Obama Speech: A Controversy Where None Exists
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The author’s point of view in today’s ridiculous controversy about President Obama’s school speech.
It appears that anything that President Obama does is cause for controversy and criticism. What has happened to our country? Why are we so eager to point a finger at a man that first, is our president – to whom we as a people should show more respect than what we have so far – and second, is an inspiration to our youth, as his achievements demonstrate? The speech that the president gave was one of inspiration, of many truths that our children should hear, because sometimes parents, don’t have the initiative, don’t make the time, or simply do not think that our kids are smart enough to comprehend what is essential to achieve success against all odds, and despite what happens in their life and in their country. We are so eager to point a finger to our President, but we don’t care when our kids are listening to bad rap, watching inappropriate shows, or lacking and just being lazy because parents don’t have it in them to inspire or tell them like it is. We have become a society of overprotected whimps! A society of “deservers” and “entitled idealists” because simply, we don’t want to admit that our problems our ours, our dreams are up to us to achieve, and only us, and that we are the ones responsible for our own future, and not the government. But when the President tells our kids these truths, we are so afraid that our protective bubbles will burst, that we prefer not to hear it.
There is no hidden message, no hidden agenda in President’s Obama school speech. He said what President Kennedy once said to our nation: “Don’t ask what this country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” It is the same message, but in words that or kids can relate to. How come we don’t complain when our kids idolize a sports figure gone sour? Or a Hollywood star gone drunk or high? Where are all the arguments?
Sometimes the truth is hard to swallow. Sometimes we are afraid that our kids will measure us to the words they’ve just heard. Sometimes we fear that they might think that we are not successful enough, or that they see the truth – that we are eager to point a finger but that we should look in a mirror before we do so.
Our President deserves the respect that many others before him have received. It is obvious that this is not happening in this term. I wonder if it is because we are afraid of looking in the mirror.
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It isn’t the fact that Hussein is a giving a speech that is the problem. The problem is with the school activities that Hussein wants the students to engage in after the speech. So that they could agree to: “Obey the president”, “Obey the government”, “Obey elected officials”.
Of course after people saw what was intended the dep’t of education changed the exercises to the ones that they actually handed out.
The other problem that Hussein has is that his true agenda of left wing radicalism, marxism, pro-Jihadism, African liberation theology has been exposed and people just don’t trust him. He traveled the world reaching out to our enemies. He told the world that America is to blame for all the evil in the world today. He obviously does not believe in America. People don’t want someone who does not believe in America talking to their children and telling them that they must obey him. Given what Hussein’s true agenda is and that people are now aware of it I am surprised that the backlash to the planned indoctrination after the speech was as muted as it was.
Hussein also has shown that he is a coward because anytime the American people speak up he retreats. Hence the change to the exercises that Hussein originally planned for the students to the watered down version that was actually released.
I haven’t heard the speech. I do know that children’s minds are very maleable and that it is possible to create a whole new generation of different political thinkers. That’s why I don’t like politicians addressing kids. That’s what we have teachers for.
it is the most nonsense I have ever heard. It is plain silliness. I think the parents have finally lost it. I am ashamed of them all. As much as I despised Bush I would not have had the children be disrespectful to him. the majority elects the president and we should all respect that. If we don’t like him we can vote him out next election.
Haha, I wrote an article too on this, VERY VERY VERY hot topic! I do agree with you. I tend to stay in the middles and express the truths, just one of the things that make our articles very intriguing indeed.
The majority of the people elected President Obama to guide us on a better direction than the previous president that left the whole world into economic-chaos. And I ask myself why don’t we give him the chance to do his work, just because He is doing something different for the well being of all Americans, they called Him radical, instead of supporting him and his new ideas.