Video: The obligatory “Obama Youth” fraternity
posted at 1:15 pm on October 4, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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I’ve been flooded with e-mails to start a thread on the video of the so-called Obama Youth fraternity, and never let it be said that I kept Hot Air readers from a forum that will undoubtedly pile up hundreds of comments. I don’t consider this anywhere near as egregious as Sing for Change, but your mileage may vary:
There is some difference between having 5-12 year olds singing about Barack Obama and this group, which appears old enough to start forming their own opinions on politics. The quasi-military marching disturbs some, but as Jonah Goldberg notes, there is a tradition of this in black fraternities. The mindless chant of Barack Obama’s health-care slogans are less disturbing than comical, at least to me.
The Sing for Change video was clearly more of an exploitation of children for political indoctrination on behalf of the parents involved. The health-care cadence at least discussed policy specifics in the midst of the hero worship. The Sing for Change video makes Obama a demi-god to whom children should sing hosannas, and is much more creepy.
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I saw this a few days ago. One of the dumbest things I have ever wasted time watching. What do we have here anyway? A revived Weather Underground recruitment tool?
Connie on October 4, 2008 at 1:19 PM
Obama inspired these kids to move into higher tax brackets so they’ll pay more taxes?
lorien1973 on October 4, 2008 at 1:19 PM
It’s all Hitler-Jugend to me.
asta on October 4, 2008 at 1:19 PM
Not watching, I’m going out to the movies this afternoon to see “American Carol”, and I wanna be in a festive mood.
Thanks anyway Ed! ;)
surrounded on October 4, 2008 at 1:20 PM
The worship scares the crap out of me. This is like nothing I’ve seen before. People wearing blue shirts for support, young kids singing songs about him, the media refusing to report bad things about him, teens in military uniforms chanting about him, Camp Obama teaching radical-like strategies, any questioning of him being chalked up to racism, supporters looking to silence critics, property of his opponents being vandalized, and more.
How long before he’s Dear Leader?
amerpundit on October 4, 2008 at 1:20 PM
“because of Obama I’m __________________ the next (state profession)”
Can anyone fill in the blank? I can’t understand these brilliant product of affirmative action.
BuckNutty on October 4, 2008 at 1:22 PM
The quasi-military marching disturbs some, but
as Jonah Goldberg notes,there is a tradition of this inblack fraternitiesemerging fascist political parties.Fixed it.
ManlyRash on October 4, 2008 at 1:23 PM
Let the brain washing begin. This is not unlike Hezbolla, POL or other extremist indoctrination. This is frightening. We are hearing positive aspects if the One is elected, what do they say about Senator McCain?
mindhacker on October 4, 2008 at 1:23 PM
Because of Obama my country threatens to throw away 200 years of freedom and its crucial world leadership position in order to serve the discredited theories of Karl Marx.
whitetop on October 4, 2008 at 1:24 PM
Then I suggest you google “Leni Riefenstahl” and “George Santayana.”
ManlyRash on October 4, 2008 at 1:25 PM
Wonder how good their weapons training is. If it is no better than this video, I like our chances when they become the Obama Militia.
djtnt on October 4, 2008 at 1:25 PM
Sing for Change video or Obama Youth fraternity
exploitation at it’s finest
Kini on October 4, 2008 at 1:25 PM
Because of Jesus Christ I’m going to heaven.
Because of Obama I’m going to pay more taxes.
Yes I will!
So what happens to these camo’d up yoots when he loses? Or worse if he wins? They left out, because of Obama half of African Americans will be killed before their first birthday.
Mojave Mark on October 4, 2008 at 1:26 PM
Uh, Ed? How can you not find that disturbing?
flipflop on October 4, 2008 at 1:26 PM
Looking at it by itself, it’s laughable. If you add all we know about Obama and associates, I wouldn’t be laughing.
Tazz 55 on October 4, 2008 at 1:27 PM
He did mention forming a National Defense Force. Perhaps he’ll put Louis Farrakhan in charge.
ManlyRash on October 4, 2008 at 1:27 PM
Manly Rash just nailed it.
The singing kids aren’t gonna come smash my windows and take my stuff, all in the name of peace and justice. These jokers? Quite possibly, if their Messiah wins this election.
funky chicken on October 4, 2008 at 1:27 PM
I agree with you. Too much like the Hitler Youth. This is a disturbing development. Except the shirts are blue and not black. Are these guys the nucleus of the “Civilian National Defense Agency”?
Mooseman on October 4, 2008 at 1:27 PM
Think for ourselves.
No We Cant!
AndrewsDad on October 4, 2008 at 1:28 PM
Because of Obama a lot of people are ready to look hard into Texas!
Fact is it is only laughable Ed if they don’t get their way. Were this a bunch of white kids yelling for a David Duke who had a hard plurality of Americans backing him it’d be all over the news. Instead it is relatively hidden and absolutely uncommented on in the M$M.
Thanks for posting this Ed, but I think it is getting a bit late in the game for the undecideds to wrap their heads around “how peculiar” Barry really is.
sven10077 on October 4, 2008 at 1:29 PM
They come in chanting “Alpha!” “Omega!” … this is a direct reference to biblical scripture where the Lord says “I am the Alpha and the Omega”, meaning the first and the last.
Obama is now casting himself as God?
darwin on October 4, 2008 at 1:29 PM
What scares me more is that it’s not isolated to a few fringe crackpots. It seems to be widespread in this country and perhaps in other countries as well. I honestly think that his cult followers believe that BO is running for leader of some sort of one world government. A world united under BO.
jmarcure on October 4, 2008 at 1:30 PM
This is all just the tip of the iceberg. Worry more about what you don’t see: those things that lie behind the curtain and hidden from the light of day that are driving such theater.
Turning over some rocks many prove to exhibit some really scary truths.
Yoop on October 4, 2008 at 1:30 PM
YES WE CAN!! LOL! Oh boy, if this man gets into office,we’re in for a rough one.
tdavisjr on October 4, 2008 at 1:30 PM
Because of Obama, I’m inspired to be the next Wolverine.
Hannibal Smith on October 4, 2008 at 1:30 PM
These freakin truth squads and youth movements will soon dissipate once he becomes Carter II
lodge on October 4, 2008 at 1:30 PM
Well, these guys are, anyway.
flipflop on October 4, 2008 at 1:31 PM
Yeah I posted back when Investor’s Business Daily started in on “the civillian national security force” Barry mentioned on July the 2d and 9/11. It is pretty funny that we can worry about Trig Palin ’til the cows come home but not a single newsie can be bothered to ask Barry to define with precision what the mission statement of a group he wants to be “as large and as well funded as the US military” will be.
If he makes it through his election without being asked we deserve whatever we get.
sven10077 on October 4, 2008 at 1:31 PM
Fixed it for you. We’re screwed.
flipflop on October 4, 2008 at 1:32 PM
Bingo “Tex”.
Over.
1GooDDaDDy on October 4, 2008 at 1:33 PM
Indeed. A more “fair” order. Fair only has to be bought with everything you’ll ever have.
sven10077 on October 4, 2008 at 1:33 PM
I’ve seen this video featured here and there around the blogosphere, but I haven’t seen a discussion of who these young men are, how they were recruited, or what the institution is that is supporting these antics.
Are they incarcerated juvenile delinquents, or is it a military school (why all blacks), a Muslim madrassah, or what? And I’d *really* like to know if there’s any taxpayer funding involved.
NahnCee on October 4, 2008 at 1:35 PM
ya’ll see Hitler in this? (dismissive tone) Really?
Cuckoo…cuckoo
tlynch001 on October 4, 2008 at 1:36 PM
There.
surrounded on October 4, 2008 at 1:37 PM
Oh my! If these young people continue to practice, in an attempt to please “The One”, before long they’ll be as accomplished, as the young people, in this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuMajt-qooE
sinsing on October 4, 2008 at 1:37 PM
Welcome to the Alinsky Party of Change comrades. How about a couple of quotes for the thread:
“You will never get real freedom and recognition between black and white people in this country without destroying the country, without destroying the present political system, without destroying the present economic system, without rewriting the entire constitution. It will be a complete destruction of everything that America supposedly stands for.”
– El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
(born Malcolm Little, most commonly known as Malcolm X)
“Only Malcolm X’s autobiography seemed to offer something different. His repeated acts of self-creation spoke to me. The blunt poetry of his words. His unadorned insistence on respect. He promised a new and uncompromising order, marshal in its discipline.”
–Barack Hussein Obama
“But my journey is part of a larger journey – one shared by all who’ve ever sought to apply the values of their faith to our society. It’s a journey that takes us back to our nation’s founding, when none other than a UCC church inspired the Boston Tea Party and helped bring an Empire to its knees.”
–Barack Hussein Obama
Kevin in Washington State on October 4, 2008 at 1:37 PM
HOLY CRAP!
Don’t these douche bags realize that if it weren’t for the pro-life crowd, many of them might not been born?
The dems encourage abortions at a level that decimates the black community more than any other.
I’m telling ya, the politics of skin color would make MLK roll over in his grave. I’m sure he bows his head in shame that his great struggle has morphed into what it is today.
csdeven on October 4, 2008 at 1:38 PM
Well, there was some of this around FDR – see Liberal Fascism by Goldberg, but certainly the Obama deification has gone beyond what FDR got, and the scary part is Obama is still just a candidate for president who has done only really one thing of note in his political career*.
This is reminiscent though of what we’ve seen overseas with any number of cult of personality despots. I think it indicates how sick the American Republic is right now. Even 20 years ago, a man of Obama’s experience would have been laughed out of the race if a major party had nominated him.
*Killing protection for children born due to a botched abortion.
18-1 on October 4, 2008 at 1:38 PM
Hitler/Obama youth no doubt!
grapeknutz on October 4, 2008 at 1:38 PM
According to the guy who posted it, which MAY OR MAY NOT BE ACCURATE (obligatory disclaimer):
URBAN COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
1524 PASEO BLVD
18th & Vine District, Kansas City, MO
Educational Organization
flipflop on October 4, 2008 at 1:39 PM
But what is disturbing is this line of thinking, and beliefs WILL stick with them far beyond this age group. What happens when the “Obama” plan falls through, or if he does not win? To where are they going to turn when “Dear Leader” fails them? Violence? Gangs? Depression?
The reason this is equally disturbing to me is because it is the older version of the creepy kiddies. There is no sense of individuality here, and once the individual is gone then there is nothing left but an empty shell, and they have no point of reference. The GOP has not addressed what is being done in inner city schools. McCain was right during the Convention when he mentioned the condition of education, and throwing money at the problem is NOT the answer. Children in our inner cities continue to receive extremely poor educations, crime is rampant in these schools, and they are not taught the importance of the individual. THIS will continue to be the result. Is not the definition of stupid repeating the same thing over and over, but expecting different results?
They believe it is because of Obama, (who never fought for one moment for Civil Rights, or has addressed gang violence in Black communities), it is because of HIM they can be whatever they dream to become. They do not understand that it is because of THIS COUNTRY they can be an architect, or a chemical engineer. They only see negative examples of mostly Democrat Black men and do not ever see those like Walter Williams, Michael Steele and yes, even Juan Williams. Instead they get P Diddy, Spike Lee and Snoop Dog. And they do not have any African-American history taught to them; all they know is MLK, Malcolm X, Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. I would bet a good amount of money not one of these young men could name one Tuskegee Airman. NOT ONE!
freeus on October 4, 2008 at 1:39 PM
You know what disturbs me about this – the implicit notion that these guys thought they couldn’t be the things they claim they will be before Obama came along. That is incredibly sad.
Mr. D on October 4, 2008 at 1:39 PM
Strongly disagree, and this is why:
It’s one thing to promote self improvement, it’s entirely another receive that improvement through the worship of a politician.
Saltysam on October 4, 2008 at 1:40 PM
Can anyone enlighten me on that video of Oslime-a calling for a civilian military that rivals the US military in power and funding?
csdeven on October 4, 2008 at 1:40 PM
We can only hope. My only reservation about that is the sheer amount of not support but worship of him.
amerpundit on October 4, 2008 at 1:40 PM
These Fat Alberts might try some calisthenics and rep’ counts.
i b squidly on October 4, 2008 at 1:40 PM
Hitler Youth by another name is still ugly.
T J Green on October 4, 2008 at 1:40 PM
Wish the public at large knew as much about the Third Reich as Obama seems to.
Shay on October 4, 2008 at 1:42 PM
It looks like some sort of youth camp for juvenile offenders.
Blake on October 4, 2008 at 1:42 PM
Or, maybe, it’s the Alpha Omega fraternity. LOL we need some more multicultural classes in this country! Oh NO! It’s BLACK PEOPLE in CAMOS!!!
tlynch001 on October 4, 2008 at 1:42 PM
Some of those kids are in serious need of some more marching.
“Strength Through
JoyObama’s Healthcare Plan!”Tzetzes on October 4, 2008 at 1:43 PM
I can only think of one statement made by a major party candidate more disturbing then Obama’s call for a massive new domestic policy organization that you mention, and that would be Biden’s call to use the force of the federal government against members of the Bush administration for the “crime” of administering the war Biden voted for…
18-1 on October 4, 2008 at 1:43 PM
We see a Hitler Youth-like movement.
amerpundit on October 4, 2008 at 1:43 PM
Because of Obama….I’m looking at what options I have in secession from the Union.
Because of Obama…I’m looking at how to lower my tax payments.
Because of Obama…My outlook on life is becoming more grey.
PappaMac on October 4, 2008 at 1:44 PM
By the way, just scan around YouTube for a bit…there are a lot of people posting vids of their kids singing Obama’s praises.
JetBoy on October 4, 2008 at 1:44 PM
I realize that it’s too late, but can McCain’s campaign possibly get an ad featuring this and get it down to all the condo communities in SE Florida? If that doesn’t get Helen and Morty Seinfeld, Uncle Leo, and Jack Klompus heading in McCain’s direction, I’m not sure what will.
BuckeyeSam on October 4, 2008 at 1:44 PM
I don’t think so….he is purposely targeting ages that have temper tantrums when their hypoteses fail.
sven10077 on October 4, 2008 at 1:44 PM
Meh, I’ll probably take some flak for this comment, but I don’t see what the big deal is. Sure it’s a little creepy, but some youngsters are motivated by Obama to excel, and I say good for them. Kids from the city need better role models than the normal array of degenerate clowns we see in the celebrity world. It’s hardly any more “militant” than the boy scouts or JROTC (both positive organizations). This video was not meant for massive distribution either.
In contrast, the kids singing in Venice highlighted the unabashed self-righteousness of the left. Willing to trot their kids out in a bizarre sing-along for a video production DESIGNED to be massively released. Now that kind of crap boils my blood.
LT Nixon on October 4, 2008 at 1:45 PM
I had a comment made to me that I didn’t really think about much until things like this came to light. A liberal and BO cultist I was talking to said “ America is the twenty first century South Africa”. Is that what the BO supporters think? Are they dreaming of an end to white rule in America? Are we on the verge of electing our very own Mugabe?
jmarcure on October 4, 2008 at 1:46 PM
If you want to know how this could happen:
Yur Bezmenov, 1985
With a little help from Saul Alinsky and friends.
gh on October 4, 2008 at 1:47 PM
Be nice … these are the future warriors of the Barack Mugabe police state.
HondaV65 on October 4, 2008 at 1:47 PM
Texas friend, Texas….
If the bottom falls out and the situation is not redeemable we all need to rally in Texas. Texas is already conservative and if we can leverage it to be even more so it imcreases the likelihood they’ll have the spine to tell the Federal Govt. to go to hell if need be. We meet first on election day, then if need be as long as Barry follows his oath of office we endure, failing that we fight, if the fight is doomed we leave.
I’m willing to start over as long as the New America safeguards the Bill of Rights.
sven10077 on October 4, 2008 at 1:47 PM
So THIS is where Al Qaeda has been spending their resources.
FiveWays on October 4, 2008 at 1:48 PM
Straight out of the Bill Ayers playbook for educational change as promoted and funded by The Annenberg Challenge.
a capella on October 4, 2008 at 1:49 PM
I was in both organizations under Reagan and Bush the elder. I don’t recall engaging in a cult of personality for either. Can you please direct me to which councils of the Boy Scouts and which units of the JROTC were engaged in politically charged racially monopolistic thuggish yelling of destroying the old order?
I need to know where not to enroll my son if need be.
sven10077 on October 4, 2008 at 1:50 PM
Because of Odummy they can become these things?
How about the founding fathers who created the nation’s ideals? The men who fought at Bunker Hill and Yorktown to keep the dream alive? The hundreds of thousands of Union soldiers who died so that blacks would no longer be enslaved? The men and women who refused to give up their seats on buses, who marched into the teeth of riot cops and police dogs, who suffered abuse and torture and death to bring equal rights to blacks?
How about because of your own drive, or the life lessons from your parents? Or the countless examples of African-Americans who came long before Ogoof and didn’t think of themselves as gods?
You live a pretty damn shallow life if you were waiting for a complete fool like Obiscuit to lead the way.
Bishop on October 4, 2008 at 1:50 PM
Love the gold boots. That just screams Soul-Train. Who dressed these kids Don Corrnelius?
USMCDevilDog on October 4, 2008 at 1:51 PM
I’ll be nice…if the time comes I aim to engage in some aggressive retirement counseling on my way to Texas.
sven10077 on October 4, 2008 at 1:51 PM
I am waiting for the purple cammy pants when they get funded enough….
sven10077 on October 4, 2008 at 1:52 PM
Has this been discussed here on HA?
csdeven on October 4, 2008 at 1:52 PM
I wish that McCain would run a split screen of this video, the one of the children singing about Obama, and a video of Hitler youth behind him and Sarah Palin, during their rallies.
The American people must see that we’re headed for Socialism and/or worse. The political correctness must stop.
sinsing on October 4, 2008 at 1:53 PM
Good thing there are term limits… sheesh.
Cardiganfox on October 4, 2008 at 1:53 PM
I don’t think so….he is purposely targeting ages that have temper tantrums when their hypoteses fail.
sven10077 on October 4, 2008 at 1:44 PM
Or because he wants to create an entire generation of acolytes to do his bidding in return for special favors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashi_(youth_movement)
Bishop on October 4, 2008 at 1:55 PM
If you a kid as fat as most of these boys, you’d want nationalized health insurance too. At least, they may lose some fat by their marching.
thuja on October 4, 2008 at 1:55 PM
I guess its because these kids are all black and all of their friends also support Obama, that none of these kids friends have told them what utter douche bags they look like. Seriously, if any of my friends ever did anything quite as douchey as this, I would cut off all contact with the person. I am embarrassed for these kids and their families. Hopefully, later on in life this video resurfaces, and their co-workers all laugh at them continuously behind their backs.
muyoso on October 4, 2008 at 1:56 PM
not with a headline no….
you’ll have to ask Ed or Allah why…..
wait one I have a link to a series of articles on it I made at one of my old haunts….
http://www.madcowssteakhouse.com/viewtopic.php?p=288986#288986
sven10077 on October 4, 2008 at 1:56 PM
I really didn’t see that in the video, and I really haven’t seen that in the Obama campaign as a whole. Of course there’s always Michelle Obama’s Whitey Tape that Larry Madman Johnson has promised to deliver.
LT Nixon on October 4, 2008 at 1:57 PM
People better start waking up, more of this crap is going on in this country they we know.
USMCDevilDog on October 4, 2008 at 1:57 PM
Well here’s the crap you expected….
WHAT FRAPPIN’ ALTERNATE UNIVERSE ARE YOU LIVING IN? I was heavily involved in the BSA and there is never any worship of a political figure or any para-military slant. Justifying that worship is what the BSA is totally against!
Holy crap! Some of the ideas that “conservatives” come up with around here are completely baffling.
/end of rant
csdeven on October 4, 2008 at 1:57 PM
I love that the bar has been raised so high that people can watch this and think “no big deal.”
Worshiping Obama literally as God is a black fraternity thing?
econavenger on October 4, 2008 at 1:58 PM
Speaking of the Weather Underground, I stumbled upon an incredible article…take a look at this.
Need a little background before you take the plunge and click it?
It links to a literary detective. He studied Obama’s first book and Ayers auto-biography and makes an astonishingly good case that…
Ayers actually wrote Faith of my Fathers.
It’s a great read an even includes some laugh-out-loud poetry that Obama actually wrote.
Enjoy.
Dorvillian on October 4, 2008 at 1:58 PM
I think a lot of borderline crazies were leeery of Clinton hyping Y2K because they saw term limits degenerating in their support. Liberal equivalents lay awake at night thinking Bush will not surrender power. I am torn between agreeing and trusting the people.
The thing is in my estimation the BEST Barry can offer is LBJ and Carter’s ideological son. The worst he can offer is Che and Mao’s with a dash of Mugabe thrown in. Che, Mao, and Mugabe ain’t gonna “just leave” after 2600 days of power.
sven10077 on October 4, 2008 at 1:59 PM
I very much doubt you will grasp this point but it would be just as frightening if it were white or mixed race. I look at that and I see a bunch of brainwashed worshipers of a cult leader who is about to become president. You look at it and see black people.
jmarcure on October 4, 2008 at 1:59 PM
WTF? Because the news media that have access to Obama are part of his fawning horde, the American people deserve “whatever we get?”
Are you insane?
funky chicken on October 4, 2008 at 2:00 PM
Ok, I will.
Ed or Allah…..have you or why haven’t you given us a thread on this yet?
http://www.madcowssteakhouse.com/viewtopic.php?t=21566
csdeven on October 4, 2008 at 2:03 PM
csdeven on October 4, 2008 at 1:57 PM
+1000
funky chicken on October 4, 2008 at 2:03 PM
Looks like beginning of this to me.
No, but the younger you nab them the deeper the indoctrination will be and the harder it will be to free their minds once they become adults.
Yeah, good idea. Get his quote about funding a civilian organization as well as the military and play this beside some Hitler youth or maybe North Korean prop video and see what happens. Though it should probably be done by a 527 rather than the campaign proper.
Browncoatone on October 4, 2008 at 2:03 PM
I’m sorry you saw the Vanilla Ice or Eight Mile equivalent in there and I missed it?
The kids are yelling about tearing down the old order and replacing it with well….whatever. That they are so rotund a vbeteran could probably handle three of them doesn’t change the fact that they are angrily blaming others for their “humiliation” and turning to “The ONE” as savior in the vid.
That you can try to equate this with the Boy Scout Motto or learning about the US military ticles me to no end there friend. Like I said show me these JROTC and Scouting units so I can steer my son clear of them. I am way ahead of you on keeping him out of the Barack Youth.
sven10077 on October 4, 2008 at 2:05 PM
They remind me of young Farrakan zombies.
darwin on October 4, 2008 at 2:05 PM
This is to sick. I laugh at those dumb ass white people that are behind Obama. What will Streisand do now? And all the other stars that are pitching for Obama?. When the time comes all of them will be in a shock. Their color and that they voted for Obama, will not matter. Obama is having a great laugh at the white people who he is fooling! I will hide our guns. Looks like we will need them if Hitler wins!
sheebe on October 4, 2008 at 2:05 PM
I would agree if BO was just your average politician but he is not. He is a pseudo religious cult leader with a worldwide cult following and that changes the perspective of the whole race and him becoming president. BO normal politician = Carter II and a single term. BO = messiah and who really can say what will happen. All I know is that using history as my guide BO = messiah will most likely be a nightmare.
jmarcure on October 4, 2008 at 2:07 PM
If Obama loses, you can expect the Rodney King riots to be mild by comparison.
If Obama wins, you can expect the same reaction as the original O.J. acquittal trial including celebratory gun fire civil disobediance etc. Either way we’re in trouble.
JetBlast on October 4, 2008 at 2:10 PM
Yes I do. We allowed the press to grow ever more maniacally biased in the wake of Bill Clinton’s ‘Operation Hide the Dress” and never demanded with rage as a unified populace that they earn that first amendment protection they have. We have allowed them to become not only kingmakers which is bad enough but a cloak for some really ugly potential messes in our nation’s future.
We got lazy, and in getting lazy we have set the table for some massive convulsions that will test the mettle of the Republic. Thirty years ago I’d have not been worried at all we had the world war 2 generation to look evil in the eye and say “go to hell”. The crisis is that the current crop of Americans think “evil” is something you snark at over the water cooler to a large degree.
We would not need the news media if our movement would just get this out to their confidants who would not label the teller as “paranoid” out of the gate but it is not happening. This is so scary that ytou can’t tell random people about it without looking like a lunatic.
The best case scenario is that Barry wants a useless but expensive version of FDR’s “alphabet soup” in perpetuity….but the worst case scenario is precisley what things like this video look like.
I suspect it will be a middle case sceanrio at least initially and be defacto “forced volunteer” political agitprop indoctrination camps to start. That is why I am looking hard at Texas. The government can have my money legally but I draw the line at my son’s soul.
sven10077 on October 4, 2008 at 2:10 PM
This is sick! How about Obama inspiring these kids to learn to speak the American English. Ebonics is dead.
dalec on October 4, 2008 at 2:11 PM
I’m afraid this movement, and their glorious leader, will not pay any attention to legal niceties such as “term limits.”
Remember Osama Obama’s “eight or ten years comment?”
We are seeing the seeds of our national destruction being planted, watered and tended.
I wish I could take Ed’s Pollyanna-like, intellectually distanced view that this is more funny than worrying.
But I can’t.
MrScribbler on October 4, 2008 at 2:12 PM
Under Obama NCLB (No Child Left Behind) will morph into NCLUB (No Child Left UnBrainwashed.
I suggest you all take a very active roll in monitoring what your local schools are up to in the future, if you haven’t already.
Disturb the Universe on October 4, 2008 at 2:14 PM
If Obama wins the election he won’t be called “Mr. President”, instead he’ll be called “Dear Leader”.
dalec on October 4, 2008 at 2:14 PM
Has anyone read the “more info” under the tab at youtube?
Evidently the young gentleman are students at:
URBAN COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
1524 PASEO BLVD
18th & Vine District, Kansas City, MO
Which is a charter school under the auspices of the Univ. Of Central Missouri…….
But this CAN’T be an example the fruits of COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS!
Could it?
northofthenotches on October 4, 2008 at 2:15 PM
Oops.
Disturb the Universe on October 4, 2008 at 2:18 PM
He won’t be MY President!!!!
I’ve heard that somewhere ;)
PappaMac on October 4, 2008 at 2:20 PM
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