Not only can I not laugh about this, but it makes me downright angry. It just proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no way you can reason with people like this. These NUTJOBS actually thinks that Obama wants to INDOCTRINATE our children. What. the. hell. Why do conservatives have to read evil intentions into everything our president does? I bet that they would even object if Obama tried to cut taxes for the rich ("Oh he's just so calculating, he's trying to get on our good side so that we all fall in line with his march towards socialism later on.")HOUSTON — President Obama's plan to deliver a speech to public school students on Tuesday has set off a revolt among conservative parents, who have accused the president of trying to indoctrinate their children with socialist ideas and are asking school officials to excuse the children from listening.
The uproar over the speech, in which Mr. Obama intends to urge students to work hard and stay in school, has been particularly acute in Texas, where several major school districts, under pressure from parents, have laid plans to let children opt out of lending the president an ear.
Some parents said they were concerned because the speech had not been screened for political content. Nor, they said, had it been reviewed by the State Board of Education and local school boards, which, under state law, must approve the curriculum.
“The thing that concerned me most about it was it seemed like a direct channel from the president of the United States into the classroom, to my child,” said Brett Curtiss, an engineer from Pearland, Tex., who said he would keep his three children home.
“I don’t want our schools turned over to some socialist movement.”
During the Bush administration, Democrats gave Bush the benefit of the doubt A LOT. We stood with him on immigration reform, No Child Left Behind (well, mostly), going after the Taliban in Afghanistan, blah blah blah. When we opposed him, we opposed him on LEGITIMATE grounds. We opposed the Iraq war - not because we could, but because we had real concerns about a lack of evidence. We opposed his attempt to reform Social Security - not just because we could, but because we didn't want American seniors to be left without a stable income during their most vulnerable years. So here's my question to wingers: On what grounds do you justify your belief that Obama is trying to indoctrinate your children?
This situation is dripping with irony. The only reason that conservatives are worried about Obama's supposed efforts to indoctrinate kids is because conservatives themselves have been indoctrinated to believe whatever a few blabbering idiots says on talk radio.
One more thing. George H.W. Bush held a nationwide, televised address to students in 1991, so stop pretending like Obama's speech has no precedent. Was Bush trying to indoctrinate children? No. Did Democrats even try to suggest that? No.
Hey, conservatives. Your double-standard is showing.
Of course, I'm sure that Obama could bring conservatives on board if he would be willing to incorporate "My Pet Goat" into his address.
UPDATE: So the hysteria comes to middle Tennessee. Sumner County, no less.
