You've probably heard about this already, but here are links to no less than three songs (the first link contains two songs) that public school children were taught earlier this year praising Dear Leader. The first two songs were at the same school in New Jersey. I haven't found out in what school the other one was made. Here's a story about the two New Jersey songs. Here is more about the school's unabashedly partisan politics.
The lyrics are pretty incredible, especially the part that says, "He said red, yellow, black or white/All are equal in his sight." That was supposed to be, er, Jesus. The line is borrowed from "Jesus Loves the Little Children"--"Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in His sight." But hey, God, god, Obama. All the same, right?
It's funny how liberals always talk about context when it can fuzzify an issue but never want to talk about it when it is clarifying. Conservatives thought there was maybe something a little creepy about Obama's speech to school children being as it was followed by a "study guide" including questions like, "How can you help the President?" Liberals said, "What? What? Reagan gave a speech to school children." And conservatives tried to point out that there wasn't this kind of brain washing personality cult about Reagan among the controllers of children's education. But nobody was listening.
Now you know why we think there's something creepy about Obama's connection to school children. Because of context.
"Just don't send your kids to public school, okay?"
ReplyDeleteDon't plan on it. =)
"Creepy" doesn't quite cover that... wow.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking about the very, very conservative high school I went to. It was at a fundamentalist church. At chapel one day they showed us a film from the hawkish organization Peace Through Strength arguing against disarmament, and for a field trip, we went to a rally against the Equal Rights Amendment in the state capital of Peoria. Hey, the parents wanted that kind of school and were willing to pay for it.
ReplyDeleteBut they would never, never have sung songs praising the President. Of course Reagan was popular, though I can't remember much talk about him per se. The point is though that when we sang songs praising somebody, they were always about God. It was a politicized school in one sense, but there were intrinsic limits. There was no God-shaped hole as it were waiting to be filled with a messianic President.
It bugs me, actually, when people ascribe noble attitudes to any human in song. Er, isn't GOD the one who's supposed to have those attitudes? And if there isn't already a song ascribing them to Him, shouldn't there be? I say we just make a long song ascribing every morally praiseworthy attribute to our Lord and Savior, so that we can stop any of this nonsense in the future.
ReplyDeleteWhoever you are, anon, I don't like trolls, and I'm not a fool. Cut it out. And if you're too much of an idiot to realize that these songs are not simply "ascribing noble attitudes" to The Messiah in the White House, that is all the more reason for my having no time for you. Go away.
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ReplyDeleteThe internet is full of cowardly wackos, isn't it? You can almost instantly spot most of them since they all seem to post under the moniker "Anonymous."
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