The Obamanation

[glatt]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Say what you want. It was inappropriate in any context. The Left-wing nuts would have had a meltdown if kiddies were singing praises of Bush in a similar manner on Presidents day.

So since you are having a meltdown about the Obama song thing, does that mean you are admitting that you are a right wing NUT?

[classicman]

Originally Posted by spudcon

Or during white history month.

ZZzzzzzzing

Originally Posted by spudcon

Or during white history month.

K-12 history books are pretty celebratory of white history.

[Shawnee123]

Originally Posted by glatt

So since you are having a meltdown about the Obama song thing, does that mean you are admitting that you are a right wing NUT?

:p

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by spudcon

Or during white history month.

I thought that was every month.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Except January, February, March, September, October and November.

[Shawnee123]

Arrrrrrrr

Whut about April?

There is currently a commission in Texas to make recommendations on social studies curriculum. Several commission members evidently want to remove Cesar Chavez and Thurgood Marshall from the curriculum.

Civil rights leaders César Chávez and Thurgood Marshall – whose names appear on schools, libraries, streets and parks across the U.S. – are given too much attention in Texas social studies classes, conservatives advising the state on curriculum standards say.

"To have César Chávez listed next to Ben Franklin" – as in the current standards – "is ludicrous," wrote evangelical minister Peter Marshall, one of six experts advising the state as it develops new curriculum standards for social studies classes and textbooks. David Barton, president of Aledo-based WallBuilders, said in his review that Chávez, a Hispanic labor leader, "lacks the stature, impact and overall contributions of so many others."

Marshall also questioned whether Thurgood Marshall, who argued the landmark case that resulted in school desegregation and was the first black U.S. Supreme Court justice, should be presented to Texas students as an important historical figure. He wrote that the late justice is "not a strong enough example" of such a figure.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont...1.4bfaaf7.html

But this cracked me up...although I think the intent was serious:

Barton, a former vice chairman of the Texas Republican Party, said that because the U.S. is a republic rather than a democracy, the proper adjective for identifying U.S. values and processes should be "republican" rather than "democratic." That means social studies books should discuss "republican" values in the U.S., his report said.

Evangelical minister and former vice-chairmen of the state Republican party...experts on education.....Go Texas!

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Say what you want. It was inappropriate in any context. The Left-wing nuts would have had a meltdown if kiddies were singing praises of Bush in a similar manner on Presidents day.

Flashback to the 2006 White House easter egg roll:

At the annual White House Easter Egg Roll, children from the stricken Gulf Coast region serenaded First Lady Laura Bush with a song praising the beleaguered Federal Emergency Management Agency.

To the tune of Hey Look Me Over, about 100 young children from Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama sang:

Our country’s stood beside us
People have sent us aid.
Katrina could not stop us, our hopes will never fade.
Congress, Bush and FEMA
People across our land
Together have come to rebuild us and we join them hand-in-hand!

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2006/0...uths-of-babes/

I dont recall a meltdown on the left as a result of kiddies singing the praises of FEMA and Bush...immediately following the little ditty or seven months after the fact.

[Undertoad]

That's nothing... if the country drifts into worse times, ALL the children will be taught to sing, or at least that will be our hope. We will demand children embrace such civic values.

"'I promise as a good American citizen to do my part to help the NRA*', one hundred thousand young people chanted on Boston Commons in 1933. 'I will help President Roosevelt bring back good times.'"
- from Generations: the history of America's future, 1584 to 2069

* Not today's National Rifle Association, but 1933's National Recovery Administration.

I still dont know whether to laugh or shudder at how this kind of pot stirring from the wing nuts takes on a life of its own:

"This is indoctrination. This should horrify the American people. And you can separate yourself from it all you want, you can say "Well that is not the Democrats that are doing it, that's not Barack Obama." You know what let me tell you something, how many, how many, how many not just signs of smoke, how many fires must we have before we have to say OK wait a minute."
~ Glenn Beck

""I'm so outraged and stunned by its content...see the indoctrination of our nation's greatest treasure -- our children.....this is the type of propaganda you would see in Stalin’s Russia or Kim Jong Il’s North Korea. I never thought the day would come when I’d see it here in America." ~ Michael Steele

"This video makes me mad…Mao would be proud.” ~ Sean Hannity

OK...I gotta just laugh...particularly at all the Mercs of the message boards who jumped on this like flies on shit.

[richlevy]

Originally Posted by Redux

Barton, a former vice chairman of the Texas Republican Party, said that because the U.S. is a republic rather than a democracy

I see a teaching moment here. "Why yes children, the United States is a Republic, not a true democracy. In a Republic we elect individuals to make decisions for us instead of making them for ourselves. That's why assholes like Mr. Barton were able to change your textbooks."

[morethanpretty]

Originally Posted by richlevy

I see a teaching moment here. "Why yes children, the United States is a Republic, not a true democracy. In a Republic we elect individuals to make decisions for us instead of making them for ourselves. That's why assholes like Mr. Barton were able to change your textbooks."

Haggis!

[Idemosaka]

What does haggis mean here? I keep seeing it posted everywhere.

[Clodfobble]

It's a recent joke, substitution for "ha ha." Shawnee123 was trying to text the word "haha" to her friend and her cellphone decided she must be wanting to type the word "haggis."