Posted by
ParallaxAdHoc on Thursday, September 03, 2009 3:29:26 PM
“…parents have every right to worry about their children being used as Political Guinea Pigs for Change.”
Michelle Malkin at http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2009/09/02/obamas_classroom_campaign_no_junior_lobbyist_left_behind?page=2
There have been numerous historical precedents of this phenomenon: The Brown Shirts in Nazi Germany, Let A Thousand Flowers Bloom and the Cultural Revolution in Maoist China, The Juche Brigade of King Il Sung in North Korea, the Che Guevarra Brigade in Cuba.
Why should the U.S. of A be an exception? It was a well-documented fact that the POTUS was a neighborhood agitator (a.k.a. "Community Organizer") before he came on national stage. His associations with people who hate America as we love it, the bastion of opportunity, is a matter of national record.
It would be too much of a lunacy for the nation to expect that the "transformational" rhetoric that was spewed off in the campaign trail would end up only transforming the messiah himself into a patriot. Is that not asking too much of a miracle, especially in the age of secularist liberalism?
Yes, I admit to accusing the POTUS of being counter-patriotic. His apologize for America tour, selective bailout of financial companies, the conversion of General Motors into Government Motors, quadrupling of the national debt, etc. are unmistakable signs of the concerted effort to destroy the free-market infrastructure which was the engine of wealth creation unparalleled in the twentieth century.
You elect as President a College Communist, you get government takeover of the means of wealth creation as a national policy. That is about as natural as day follows night and night follows day.
I do not suggest that the POTUS should be deprived of the chance to inspire the nation, citizens of all ages and ideological persuasions. But it is a thin line that separates providing inspiration to ignite the sparks of patriotism on the one hand and giving out subtle marching orders, on the other. Moreover, if the POTUS is reduced to asking grade school children to search their souls and find what they can do for the President (as opposed to what they can do for the country), is that not a perversion of what the presidency is all about?
Rather than an echo of the famous JFK call to “ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country,” this is more reminiscent of James Earl Carter’s public confession that he solicited the advice of young Amy Carter on nuclear disarmament.
What else can we see next?