On misinterpreting criticisms of Obama and his speech to our children
As planned, President Obama gave his speech to schoolchildren nationwide, on September 8th.
And as was widely reported, many parent’s (and conservative pundits) across the country expressed concern for the event.
And, as I expected, many people, liberal and conservative alike, are now gleefully reporting that President Obama’s speech was all about education and nothing about indoctrinating our children into Socialism (e.g., here and here).
Of course, these writers completely miss the point!
No one in their right mind would ever have considered pledging to serve Ronald Reagan or George H. W. Bush, the two other presidents, we’ve been reminded, who also gave speeches to schoolchildren across the nation. Yet, since last year, we have had to wallow through incessant hero worshiping genuflections to the one who brings his historic presidency to fruition, embarking upon a worldwide tour, delivering orations worthy of all the grandeur of our long lost savior returned, at last, to unite our land, our people, our globe. This cult of Obama is just that, sending tingling chills up people’s legs and causing others to liken him to “god”. Shouldn’t such adoration bestowed upon an elected leader at least give one, especially the Christian, cause for concern?
Others of us, the blind ones, have missed it completely, not unlike Aunt Eunice, who never gets the jokes at the family get-togethers. We could only see a pro-abortion Senator, with barely a measurable amount of negligible service, unpublished in the legal journals, who had previously organized… communities.
But I venture towards reality.
Needless to say, since his inauguration, we have watched Obama attempt to make good on his promise to “spread the wealth around”, what with his trillion dollar economic extravaganza and plans for government run healthcare, expanding the federal government’s reach into the private sector.
The man is socialist through and through, and desires to increase the role of government in our lives.
So when he decides to speak to the children of America, I’m not expecting him to try and win the war; but I am on alert, and wary of each battle.
Christians: pray for President Obama
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I wish those who use the term socialism understood its meaning. Socialism is first a response to Right wing political ideology. If you saw political ideology as a sphere rather then two ends of line you would understand that socialism sets closer to the right, then it is a response by the “neo-liberal” movement. In fact, it is a working class movement and does not arise from government legislations at all. It definitely is not the result of work by bourgeois members, such as Obama.
His policy only extends the failed capitalist system that you have come to hold onto as a slave holds on to its chains. Marx has already stated, “The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs”. So be a health care policy or taxes, the struggle between the classes will continue until the working class rise up in revolution. Don’t be fooled.
I ask all of you to please stop watching Fox News and pick up a book. Start with the Communist Manifesto, so you can speak from a position of actual knowledge instead of repeating something you heard on the news from a journalist Note these tools of the bourgeois have all wish to maintain their place in a failed system. You have nothing to lose but your chains, please do your RESEARCH before running a blog. You are clearly out of your depth.
Interesting, Vivian, you muddy the waters by redefining political terms to suit your stance. Following your thinking, then, perhaps I should replace the word “socialism”, in my post, with “communism”. Perhaps you should do a bit of reading, yourself, and then you might see how that working class movement, albeit run by oppressive governments, has utterly failed.