Video: Michelle on schools teaching Obama songs

Mmmmmm MMMMmmmm MMMMMMMMM That’s some good brainwashing by those non-liberal non-partisan unionized teachers funded with taxpayer money.

What are all these wingnutz so paranoid about with what passes for “education” in our government schools?

They’re so crazy, those wingnutz.

Good Lt on November 5, 2009 at 9:09 AM

While I would personally have avoided this type of teaching technique since it’s bound to arouse some parental ire, I think it’s a stretch to call it radicalization.

What you see in these videos does not in any way qualify as “teaching.” This is what people in the Jones People’s Temple used to do. This is what North Korean children are forced to do. Sing praises at very young ages of the Leader and not step out of line. It’s a form of child abuse.

Some elementary teachers simply don’t use good judgement.

I disagree. This isn’t just bad judgement. This is a deliberate act.

I think these “teachers” have made a judgment, and it’s that these kids need to grow up worshiping liberal Democrat politicans generally and Obama specifically. The kids have no recourse, of course. They think what they’re told to, and lord help them if they have an inclination of disagreeing or not wanting to participate in the “education.”

Radicalism doesn’t need to be some screening, wild-eyed communist with a bullhorn on a corner screaming obscenities about Republicans and George Bush at passers-by. Brainwashing children at early ages on the taxpayer dime to get them to internalize a particular political agenda is the very definition of a radical policy. This is not “normal” and should not be considered “normal.”

This is child abuse, and it’s what you get with a one-party, union-dominated, public-sector-largess-laden bureaucracy that depends on the government for its own living. When the party of GOVERNMENT! (the Democrats) gets in power, you can expect that some of these people are going to “go the extra mile wink wink” to make sure the government writing their checks knows that the government schools are teaching the “right” messages to young children.

Good Lt on November 5, 2009 at 9:26 AM

I can’t guess. Could have been some kind of civics lesson or even Black History month deal.

Really? Singing songs about how awesome Barack Obama is is a “civics lesson?” And before you say that “hey, there are songs about Washington and Lincoln,” stop yourself and remember that Obama is no Lincoln, Washington or Jefferson. He’s not even a Millard Filmore.

So I’m not in favor of this type of song. But I still think it’s a bit of a stretch to call it radicalization.

Again, inculcating a worship of a politician and political worldview in an allegedly non-political education center that’s supposed to teach reading, writing and arithmetic is indeed a radical by definition. It’s not normal, it’s not acceptable and it’s done with deliberateness and obviously some repetition.

It’s indoctrination of a captive audience. That’s radical. Maybe not in North Korea, but it certainly is in America.

Good Lt on November 5, 2009 at 9:48 AM

Well, let’s see. Given that there are 72,000 elementary schools, maybe 200,000 K-3 classrooms, and 10 million beaming parents, steps, aunts, uncles and grandparents taping little Madison’s and Jasper’s every move and posting it on YouTube or Facebook, and that Breitbart research interns probably spent 50 hours Googling to find 11 videos, perhaps there’s not actually a systematic effort to brainwash America’s you underway after all.

Don’t sound so sure, do you, champ?

You know why?

Because you know what you see in these videos is creepy and wrong, and you’re grasping at straws to dismiss it and pretend it’s no big deal because it’s YOUR SIDE that’s engaging in this kind of communist-era nonsense.

Good Lt on November 5, 2009 at 9:53 AM

no president, regardless of party or ideology, would have the economy whipped into shape by now.

Yes, and the left would be singing the praises of President McCain had he done the same thing here.

History did not get wiped clean this past January, BB. We lived through the Bush Administration and know how the left reacted to Bush’s sneezes, let alone his policy. Everything was Nazi-ish, thuggish, unprecedented, power-grabbing, abusive, hate-filled, bigoted, dumb, ineffective, worst ever, (fill in generic Bush slandering here), etc.

The Bush-hating left/Obamacrats are reaping the political style they spent nearly a decade sowing.

Man up.

Good Lt on November 5, 2009 at 9:57 AM