Oh sweet Christ.

School Kids Sing For Health Care Reform On Set Of CNN

“Red and yellow, black and white, all are equal in his sight.”

Where have I heard that before…

On September 8th, Barack Obama will deliver a broadcast to every public school in the country. Supposedly, his speech will be about the importance of staying in school and getting good grades, etc. I don’t think anybody would be opposed to those ideas. What has people riled up is the prefunk messaging that the Department of Education has delivered to school administrators.

First off, the email was apparently sent directly to school principles, while superintendents and school boards were kept out of the loop. The people who are supposed to set standards and goals for the districts were subverted.

Secondly, the email contained creepy language, such as:

Before the Speech:

• Teachers can build background knowledge about the President of the United States and his speech by reading books about presidents and Barack Obama.

During the Speech:

• As students listen to the speech, they could think about the following:  What is the President trying to tell me? What is the President asking me to do? What new ideas and actions is the President challenging me to think about?
• Students can record important parts of the speech where the President is asking them to do something. Students might think about: What specific job is he asking me to do?

After the Speech:

• Students could discuss their responses to the following questions: What do you think the President wants us to do? Does the speech make you want to do anything? Are we able to do what President Obama is asking of us?

Extension of the Speech:  Teachers can extend learning by having students:

• Write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president.  These would be collected and redistributed at an appropriate later date by the teacher to make students accountable to their goals.

What the fuck? Is this just a “stay in school” message, or is it something else? What “new ideas” is Hopey McChangerson going to try to “challenge” these kids to think about? And this crap about writing letters to themselves about how they can “help the president?” This is North Korea stuff. Many glories to His Greatness Dear Leader Barack Obama, or something.

These kids are there to learn history, geography, science, to read and write, do math, and think critically. They’re not there to get out their crayons and butcher paper and compose promises to the Lightbringer. If the speech is any more than, “you are our future, work hard, take your vitamins, stay in school,” then there’s gonna be a shitstorm like you wouldn’t believe.

Barack Obama’s friend, terrorist Bill Ayers, has summed up the radical philosophy that Obama believes in. In a speech to Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, he said, “education is the motor-force of revolution.” This is a progressive doctrine, and Obama has not and will not separate himself from these people. Given the opportunity to have his Big Brother head beamed into the mushy skulls of millions of kids, what will he say?

He wants to be their symbol of authority. He wants to be their father figure. He wants them to think of him as the voice or reason and responsibility in their lives. He wants to extend his cult of personality. He’s directly politicized the Department of Education. And he’s taking the unprecedented step of broadcasting directly to the kids, while providing teachers (whose union overwhelmingly supported him in the election) with curricula to present to these kids before, during and after his speech.

Now there’s a movement afoot to make September 8th an unofficial skip day:

Added conservative talk show host Tammy Bruce, in a Twitter feed: "Make September 8 Parentally Approved Skip Day. You are your child’s moral tutor, not that shady lawyer from Chicago." And conservative author Michelle Malkin said the lesson plans have a "heavy activist bent."

Whatever. I just hope he keeps it clean and level-headed. He apparently doesn’t understand that he’s an unpopular guy right now, and a lot of people are growing more and more skeptical of his bullcrap.