Sep/09©Chris Farley
The President’s Address to Public School Children
The New York Times had an excellent editorial on Friday about the ridiculous effort of a small but vocal minority of Americans to paint the President’s address to children as some sort of socialist propaganda effort. It is truly sad that these right-wing nuts cannot trust a duly elected president and highly educated individual to deliver what I imagine will be a sincere and thoughtful message about doing well in school and doing good in America.
The response of the American right-wing nutcases does, however, underline one thing for me: Clearly our education system has broken down somewhere because these crazy people on the right appear to be as educated as the first graders they believe will be so harmed by the President’s speech.
Read the editorial here.
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11:10 am on September 7th, 2009
I think people are afraid of what they do not understand, in this case, “socialism”. There are many people who did (do) not understand the ideas behind the health plan that President Obama is advocating. These people are easily swayed by louder voices who distort ideas and concepts to meet their own political needs, and these louder voices have now set their sights on the education talk. (Quite simply, I think those louder voices simply do not like Obama and Democrats, regardless of the initiative against which they rail.)
What I find a bit ironic is that the right-wing distortion pundits are actually practicing an “ism” of their own (fanaticism – “Excessive intolerance of opposing views”), yet the many people who listen to and believe them are pathetically unaware that they are falling prey to being manipulated.
1:58 am on September 8th, 2009
The text has been released and is available at http://www.whitehouse.gov/MediaResources/Prepared... I can't find it in my copy of Das Kapital but I've only looked through the first two volumes so far.
9:52 pm on September 8th, 2009
This whole thing highlights the utter absurdity of the right-wing perspective. The success of their movement relies on misinformation (since it's so incoherent, that's the only way they'll get anywhere: Exhibit A, health care). But preventing kids from hearing the President tell them to be good and study hard? The complete absence of logic is astounding.