His speech was released to the public yesterday. Look at the abysmal things he is going to say to our kids! OH! OUR KIDS!!! They’ll never recover from these clear attempts to brainwash them to support Obama’s socialist agenda!!Now I've given a lot of speeches about education. And I've talked a lot about responsibility.
I've talked about your teachers' responsibility for inspiring you, and pushing you to learn.
I've talked about your parents' responsibility for making sure you stay on track, and get your homework done, and don't spend every waking hour in front of the TV or with that Xbox.
I've talked a lot about your government's responsibility for setting high standards, supporting teachers and principals, and turning around schools that aren't working where students aren't getting the opportunities they deserve.
But at the end of the day, we can have the most dedicated teachers, the most supportive parents, and the best schools in the world and none of it will matter unless all of you fulfill your responsibilities. Unless you show up to those schools; pay attention to those teachers; listen to your parents, grandparents and other adults; and put in the hard work it takes to succeed.
AAAAHHHH!!! Run for the hills!!
Ummm… wait. That actually is pretty helpful.
Every single one of you has something you're good at. Every single one of you has something to offer. And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is. That's the opportunity an education can provide.
Hey. That sounds like individual responsibility. That sounds like what I tell my kids.
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.
Now, THAT is frightening…
Ummm… Well, I guess it really isn't frightening at all.
In fact, it’s exactly what I, as a Christian missionary to students on college campuses, tell students every week. Exactly.
I get it. I know what that's like. My father left my family when I was two years old, and I was raised by a single mother who struggled at times to pay the bills and wasn't always able to give us things the other kids had. There were times when I missed having a father in my life. There were times when I was lonely and felt like I didn't fit in.
So I wasn't always as focused as I should have been. I did some things I'm not proud of, and got in more trouble than I should have. And my life could have easily taken a turn for the worse.
But I was fortunate. I got a lot of second chances and had the opportunity to go to college, and law school, and follow my dreams.
Hmmm… Here we have the nation’s first African-American president telling students about how difficult it was to make it in his circumstances. This is a unique opportunity to address a major problem in our nation: Black kids are at a much higher risk of not getting an education than white kids. The “Obama Effect” is already being seen in test scores. “The inspiring role model that Mr. Obama projected helped blacks overcome anxieties about racial stereotypes.”
But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life — what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you've got going on at home — that's no excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude. That's no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of school. That's no excuse for not trying.
Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No one's written your destiny for you. Here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future.
Again, that doesn’t sound too socialist. That sounds down-right American! Wave the Red-White-and-Blue!!
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We homeschool, but we're going take time out today to watch the speech in our very "private" school, too.
Now come on, Bob! You don't believe anything he said, do you? As American Christian Evangelicals (you know...Republicans), we all know this speech is just to brainwash our children, or it's code for some devious, anti-American agenda. We can't let him just talk to our kids. They may find out that he's really not the Anti-Christ after all! We can't let that happen without a fight! What good is being a narrow-minded, religious right wing zealot if we just let the guy speak without raising a fuss?
Now we need to have Boehner and McConnell speak to our schools to undo all the damage this is causing our children. We need them to tell our youth how wrong and evil our President is. We can't take the chance that they may grow up to be responsible adults or even...*gasp*...Democrats!
GGM :-)
This is great! Thanks for sharing this! My wife and I have been very engaged with several others over the last week about this, and I have been very much in favor of letting my six-year-old son watch this with his first grade class.
I have not seen it yet, but I spoke to my wife who told me that it was a great speech, and my son actually got some very positive stuff out of it!
Wonderful speech today. I hope this becomes a tradition for every president.
Of course, Hannity hated it. The truth is that it is not what Obama says or does that is the problem for the ever growing extreme end of conservatism... it is that Obama exists ... that is the core problem. There is NOTHING he can do to appease them.
There is this scene in ID4 when the president asks, "What can we do?" to the alien with whom he is trying to find some way toward peace. The alien flatly responds -
"Die".
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