is filled with students shuffling to and from the cafeteria.

Even those initially opposed to the speech are trying to find the benefit of Obama’s message.

“He is the president of the United States and if he can use that position to further education, than more power to him,” Hallacy said.

http://www.ajc.com/news/obama-will-talk-130798.html?cxtype=ynews_rss

[CCTAU]

Whew. That Punky Brewster is hot!

It's great to pledge, just leave the Osama shit out of it.

[Kaos]

Playing in a government school near you:

I pledge to beat the living phuk out of each and every one of these people with a miniature baseball bat.  Now? I just got to find them all.

[Kaos]

[AUTiger1]

As I was watching that I was thinking, I pledge to join the revolution and vote against every fucking incumbent that I can.......It's time for an overhaul.

[Tarheel]

Playing in a government school near you:

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Thanks for posting this video, Ogre.  More Holly-weird garbage that correctly causes revulsion in right-thinking people.  Unfortunately this is the kind of vacuous drivel that can really affect (and indoctrinate) young, impressionable minds. 

I hope you parents are taking note of this message and it's method to reach your child!


Revolution is coming.

[Tarheel]

Kaos, that's one of THE BEST political posters I've seen regarding The ONE.  Nothing infuriates me more lately than these ill-educated Democrats socialists comparing the activist, political right to Nazis.  The National Socialist German Worker's Party was just right of Communism on the political scale (that's on the LEFT to those of you from Tuscaloosa...and Dur'm).  (Didn't the Nazis take over the car industry in Germany too?)

That's not to be confused with true 'Nationalism' which is more to the right of the political spectrum.

Anyway, phenomenal poster!  I'll take the liberty to use it often.


Revolution is coming.

[AUChizad]

This is stupid that people are outraged over the president speaking to children about personal responsibility and the value of an education.

"At damn socialist tryin tell mah kids to read good 'n stuff!!! I ain't lettin my kid see it!"

Ridiculous...

Again, I say, choose your battles wisely. As long as shit like this keeps up the Republican party will continue to sink into oblivion.

[Kaos]

This is stupid that people are outraged over the president speaking to children about personal responsibility and the value of an education.

"At damn socialist tryin tell mah kids to read good 'n stuff!!! I ain't lettin my kid see it!"

Ridiculous...

Again, I say, choose your battles wisely. As long as poop like this keeps up the Republican party will continue to sink into oblivion.

It's called INDOCTRINATION.  I'm sure all the good German families were happy to let their children hear what Hitler had to say, too. 

Obama says nothing most of the time. What's amazing to me is that you'll have some gushing moron talking about what a great speech he just gave but when you ask them to explain what was said, all the loon can do is mumble about how well spoken he was or how well he presented himself or how melodious his voice was.  In the meantime, they go right along with whatever because they don't hear.  They're mesmerized by his personality. 

Heil Obama. 

It is not a presidency, it's a cult of personality.  I don't want my kids exposed to even a single second of it.  Not one.

[ssgaufan]

This is stupid that people are outraged over the president speaking to children about personal responsibility and the value of an education.

"At damn socialist tryin tell mah kids to read good 'n stuff!!! I ain't lettin my kid see it!"

Ridiculous...

Again, I say, choose your battles wisely. As long as shit like this keeps up the Republican party will continue to sink into oblivion.

My KIDS, my FUCKING DECISION about what they do, or do not see, or hear.  I'm also not one of those parents that reads a book telling me how to raise my kids, that was written by some fucker that has no kids.  There's only one book needed to tell me how my kids should be raised and that's the Bible.  I'll bet the "One" doesn't have one in his household.

[AUChizad]

It's called INDOCTRINATION.  I'm sure all the good German families were happy to let their children hear what Hitler had to say, too. 

Obama says nothing most of the time. What's amazing to me is that you'll have some gushing moron talking about what a great speech he just gave but when you ask them to explain what was said, all the loon can do is mumble about how well spoken he was or how well he presented himself or how melodious his voice was.  In the meantime, they go right along with whatever because they don't hear.  They're mesmerized by his personality. 

Heil Obama. 

It is not a presidency, it's a cult of personality.  I don't want my kids exposed to even a single second of it.  Not one.

My KIDS, my FUCKING DECISION about what they do, or do not see, or hear.  I'm also not one of those parents that reads a book telling me how to raise my kids, that was written by some fucker that has no kids.  There's only one book needed to tell me how my kids should be raised and that's the Bible.  I'll bet the "One" doesn't have one in his household.

Scary stuff.

You do know that Bush did this same thing, right? And Clinton. And Bush 41. And Reagan. Any hippie parent claiming the same thing about taking their kids out of school because they don't want their kids indoctrinated with Hitler-esque propaganda would be equally ridiculed when Bush did this.

What exactly is "socialist" about stressing the importance of a good education, hard work, and personal responsibility?

http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/research/public_papers.php?id=3450&year=1991&month=10
http://gothamschools.org/2009/09/04/from-the-archives-ronald-reagans-1988-speech-to-students/

[ssgaufan]

Scary stuff.

You do know that Bush did this same thing, right? And Clinton. And Bush 41. And Reagan. Any hippie parent claiming the same thing about taking their kids out of school because they don't want their kids indoctrinated with Hitler-esque propaganda would be equally ridiculed when Bush did this.

What exactly is "socialist" about stressing the importance of a good education, hard work, and personal responsibility?

http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/research/public_papers.php?id=3450&year=1991&month=10
http://gothamschools.org/2009/09/04/from-the-archives-ronald-reagans-1988-speech-to-students/

When Obama can be upfront and honest with the citizens of America, then I might believe that this is just about education and hard work.  He's the biggest circle talking guy I have ever seen.  And why is he talking about hard work, when he's more than willing to help every lazy bastard in this country? 

[Kaos]

Scary stuff.

You do know that Bush did this same thing, right? And Clinton. And Bush 41. And Reagan. Any hippie parent claiming the same thing about taking their kids out of school because they don't want their kids indoctrinated with Hitler-esque propaganda would be equally ridiculed when Bush did this.

What exactly is "socialist" about stressing the importance of a good education, hard work, and personal responsibility?

http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/research/public_papers.php?id=3450&year=1991&month=10
http://gothamschools.org/2009/09/04/from-the-archives-ronald-reagans-1988-speech-to-students/

The difference for me?  

Reagan, Bush, etc.  They put AMERICA first (allegedly).  I do not trust Obama's motives and I don't want him feeding his agenda to my children.  He's a snake charmer.  

We are rapidly devolving into a culture where the man is more important than the nation.

That video up there?  You know what disturbed me the absolute most about it?  Wasn't that they were asking for people to commit to service.  I support that concept. It was that they were asking them not to commit to service to AMERICA but to Obama.  THAT, my friend, is what's fucking scary.  

[AUChizad]

Yeah, I just watched that video (can't from work), and I'll admit, if they forced kids to watch that, there is some indoctrination in there. And the "I pledge to serve Barack Obama," is a bit much.

This, however, is not what they were playing in schools.

It was this speech.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/MediaResources/PreparedSchoolRemarks/

[Kaos]

You have to see, though, that when you have exhibit A (that video) most parents like me who are socially and fiscally conservative could have a negative reaction before knowing what Exhibit B (his speech) might be. 

There is definitely an agenda being pushed on us.  Maybe it's not Obama's fault, but the media.

I read a recent Time magazine article about the difficulty comics have in coming up for political material now since Obama is just so damn brilliant they can't find anything to ridicule.

I haven't read Time in quite a while and I was honestly appalled at the outright Obama sucking going on in its pages.  It went well beyond agenda and drifted into idol worship territory. 

[Argo]

My 3rd grader didn't watch the video today, nor did any other class in his school. 

Outrage from parents about children NOT seeing it?  None.