The obligatory second video of kids singing about Obama
posted at 8:11 am on September 26, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
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After the exposure given the creepy hosannas sung to Barack Obama in a New Jersey school this past week, it’s not terribly surprising that people have begun to scour YouTube for any other examples of indoctrination in elementary schools. Several people have e-mailed me this clip, claiming it to be the next in the series, but it’s far more goofy than offensive. Obviously the teacher, “Mr. B”, was giddy enough to write a song about Obama’s election and have his kids sing it the next day, but except for the “Yes yes yes yes yes we can” in the chorus, it mostly avoids glorifying Obama and focuses on kids staying in school so that they can become president. And what’s with the rooster at the end?
Obama is the President!
First African America in history
44th president of the United States
The ground has shifted
The world has changed!CHORUS:
Oooo Im a proud American
Oooo yes yes yes yes YES WE CAN!Im going to study really hard just like Barack
Learning never ever stops
Gonna set my goals HIGH and graduate
You might be looking at the President of 2048!We are a nation of a thousand colors, look at me
Our strength is our diversity
Walking hand in hand we sing
Each a day a little closer to the dream of Dr. King
In my opinion, this is harmless. Obama’s election was historical, and that seems like a reasonable point to teach children in school, especially the day after the election when this was shot. No one’s worshiping Obama in this song.
If I could have offered one suggestion to Mr. B, I think it would have been … more cowbell.
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Socialist indoctrination and worship of a state leader is just plain creepy.
hachiban on September 26, 2009
I agree with you, but we only think that because we haven’t attained the level of post-partisan enlightenment of certain bloggers. Sadly for us, some concepts are more important than skin color so we are not inclined to excuse wrongs on behalf of melanin count.
SKYFOX on September 26, 2009 at 10:41 AM
But we still don’t know how hard Soetoro actually studied since he won’t release transcripts … How can we study hard like him if we don’t know?
Ricohoc on September 26, 2009 at 10:42 AM
Damn it guys! Why doesn’t some clever videographer produce a video showing school age children praising Bush for kicking the crap out of Saddam? Then lets watch the left go ape$hit!
csdeven on September 26, 2009 at 10:43 AM
This one certainly did NOT have a creepy factor that the other did!
The teacher seemed sorta fair minded if you read more at his YouTube post.
Anytime you use the quotes of Martin Luther King is probably a good thing.
I just wish Obama had listened to King more than Marx.
-Wasteland Man.
WastelandMan on September 26, 2009 at 10:46 AM
This is the only Mmm Mmm Mmm song I ever want to hear again.
Kensington on September 26, 2009 at 10:48 AM
LOL and then redistribute that souls to deserving persons.
-Wasteland Man.
WastelandMan on September 26, 2009 at 10:50 AM
They set themselves up in bubbles so they never have to face things like this. Ask a liberal. They think Jimmy Carter was an amazing president, and if only he hadn’t been stopped by Reagan, we would have gotten the unicorns thirty years ago.
They think FDR saved us from the Great Depression, for crying out loud. If America still stands sixty years from now, idiot liberals will tell each other that Obama saved us from the 2nd Great Depression with his stimulus.
Kensington on September 26, 2009 at 10:54 AM
And now some U-Tubes with kids singing about George Bush are floating to the surface.
Same junk.
AnninCA on September 26, 2009 at 10:54 AM
Can’t sing a Christmans song in school, but we can do this? nice.
johnnyU on September 26, 2009 at 10:57 AM
Sort of a take off of “morning in America”. That would be a slap at the right.
Also, the kids held signs of world leaders of color and talked about diversity being our strength but had no pictures of Washington, Jefferson or even Lincoln.
A.C. McCloud on September 26, 2009 at 10:58 AM
I think that these Obama supporter-teachers who create any songs lauding Obama are fricking childish. If a child of mine were subjected to any of this, I’d ream the teacher, principal, superintendent, and anyon in sight.
It’s time for these POS to grow up.
BuckeyeSam on September 26, 2009 at 10:58 AM
Links Please, or will you continue to “bomb throw”?
-Wasteland Man.
WastelandMan on September 26, 2009 at 10:58 AM
If MLK could see how race obsessed the Democrat Party has become, I bet he’d be heartbroken over how they’ve perverted his dreams.
Kensington on September 26, 2009 at 10:59 AM
I’m certainly not going to concede anything like this without seeing it myself. Jesus Camp videos don’t count, either. Big difference between praying for someone and singing praises to someone.
Kensington on September 26, 2009 at 11:00 AM
Just read up on George Washington Carver too. God Bless him!
He’s a Man I could’ve voted for, for president!
If you know his history though he would have turned it down. :)
-Wasteland Man.
WastelandMan on September 26, 2009 at 11:02 AM
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
That aside, I never heard of anything like that. It’s not as if the left doesn’t have any shrill voices. If those kinds of things went on, the left should have screamed bloody murder–I’d have screamed it with them.
Conservative or liberal–it’s creepy as hell.
BuckeyeSam on September 26, 2009 at 11:02 AM
Ed says,
I can’t believe you aren’t alarmed by this. After the NEA stuff, the “civilian armed forces” speach by President Obama, the “President of the world” comments by reporters, and the whole “messiah” following throughout the election and beyond, you’re telling us that this doesn’t concern you?
Skidd on September 26, 2009 at 11:08 AM
Well said. Only racists think in terms of race; that includes those who praise because of race as well as those who vilify because of it. Both are racists.
ss396 on September 26, 2009 at 11:08 AM
You mean they weren’t proud Americans before Obama was elected?
mizflame98 on September 26, 2009 at 11:11 AM
That’s how it hit me, too.
Skidd on September 26, 2009 at 11:12 AM
Anybody else wonder how often this Obama Praise & Worship stuff goes on where it was either not recorded, or at least if it was recorded, somebody had the sense not to post it on youtube???
Cheesestick on September 26, 2009 at 11:21 AM
What was creepy to me was the administrator’s reactions to the story and how he objected to it being public.
LOL* What an idiot.
AnninCA on September 26, 2009 at 11:30 AM
Of course you do.
atheling on September 26, 2009 at 11:35 AM
Show us.
atheling on September 26, 2009 at 11:36 AM
Ed, you’re an anaylst of news. You read, think on the information, then post.
For someone who does that type of work, it shocks me that you aren’t more disturbed by this video. It’s as if you view each piece of indoctronation evidence on its own merits.
There is a larger puzzle out there that many people see. Can you?
Skidd on September 26, 2009 at 11:43 AM
FIFY kids.
TugboatPhil on September 26, 2009 at 11:53 AM
Saying you saw something doesn’t cut it. Either the post the link or shut up. If it’s anything like the Obama schoolchildren video people here will condemn it just as thoroughly.
PackerBronco on September 26, 2009 at 11:54 AM
Yes Ed, absolutely! Listen to these folks. This is simply the radical left taking a slice of your bologna each day until they has it all.
Give em an inch, and they’ll take a mile.
csdeven on September 26, 2009 at 11:55 AM
It sounds like you are condemning it all…if so good for you. If not, you spoke on cue.
csdeven on September 26, 2009 at 11:57 AM
Anyone else expect the line to be “Together we walk, me and Barack”? =D
ClassicalMusicNerd on September 26, 2009 at 11:57 AM
Were these indoctrination videos ever linked here? They are not in schools, but they are equally creepy.
Black Youth Brainwashing I just love the way they march in chanting “Alpha Omega Alpha Omega” (for the Hot Air atheists, the Lord is the alpha and the omega Revelaton 1:8)
Obama kids Moonbeam leading children in Obama hymn. It’s sick.
flyfisher on September 26, 2009 at 12:03 PM
It was not. It would have been historical if a descendant of former slaves would have risen to the presidency. That would really have symbolically healed the nation.
That still has not happened. Obama is the son of a white marxist student from Kansas, who hooked up with the first African socialist she could get her hands on. The third world was the vanguard of the Revolution.
Barry Obama never knew his father. His father was Kenyan, on the east coast of Africa. Most “African Americans” are from West African descent.
Obama is the product of white guilt, raised by his white mother and grandparents, in bastions of American racism like Hawaii and Indonesia. It was Ann Dunham who taught Obama to identify with and model himself after civil rights leaders like MLK. She sent him to Frank Marshall Davis to get the proper marxist, black nationalist perspective.
Obama’s entire persona is a carefully constructed myth to serve a political goal. Bill Ayers ghost-wrote much of Dreams of my Father. Obama built his entire career on his fake blackness. The race card is constantly played to either present Obama as a unifying figure or shut down all dissent.
Don’t buy into the myth!
modifiedcontent on September 26, 2009 at 12:27 PM
Our tax dollars at work.
Let’s check in with these kids in about ten to fifteen years, shall we? See what they’re doing with their education.
NebCon on September 26, 2009 at 12:39 PM
Ed, you have learned NOTHING from Martin Luther King if you excuse this using the premise ‘the election was historical’ so it’s okay. It was historical why? WHY?
Oh, sorry, I see your point. We have NEVER TO THIS DAY had a President with LESS qualifications for the office; this is what you meant by historical I guess, for as MLK said, we should judge a person by the CONTENT of their character, and NOT by the color of their skin. You didn’t mean these kids are celebrating because of the color of his skin, did you Ed? DID YOU SERIOUSLY MEAN THE COLOR OF HIS SKIN ED, AND THIS IS WHY YOU THINK IT IS OKAY TO HAVE KIDS SING LIKE THIS?
(leaning over hands in face)
Danzo on September 26, 2009 at 12:51 PM
In that other vid, after they get done chanting “Mmm, mmm, mmm! Barack Hussein Obama!”, they sing a song to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic. Well, that deserves to be mocked, so I present The Battle Hymn of Obama:
The Monster on September 26, 2009 at 1:12 PM
Linky?
massrighty on September 26, 2009 at 1:17 PM
I might agree if I could come up with one song sang by children (or anyone else) that praises any other recent president. I can’t even think of a song praising Washington or Lincoln. Maybe you can, I can’t. Yankee Doodle Dandy mentions Washington, but nothing like this. Historically we have sang to honor our country, our flag, our freedom not some politician.
Renae on September 26, 2009 at 1:43 PM
The teachers teach them:
“Our strength’s in our diversity”
and then
“Every day we’re a little closer to the dream of Dr. King.”
The Left hads completely perverted that man’s message and turned it into a divisive, racist thing, haven’t they
29Victor on September 26, 2009 at 2:06 PM
The Obama bits aren’t what bothers me so much as the laundry list of liberal slogans that these kids are being taught to chant.
I wonder if they know any Schoolhouse Rock.
29Victor on September 26, 2009 at 2:09 PM
Show us a link. You know why I don’t buy it? Simple, the Left and their media allies would have jumped on it to reinforce the “Bushhitler” meme, they wouldn’t be able to resist it. So I say again show us the link to where public school children are singing the praises of GWB.
Sharr on September 26, 2009 at 2:17 PM
I saw this video several days ago, but the only scouring I did was clicking on the link in the “Featured Videos” on the “Mmm mmm mmm” video’s YouTube page. The teacher states that this song was completed in February:
A new day has dawned—cockadoodle-doo!
I do agree with Ed that this video is pretty innocuous as a song with a “stay in school and you can do it, too” message. And “the world has changed” is a pretty accurate observation in more ways than one.
CO2 Producer on September 26, 2009 at 2:32 PM
Maybe that last “and” in my previous comment should be a “but.”
CO2 Producer on September 26, 2009 at 2:38 PM
How bad can this one be? One kid’s wearing an AC/DC shirt.
jack herman on September 26, 2009 at 2:42 PM
Ed, this misses the point entirely, which is that leftist educators ARE using their positions to indoctrinate children and this just one such example.
If you dispute this, then consider the following mental experiment: imagine that Sarah Palin had won the election and not Obama. Just how many YouTube videos do you think would surface featuring small children singing about the historic significance of the first female President of America?
Be honest, there would be none. To deny the glaring ideological motive behind this song is bordering on an act of useful idiocy.
Sharke on September 26, 2009 at 2:52 PM
Link and proof of date when the video was made please.
yoda on September 26, 2009 at 3:22 PM
More wasted time in school.
Dollayo on September 26, 2009 at 3:43 PM
So…we’re not getting any links to “same junk” videos of kids singing praise to Bush, are we?
Kensington on September 26, 2009 at 3:55 PM
Ed, please don’t also use the term obligatory, one is enough. Really it’s your website, nothing should be obligatory, if you don’t care about something enough that it’s not obligatory, let someone else cover it.
waelse1 on September 26, 2009 at 4:15 PM
I believe this is what has some on the Left (including a columnist at HuffPo) feverish about wingnut hypocrisy or something. No video so far, natch, and it didn’t take place at a public school.
CO2 Producer on September 26, 2009 at 4:36 PM
Yeah, I think it’s quite a stretch to call that the “same junk” as these Obama hymns, but even so I think it’s weird to make kids do stuff like that. It’s inappropriate.
…
See libs? That’s how you do it.
Kensington on September 26, 2009 at 4:48 PM
Speak for your own kids Ed.
My son is going to school singing Palin songs and punching any other kids that give him s**t.
Sapwolf on September 26, 2009 at 7:19 PM
“The tension at B. Bernice Young Elementary School escalated to such a degree Thursday that the school was placed temporarily on lockdown after its principal received death threats over a YouTube video that showed nearly 20 children being taught songs lauding the president, though back-to-school night events continuing as planned Thursday night at the school.”
CONGRATULATIONS ON THE SUCCESSFUL CONCLUSION OF YOUR COMPLAINING
Dave Rywall on September 26, 2009 at 8:45 PM
Sure. We’ll remain completely silent so we can live in a “friction free” nation.
Skidd on September 26, 2009 at 8:54 PM
I wonder how many times the lefties own activists have called in fake death threats… or just made them up …. to try to scare the general public, and/or make us conservatives look bad.
I’ll betcha that is the case a LOT more than it being true threats coming from us ‘evil right wingers’.
LegendHasIt on September 26, 2009 at 9:18 PM
I wonder how many times the lefties own activists have called in fake death threats… or just made them up …. to try to scare the general public, and/or make us conservatives look bad.
I’ll betcha that is the case a LOT more than it being true threats coming from us ‘evil right wingers’.
LegendHasIt on September 26, 2009 at 9:18 PM
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This is beyond stupid.
You can’t even condemn the extremists on your side.
Dave Rywall on September 26, 2009 at 9:21 PM
Provide actual evidence that a conservative DID call in a death threat and I’ll condemn him. Heck, I’ll even help arrest him.
LegendHasIt on September 26, 2009 at 9:26 PM
In the mean time, I’ll give ‘my side’ the benefit of the doubt; since it is in the nature of you lefties use lies and obfuscation and play the victim card to get the stupid people to feel sorry for you and let you have your way.
LegendHasIt on September 26, 2009 at 9:29 PM
So far an extensive search of the internet doesn’t show any actual evidence of the ‘death threats’ Other than the unattributed quote on FOX, the report seems to be mostly echoing around on a wide variety of left-wing sites. Whether Fox picked it up from them, or they picked it up from FOX, I couldn’t say.
But someone has looked into it:
So, once again it appears that Mr. Rywall’s amateur attempts at leftist propaganda and demonizing conservatives has failed.
LegendHasIt on September 26, 2009 at 10:51 PM
So, once again it appears that Mr. Rywall’s amateur attempts at leftist propaganda and demonizing conservatives has failed.
LegendHasIt on September 26, 2009 at 10:51 PM
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ha ha ha so funny
Dave Rywall on September 26, 2009 at 11:49 PM
I can’t see how this one is any way like the last. When ya sing a song to honor a Pres its one thing (like this song) when you sing one that spouts out his agenda (like the NJ one) thats something different.
Rbastid on September 27, 2009 at 1:03 AM
We don’t count success by the number of death threats. We count it by having the improper behavior stop.
Anything else would be like someone claiming that ACORN won because they filed a lawsuit.
unclesmrgol on September 27, 2009 at 2:50 AM
The tone is different, but the problem is the introduction of modern politics into the classroom. There are plenty of people who think the ground did not shift in a good way, nor has the nation changed for the better with Obama’s election.
In 50 or 100 years, we will know. His term isn’t over yet, but as things go now, he’s looking to occupy a historical niche just above Jimmy Carter.
unclesmrgol on September 27, 2009 at 2:54 AM
I think this video praising obama takes the cake.
AlreadyKnownAs on September 27, 2009 at 8:32 AM
This isn’t the worst of the Obama kids videos, however, it’s still disturbing! These creepy liberal teachers and professors should be fired. He has no business doing this and he is obviously in love with Obama. He’s making sure “his kids” love Obama too! It’s simply wrong! Conservatives need to get back into teaching and take the schools back from these morons or the future is doomed!
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CrusaderPatriot on September 27, 2009 at 9:32 AM
PackerBronco on September 27, 2009 at 3:24 PM
That’s a great idea, csdeven!
The only problem is that all the “Articistic” people are leftists-liberals-Democrats.
There aren’t any artistic, creative, talented Conservatives who have the ability to perform music, write lyrics, write music, write scripts, or perform in the theater, which is why the leftists always win.
William2006 on September 28, 2009 at 1:44 AM
Can you help me?
I am terribly depressed
Our country has gone down the toilet, into the sewer, and is no longer the land of the free, home of the brave.
After years of intolerance, racism, prejudice, bias, hatred, lies, and distortions pushed by the left effectively brain washing our youth, we now have an entire population of voters who are ignorant and who are voting for people like Barrack Hussein Obama, Al Franken, Ted Kennedy, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Harry Reid, and more creepy people.
I have no place to go now.
There is no where in planet earth where someone can go and live any longer because the USA, when it was strong, was the reason the rest of the world could live in happiness, peace, and prosperity.
If one wanted to move to Australia, Britain, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Argentina, etc., one could do so.
Without the US as a strong force for good and honor we aren’t safe any where else, and those other nations will not long survive in peace and prosperity.
Thanks Barrack Hussein Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Barney Frank, Ted Kennedy, Joe Biden, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Jimmy Carter, and all you other nut jobs for ruining our nation and making planet earth a cesspool.
Thanks to all you idiots who voted those folks into office.
Thanks for your ignorance and selfishness.
Thanks for ruining this once wonderful nation!
Signed …
Color Me Disappointed
William2006 on September 28, 2009 at 1:53 AM
They’re celebrating his election. That is offensive, and an abuse of the teacher’s power.
This is racists bullshit, and left-wing propagranda being pushed on students. It’s is wrong.
Greg Q on September 28, 2009 at 4:15 AM
You are right. Conservatives have caved on the arts and education. Have we ever fought the liberals in any area in order to retain influence? It seems as if we simply run away from them and allow them to take over entire spheres of influence.
csdeven on September 28, 2009 at 5:30 AM
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