Well, every time I take an optimistic position I regret it. Hence, my native skepticism.
Today, my eldest son's middle school called to inform me *at the end of the day* that they changed their minds---now it's up to each teacher in the school to decide whether they were watching Obama's speech, and all of them were, though as parents we have the right to object in writing, and our objections would be respected. Ditto, my younger son's elementary school - the teacher had a nice printed sticky note informing us that unless we objected, they were going to watch the speech because "it is part of the curriculum." So, neither of my sons are going to school on Tuesday. Period. Here are my reasons: 1. The "lesson plans" around his address, though modified slightly, remain. This is total bullshit. 2. I pay the county to educate my children in essentials (reading, writing and arithmetic), not sensitize and indoctrinate them. Some of the middle schoolers in my eldest son's age bracket will be voters in 2012, and this is plainly an attempt to push name recognition for a politician. 3. I don't trust Obama. At all. On any level. He is not who he says he is, does not believe the things he says he believes, and is doing things he has not advertised. He surrounds himself with *evil* whack job "czars" like Van Jones, and John Holdren, Cass Susstein, Mark Lloyd, and Ezekiel Emmanuel, and countless others who represent a dangerous, radical group of sociopaths, and is himself a student of an ideologue (Saul Alinsky) who literally dedicated his magnum opus -- "Rules for Radicals" -- to Lucifer, a book about how to fool the middle class into its own destruction. 4. I don't believe his "academic" credentials. A so-called Constitutional scholar, he is frustrated by the Constitution because it is a list of what the government cannot do, instead of a list of what the government must do. This is his own framing of the issue. A so-called prolific writer, his first book -- "Dreams from My Father" -- is chock full of themes, turns of phrase, anecdotes and writing style lifted almost directly from Bill Ayers' "Fugitive Days". Whether he wrote it or Ayers I don't know, and I don't care. The clear, verifiable connection is enough, considering the pains he went through to deny he knew Ayers well---another demonstrably false assertion. (Incidentally, Mark Lloyd, another of his radical advisers, and an open admirer of Hugo Chavez, co-founded the "Weather Underground" with Bill Ayers... there are so many connections here that the media's failure to vet this lunatic is criminal, IMHO.) His own book exposes his underlying falseness in plain terms -- describing how he lied to his mother about his drug addictions in the same breath as describing how he learned to fool people into thinking he's not got some big chip on his shoulder, and how he acts like a blank screen onto which people can project their hopes and dreams. He is a narcissist, and a liar. Moreover his so called credentials are sealed -- not one grade he earned, or paper he wrote, while in college, is accessible to anyone. 5. The federal government has no goddamn business in the classroom. I opposed Bush's "No Child Left Behind Act" as well (something he co-wrote with none other than Ted Kennedy I might add.). I am going to do two things I really never wanted to do: 1. Buy a gun; 2. Participate in a protest -- namely the Sept 12 Tea Party. Enough is enough is enough. These people must be turned out of office in 2010 and 2012. - Bob _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
