President webcasts to all the schoolkids....

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

I think it did as well. However, since you asked...I do not see it as indoctrination. Back in the day when I was a kid and we had paper and pencil....we wrote letters to the current president. Mine was Ford at the time. I got a letter back and his picture signed. Did I feel indoctrinated? Nope! I felt really cool that the president sent me a picture...all be it from an aid as I found out when I got older. But hey, when I was a kid it was darn cool. So, yes, Obama can broadcast himself to my kids. He is not indoctrinating anyone...he is asking them to do well in school. I do believe some of Obama's views are very radical and most have been through his life but I would say that education is education to Obama. That is all that matters at the moment in my kids classroom.

Agreed. Any President is likely to communicate with people, school kids, factory workers, etc. I support the President touching base with kids and encouraging them to study and stay away from drugs and drinking.

Now, if his message is about helping their parents decide on health care, lol, no go.

[AVGWarhawk]

Now, if his message is about helping their parents decide on health care, lol, no go.

I would think the camera man would even pull the plug if he started spouting off about healthcare to the kids. Kid hears healthcare, thinks doctor and then thinks vaccination shots. Then they leave the room like a bat out of hell.

[Tchocky]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Now, if his message is about helping their parents decide on health care, lol, no go.

I imagine that he'll say something like "one of the things we're doing at the moment is..."

I doubt he's silly enough to put in a push for the reform plan in the direct way you've mentioned, but I've been wrong before

[SteamWake]

Ive heard some little snippets of the broadcast and granted they may well be out of context however they basically call upon 'the peopole' to 'serve and support' the president.

No dude you work for us I'm afraid. Or at least your supposed to.

Now Im sure someone will compare this to JFK's "Ask not what your country can do for you" speach. But its not the same thing.

At best its a publicity stunt to whip up support from Obama's base.

At worst its about planting seeds into young impressionable minds.

[AVGWarhawk]

Ive heard some little snippets of the broadcast and granted they may well be out of context however they basically call upon 'the peopole' to 'serve and support' the president.

I heard something to that affect as well but not sure it is true. Whatever the case, yes, that would be in poor form for sure in saying that and hoping all will say, 'all hail Ceasar.'

[SteamWake]

All hail !

Obama Mania in the flesh... so to speak

Obama Tatoos

http://vetocorleone.com/2009/08/27/1...obama-tattoos/

[Onkel Neal]

A stunned White House insisted the address, planned for Tuesday, and accompanying suggested lesson plans are meant simply to encourage students to study hard and stay in school.

"Thinking about my kids in school having to listen to that just really upsets me," a suburban Colorado mother, Shanneen Barron, told CNN affiliate KMGH-TV in Denver. "I'm an American. They are Americans, and I don't feel that's OK. I feel very scared to be in this country with our leadership right now."

Man up, Shanneen. It's the President, not the Terminator.

As mookie pointed out, the left went hysterical when Bush 1 did this, now the right is wetting their pants because Obama is going to do it. People, get a grip!

[Tchocky]

Shanneen?!?!

Is that a name?

[mookiemookie]

"Thinking about my kids in school having to listen to that just really upsets me"

The thought of the president telling kids to study hard and stay in school upsets her?

[August]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

As mookie pointed out, the left went hysterical when Bush 1 did this, now the right is wetting their pants because Obama is going to do it. People, get a grip!

I think it's a sign that the gulf between left and right is widening. It keeps going like this and there will be another Civil war.