Is President Obama getting overexposed? This we know: a firm believer in all his fawning media clips, Obama thinks there is no political problem he cannot overcome with yet another nationally televised address. Not only has he scheduled an umpteenth appearance in prime time, he now insists on addressing the nation’s schoolchildren.
Why is this controversial? What is more American than having her president addressing the young? Reagan did it. So did Bush. The problem is Obama and his administration. There is – always is – a political agenda.
The mission was not to educate, it was to indoctrinate. The public learned the Department of Education sent out guidelines to principals urging that children "write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president." Older students were urged to answer the question: "What is President Obama inspiring you to do? What is he challenging you to do?"
Our national media know Obama’s numbers are plummeting, and simply cannot accept this as the popular will. Anyone who dares to oppose Obama must be certifiably crazy, or racist, or even hoping for Obama to be murdered. NBC anchor Brian Williams spoke for the Obamaniacal media as he decried the current atmosphere as our "hyperpartisan era of instant and vocal outrage" – as if those words would not define the corrosive end of the Bush years.
"Hyperpartisan" is a word they use only when the liberals are in charge. When conservatives are in charge, the opposition somehow becomes a celebration of democracy.
MSNBC host Keith Olbermann, seen in the last administration heaping the most vicious, personal abuses on President Bush, now thinks that anyone who criticizes Obama must be an aspiring criminal. On September 1, his guest Dan Savage, a smutty sex columnist, suggested with a straight face that "the Michelle Bachmans" and "Glenn Becks of the world" are "trying to get the president killed."
Why Olbermann thinks this man is qualified for punditry is a mystery, since Savage’s most recent column addressed such weighty policy matters as whether it’s okay to "enjoy having sex with those stretched earlobe holes."
Did Olbermann protest that Savage was being too....savage? No, it was only unfair to a small fraction of conservatives: "I'm only going to moderate your remarks to this degree, that I think some of them who oppose this are not of that thinking that you just expressed," Olbermann said. "But unfortunately a lot of who you are talking about, you nailed them perfectly."
Olbermann is outdoing himself on the hypocrisy meter. This holier-than-thou speech comes from the man who said President Bush "needlessly killed 3,584 of our family and friends and neighbors," and "urinated on the Constiution," a man he yelled at to "Shut the hell up!" He attacked Bush for "panoramic and murderous deceit" and yelled "You’re a fascist! Get them to print you a T-shirt with fascist on it!...You, sir, have no place in a government of the people, by the people, for the people." He suggested Bush led "a government more dangerous to our liberty than is the enemy it claims to protect us from." Bush "imposed subjugation and called it freedom," and his policies "would constitute the beginning of the end of America."
And now he says conservatives are too nasty.
Olbermann is not alone in objecting to the American people saying anything of a critical nature about Obama. CNBC’s John Harwood suggested parents who criticized Obama’s school speech were stupid: "the biggest danger to kids in this whole thing is that a lot of the parents complaining aren't smart enough to raise them very effectively." (He suggested they’re racists, too.) CNN’s Roland Martin simply called anti-Obama parents "insane."
Lovely. They attacked tea-party protesters as "teabaggers" and town-hall questioners as "quarrelsome masses," the media now insist the school-speech critics are "insane."
It’s not insane to wonder why our schools should be directed by the government to discuss how the Dear Leader is inspiring the young, and how the Dear Leader can be helped. Can you imagine how Keith Olbermann would have covered this presidential speech to children if the honor-the-president lesson plan had been sent to principals by that "fascist" Bush administration?
The media are frustrated that the buckets of luster they have dumped all over Barack Obama are vanishing before their eyes. The polls are looking worse, and worse. The latest CNN poll asked whether the public approved or disapproved of how Obama was handling the federal budget deficit: 36 percent approved, and a whopping 63 percent disapproved.
The American people have seen the nine trillion dollars in estimated deficits in this decade – that is, if everything Obama promises comes to pass. The final numbers assuredly will be worse. That reality can’t be papered over with yet another nationally televised speech – to children or adults.




















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Very interesting read on
September 8, 2009 - 22:29 ET by nyyankee55Very interesting read on the Obama saga thru the US "system"
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Re Pelosi Docs
September 9, 2009 - 10:30 ET by slickwillie2001That's very strange stuff. I read it a couple of days ago at this website:
http://noiri.blogspot.com
Basically the same post. At last, a motive for what seems to be a sloppy Hawaiian process in the 60's.
I don't go so far as to say the Bamster is not a natural-born citizen, but something stinks in this deal. The coverup is the issue; why spend hundreds of thousands of dollars fighting this in court?
Obama Beware
September 8, 2009 - 23:25 ET by CobraMan"Is President Obama getting overexposed?"
Obama and his supporters have seem to forgotten a basic aspect of human nature, especially in politics. That is: "Familiarity breeds contempt." By exposing himself so much, by appearing on tv every day, several times a day, most people begin to get annoyed at the very sight of him. By interjecting himself in everyone's personal life through tv, with the help of the MSM, Obama is guaranteeing that people will begin to automatically reject his polices, as they reject his very image. Even "popular" stars of movies, music, and sports know and understand this basic human nature. That's why they take time OFF of the public stage, usually for a few months and sometimes even a few years.
By having himself televised so much, Obama is turning himself in a re-run. There's no real appeal for a re-run Presidency. Obama ran on the platform of hope and change, but the one thing he hasn't changed is the one thing people want the most, and that's less President and government in their daily lives. After 8 years of constant MSM complaints of "government intrusions" and "government improprieties," the LAST thing they want to see is the Face of Government, especially the 24/7 coverage Obama is doing.
The BEST thing for Obama to do right now is to take time OFF from public display. He needs to retreat into the White House and let things settle down for a few months before making another public appearance.
Will he do this? Probably not. I have the feeling that Obama actually believes the hype that was promoted during his campaign, the "rock star" hype that people, especially young adults (the ones who are most susceptible to that "Familiarity breeds contempt" phenomenon), LOVE him, and he just can't step away from adoration, whether real or imagined. This will spell the end of his Presidency, more than any thing else.
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The BEST thing for Obama to
September 9, 2009 - 08:46 ET by NewsbusterbrownThe BEST thing for Obama to do right now is to take time OFF from
public display. He needs to retreat into the White House and let
things settle down for a few months before making another public
appearance.
The Catch-22 for Obama, however, is that if he doesnt try to rally Americans to accept his health care plan, Democrats will be massacred at the polls next year. Nice situation for us to be in. :-) Of course, Republicans have a knack at snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory...
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Just Because Olbermann Says It Doesn't Mean You Should Say It...
September 8, 2009 - 23:27 ET by The7SticksCan't we just agree to disagree that both the Democratic and Republican parties both have their own ugly liars on both sides, whether it's Olbersternfuher on the left or Michelle Malkin on the right? They both fit into a category I heard on the Phil Hendrie show referred to as "pandering liars." And you are participating in the very same pandering lying as well, based simply off of this statement:
"The problem is Obama and his administration. There is – always is – a political agenda. The mission was not to educate, it was to indoctrinate. The public learned the Department of Education sent out guidelines to principals urging that children 'write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president.' Older students were urged to answer the question: 'What is President Obama inspiring you to do? What is he challenging you to do?'"
Ask me this question: What is it that is considered indoctrination? Can you give me a concrete example as to why it's indoctrination? Miss Malkin made the mistake by making conjecture claiming that this who issue was orchestrated by Bill Ayres or Saul Alinsky or some other moron and such. It does seem that the lesson plan was poorly worded, but that is beside the point since the Obama administration already scrapped that part due to the beginning of the outcry. The issue still continued after they scrapped it, because there was still outcry by, dare I say it, morons.
Dan Savage may be a moron, but so is Michelle Bachmann, especially when she says nonsense like that our fallen soldiers are going to be persecuted when they come back home. Our fallen soldiers mean they are dead, which means that is about as bad as humanly possible. And what does his writing about penises and vaginas have to do with the issue? The issue is that he made an idiotic remark about two other people on the other side that make idiotic remarks, like Glenn Beck's remark, "We bought Alaska back in the 1950s."
I thought you people wanted to prove that you were smarter than the Democrats because they do a pretty good job making idiots out of themselves, but as far as I'm concerned, you care about as little about America as Democrats. I wouldn't be caught dead joining any third parties because they are no better. I'm just a free-thinking man.
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September 8, 2009 - 23:32 ET by Free StinkerLax security, eh ?
I'll answer that
September 8, 2009 - 23:36 ET by CobraMan"What is it that is considered indoctrination?"
Anything that requires active feedback, that requires actual activities, which, combined wit a public appearance (whether a recorded speech or live appearance, the venue is irrelevant) promote a President and/or his or her policies is indoctrination. Obama now understands that people KNOW the activities this administration "suggested"the student follow after his "speech" is a type of indoctrination. That's why they were "controversial," and that's why he dropped them.
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your mom was an ugly liar.
September 9, 2009 - 01:37 ET by JWFThat is why we took away her medicine in prison.
You know what, stick your
September 9, 2009 - 03:23 ET by Jack BauerYou know what, stick your fallacious comparisons. You're more transparent than a pane of transparent glass.
Who has sympathy for Obama the Brit?
September 9, 2009 - 01:52 ET by DJEddlePerhaps all of us "hyperpartisans" are just tired of a British citizen pretending to be our president.
A British Citizen as President of the United States
Maybe if he had come clean from the beginning and explained to the general public his political ideology (totalitarianism), released even some of his past documents that are all sealed, didn't lie to us about his friends and co-workers (criminals and socialists/Marxists/communists), and admitted that he was born a British citizen - and is still one today - some people would be less willing to use him as their political punching bag.
All it takes is a bit of honesty and a bit of transparency - two things that Obama pledged to give this country, but has yet to deliver. So, I guess he will now fall the hard way.
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September 9, 2009 - 04:25 ET by USA4freedomWashington..9/12..
Ronald Reagan, 1962: I did not leave the Democratic party, the party left me.
Insert: your name, 2008, and the Republican party.
Brian Williams'
September 9, 2009 - 05:58 ET by motherbeltBrian Williams' "hyperpartisan era of instant and vocal outrage" evokes memories from long ago of another know-it-all news anchor intoning that The voters had a temper tantrum last week .....the nation can't be run by an angry two-year-old.
Speaking of "overexposed".....
September 9, 2009 - 06:14 ET by motherbeltSomeone stop Newt Gingrich
Now. Please.
Misperception
September 9, 2009 - 07:46 ET by River CityThe Dems are under the perception that the ONE thing Reagan did that made him sooo popular with the American people and convinced the lemmings to support all of his ill conceived ideas was his magnetic personality seeping through the television into our living rooms.
They are trying to replicate that ONE thing with Obama since they feel he is their Great Communicator. Of course, like with most things Dems do, they don't understand the whole picture. The result is we get Obama on TV with his well scripted orations almost daily.
Again, they just don't get it.
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