President Obama School Speech Text…Where Is The Indoctrination?
September 7, 2009
The bluster over this matter of President Obama’s speech to school children shows me…..all of us…..that there is just not a lot of common sense with those who call themselves conservatives. This blather over the speech has been one of the most ludicrous and shameful displays by those who lost the 2008 election of anything we have yet seen. This action by conservatives should be a lesson to our nation’s youth. Do No Be A Sore Loser!
Here is the text of the President’s Speech.
Would someone point out to me where the indoctrination occurs?
A portion of speech is below.
And no matter what you want to do with your life – I guarantee that you’ll need an education to do it. You want to be a doctor, or a teacher, or a police officer? You want to be a nurse or an architect, a lawyer or a member of our military? You’re going to need a good education for every single one of those careers. You can’t drop out of school and just drop into a good job. You’ve got to work for it and train for it and learn for it.
And this isn’t just important for your own life and your own future. What you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this country. What you’re learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the future.
You’ll need the knowledge and problem-solving skills you learn in science and math to cure diseases like cancer and AIDS, and to develop new energy technologies and protect our environment. You’ll need the insights and critical thinking skills you gain in history and social studies to fight poverty and homelessness, crime and discrimination, and make our nation more fair and more free. You’ll need the creativity and ingenuity you develop in all your classes to build new companies that will create new jobs and boost our economy.
We need every single one of you to develop your talents, skills and intellect so you can help solve our most difficult problems. If you don’t do that – if you quit on school – you’re not just quitting on yourself, you’re quitting on your country.
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Very inspirational speech I loved how he aimed for our kids of today to plan for tomorrow, its not giving them political empowerment or guiding them in the wrong direction as the media portrayed but its giving them hope that through all the struggles and storms you may cross you will come out the hero In the end way to go Mr. President.
The George W. Bush way!
I’m waiting for the headline – “Congressmen ask schools for air time to rebut President’s remarks. Plan to make a case for dropping out and exploring drug use option.”
Have you seen the black helicopters?
Come on F.G.!!
The conservative wing-nuts that follow Beck and Rush and think that every issue is one they should run with regardless of how baseless and irrational it is only leaves the rest of us with nothing other than laughter.
I feel that a good robust debate is one where both sides are grounded in some facts. But to pretend that the speech was in any way, as the wing-nuts described it, makes the folks on my side wonder how gulliable you think we are. That is why there is snickering and if that bothers the conservatives than perhaps that can be a teaching moment. I think the GOP needs to cherry-pick their issues better. I also think that the GOP needs to learn to think for themselves. Listening to wing-nut talk radio and FAUX News does not serve for illuminating anyone.
As to the racist point, I very much think lots of the reaction to the Obama White House from the likes of Dick Armey etc. is all about the skin color of the President. You should read some of the comments I get on this blog that are numbing when one considers this is America 2009. Racism is very much alive and born out by the display over A SPEECH TO SCHOOL KIDS AS THE NEW YEAR BEGINS! There can be no other explanation to such an innocuous event.
Obama has a track record of lying about his agenda and has a track record of indoctrinating youth. Have any of you seen his storm troopers and their prepared propaganda? If the speech was so benign then why wouldn’t they release it last week? Are they going to try to tell us he hadn’t written a speech before Monday? Of course it was written last week, and it was rewritten over the weekend and sanitized. The propaganda was removed so they could accuse the people that rightfully objected to the content not being released of over reacting. Anyone who doesn’t believe they rewrote this is a fool.
I am tired of demonized and being called a racist by the Huffington Post, Keith Blowhard, CNN, etc for protesting this administration’s attempts to socialize America. I have been to two tea parties and a Townhall meeting and the attempt is to vocalize that this administration is taking us in entirely the wrong direction fiscally, socially and morally and it is my right, my obligation as an American citizen to dissent and I will continue to do so.
I agree that so much of what is happening since the swearing in is due to racism, pure and simple. There just is no other way to logically place, as an example, this school speech issue in any other context.
Thanks for writing and let your students know they are the future. Not only as adults, but also demographically.
As an 8th grade history teacher all my students will see the President. I suspect since most of my students are Latino and African-American that they will have a view that differs from all-white classrooms. I am going to introduce the way this issue was used for cross purposes by the Republicans. I suspect my students are going to think they were pawns for those who disagree with the President. I think that lots of the anger over Obama has more to do with the color of his skin, than what he thinks. Many of my students have voiced that in various ways already since school started last week. Tuesday will be an interesting day as a teacher, but which day isn’t!
I agree…They should be able to if they want to…But shouldn’t have to if they or their parents do not desire for them to hear it….Freedom of speech…is not mandatory listening…
Students should be able to listen to the President’s speech
I think its rather foolish to deny the president the chance to address the students. Granted, the logistics of getting a whole school to watch it might not be worth the effort–especially if students would miss part of my class. What conservative would have objected if Bush had wanted to do the same?
The larger point here is how little trust there is for this president. Wow. How the mighty have fallen. He could, of course, work it into his weekly primetime press conference on health care.