Wrong for Obama to Inspire Kids to Stay in School?

By Laura • September 9th, 2009

This week, opponents of President Barack Obama have even criticized him for his planned speech to America’s school children next week in which he will talk to students about “persisting and succeeding in school” as you can see in the clips from both Fox News’ “Special Report” and YouTube’s HowTheWorldWorks channel in this video.

The two clips from the September 2, 2009, broadcast of Fox News’ “Special Report” come from the segment available online at http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=011008&streamingFormat=FLASH&referralObject=9043594

The clip from HowTheWorldWorks comes from the video titled “Children Will Be Asked How They Can Help Barack Obama!” which is available on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4WQtfbXkcc

The image of the Secretary of Education’s letter that I show in this video comes from http://www.ed.gov/admins/lead/academic/bts.html

The images from the ABC News blog I use in this video come from the page at http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/09/obamas-back-to-school-message—-scribbled-with-some-controversy.html

The archived message board argument in which I mention that George W Bush was the biggest threat to the US Constitution since Nixon left office from teh old ACLU ONline Forums is available using the internet archive page at http://tinyurl.com/BushThreat

The document showing $200,000 of tobacco money going to the Competitive Enterprise Institute to which I refer in this video is at http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/ypy36c00/pdf

And, finally, as always, you can find DOZENS and DOZENS more examples of Fox News bias on my Fox News bias playlist on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A3BD2524FE99BD4D

Duration : 0:3:53


[youtube lpoR-h84_wc]

Comments

Woah, that smoking …
Woah, that smoking question kind of blindsided me.

nah, was an ongoing …
nah, was an ongoing conversation, you caught on post. no big deal.

By purplemuskrat on September 9th, 2009 at 9:29 pm

Ah. Sorry for the …
Ah. Sorry for the mistake, but you can see where I made it. You should be a bit more clear in what you’re trying to point out.

welcome, please …
welcome, please continue reading first. the point was, not every ally is a democracy or a republic.

By purplemuskrat on September 9th, 2009 at 9:29 pm

“and nobody said …
“and nobody said socialism didnt work. England has a Queen”

A monarchy is not the same thing as socialism, fyi.

what was wrong with …
what was wrong with the “outcome” again? i must have missed that.

DGBibo…the Bush …
DGBibo…the Bush Administration had the most experienced team you can imagine. I guess “experience” doesn’t always guarantee an auspicious outcome.

you forgot …
you forgot inexperienced. remember half term Jr. Senator. lol


FineLineHateScumbags, what a charming screenname. So I heard that Obama 1) is Fascist; 2) is Muslim; 3) is Socialist; 4) is Antichrist; 5) is baby killer; 6) is terrorist; and more recently 7) he brainwashes school children.

Let me just add your stuff to the list…have a nice day.

By Sunkisthappy on September 9th, 2009 at 9:29 pm

Thank you for …
Thank you for making such an awesome video. I hope more people watch this.

hes harmless, hes …
hes harmless, hes turned into a Conservatives lap-dog, and thats what the left is ed about.

i know you guys know but the Dems have the Majority, they could pass anything, instead when they finally have the opportunity they fight with themselves and sit on their hands. they have 23 out of 60 not buying the BS. cant even get reconciliation anymore.

By FineLineHateScumbags on September 9th, 2009 at 9:29 pm

Yup 100 percent …
Yup 100 percent correct. Gitmo still there & He just manipulated the Public right away for Public Relations.
A Trick of many Fascists before him.

Although I may not say he is 100 percent Fascist yet.

He has manipulated us on bullshit ( Like almost alll politicians)

and that didnt even …
and that didnt even go through, still prisoners there. like 47 i believe, down from 254.

Yes.
Yes.

are you retarded, …
are you retarded, do you research anything before your write? because you should look at who your trying to BS first. Brazil, Norway, Finland, Mexico ALL have Presidents or a Republic. so good try. and those arent even our allies.

the USA major allies would be England (Canada), Japan, Korea, Spain, ill even give you Italy.

you could have atleast tried China, we do trade with them.

and nobody said socialism didnt work. England has a Queen. point is we dont want that here.

You know, as a Brit …
You know, as a Brit who doesn’t quite have access to Fox News and other Republican things… I have to ask… are the right-wing chaps over there DEMENTED or something?

By FineLineHateScumbags on September 9th, 2009 at 9:29 pm

If Obama was so …
If Obama was so concerned about Fascism wouldn’t he be trying to get rid of the Patriot act & Black Water (Similar to the SS Brown shirtS)

No, All OBama did was Gitmo in the begining for Public Relations.

Does not give a crap enough to even really mention Black Water or the Patriot Act.

this doesnt even …
this doesnt even make sense but ok. point is dont get mad at conservatives for sticking to their beliefs you flaky fruity liberal should try it.

By SoulessCorruption on September 9th, 2009 at 9:29 pm

I’ll be sure to …
I’ll be sure to tell Germany, Mexico, Finland, Norway, Brazil, ect. ect. some of our closest allies that they’re all Fascists and Communists. You, good sir, are a ing moron.

I seem to remember …
I seem to remember George Bush Snr doing the exact same thing twice! and the republicans God, Reagan also talking in schools (with school children in abundant attendance) about the war on drugs among other policy issues…. so how is it ‘stalinistic’ when Obama does it?? I hate the conservative/fox news double standard

By FineLineHateScumbags on September 9th, 2009 at 9:29 pm

The most stupid …
The most stupid thing of all is when retarded sub human liberals think just because Bush sucked that this Makes oBama the Savoir.

Same Different Toilet.

By FineLineHateScumbags on September 9th, 2009 at 9:29 pm

Funding is higher …
Funding is higher in the U.S than in the U.K & has doubled since the 70′s in school funding in the U.S

Illegal Immigrants if there are as many as 40 million would add another 12 percent to the Schooling population.

This is where your funds are going.

On top of Latinos having lower grad rates & Test scores.

It is mostly on the Local Governments for School Funding.

I know in my area we are being sqashed by Illegals such as the City i live near has 50,000 illegals (80,000 legal)

By AnarchyAlleyCat on September 9th, 2009 at 9:29 pm

FOX news it the …
FOX news it the number 1 network , but not for quality ,but because of other reasons , more subjective ones ..

just because one thing is the most popular doesn’t make it the better.

Rather, I think we …
Rather, I think we need to invest in life and job skills for the developmentally delayed and trade school and career colleges for those who want to do more of the service jobs and specialty skill jobs (i.e mechanic, medical billing etc).
Obama encourages students to find their talents and work hard at them. Not everyone’s talent is in the classroom.

I disagree slightly …
I disagree slightly with this. I think we need to stop this mentality that everyone NEEDS to go to college. Not everyone is college material and it is lowering the value of the degrees that people do have when just ANYONE can get a college degree.

 

Leave a Comment

« | Home | »

  • Calendar

    February 2012
    M T W T F S S
    « Aug    
     12345
    6789101112
    13141516171819
    20212223242526
    272829  
  • It used to be said that the only guarantees in life are death and taxes. Add that picture your friend took of you last week and posted it on MySpace! It’ll be there forever. –Laura Betterly

  • There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary. Brendan Behan

  • Publicity is the life of this culture – in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive – and at the same time publicity is its dream. John Berger

  • Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them. Lily Tomlin

  • Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay. Benjamin Disraeli

  • Of course I’m a publicity hound. Aren’t all crusaders? How can you accomplish anything unless people know what you are trying to do? Vivien Kellems

  • Recent Comments