JISHOU, HUNAN — I am now convinced that a certain segment of the US population is now certifiably insane.
I have blogged about parents squawking about teachers who used to be porn actresses, about teachers taking kids to art museum to see statues of nude people, about schools allowing creationism to be taught in science classes, about students talking about God and Jesus in commencement addresses. These concerns are understandable, even if I don’t always agree with the parents doing the complaining. Sex and religion are after all touchy subjects.
But to object to their children hearing the President of the United States talk about the importance of education? I just don’t get it. They must be crazy.
Hey, people! He’s the fucking President of the USA! He won by majority vote. He’s YOUR president. It’s not like he’s Charles Manson or that whacko who held a girl hostage for 18 years in his backyard.
Barack Obama, a guy who rose from a low-income, single-parent family to become the leader of the Free World, wants to talk to schoolchildren on Sept. 8 on the importance of staying in school and getting an education. It apparently worked for him just fine.
Some parents, the kind who hang on every word Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Bachmann, Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin utter, the kind who use WorldNetDaily as their primary source of information, believe, however, that Obama will “indoctrinate” their children into becoming socialists, Marxists, Muslims, or I don’t what else.
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For the last time, no! You cannot listen to Obama’s speech!
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September 4th, 2009 | Tags: conspiracy, crazy people, education, rightwing, schools.obama | Category: Civil liberties, Commentary, Media, Schools, Teaching | Comments (1)