September 9, 2009
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President Obama indoctrinates nation's youth into socialist agenda of hard work, self-reliance, and academic pursuit!!!!
Conservatives/Republicans/the right wing have really gone off the beam on this one. They must learn to pick their battles with this administration so as to avoid coming off as knee-jerk contrarians, though that ship may have already sailed. This is one of the most apolitical, nonpartisan, milquetoast addresses you will ever hear a president give, and people were somehow outraged and threatened to pull their kids from school. Random citizens who opposed the speech were given a forum on the cable networks to explain the reasons for their objections - none of them made any sense whatsoever. 3 questions I wish I could have asked them -
1. Why is your child so weak-willed that a 20-minute address from the president will irreparably indoctrinate him/her into a political ideology?
2. What evidence can you provide me to ensure that your complaints stem from the content/concept of the speech rather than the person giving it?
3. As someone who has spent the last ten years working with teenagers in school and social settings, I have to ask: Are you really so naive as to think that during the course of their day, the most questionable or offensive thing your child will hear will come not from conversations with classmates, dialogue on a reality tv show, or the music on their ipod, but from the President of the United States? He's the one that concerns you? Really?
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